Kevin Dorrian

Scottish Media Training has been genuinely humbled by the surge in interest. Since the turn of the year, in our various Edinburgh Media Training and presentation training courses and as Springtime beckons, we’re set to be busier than ever! Already, eight organisations are set to put their staff members through a Scottish Media Training Course in […]

Another year passes and another begins, yet three enquiries for media training in the last couple of days gives us an indication that there is still a large appetite amongst charities and other organisations to ensure their staff are fully engaged in the entire ‘media’ process. The demands of 24/7 communication, particularly in the digital and

Scottish Media Training, media training consultancy based in Edinburgh is about to introduce a new ‘Social Media in a Crisis’ training module for businesses in Scotland and it’s timing couldn’t be more poignant. Indeed, we thought of calling up and offering our services to Peter Fankhauser, Thomas Cook UK’s Group Chief Operating Officer, since he and his

There are three weeks to go and already there have been almost 6000 tweets using the hashtag ‘#GE 2015’ from the  2532 candidates who are standing at the May elections who use Twitter as a way of engagement. Watch this space! These tweets are going to be coming at you from the candidates, parties, bloggers,

Social Media Training Edinburgh for Charities and Voluntary Organisations Has anyone in your charity or voluntary organisation in Scotland suggested that social media ‘might’ just be the prime mover to effectively communicate and assert your position as a ‘go to’ third sector organisation? Social media is nothing fanciful. It is NOT the saviour of a

Busy week Media Training in Edinburgh A great week finishes with Scottish Media Training Edinburgh staff having completed workshops for two very different organisations, although collectively, its staff are geographically dispersed across Scotland, but come together with an aim of looking at effective ways of communicating their message to their key audiences. First up, earlier

We’ll doff our cap to star Scottish Media Training ‘pupil’ Andrew McKenzie, the National Trust for Scotland‘s Property Manager at its historic Culloden Battlefield Visitor Centre in the Highlands, who was interviewed last night on BBC Reporting Scotland to discuss recent storm damage at the Culloden Visitor Centre. The Centre fell victim to the strong