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Northern Spire to provide inspiration as DTW MD joins speakers at project management conference

DTW MD Chris Taylor will be speaking at the Association for Project Management conference in Manchester on 7th November. Chris will be joining Duncan Ross Russell, Regional Director at Faithful+Gould, to showcase Sunderland City Council’s award-winning Northern Spire project and pass on lessons learned to other project managers from around the UK. Chris and Duncan are speaking as part of the conference’s Smarter Thinking stream. It is all about inspiring project professionals to review their approach and mindset to deliver projects that provide broad benefits, including social, environmental and economic impact. Northern Spire is a £117 million project to build a

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Does size really matter?

It’s the question we all ask at some point in our lives – does size really matter? Everyone has an opinion, and everyone thinks theirs is right. For me, size totally matters, if your social media images aren’t in the right dimensions you could be massively reducing your engagement levels… So, now you’ve picked your mind up out of the gutter, let’s have a chat about why that is. Whether you’re educating your audience with an infographic, shouting about your latest offer with an image or simply updating your profile and header images, we often spend hours crafting the perfect creative

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Client survey feedback – it’s good for your ears, your soul and your business plan

[Every year we do a client survey – one of those jobs it’s easy to put on the back burner or forget about. To put it simply – make sure you don’t! We get client feedback all the time – whether that is anecdotal whilst ‘on the job’, more formally in client review meetings, or a quick mention on social media. It’s all important, and all welcome – good or bad (though I’m pleased to say we get a lot more of the good). Feedback, research, insight. Call it what you will, it is hugely valuable. In today’s always on,

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Animating the future proves just the job for UEFA

Warning: this is a blog about animation, not football. Just thought we’d better get that out of the way first. The new UEFA Nations League generated an impressive mix of confusion, apathy and shrugs all round when it was first announced, so the UEFA comms team have no doubt had their work cut out trying to explain the new competition format. The answer – animation. Good choice. When you’re faced with communicating a complicated issue or one that doesn’t have any simple ‘real’ visuals that can explain it or bring it to life, animation comes into its own.   In

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DTW MD Chris Taylor re-appointed to CIPR Council

Hi – Chris here – I’ve just been appointed to the council of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations (no election needed this year). The CIPR is an important body that leads the PR profession, not just in the UK but across the globe. A copy of my CIPR candidate statement is below. All comments and feedback welcome – whether you’re a member or not. We’ve got a great new President-elect in Jenni Field and a strong line-up on Council for the next two years to take the public relations profession forward. Strategy. Leadership. Ethics. These are the cornerstones of the

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Colourful fund-raising for Teesside Hospice

Chris and Lorna decided to take a colourful approach to fund-raising this weekend. They were each joined by their daughters to raise money for Teesside Hospice as part of its annual 5K Colour Run in Stewart Park in Middlesbrough on Sunday morning. As you can tell from the photos it was a quiet, uneventful day full of shy retiring people! Chris Taylor, MD of DTW said: “Teesside Hospice is a great cause and the colour run is loads of fun. It’s one of those occasions where you just need to have fun and dive right in!” Teesside Hospice offers palliative

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Illustration of a woman with blue hair looking shocked with large text behind stating 'Size matters!'

Does size really matter?

It’s the question we all ask at some point in our lives – does size really matter? Everyone has an opinion, and everyone thinks theirs is right. For me, size

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