Essential reading for marketing professionals working in government and public sector who want immediate digital communications results
COVID-19 has re-written the rules of public sector marketing and I felt compelled to bring this book into the post-pandemic age. The first edition has been heralded by readers as an essential guide, helping them navigate public interest messaging online.
This second edition reflects on the transformation within government and public sector and addresses the massive shifts and overnight agility when the public health crisis shut down the world. It is both reflective but reformist in its approach to the new rules of communications in a digital-first world.
Public Sector Marketing Pro was named in the best new PR Books of 2020 by Book Authority and was a finalist in the 2020 British Book Awards for Best International Business Book.
The agility shown by Government and public sector agencies through the pandemic is remarkable. You have transformed and embraced digital communications in many facets. But what’s next? What does post-pandemic communications look like and what are the public’s expectations?
There is widespread global uncertainty from inflation, to food security, defence, migration, climate and the new world of work. Your lived experience of communicating through COVID-19 will serve you well but how do you maintain that level of public demand without burning out your team. Are communications teams being resourced enough to face these new challenges?
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"Joanne Sweeney's newly updated Public Sector Marketing Pro offers everything you need to know about digital marketing and social media in one easy-to-read guide. In each chapter, she offers insightful advice that will help you to transform your marketing communications work across the board. Her book is a game changer!"
Marilyn Wilkes, Director, Communications, Yale University
"I wouldn't be without the book; Public Sector Marketing Pro. Joanne Sweeney sits on my shoulder, and speaks in such an informed way about the value of marketing in the public sector. Her expertise and enthusiasm for working together to build a network of professionals is infectious and inspiring!"
Sheila Byrnes, Communications Manager, The Marine Institute
"In this updated edition to her super successful book, Joanne has once again served up what the public sector needs, in terms of making complex digital marketing strategies and ideas seem achievable and exciting. Couple this together with how she proved her agility both during and after a global pandemic, as a leader herself, and you're in for a real treat!"
Chris Ducker, Bestselling Author of Rise of the Youpreneur
"Joanne Sweeney is a Digital Ninja Queen! This book arms you with the tools you need to lead in digital marketing and transformation. Through communication and change management techniques you are brought through key areas to support an agile and future-focused approach to your business strategy and how to implement it in order to promote clarity, trust and transparency. This book is a must-read for all leaders in public sector to support our delivery in an ever-changing environment."
Maria McCann, Organisational Psychologist, Director Health Identifiers Service, HSE
"Drawing on first-hand research and experience gathered throughout a two-decade career in media and communications – this 2nd edition of Public Sector Marketing Pro from Joanne Sweeney oozes with her enthusiasm for digital communications and identifies key elements that will allow you develop and optimise your digital communications in a post-pandemic world."
Alison Maloney, Digital Communications & Design Executive, Teagasc
"Public Sector Marketing Pro is the comprehensive bible public sector professionals need in a post-pandemic world to navigate the fast-changing landscape of digital media, marketing and communications. Expert Joanne Sweeney takes the reader through every scenario from agile planning to crisis management. Don't leave your home office without it."
Niamh Connolly, Marketing and Communications Manager, University of Galway
"A must-have book for our times, Joanne Sweeney set the bar with her first Public Sector Marketing Pro handbook, and this version delivers a timely update perfect for the blink-and-you-miss-it pace of digital comms. Her style is snappy, succinct and useful, revealing her audience-savvy broadcast journo background and heart for digital transformation serving the public interest by cutting quickly to the heart of what matters, what works, and more importantly, what's coming."
Lisa Leilani Williams, Public Affairs Adviser, Pacific Islands Forum
"Insightful and well researched. Joanne Sweeney's Public Sector Marketing Pro is a 'must read' regardless of how much experience you already have under your belt! Joanne Sweeney is to be commended on producing a bible for anyone planning or delivering marketing within the public sector."
Linzi Jones, Copywriter, The Jones Edit
"In this edition of 'Public Sector Marketing Pro'" Joanne Sweeney has once again shown her ability to give a very insightful and practical appraisal of the present and future digital communications landscape. From Joanne's very clear blueprint for designing a social media campaign tailored to the readers’ needs, to her section on crisis management in the Digital Age, she has once again produced a must-read to anyone looking to fully utilise the potential of social media at their fingertips."
Eddie Golden, Inspector and Senior Manager, An Garda Síochána
"Digital transformation becomes straightforward with Joanne Sweeney’s knowledge and practical advice in Public Sector Marketing Pro. Her common sense and logical approach to effective marketing makes it essential reading. It is easy to understand and flows well. It will be referred to, in the public sector, for many years to come."
Catherine Costello, Librarian, Wicklow Library Service