The thoughts of a nurse with type 1 diabetes. I happen to have Type 1 Diabetes. That means by default I am a data monkey; what I mean is someone who is concerned with data all day long, every day. A pile of test strips. Each one a finger prick. Each one a data point.

Adult Social Care at RBKC. This is Phil Jewitt, senior communications manager at the council. 4 hours before Friday the 13th! We would however like to keep it open for others to see the history.

Social media, PR and digital communications in the public sector from the co-founder of comms2point0. It was true today as it was then. The media law student in me assumes they got permission to use the track.

A blog about communications and working in local government. 8211; the annual unconference for communications-types in and around the public sector. I went, I found it hard to choose between the sessions on offer, I listened to interesting people talk about a host of communications topics, I ate cake.

And why theyre both wrong.

As the dust settles on elections results and their aftermath, what is the future for local government communicators and their teams? Further cuts are on the way, so at some point the question of the size and worth of a communications function will be debated in nearly every council. So what are you going to do about it? Is a new approach required? Start with a clean slate. The perceived wisdom among many is that councils are very traditional organisat.

Last week I helped out at weekly blog club and it felt good to be doing something to support its continuation, but one thing which struck me was the low numbers of blogs that week. So I pledged to make sure that my involvement also included actually blogging.

Why am I here? A few stories from me about Leadership, Learning and all things Social. Hack traditional learning, embrace digital. To mark digital learning day. I originally wrote this post for our website on behalf of our learning and development team. We are taking steps to.