Cleaning up communications

Earlier in the year when I started #fixPR I wanted to stop the PR bashing  and share solutions. We’re not all perfect and we don’t have a lot of time but, at the risk of sounding cheesy, if we all work together as an industry we could effect change.

Some people joined in and started debating the issues (and I thank them for their contributions) but since then I’ve noticed it’s still far more likely to see people taking a pop at each other and dragging the collective industry down. FFS!

Enter Claire Thompson and the successsfull thupr events. Claire has dedicated the next one to ‘Cleaning up Communications‘ which is a chance to “put away the bolly and look at some of the campaigns to help raise the game and have a collective think about what can be done in future…”

Claire has invited me to talk more about #fixPR (thank you) in good company with:

• Richard Ellis, PRCA (Public Relations Consultants Association)
• Molly Flatt, 1000 Heads, offering the online perspective
• Adam Parker, Realwire, on An Inconvenient PR Truth
• Tim Phillips, freelance journalist, on Talk Normal

I’d love it if you could attend, not just because we’ve managed to get women speakers outnumbering men (wow, finally representative of the PR industry) but because I’d like it to be an event where we actually SAY something and not just sit around stroking our own egos.

I’m in a bit of a feisty phase at the moment -  so if you know me at all it should be fun

Please come along and add to the collective intelligence if you’re impacted by communications in any way; PR, writer, content producer, marketer, whatever…

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