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Internship: Feeling at home in housing comms

by Guest|22 September 202222 September 2022|Blog, Company news

My name is Emma Walker, and I recently graduated from University of Birmingham with a degree in Modern Languages with Business Management. For the last eight weeks, I have been working as a PR intern at See Media

Top tips for a successful CIPR Chartership Assessment Day

by Guest|18 August 202218 August 2022|Blog

I failed my first driving test on minors. I was a good driver, the examiner assured me as I tried to control my shaking jelly knees, but I was just too nervous to pass. Twenty years later, I sat...

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How to make the most of your MP visit

by Guest|23 March 202223 March 2022|Blog

It was the sunny calm before storm Eunice when I travelled down to our client Helix Group in Newbury, last month, for an MP visit. It was my first time supporting a parliamentary visit and for this particular meeting, the...

Work experience: Dipping into the world of housing comms

by Guest|16 March 202216 March 2022|Blog

My name is Elise Middleton and I’m currently in my third year at the University of Worcester, studying journalism. The PR industry has always interested me and while we’ve touched on it in my course, we’ve never really gone into...

Reaching the not so hard-to-reach

by Guest|08 April 202119 April 2021|Blog

Just because something is difficult, it doesn’t mean it’s not worth doing. But for a long time, labelling groups as “hard-to-reach” has shifted responsibility away from the organisations and comms teams who should have been doing more to engage with...

Communicating with the media | See Media

Three tips for effectively communicating with the media

by Guest|18 February 202108 March 2021|Blog

Engaging with the media can be quite daunting, especially when being asked to address something you’d much rather avoid as in Tony Abbott’s case back in 2011, who simply ignored the question being asked to him again and again. However,...

Homeschooling: the lessons I’ve learned

by Guest|21 January 202108 March 2021|Blog

Homeschooling has really ramped up for lockdown 3.0. Three weeks in, I’m still not sure how much of what I’m trying to teach is actually being absorbed by my two children, but I’m definitely learning a lot about myself. I’m not talking about the fact I...

Housing comms trends to look forward to in 2021

by Guest|14 January 202108 March 2021|Blog

The COVID-19 news stories aren’t going anywhere until COVID does, and many housing comms professionals are concerned that media outlets are only interested in stories that relate to the virus. Here at See Media, we believe there's actually plenty of proactive comms...

We need to give young tenants a voice. Now.

by Guest|23 September 202008 March 2021|Blog

So many of the issues we're all grappling with right now are of utmost importance to young tenants: the economic fallout from the COVID-19 crisis and what that means for training and employment; the supply of genuinely affordable housing; climate change. Yet, housing providers still struggle to engage with this group. Young people today...

Why purpose is everything

by Guest|02 July 202008 March 2021|Blog

Speaking during #digitalhousingweek, Anita Khan, executive director of customer services at See Media client settle, summed up why purpose is everything. In her presentation, she explained how focusing on their organisation's social purpose made it possible for the settle team...

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