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This guest post shows how a well timed and targeted campaign can bring about change. Dr Laura Nelson shares insight into her pre Christmas Hamleys campaign success and offers tips to other campaigners on how to cope with unprecedented media interest. 

Laura is a writer, blogger and Head of Development and Communications in a healthcare charity. She has a doctorate in neuroscience, writes the Delilah blog and led the Christmas 2011 Hamleys campaign.

We all know of examples of how the Freedom of Information Act has been used as a powerful and versatile campaigning tool from developing the evidence base of a campaign to gaining crucial information on how decisions are made but have you ever thought about using it to measure the success of your work?

Guest blogger for us Tom Baker has done just that and shares his findings with us.

I've finally got round to putting a bit of a blog together sharing round a few things I've seen this week which might be of interest.

This is a guest post by Emma Taggart and was published on her blog earlier this month. Emma runs a small consultancy that supports charities to achieve change in policy and practice. She was formerly Director of Policy and Campaigns at Breakthrough Breast Cancer and political aide to a UK Government minister.

We highlighted a series of blogs by Tom Baker in this week's campaigning and influencing newsletter so good in fact I wanted to share them here.

Tom is a campaigner at Tearfund and writes in a personal capacity on his blog the thoughtful campaigner. He's brought together in these three blogs a range of thinking and reflections on what's going on in the US and what we could learn from a recent trip there. Well worth a read.

This is the first part of two guest blogs by Alison Goldsworthy. Alison was named as one of PR Week’s 29 under 29 in 2010 for her work as Director of Communications and Events at the Kidney Wales Foundation. She has worked for Leonard Cheshire Disability and is an active Liberal Democrat currently Deputy Chair of the party’s Federal Executive.

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Presentation by Liam Barrington-Bush (Concrete Solutions) for the social media workshop at the NCVO Campaigns Conference.

Presentation by Rob Dyson, Public Relations Manager at Whizz Kidz, for the Media master class -workshop at the NCVO Campaigns Conference 2011.

See also: Jonathan Moore's presentation on local media.