Organising your marketing & communications

I spoke at the annual National Union of Students (NUS) conference for students’ union officers and managers. This year my topic was ‘organising your marketing and communications’. Not a particularly sexy title but maybe next year? To be honest, this...

Quick & dirty ways to measure & test

I’m a massive data nerd. I love spreadsheets. I love experimenting. MASSIVE GEEK. One of the aspects of digital that I enjoy is being able to see what is working (or not) and tweak things. These are some of my quick and dirty ways to measure how things are...

Students’ Unions 2014 – my communications sessions

I’m speaking at Students’ Unions 2014, a conference for students’ union staff and officers. This year it is in glamorous Bolton and I’ll be talking about content marketing and communications tools. My presentations are linked below but I plan...

The value of good writing

I was recently asked to write a column for Spotlight, a magazine produced by the National Union of Students which is distributed to students’ union staff and officers. I chose to write about the value of good writing. The theme of the issue isĀ ‘Crafting...