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  • John Bromley

    NSMC: Our first visit to Jordan

    John Bromley, Friday, July 20, 2012 - 14:35

    Steve Menzies and I  are just back from our first visit to Jordan on our ECODIT/USAID contract which aims to develop a 6 month's social marketing training programme for NGO's working in the water, energy and solid waste sectors.  The purpose of the visit was to orientate ourselves to the needs of the NGO sector in Jordan and talk to the people we will be training in September.  The NSMC prides itself on making sure all of our training courses are tailor made to the needs of our clients.  We just don't have "off the shelf" training products t

  • Today's print version of the Metro contains an article with the headline "Pregnant? It doesn't mean you have to stop drinking."  Given the care my wife took not to drink when she was pregnant this headline caught my attention. 

  • New work for NSMC in Jordan

    Monday, June 18, 2012 - 14:44

    The NSMC has just been awarded a major contract to develop and deliver a social marketing capacity building programme in Jordan with ECODIT.  The NSMC will be helping to implement the Jordan Public Action for Water, Energy and Environment Project under a contract with the United States Agency for International Development (PAP).  The project is a public education and behaviour change communication programme that will lead to increased efficiency in the use of water and energy in Jordan.

  • John Bromley

    Following our last successful Social Marketing Academy in London in March we have been inundated with requests for the dates of the next academy.  We are therefore happy to announce that the next NSMC Academy will take place on 27-28 September at the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM) headquarters at Moor Hall in Berkshire.  The accredited CIM course will take place over two days and successful participants will be presented with a social marketing award.  If you are interested in attending you can find Read more...

  • NSMC Launches Health Equity Facebook Page

    Wednesday, May 30, 2012 - 13:43

    The NSMC is working with The Department of Health (England) and The Institute of Health Equity (UCL) to identify and showcase ways in which social marketing can be used to address the social determinants of health inequalities (SDH).

  • The government’s consultation on plain packaging for cigarettes is underway.  I welcome any measure intended to reduce the number of children smoking.  I have two young one’s of my own and certainly wouldn’t want them taking up the habit.

     

  • The NSMC is working with the Department of Health and UCL’s Institute of Health Equity on a programme of work to address health inequalities in England.

  • The Marketer article on The NSMC Behaviour Change and CSR Conference

    Wednesday, May 2, 2012 - 22:57

    'The Marketer', the magazine for Chartered Institute of Marketing members, published an article earlier this week on The NSMC's recent Behaviour Change and Corporate Social Responsibility Conference. 

    The article used case studies from the conference to look at the increasing number of commercial organisations who use social marketing as part of their corporate social responsibilty programmes.

  • John Bromley

    Vietnam and VIP+ Condoms

    John Bromley, Friday, April 20, 2012 - 14:27

    Steve Menzies and I are just back from a great trip to Vietnam where The Centre has been working with DFID and local partners on a project to increase the availability and use of condoms in men aged between 18-40 who have had sex with a female sex worker in the last three months.  We were working with a number of private sector firms in Vietnam who will be responsible for trying to get the new condom - VIP+ in as many Non Traditional Outlets (NTO's) as possible.  These NTO's - hotels, bars, massage parlours, local shops and supermarkets have been

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