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If there's one thing that guarantees debate it's the future of the press release question. Thing is, while PR people are talking newspaper people have started to quietly turn away from it.
I missed the apparently now annual @commscamp dust up over the Press Release this year.
I may have inadvertently started it and run away last year, and I think I was supposed to kick off a brawl about it at an LGComms fringe event last year too, but sort of declined. Sort of.
by Eddie Coates-Madden and Lisa Buttery
So, what happens when communications and customer services come together? Are there things in common?
Last week I went to the #channelshiftcamp organised by the brilliant @psfnick in Derby City Council’s stunning HQ.
I took with me my colleague Lisa Buttery, our Assistant Head of Customer Services, not least because the opportunity to line up and join up Comms and Customer Services is never one I think we should miss, but also because it was all quite new to her.
The LGcomms Academy is the premier event for local government comms folk. This thoughtful post aims to help to make it even better in 2014, and beyond.
It's very bad manners to criticise people who invite you to their party, so I wish I'd been able to say some of this during the event, at the unconference group seeking feedback on the event, but I had to head for Hull, so I'll preface what I'm about to say with words of sincerely meant praise.
Excitement always grows at Comms2Point0 Towers when the engravers get to work on the shiny £1 cup awarded to the creator of the top post for the month.
March was a bumper month for both the number and quality of new posts. And this possibly accounted for a record number of visitors and page views in March.
Anyways, cue drum roll and we'll do this, as usual, in reverse order...
In fifth spot was the superb, unfortunately, essential, 10 things to do when your team is cut in half by Rebecca Crosby.
At number four was Liam Barrington-Bush with How an author is using small conversations and viral campaigning We were chuffed to receive Liam's debut comms2point0 post.
