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Communicate magazine takes the reins of CommsChat

LONDON, 7 MARCH - #CommsChat, the weekly live twitter chat for comms professionals, has announced today that it is to be run by Cravenhill Publishing, publishers of Communicate magazine, the UK's leading monthly magazine for corporate communications professionals.

Launched in May 2010, #CommsChat has grown to become Europe's leading PR & social media chat forum, and the seventh-largest globally.

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Its original aim had been to create an engaged community of communication and PR professionals, but the success of #CommChat had taken creators Adam Vincenzini and Emily Cagle by surprise. Both Cagle and Vincenzini are professional communicators, and running such a fast-growing forum became hard to reconcile with their full time jobs.

Communicate magazine will run #CommsChat from 14 March and announce topics and speakers over the next few weeks.

Adam Vincenzini said: "#CommsChat will benefit greatly from the leadership and influence of Communicate magazine - our passionate and loyal community is in very good hands."

Communicate magazine's publisher, Andrew Thomas, said: "PR and social media professionals are incredibly grateful to Adam and Emily for what they've created. At Communicate, we're well aware of how much hard work goes into any media enterprise and that they have achieved so much in their spare time is amazing. Ultimately, their biggest achievement has been to establish a trusted forum and a unique sounding board for our industry. We are honoured to be taking over #CommsChat, and hope that we are able to continue the work that Adam and Emily have done."

NOTES FOR EDITORS
Communicate is a monthly trade magazine for the UK corporate communications community. Branding itself as 'the single voice for stakeholder relations', Communicate's focus is on how organisations engage with their stakeholders: the press, investors, employees, regulators, the supply chain and the communities in which they operate. As such, Communicate covers corporate communications, public relations, investor relations, internal communications, corporate social responsibility, crisis communications and public affairs.

With a monthly circulation of 10,000, it is read by in-house communications departments in the private and public sectors as well as communications consultancies and service providers across the UK.

In December 2009, Communicate magazine won the Best Launch category at the Independent Publisher Awards, organised by the Periodical Publishers Association. In December 2010, it won the Media Brand of the Year category at the PPA's Independent Publisher Awards.

Communicate magazine is published by Andrew Thomas, the former publisher of IR Magazine and other communication titles, and edited by Neil Gibbons. It is owned by Cravenhill Publishing, an independent publishing company based in London.