About

Hello.

If there’s one thing I’ve learned over the last year in my master’s program (and, thankfully, I’ve learned more than just one thing), it’s that listening – to stakeholders, bosses, colleagues, everyone – is a fundamental part of good communication strategy. Hence the name of this blog.

Me

I’m a second-year student in the NYU MS PR and Corporate Communication program, interested in PR and communication strategy, nonprofit communication and social entrepreneurship.

I’ve worked in communication since 2007, first at a UK government-spending watchdog before coming to New York to study, and then in an internship at a small New York-based nonprofit.

Before that, while working out what I wanted to do after graduating with a BA in Politics and Philosophy from the University of Sheffield, I worked for a “document solutions” (aka photocopiers and printers) business, a training company, and a casino. It turned out that communications was what I wanted to do, which is how you now find me here.

The blog

This blog is starting life as a series of assignments for a social media class. At first I’m planning to use it to work through some of my thoughts on PR, communication and social media, and hopefully to contribute a fresh perspective to the PR/social media conversation along the way.

I’d be the first to admit I’m no social media expert (yet!), so all comments and disagreements are welcome (as long as they’re polite). In the highly unlikely event that anything impolite, irrelevant or unpleasant turns up in the comments, I’ll start moderating them.