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Category Archives: Development
Jan 23 2013
IF only – communications challenges and opportunties for NGOs in 2013
Leave a commentThis is part of an article that appears in full on the Guardian Development Professional Network website. Here’s the top and bottom of my attempt to ask if NGOs have got their communications strategies right for the media environment of … Continue reading
Posted by: January 23, 2013
Tagged with: advocacy, communications, develoopment, IF, marketing, NGO, NGOs
Jan 3 2013
Raped! The Indian polity in shambles (guest blog)
Leave a commentA 23 year old student, varyingly named by the media as the treasure (Amanat), the light (Jyoti) or the fearless (Nirbhaya) – died, after being gang-raped and tortured with an iron rod by 6 drunk men on a moving bus … Continue reading
Posted by: January 3, 2013
Tagged with: crime, gender, guest blog, India, rape, sex
Dec 13 2012
What is the point of studying at the LSE when my friends are being killed at home? (Guest blog)
Leave a commentThis week we were able to give a small but vital Silverstone Scholarship grant to one of our MSc students, Eman Eltigani, a journalist from Sudan. She was thrilled to get the financial support, but bad news from her homeland … Continue reading
Posted by: December 13, 2012
Tagged with: Africa, Development, guest blog, Scholarship, Silverstone, Sudan
Oct 11 2012
Connecting to the World: launch of report on online campaigning and the new media environment
Leave a commentThe internet presents huge opportunities but also huge challenges for campaigners dealing with global issues. On November 7th, we’ll be launching a new research report written by me for the International Broadcasting Trust that looks at how UK NGOs campaign … Continue reading
Posted by: October 11, 2012
Tagged with: advocacy, aid, BBC, campaigning, Citizen journalism, Development, Guardian, humanitarian communications, Kony2012, public sphere, Reports, Syria
Jul 11 2012
How to tell development stories – Bill Clinton at LSE
1 CommentIf all those books about political communications are to be believed then it should be easy to be as effective as Bill Clinton with the help of some speech writers, spin doctors and image consultants. Yet what is remarkable is … Continue reading
Posted by: July 11, 2012
Tagged with: communications, Development, events, humanitarian comms, LSEClinton
Jul 4 2012
Insight from the Other World- A Marketing Professional Speaks on NGOs’ Communication Challenges
Leave a commentWhat happens when you bring together a commercial marketing man with a group of communications, fund-raising and marketing officers from a selection of the UK’s international aid charities? Polis Intern Paula Myers reports on a recent Polis report launch. “What’s … Continue reading
Posted by: July 4, 2012
Tagged with: aid, Charities, Development, events, Giles Hedger, guest blog, Leo Burnett, marketing, NGOs, Reports, Research
Jun 13 2012
Who Cares? Challenges and Opportunities in Reporting Distant Suffering (new report)
1 CommentOn June 27th at 5.30pm, Polis will launch a new report exploring the challenges and opportunities in reporting distant suffering. The report written by Dr Shani Orgad based on research by a team from LSE and Birkbeck College will be … Continue reading
Posted by: June 13, 2012
Tagged with: Development, humanitarian communications, marketing, NGO, Oxfam, Plan UK, Research, Save The Children
Apr 20 2012
How did Kony2012 Go Viral and Should We Copy It?
Leave a commentIn this short draft extract from a much longer paper I argue that what made #Kony2012 go viral was not the slick content or the Invisible Children brand – it was its focus on networking as an end in itself. … Continue reading
Posted by: April 20, 2012
Tagged with: campaigns, campaings, coverthenight, Development, humanitarian communications, Kony2012, NGO, public sphere
Apr 18 2012
Kony2012 and the digital challenge to the public sphere (new research paper)
2 CommentsThis is a short early draft extract from a much longer paper I am writing for the International Broadcasting Trust on the future of the ‘public sphere’ in the digital age. In other words, how does our ability to communicate … Continue reading
Posted by: April 18, 2012
Tagged with: Development, humanitarian communications, IBT, internet, Kony2012, papers, politics, public sphere, Research
Mar 9 2012
Why I think the Kony 2012 Campaign Is Wrong
39 CommentsI think the Kony12 campaign is wrong. It is wrong in content, tactics, strategy, ethics and politics. The Invisible Children organisation may well be doing some good work in East Africa, but this media effort is wrong. And it’s not … Continue reading
Posted by: March 9, 2012
Tagged with: Africa, campaigning, Cosmopolitanism, humanitarian comms, Kony, Kony12, social media, StopKony
