Crisis communication & contingency theory
A guest lecture to students following the Interactive Media Strategies (IMS) course at Bournemouth University The 13th of February saw me start my day not with the usual DCS lecture but with a guest talk to a group of our MA students. My task was to…
Mizzou @ BU
Yesterday (Thursday, this site February the 2nd) a group of students enrolled in the London Programme of the University of Missouri-Columbia came to visit the Media School of Bournemouth University. They are in the UK for a semester undertaking internships but their programme also…
Introducing @DCS_BU & dcsbu.wordpress.com
The Digital Communication Strategies course that I teach at Bournemouth University now has its own social media presence in the form of a twitter account, website like this blog and dedicated Delicious stack. This term is very practice-focused so it makes sense to enable…
Social Media 4 Beginners: Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and WordPress tutorials
At the beginning of this month I wrote about the EuroBlog Social Media Award I have received for my use of social media for research and more. The University of the West of Scotland (where I pursue my PhD) picked up the news and shared…
A lecture from 3000 miles away
 Photo credit: Kenzo de Bruyn Yesterday (October 19, illness 2011) I had the pleasure to join live but virtually 45 students very interested in communication, for sale public relations, events management, advertising and social media. They were attending their weekly Public Relations Seminar Series…