Black Country news and blogs Saturday 21 July 2018
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PUNK ATTITUDE: Today’s comms person needs to learn three chords and form a band over and over to still have a job in 20 years time 
The Dan Slee Blog 17 Jul 18
It’s funny how two things collide and you start thinking about things in new ways.
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THREE LIONS: How the FA have changed how they use video to communicate
The Dan Slee Blog 2 Jul 18
There’s a time limit to this post.
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30 days of human comms #45 University of Reading
The Dan Slee Blog 2 Jul 18
I’ve written before about the trend for drawing a line in the sand on social media.
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ROBOT COMMS: What public sector comms people need to know about artificial intelligence
The Dan Slee Blog 2 Jul 18
There’s this amazing clip from late 1970s Blue Peter where the presenters are demonstrating the first commercial mobile phone.
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HARD DAYS: Two things The Beatles can teach you about tips for making effective short form video
The Dan Slee Blog 28 Jun 18
My Mum once did something astounding when she was younger.
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FUTURE PROOF: A collection of writing that asks questions as well as celebrates NHS comms
The Dan Slee Blog 9 May 18
Here are two myths about the NHS and neither are true.
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LIVE TALK: A Facebook Live on GDPR and council websites
The Dan Slee Blog 4 May 18
Well, that was fun.
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SMILE EXPERIMENT: Heard the one about #gdprjokes?
The Dan Slee Blog 25 Apr 18
Okay, heard the one about the unsolicted email from someone offering GDPR services? I know.
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30 days of human comms: day #44: Gateshead Council shoots down a street light urban myth
The Dan Slee Blog 10 Apr 18
For a while I’ve been noticing that social media admins have been drawing a line in the sand.
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POST HASTE: Facebook will only fall when someone gets better than them at sharing cat videos
The Dan Slee Blog 22 Mar 18
There’s been a lot written about how the Facebook and Cambridge Analytica crisis.
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30 days of human comms: day #43 a Down’s Syndrome campaign video
The Dan Slee Blog 17 Mar 18
Often when I’m co-delivering video training I’ll tell a story about one of the first lessons I learned as a journalist.
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NEW TACK: We’re polite and human as hell, and we’re not going to take it any more… a new approach to online snark
The Dan Slee Blog 16 Mar 18
There’s a change in the air with how the public sector is using social media.
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30 days of human comms: day #42: Birmingham New Street station
The Dan Slee Blog 16 Mar 18
Train stations are emotional places.
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FREE SITES: How to find royalty free music for your next video
The Dan Slee Blog 13 Mar 18
You’ve made a short video but you need some music to make it fly.
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LONG READ: Why you should have corporate AND non-corporate accounts
The Dan Slee Blog 8 Mar 18
I was reminded of low level civil war happening that pits people in the same organisation against each other.
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30 days of human: day #41 Lidl Ireland ask how your weekend was
The Dan Slee Blog 7 Mar 18
So, spare a thought for Lidl Ireland.
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BETTER FACEBOOK: How to shape your 2018 Facebook strategy with seven key questions
The Dan Slee Blog 4 Mar 18
It’s been a few weeks now since Mark Zuckerburg’s game-changing announcement on how Facebook will now work.
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WINTER COMMS part 3: Eight ways to communicate with images in the snow and ice
The Dan Slee Blog 1 Mar 18
Hey, remember when listening to the local radio station at 7.40am was how you found out about school closures? Good times.
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WINTER COMMS part 2: Using a Twitter thread to communicate a complex point
The Dan Slee Blog 1 Mar 18
It’s the winter and of course the council never treated the roads.
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WINTER COMMS part 1: Seven ways to communicate using video
The Dan Slee Blog 1 Mar 18
If you don’t think that love is a little bit like gritting in icy weather then, boy, let me convince you.
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COMBAT ROCK: How to make a rebuttal: West Midlands Police v The Sun
The Dan Slee Blog 14 Feb 18
Ladies and gentlemen, the greatest rebuttal to an inaccurate story by a public sector body.
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30 days of human comms: day #40 the video of the Police officer playing the piano for the 93-year-old crime victim
The Dan Slee Blog 21 Jan 18
If you find someone questioning why frontline people should have access to social media show them this video.
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30 days of human comms: #39 the stylish police dog’s hair and his proud owner
The Dan Slee Blog 19 Jan 18
Genius… I think we should all take a moment out of our day to just reflect on how awesome PD Max’s hair is.
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30 days of human comms: day #38: Hampshire Police’s tweeted video to encourage girls to join their cadets
The Dan Slee Blog 19 Jan 18
For me, a good police social media account must mirror a beat constable Sometimes personable, sometimes serioes they must navigate the gears depending on the issue.
