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Data, Detectives, GE2015 and Supergran

Hello, it’s me Kate Bentham here again, trying to catch up on blog post summaries. This is the summary for week 18, I think, although who really knows. Anyway a Happy Bank Holiday Monday to you. I hope you have been spending

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Posted in #WeeklyBlogClub summary, communicating, conferences, cultural heritage, culture, data, democracy, digital technology, health, national government, politics, public sector, visual arts

Learning, printing, filming and being lovely

Hello lovely bloggers, and fans of reading blogs, it is me, Kate Bentham, here as your Weekly Blog Club host for week 13. How has your week been? Good Easter break? Glad to see that some of you have been

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Posted in #WeeklyBlogClub summary, Business, communicating, communities, customer service, film/video, health, health services, journalism, learning, local government, media, patient care, printmaking, psychology, public sector, visual arts, working practices, workplace

The NHS new starter pack, bleepers and pictures of cake

Ross made the jump from localgov comms into health comms and it’s proving to be a big learning curve. He’s still coming to grips with the health acronyms and the huge hospital sites but he has cake a bleeper, so he’s a

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Drawing, Drones, Deliveries and Decisions

Hello all, it’s Kate Bentham here looking after Weekly Blog Club for week 16, I hope you’re all well and looking forward to finding out about the amazing 15 blogs we’ve had submitted this week. Big thanks to all our

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Posted in #WeeklyBlogClub summary, communicating, communities, digital technology, family, football, good causes, health, health services, leadership, local government, painting drawing, patient care, photography, public spaces, setting goals, social care, special events, streets, trains, visual arts, working practices

Welcome to Easy Street

In this blog Carolyne Mitchell shares with us some of the teaching of Dan Arielys and his course Beginners Guide to Irrationality. The blogs looks at decision making, and how people rely on contextual information to make judgements. Carolyne discusses

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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

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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

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Getting personal, explaining dementia, and paper in art

We had 11 contributions for Week 5, with three themes emerging during the week: health issues, using social media in the public sector, and art. Gina Alexander returned to the  @dghealth (Dumfries and Galloway Health) blog with Take a deep breath. I was

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The future, revealing selves, and the NHS Hack Day

Thanks very much to the fabulous Kate Bentham for looking after Weekly Blog Club in Week 3 and writing a great summary for it. Thank goodness she covered Week 3 and not Week 4. I would have felt a bit

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Posted in #WeeklyBlogClub summary, blogging, conferences, digital technology, disability, health, health services, ideas/innovation, medical practice, music, patient care, public relations, social media, unconferences, working practices

POST RELEASE: Life After the Press Release Dies

Dan Slee has been doing his best to tell us all that the press release must (or will) die in future comms and PR. In this blogs he shares how he has the backing of some big hitters – as

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