Ben Lowndes
Writer and PR man. Director at the brilliant Social Communications in Bristol. Former communications manager for the Homes and Communities Agency in the south west, who has worked with national and local government, housing providers, developers and community groups across England and Wales. Before that, I worked in newspapers.
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Things I blog about
Affordable housing
Big Society
Blogging
Bristol
Bristol Post
Christopher Jefferies
CIPR
Cock ups
Community engagement
Comprehensive Spending Review
Contempt of Court
Cornwall
Council newsletters
Crime
Crisis communications
Department for Communities and Local Government
Devon
Economic growth
Economics
Elected mayors
Elections
Eric Pickles
Facebook
Grant Shapps
Homes and Communities Agency
House prices
Housing
IPB Communications
Jargon
Joanna Yeates
Kevin McCloud
Local government
Local Government Association
localism
Local media
News International
News of the World
Phone hacking
Plain English
Purdah
Regeneration
regional media
Roy Greenslade
Tabloids
The Guardian
The Sun
Transparency
Twitter
We Love Local Government
West of England
Top posts
Blogs I Follow
- Creative Business News
- FragmeNTs
- bristoljames.com
- Cornwall - a developers' paradise?
- Colin Wiles
- 4,000 bricks
- AdeCapon's Blog
- John Wade
- Simon Rogers
- David Higgerson
- Connecting Social Care and Social Media
- John Popham's Random Musings
- nick atkin
- Guido Fawkes
- A Sense of Place
- Council Homes Chat
- Hel Reynolds - creative comms and marketing training
- TessaCoombes
- Heritage Calling
- Housing Comms
- Ben Black's Blog
- Government Digital Service
- bromcomms
- Dan Slee
- Paul Taylor