06 Mar 2009
Department of Health launches contraceptive drive, Exeter promotes cycling among public....has established a team to offer marketing communications to other public and third sector ...
- Twitter is now being used by councillors from 115 councils as a way to interact with the public ...
.5m investment to help young people gain better access to contraception, announced by public health ...
21 Nov 2008
A YouTube clip of a moonwalking bear that had 10 million hits was released by Transport for London as a road safety campaign. The viral - made by ad agency WCRS - asks watchers to count passes between a basketball team then asks if they saw the bear.
03 Aug 2001
WEBSITE: The RSPCA is revamping its website, which will be
relaunched in the autumn. Web consultancy Lateral has been appointed
after a four-way pitch for the work. The site will include a facility to
donate money and children's games.
02 Aug 2002
by public sector tech body the Society of
IT Management...., called 'transactional'. This status is only given to sites that offer the public coherent,
accessible ...
portal website, which was set up last year to help the public report
non-urgent crimes. ...
19 Aug 2005
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04 May 2001
The Crafts Council has created its first comms department. Jane
Tonkin will head the team as director of comms, joining from the
Chartered Institute of Physiotherapy, where she had the same role. She
will head a team of seven, covering publications and strategic PR.
Agency Joanne Scott ...
07 Mar 2003
SMOKING: Pro-smoking lobby group Forest has launched a website, www.forestonline.org.uk. The site contains a magazine that has interviews with celebrity smokers such as Antony Worrall Thompson and Conservative MP and BAT deputy chairman Kenneth Clarke. Forest director Simon Clark describes the site...
10 Jan 2003
DRUGSCOPE: Drug policy think tank Drugscope has published an online guide for journalists in a bid to avoid alleged mis-reporting of drug abuse. According to the charity common myths include describing heroin withdrawal as a 'near death experience' and viewing cannabis as a 'harmless drug'.
12 Oct 2001
ANTI-GLOBALISATION: Former Greenpeace executive director Chris Rose
has launched www.campaignstrategy.org, a website to help individuals to
organise anti-globalisation campaigns. Rose said training in this field
was 'almost non-existent'. Earlier this year he launched the Families
Against Bush...
22 Sep 2000
Former Westminster Strategy consultant Louisa Cross has moved
in-house to join the Solicitors Family Law Association as communications
director. Cross, who has spent two years at the government and media
relations firm, is the body's first communications director. Her role
involves raising the...