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In the digital era, the landscape of political campaigning has dramatically shifted, moving beyond the traditional doorsteps and leaflets to the buzzing platforms of social media. Recently, I had the opportunity to join Sean Moncrieff on Newstalk’s Moncrieff Highlights Podcast to delve into this timely topic. We explored how politicians are using social media to […]
I recently joined Galway Bay FM’s “Fake or Fact – You Decide” podcast to discuss the dramatic shifts in news consumption driven by social media. Here are some key takeaways from our conversation: The Evolution of News on Social Media 📰 When I began my career in broadcast journalism over two decades ago, news was
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In this blog I’m going to share with you my thoughts on ‘no comment’. I began my career as a broadcast journalist and often I heard that phrase ‘no comment’ from press and media relations pros who were working in government and public sector. I always felt that obviously I didn’t get my response,
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In this blog I want to introduce you to the concept of content repurposing that will help you get the most out of your content when you’re developing your digital marketing and social media plans. When you create your content marketing strategy and you’re crystal clear on what you want to say and who
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In this blog, I want to talk about social listening. Social listening is the act of actually listening to public conversations that are happening across social media and forums and blogs. In the past six months I’ve read two media articles criticising government and public sector agencies for engaging in social listening. I have
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In this blog I’m going to share with you my tips on how to create a 12-month social media content plan calendar. Content is the fuel that ignites conversations right across the social web. Without content we’re not going to trigger conversations. Without content we’re not going to get our marketing conversions. Always
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In this blog I’m going to share with you how you conduct a social media audit. We’re at the early stages of the year and you should be thinking about your social media strategy. But you can’t truly undertake a social media strategy until you’ve completed your social media audit. So what’s involved?
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Employee advocacy is one of the developing themes this year on social media, so how can we leverage our staff base to amplify and advocate for our policies, for our positions and for the decisions we are taking? Did you know that when a member of staff actually publishes content it has six times
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In this blog I’m going to talk to you about how you can convince senior leadership to fully embrace social media, and digital communications. If you’re a senior leader and you’re reading this, you need to know, this is the most asked question that I get and I work with hundreds of public sector
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What if the risk of not engaging online and on social media with the public was greater than actually doing it? When John Kerry was secretary of state in the United States, he said; ‘Let’s get caught trying.’ In the private sector, risk is measured by the results, by revenue. In the public
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