Obesity is newsworthy, and for Leeds City Council, childhood obesity was very newsworthy this month. A good news story for the city with a huge media profile, how did Leeds City Council promote this work? Phil Morcom led communications for the council and explains the background.
With the dust settling on the local elections, colleagues are adjusting to their council’s new political complexions following one of the most fascinating protest votes of recent times.
As of December 2018, there were over 2.32 billion monthly active users of Facebook and 1 billion Instagram users. However, Facebook’s ever-changing algorithm can make it difficult for Pages to connect with their audience organically.
Job satisfaction among public sector communications teams seems to have flat-lined or even fallen over the previous year with on-going funding constraints taking their toll on morale.
It’s easy to dismiss leadership theory in public sector communications. In many town halls across the country the ivory towers of academia can seem irrelevant and distant.
Last week we Future Leaders spent an excellent two days in Leeds talking communications leadership with Professor Paul Willis of University of Huddersfield. This was quite timely for me as reflecting on …
Two days. 130 people to talk to. 25 meetings. A small group of four communications professionals, one local councillor and one LGA improvement manager faced with the task of Peer …
Sheffield City Council’s Media Relations Officer Nic Allen explains why Dr Who’s arrival in Yorkshire made perfect sense.
You can now read case studies from the council and fire and rescue service winners from this year’s public service communications excellence awards. The London Borough of Waltham Forest, South Yorkshire Fire …
Reaching over 28 million people around the world, with over 11,000 tweets highlighting the day-to-day work of council staff and elected members, 2018’s #OurDay was once again a huge success. …