Ben Matthews Visual CV for FutureGov

Future Gov: Head of Comms FG VS Future Gov Ben Matthews Social Media and Digital PR person, Work with government to design better public services, passionate about innovation, open approach to communication, technology-led public service change. Bright One Founder, Charity Comms Board Member, Twestival Founding Member, Young PR of the Year, all round good egg. Blogging Manage the blog schedule for the FutureGov blog as well as the blogs of some Blogged at benrmatthews.com for 5+ years Run several blogs for clients O Guest blogged for The Guardian and numerous other publications. O Crowdsourced a guest blog project with 9,000 views on Slideshare. of our projects. This will include writing many of the posts yourself, as well as arranging posts by fellow FutureGovers and guest bloggers. (http://slidesha.re/dxMStN) Social Media Keep things relevant and lively across Nearly 6,000 followers on personal the social media spectrum for both FutureGov and the projects we run, like Casserole and Simpl. Twitter profile ● Managed several client and project profiles on Facebook and Twitter Managed 6 figure f Facebook advertising accounts ● Proven ability to rapidly grow social media presences on both established and unproven social media Media & PR Maintain and build relationships, work with Key background in PR, acting as account Manager for the Financial Times, 02, Microsoft, American Express and WWF FT O, 9 ● Understand the importance mainstream media when needed for events, brand awareness, and to get the word out about the cool stuff we are working on. Includes traditional media, as well as blogs, of online coverage as well as how the media magazines, podcasts. can be used to grow a company's bottom line.