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2008 Archive

Lost in translation

In the excitement about digital, don’t forget the people

Investment in social media set to rise – and so it should

Snow, snow all around

Can anybody find you?

Hitting the headlines in 2009

Planning for Controversial Campaigns

Gone Phishing

The Rise of Mobile in Charity Communications

Volunteer communications

E-campaigning During a General Election

Keeping your charity communications creative

Go viral, but keep fostering meaningful relationships

Prostate Cancer Research Foundation: On Resurrection

Social Media increases email use… discuss..

Involving service users

The importance of style and personality

We stopped the rain tax! Successfully integrating a public affairs and media campaign

Lobbying in public to persuade in private

To ban, or not to ban?

The downside to social networking

Comms in a Crisis

Ben Goldacre’s #chuggerstop Campaign

Direct mail, your time is nearly up?

Folksonomies: We Like to Share

The data you should be collecting

On blogging

Bad Science, Good Charity Communications

Up in the Clouds: for today’s charities Free is the new paid-for

What did you think of the BBC’s Famous Rich and Homeless?

Allowing supporters to choose

Merger communications

Blog on

Grylled by the media

Why do comms people let fundraisers leave them standing when it comes to new media?

Find a nugget and make them laugh

Free Marketing and PR Support

Rebranding Action for Children

eCampaigning Forum

Social Networking More Popular Than Email

Are we getting the media we deserve?

How’s your relationship with your agency?

What makes you so special?

Something out of nothing

When disaster strikes

Planning publications that get people talking

Joining the dots…Social media: why bother?

MAKE TRACKS TO A MENTOR!

The Full Value revolution: What does it mean to you?

Power of the BBC or Reflection of Public Opinion?

Timing is everything…but be careful what you wish for…

Gill Cox – agony aunt for Bella, health editor for Woman’s Own, and contributor to a number of other women’s magazines – offers some advice on promoting health stories.

Journalist: Demons Within

Christmas 2008

PR 2.0 – is your communication online, on-message?

Bear with us

A time to engage stakeholders

To Microsite or not to Microsite? – That is the question!

How did the Scout Association turn a local story into a national one?

Communications volunteers

Are Charities’ press and communications departments taken for granted?

Press coverage without press releases

What campaign has everyone been talking about this week?

Working together – when one voice encompasses many

‘Day of’ fatigue

How did The Scout Association handle a potentially damaging story last week?

Networking

National ‘no national campaigns’ day?

Updating the News

Media Volunteers

Marketing – the word that charities love to abuse

Your top ten websites – does it include the BBC website?

Why is everyone talking about e-campaigning?

How to get your message read before the delete button is pressed

Top Tips for working with celebrities

YouTube launches non-profit programme in the UK

Proofreading tips

I hate proofreading

Cut your cloth to fit your budget

Reputation matters

How not to bite the hand that feeds you

Freelance journalist Johanna Payton discusses askCHARITY

Why charities need to become more like news organisations

Kelvin MacKenzie: The verdict

Writing for email

Charity Communications Conference 2008

Crisis management

Engaging Charity Writing

It’s a simple Monday morning thing

Who are your ‘big five’ journalists?

Going Beyond News

Making use of online PR

Gideon Burrows on what makes a good broadcast interview

Guest Blogger Series Begins

NSPCC to set up expert body to protect children on reality TV

Case studies: recruit, retain and respect

Charities take on TV producers over use of babies on TV

What an amazing opportunity

Media ethics?

Return of the real

Kids on TV – are the Ofcom guidelines about to change?

Find out more about journalists

Death of the newspaper?

Can’t get on TV? Set up your own channel

Teens bite back

People Power vs the Media

BBC axes Planet Relief

Right of Reply

Are journalists morally corrupt?

The fight over copy approval

Don’t hang up

Insulting titles?

Who can give informed consent to be filmed for TV?

Citizen Journalism offers huge opportunities for charities

Alastair Campbell – What does his criticism of the media have to do with charities?

Barnardo’s adverts shock again

The secrecy surrounding newspaper charity appeals

The Media Standards Trust website

Charities will have a harder time trying to get the BBC to support their campaigns in future

What Rob Dyson learned from working inside the BBC

Controversial charity association with Paris Hilton

New report on “contentious citizens”

A great resource from Australia

case studies and c.a.l.m

The death of the press release?

a useful toolkit from the National Audit Office!

Power to the People

should real children be used in programmes at all?

Women’s magazines really do screen case studies according to their looks

Sometimes I understand journalists’ frustration…

Fighting back against negative stories in the press

Press release blunders

Will journalists bypass charities when looking for case studies…

Adam Sampson at the NCVO Campaigning Effectiveness Conference

Does the media treat elder abuse differently to child abuse?

The Morality of the Media

Debt case studies – are there any?

Are charities “society’s voice of righteous opposition”?

BBC Outreach – a new site and newsletter

One way to get your organisation known by journalists

Digital Dividend Review – What on earth is in it for the Voluntary Sector?

Embargoes and journalists’ dislike of them

If a journalist can’t make contact…

Mail and Express deny they are biased against asylum seekers

a brave charity…..

Another report on media stereotypes of young people

An educational TV doc or a “sick reality TV show”?

Charity fundraisers under media scrutiny

Charity campaigning – The American way

the Secret Millionaire – a missed opportunity for charities?

The power of the sound-bite

What happens when you introduce refugees to the media?

TV nightmares

A chance to make the news

Some tips on promoting your website

The end of a shocking era?

A photo agency on the hunt for charity events / stories

A chance for case studies to bite back!

The trying world of dealing with celebrities.

In reality the media are happy to take volunteering stories…

Free Information on Media in Your Area

Women in Journalism debate the use of case studies

An outrageous case study request…

Big charities persuading big broadcasters to collaborate with them…

Free internet safety events

the use or not of press releases

A kickstart for UK Campaigning Films?

Edinburgh TV Festival

Tsunami OK for broadcast DEC appeal but not Lebanon

TV programmes on disability provoke heated debate

The treatment of asylum seekers in the media

Could the ban on “political” broadcasts be lifted?

BBC TV News is very keen to meet new charities

Inside the mind of BBC News Editors

Are charities anti-media?

Suicide and how the media report it

Do charity coalitions have clout with the media?

Did you know that DFID funds TV development?

Media and CSR – a relatively new venture

Bringing charities and BBC Radio 4 producers face to face

Should we censor journalists’ requests?

Media Connections 2006

Freelance “fishing”

How to get a story to BBC News

TV and the developing world – the challenge of getting producers to be interested

New ways of using the web

A triumph of a charity communications conference

Really getting inside the mind of the media

Voyeuristic televsion

Timing is crucial

A new way of uploading sound

The ebay millionaire who is bankrolling campaigning films

the BBC and death

Charites and the media – how accessible should charities be?