Category: Communication

The Right To Tweet: The Role Of Social Media In Online Political Discourse

Social media engagement plays multifaceted roles in shaping political discourse online. In an age where a single tweet could make or break a politician’s career,...

TikTok to push longer-form content to solve monetisation challenges

TikTok faces a critical hurdle in adequately monetising creator content, particularly for its top influencers seeking direct income and ad revenue from their short-form content...

Promoting positive behaviour change through creating fit-for-purpose communications with Karen Markwort

As the Director of Communications and Parliamentary at Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, Karen Markwort has one goal: to communicate the kind of danger...

PR management platform named a ‘Built In 2024 Best Place to Work’

Public Relations Management (PRM) platform Muck Rack has been named a Built In 2024 Best Place to Work winner in the Remote Best Places to...

Magazines were supposed to die in the digital age. Why haven’t they?

In the classic comedy Ghostbusters (1984), newly hired secretary Janice raises the subject of reading, while idly flipping through the pages of a magazine. The...

3 Comms Trends To Watch Out for In 2024

2023 has been an interesting year for communicators, to say the least. While communication has always been a dynamic field, 2023 was the year where...

Perfect your customer service: 3 lessons from the novated leasing sector

Novated leasing is a sector propelled by government incentives for EV adoption, where competition is intense and customers are always searching for the best deal....

Featured Leaders 2023: This year’s comms issues and the leaders that solved them

This year, Comms Room sought out your voice, and you delivered. We are thankful for those of you gave us the time of day to...

ESG Reporting as the new frontier for corporate comms with Amanda Firth

Amanda Firth is a Group Client Manager for BBS Communications. Before making a career in public relations and corporate communications, Amanda acquired journalism skills from...

2024 sees more demand for marketing interns despite rise of AI

Recent insights from GetApp’s 2023 AI Impact Survey, encompassing 400 small and midsize businesses (SMBs), challenge prevailing assumptions. Surprisingly, 36% of SMBs anticipate that AI...

How to leverage influencers in Christmas time

Influencers are everywhere. From DIY brands to makeup and lifestyle, it’s clear that integrating influencers into a PR campaign simply works. And now that Christmas...

Content agency BlueMelon delivers $30K rebrand for ‘women empowerment’

Sydney-based creative agency BlueMelon has announced its pro-bono collaboration with Missing Perspectives, an Australian media startup dedicated to amplifying the voices of young female reporters...

5 tips for creating effective holiday content

The holidays are here, but the work doesn’t stop for a brand’s PR team! Now that festivities are everyone’s focus, it’s the best time for...

Creating impactful low-cost communications to support a complex, de-centralised workforce with Ingrid Just

One of the most lasting effects of the COVID-19 pandemic is it changed the way we work.  While remote working has existed in some form...

Fact-bombing by experts doesn’t change hearts and minds. But good science communication can

A stir went through the Australian science communication community last week, caused by an article with the headline Science communicators need to stop telling everybody...

Navigating the digital landscape: The 4 roles of social media in modern public relations

Social media–we all know, and we all take part in it. From networking sites like Meta, to image-based Instagram, to business and employment-focused LinkedIn, social...

3 brands that changed the PR game through storytelling (and how you can, too!)

In the realm of marketing, the importance of a compelling brand and campaign narrative cannot be overstated. Your narrative is the heartbeat of your brand,...

Driving citizen satisfaction and trust through a long term communications approach with Eddie Townsend

Eddie Townsend works as the Director of Communications at London Borough of Waltham Forest. A London Borough is a local authority that owns and maintains...

Here’s what went down in the 9th Annual Comms Leaders Summit

It’s been an eventful year for communications professionals, to say the least. Apart from a global pandemic that has changed how we communicate forever, there...

Majority of marketing and communications leaders embrace dual roles, Muck Rack finds

Approximately 70% of marketing and communications leaders say their role is a mix of both functions, according to new survey results from Muck Rack, the...