Thank you very much to all who contributed posts to Week 9. Caring emerged as a strong theme this week, both as caring for people and caring about doing things. I was particularly interested in Adrienne McDermid-Thomas’s post about art therapy. My…
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A, B, C – Art, bubbles, carers
Tagged with: art therapy, Ayrshire Health Blog, carers, caring, CIPR, Dumfries and Galloway Health blog, National Health Service, NHS Dumfries and Galloway, NHSS, Tayside Health
Posted in communicating, culture, gender, learning, mental health, patient care, public relations, teaching, therapy, visual arts
Posted in communicating, culture, gender, learning, mental health, patient care, public relations, teaching, therapy, visual arts
Blue stars, seagull-proofing, waste and change
I’m very grateful to Kate Bentham for looking after Weekly Blog Club for Week 5. She clearly did a brilliant job since the number of posts has tripled this week (even though I didn’t get round to doing one myself)! This week’s posts…
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Posted in #WeeklyBlogClub summary, Birds, communicating, digital technology, finance, fine art, health, health services, humanity, humour, journalism, management, media, mental health, patient care, public relations, public sector, research, social care, working practices
Posted in #WeeklyBlogClub summary, Birds, communicating, digital technology, finance, fine art, health, health services, humanity, humour, journalism, management, media, mental health, patient care, public relations, public sector, research, social care, working practices
Welcome back!
And it’s our 3rd anniversary! (see last post for the stats on how many authors, views of posts etc). Thank you very much to all of you who responded to my questions about whether we keep going and evolve or…
Tagged with: acute care, anniversary, councillor, dementia, government, Happy New Year, illustration, open data, play field, rural, TaysideHealth, urban
Posted in #WeeklyBlogClub summary, communicating, exercise, family, health services, holiday, humanity, local government, mental health, newspapers, open data, patient care, photography, public relations, social media, tourism, unconferences, visual arts, working practices
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Cake, Glorious Cake
Kelly Quigley-Hicks attended Comms Camp 14 recently and like many attendees helped raise lots of lovely money for charity by baking and eating cake. In this post Kelly shares with us a storify of some of the amazing cakes baked, some…
Tagged with: #Commscamp14, caek, cake, Comms Camp 14, fundraising, official cake monitor, star baker, unconference
Posted in cake/caek, communicating, communities, conferences, cooking, food, internal communications, photography, public relations, public relations, unconferences
Posted in cake/caek, communicating, communities, conferences, cooking, food, internal communications, photography, public relations, public relations, unconferences
Communicating, Culture, Holidays and #nhsscot14
Listen to the Weekly Summary in Welsh below, or read on for the English! This is the first week I’ve covered Weekly Blog Club in quite some time, and what a week it was! We had 13 great blogs that are well…
Tagged with: #localgov, #WeeklyBlogClub, blogging, blogs, charity, public sector, voluntary sector, Weekly blog club summary
Posted in #WeeklyBlogClub summary, blogging, communicating, cultural heritage, culture, digital technology, health, health services, holiday, ideas/innovation, learning, local government, MOOC, patient care, photography, public relations, public relations, public sector, Third sector, training, visual arts, wifi
Posted in #WeeklyBlogClub summary, blogging, communicating, cultural heritage, culture, digital technology, health, health services, holiday, ideas/innovation, learning, local government, MOOC, patient care, photography, public relations, public relations, public sector, Third sector, training, visual arts, wifi
CIPR member on child-related leave?
Are you a member of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR)? Got some maternity, paternity leave or adoption leave coming up with all the financial constraints that come with it? In this post Kelly Quigley-HIcks fills us in about…
The growing private and public social media split
A very interesting blog from Peter Sharples for week 18, looking at the growth of more and more young adults choosing to interact with their social networks privately. Peter looks at the impact this has on customer relations and also the…
Freezing cold and ants and I tools old. Alright?
A great blog from Kelly Quigley-Hicks which looks at how simple comms messages can get lost in jargon and gobbledegook. Kelly reminds us what a barrier jargon can be and how the use of plain language will help our audience…
Tagged with: comms, gobbledegook, jargon, plain English, plain language, PR
Posted in communicating, public relations, working practices
Posted in communicating, public relations, working practices
The reinvention of PR – ten thoughts
Kelly Quigley-Hicks recently attended a regional Chartered Institute of Public Relations conference, which brought together high calibre speakers with PR professionals from a wide range of agencies and organisations. In this blog Kelly shares with us her thoughts on the day…
Tagged with: Chartered Institute of Public Relations, comms, Communication, future of PR, PR, Reinvention of PR, Storytelling
Posted in communicating, conferences, data, public relations, social media, storytelling, working practices
Posted in communicating, conferences, data, public relations, social media, storytelling, working practices
Serious selfies, spring, and sensations
Thank you very much to all the contributors to Week 12’s 15 posts. Since I am behind on summaries, I hope that this brief summary will be enough to lead you to explore these posts. I found them all well worth…
Tagged with: Ayrshire Health Blog, Dumfries and Galloway Health blog, modern architecture, NHS, NHSS, nurse, Old photos, selfie, spring, Super Metroid, unselfie, Wordpress
Posted in #WeeklyBlogClub summary, architecture, blogging, communicating, communities, digital games, health, health services, leadership, learning, local government, management, natural environment, politics, public relations, setting goals, social care, social media, society, storm, universities, working practices
Posted in #WeeklyBlogClub summary, architecture, blogging, communicating, communities, digital games, health, health services, leadership, learning, local government, management, natural environment, politics, public relations, setting goals, social care, social media, society, storm, universities, working practices
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