Blog
How to overcome writer’s block
Our Senior Content Strategist shares his top tips for overcoming writer’s block to help get your words flowing once again.
Why runners make great content strategists
Runners have similar qualities to content strategists. How? Our Senior Content Strategist reflects on the similarities between the two disciplines.
Meet the Pickle Jar Communications team: Linda Jameson
Meet Linda Jameson, our newest Senior Content Strategist. We asked Linda a few questions to get to know her a little better.
Five non-content skills and qualities that all content strategy professionals should perfect
Our CEO and Chief Content Strategist highlights five non-content skills and qualities that you need to excel your content strategy expertise.
Meet the Pickle Jar Communications team: Simon Fairbanks
Meet Simon Fairbanks, our newest Senior Content Strategist. We asked Simon a few questions to get to know him a little better.
Five things I learnt at my first ContentEd
Our Senior Content Strategist highlights his top five takeaways from his first time at the ContentEd conference.
Mapping online influence at ContentEd
Our Head of Research maps the online conversations and influence on Twitter during ContentEd 2019.
Building a career in content
How do you build a career in content? We asked five experts, working in-house and consultancies, how they got into content-focused roles.
So you want to work in content?
Our Senior Content Strategist, Rachel Smith, shares her five top tips to help you prepare to pursue your dream career in content.
Why we shouldn’t make content decisions based on analytics data
Are analytics the best place to look for data to inform new content decisions? Our CEO, Tracy Playle, argues why we shouldn’t base big decisions on analytics data.
Britain’s next top content model
As institutions move towards a Create Once Publish Everywhere (COPE) model, Rachel Smith explains how to develop your own content model to help you understand how different aspects of your organisation relate to each other.
9 ingredients for stories that taste of tension
How do we create stories that have the necessary tension for our audiences? Our Senior Content Strategist shares nine tips to maintain tension in your storytelling.
What words would work?
Our Head of Research reflects on why we should avoid using jargon in external-facing communications, and instead opt for language that aligns more with our audience.
Getting excited about intranets
Our Senior Content Strategist reflects on how we can creatively use our intranets to express the key priorities and values within our university strategies.
What can we learn from D&G’s lesson in China?
Our Chinese Social Media Specialist unpacks the recent Dolce and Gabbana communications crisis in China and emphasises the importance of cross-cultural comms.
The digital detox demographic
Our Content Strategist, Rachel Smith, shares a few youth brands that are creatively engaging young people on other offline platforms beyond social media.
Creating useable strategies instead of dust collectors
Our CEO, Tracy Playle, shares five key elements that you should consider when designing a strategy to ensure it gets implemented, including accountability, actionability, flexibility, compatibility, and transferability.
Mapping online influence at #UUKCOMMS 2018
Our Head of Research spoke at Universities UK’s conference about mapping online influence – so he also created a post-conference map of social media conversations using the #UUKComms hashtag.
What I learnt at Highedweb 2018 as a content strategist
In the second post from a two-part series, our Content Strategist, Rosie Wowk, shares her key takeaways from this year’s HighEdWeb conference in Sacramento, CA.
What I learnt at Highedweb 2018 as a research analyst
After attending HighEdWeb 2018, our Research Analyst shares her takeaways on representing diversity on university websites and embedding empathy in content creation and data collection.