Respond to the new normal: our eight step comms strategy
The response to the COVID-19 outbreak has highlighted the importance of timely, well executed communications in the effort to keep the public informed.
What does Keir mean for housing and infrastructure?
Before COVID-19, housing and infrastructure were in the political spotlight more so than for years. Will Keir Starmer’s coronation as Labour leader help keep it so?
Businesses in the West come together to respond
Businesses in the West of England face a challenge like no other as the national response to the COVID-19 outbreak has taken hold.
An unforgettable way to start a job
When I accepted an exciting new job opportunity at Social, I never could have imagined I would be starting it at the peak of a global pandemic and national crisis.
A Certain Ratio – How video aspect ratios became a creative choice
We’re all watching a lot of online video at the moment. But when you do so, how often do you notice the aspect ratio of what you’re watching?
Good communications in a crisis
Times are tough and we’re all trying to make sense of things. Those who act like good communications doesn’t matter at times like these are in for a shock.
Will Corbynism survive the lockdown?
Social’s Head of Major Projects Michael Vivona and Account Manager Freddie Palmer reflect on where the Labour Party goes next as Jeremy Corbyn prepares to depart.
Can technology finally be the tool to unite us all?
Nobody who has been reading about politics on Twitter or Facebook in the last five years could say that technology has fulfilled its potential to bring people together. Wasn’t that what we had hoped back in the early days of social networking? It represented the chance to keep in touch with distant friends and family members as well as making new connections across the world, but instead descended to bickering, bullying and belligerence.
Social, Listening
It’s no surprise that in these unusual times, we’re turning to streaming media for comfort while we’re behind closed doors. And it’s equally no surprise that one of the forms we’re turning to en masse is the humble podcast.
Building a communications community: COVID-19 Crisis Comms unit formed by Social and Bradshaw Advisory
As organisations across the UK are working overtime to develop communication management plans to respond to the coronavirus, also known as COVID-19, a community
We’re all in this together
Whether you’re a new freelancer or one of many workers now housebound by Coronavirus (like myself), setting up a healthy environment to work from home has become a huge priority across the globe.
Planning for social distancing
They say a week is a long time in politics and its quite staggering to think that last Wednesday we were digesting news of the Budget, thinking that £30bn seems like an awful lot of money to fight coronavirus.