“Not another bloody election…” Politics, honestly! If I had a 12-sided pound coin for every time I’ve heard that from clients in the last few weeks, I’d be retiring soon. Next month’s general election will mean most Scots have been asked to vote seven times in the past three years. And that means the chances […]
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HAPPY NEW YEAR! 2017! Where does the time go? January always brings with it the distant horizon of long months stretching ahead and easing your way back into ‘work mode’ is never an easy thing to get your head around. Scottish Media Training is always here to help with any media training request and there is a sound reason for getting
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We’re almost over 2016….and what a year this has been for Scottish Media Training – our busiest yet! It proves there is still an appetite and clamour for media training and whilst social media training is very much ‘en vogue’, the more ‘traditional’ formats – press, radio, television – even crisis management and presentation training still
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2016 has been our busiest year so far and we are always amazed at the diversity of enquiries we receive. One that particularly intrigued us was from a major faith community planning a workshop as part of Inter Faith Week later this month. Scotland still has a strong faith base to its society, although fair
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When tragedy strikes, it has become commonplace to see witnesses capturing the scene on their smartphones. But a growing number of people are licensing those clips, and turning a profit from gruesome or tragic events. One of the most-viewed viral videos of this year occurred when an IT manager from Michigan happened to be visiting
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Can you deliver an effective and compelling ‘Interview Performance’ of a Life Time ? That of course is a question nobody can give a perfect answer to. Effective and compelling interviews are complex beasts. We’ve all seen many ‘out take’ programmes on TV – reporters ‘corpsing’, interviewees completely stuck for words and what might have been a
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With Brexit now a reality, what if folk singer Ralph McTell had penned his anthem ‘Streets of London’ in 2016, rather than the late 60’s ? How would the line ‘Yesterday’s papers telling Yesterday’s News’ now sit? Today, he may well have written “Today’s Paper’s telling Yesterday’s News? The Brexit result is yet another example of
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Mastering the media interview is a bit like having a cookbook. Find the recipe that tantalises your palate, but look very carefully at the ingredients…and then make a decision! Do you have them all, or do you need to pop into the supermarket to buy that special ingredient that will ‘make’ the dish? Or, do
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Note the name – Merlin ERD. Scottish Media Training now knows them very well indeed! The Perth-based company specialises in ERD – Extended Reach Drilling – and it works with the oil and gas industry to show that fields that were perhaps considered ‘exhausted’ in terms of the viability of getting the hydrocarbons out of the seabed,
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The third month into 2016 and we’re busy dealing with a dozen enquiries for media and presentation training. What’s more, already this year, we’ve trained groups of staff from BIG organisations like APS – the Association of Project Safety, had three media training days with staff from NHS Health Scotland, had our third day with The
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