Our latest project for the Improvement and Development Agency (IDeA), focusing on promoting ‘a career in social work’, went live on the LG Careers website recently.
The podcast series consists of a video profiling qualified and trainee social workers, who explain their differing routes into the profession and three audio podcasts, each featuring one of the [...]

Business Ears show #039 was released last week and features an interview with Rob Brown, author of ‘Public Relations and The Social Web: How to use social media and web 2.0 in communications’.
In the interview, Rob describes what impact the social web is having on business communications, he advises on how to use the key [...]

Public Sector HR Podcast show #019 was released recently with a focus on Recruiting Social Workers.

Recruiting and retaining social workers has been a big challenge for a lot of authorities for many years. High profile cases like Baby P have not helped to attract new people into the profession, which is why the government recently announced [...]

Our latest project for LGE went live this week  -  a video podcast focusing on Culture Change in Local Government.
In order to reflect the progressive role of local government in the 21st century, the culture within councils is set to change and to ensure success, elected members need to lead this culture change within their [...]

Business Ears show #038 was released on Wednesday and features an interview with Richard Stephenson CEO and majority shareholder of Yudu Media - the online publishing network accessed in over one hundred and eighty countries worldwide.
Nurtured by Richard since 2003, the business that has grown into Yudu comprises two websites:

yudupro.com - a [...]

Edison Research today released their annual joint study, with Arbitron, of Americans’ radio consumption habits - and it shows that podcasting continues its steady, unrelenting growth.

According to the report, the podcast audience has grown by 22% since last year, expanding from 18% of all Americans in 2008 to 22% in 2009.
Edison’s study, [...]

The winners of the first European Podcast Awards have been announced.

Choosing from ten participating countries across Europe and over 750 nominations, a panel of judges awarded the inaugural European Podcast Awards to five winners from Germany, England and Spain.
The European podcasts of the year 2008/2009 are:

Schlaflos in München [Sleepless in Munich] / Germany
The Naked Scientists [...]

Business Ears show #037 was released on Saturday and features an interview with Matthew Driver, co-founder and Director of Babisil the innovative and award winning baby product business based in Colne, Lancashire.
Now Matthew and his wife Victoria created the business in 2005, when they took a leap of faith and combined his [...]

In a recent article, The Guardian reports that under new proposals, UK primary schools may soon ditch studying topics such as the Victorians or the Second Word War in favour of Twitter, blogs, Wikipedia and podcasts.

The proposed curriculum, which would mark the biggest change to primary schooling in a decade, strips away hundreds of [...]

Public Sector HR Podcast show #016 was released recently with a focus on Insourcing.

As the recession bites, much has been reported about the strong demand for outsourcing and as a consequence, profits of some of the bigger providers have soared. But according to research recently carried out by the Association of Public Service Excellence, many local authorities [...]