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NEW FRIENDS: What big changes to Facebook mean for public sector communications
The Dan Slee Blog 13 Jan 18
As the late David Bowie once sang: “Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes, turn and face the strange.
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30 days of human comms: #day 37 KFC parodies Donald Trump
The Dan Slee Blog 4 Jan 18
Being human doesn’t always have to be a public sector thing as this tweet from Kentucky Fried Chicken shows.
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30 days of human comms: day #36 A gang of geese in Sowerby Bridge wanted to cause some bother
The Dan Slee Blog 3 Jan 18
There’s a benefit of equipping frontline people with the tech, the skills and the permission to use video.
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VISUAL COMMS: Some bold and some worrying predictions for public sector comms in 2018
The Dan Slee Blog 30 Dec 17
For the past few years I’ve blogged at the end of the year some predictions.
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30 days of human comms: day #35 Bournemouth police share a selfie at Christmas
The Dan Slee Blog 26 Dec 17
While we enjoy Christmas there are those in the public sector who keep things ticking over.
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VIDEO XMAS: Six Songs, Two Dramas and an Epic Fail
The Dan Slee Blog 19 Dec 17
There is something about the festive season that gives comms people free licence to be more creative.
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30 days of human comms #34 Vist Wakefield or your man will leave you
The Dan Slee Blog 18 Dec 17
I like this.
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30 days of human comms: #33 Dorset Police respond to snark on Facebook
The Dan Slee Blog 17 Dec 17
Anyone who has ever run a social media account for the public sector knows that from time to time people will post comments.
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30 days of human comms #32: Essex County Council respond to snark on Facebook
The Dan Slee Blog 17 Dec 17
There is a very sound school of thought from my Uncle Keith that you should never argue with an idiot.
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BEING HUMAN: The first 30 days of human comms… and what I’ve learned
The Dan Slee Blog 17 Dec 17
When I started on a whim to blog #30daysofhumancomms it was to collect together some examples of human content that worked for me.
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30 days of human comms: #31 the NHS Trust with a sense of humour
The Dan Slee Blog 12 Dec 17
Health people can have a sense of humour too.
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30 days of human comms: #30 London Midland signs off
The Dan Slee Blog 11 Dec 17
It’s unplanned and ironic that the 30th post in this series is one from a railway company I’ve often despaired at.
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NICE, NICE BABY: Seven examples of good icy weather comms
The Dan Slee Blog 10 Dec 17
Oh, the weather outside is frightful… and its the time to baton down the hatches.
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30 days of human comms #29 Kirklees Council’s GIF to remind people that gritter drivers are human too
The Dan Slee Blog 10 Dec 17
There’s an easy target when the snow falls.
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30 days of human comms: #27 A newspaper interview with medics who treated Manchester bomb patients
The Dan Slee Blog 8 Dec 17
So far in the round-up of human comms we’ve looked at digital content that the organisation has shaped itself.
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30 days of human comms: #26 Lochaber & Skye Police talk to someone at risk of domestic abuse
The Dan Slee Blog 7 Dec 17
A while back a colleague ran a campaign against domestic violence that stays with me.
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30 days of human comms: The @FarmersOfTheUK Twitter account
The Dan Slee Blog 6 Dec 17
You’d be surprised at just how little of the land is built on in the UK.
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30 days of human comms #24 the Yorkshire motorway police officer and his wife
The Dan Slee Blog 4 Dec 17
A while back someone asked what the point of having more than the corporate account was.
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30 days of human comms #23 Dorest Police’s Christmas song
The Dan Slee Blog 3 Dec 17
On the one level this is great.
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30 days of human comms #21 the human railway conductor
The Dan Slee Blog 1 Dec 17
There’s something about trainspeak that somehow misses out on the English language.
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30 days of human comms: #21 Cardiff Council’s traffic warning
The Dan Slee Blog 30 Nov 17
The GIF is something that the public sector is gradually getting used to using.
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30 days of human comms #20 A missing dog pic from the New Forest
The Dan Slee Blog 29 Nov 17
Sometimes things just fall into your lap.
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30 days of human comms #19 a Welsh hardware shop’s Christmas advert
The Dan Slee Blog 28 Nov 17
This is beautiful.
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30 days of human comms #18 Bath & North East Somerset’s singing food hygiene certificates
The Dan Slee Blog 27 Nov 17
There was a curry house when I worked as a reporter who used to ring up every week to try and get into the paper.
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30 days of human comms: #18 the busking police officer
The Dan Slee Blog 26 Nov 17
Communications should not just be what a small group of people in the comms office does.
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30 days of human comms #16 Thames Valley Police’s drugs find
The Dan Slee Blog 26 Nov 17
Here’s a thing.