Boni Sones OBE, Director ECS

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Hello. I’m Boni Sones. Since July 1st 2010 ECS is now wholly a podcasting company broadcasting through the web on behalf of clients. To listen to recent examples of Boni's interview skills please go to www.camcasting.co.uk. ECS will now be referring its campaiging and communication work to other consultancies it works alongside. Boni would like to thank ECS training and communication clients in the public and not-for-profit sector for their loyalty over the past ten years.

ECS head to head interviews and documentaries, broadcast through the websites of clients are now attracting significant audiences on behalf of international clients in the field of business, economics, politics, and science to considerable acclaim.

Boni is also concentrating on her short-story writing and publishing interests with the publication of her two new books "The Mermaid's Tale: A Portrait of Suffolk", and "Two Mermaid's Together". These can be viewed at www.wpradio.co.uk/books

Boni recently performed readings from her book: "Women in Parliament: The New Suffragettes" at the Tricycle Theatre in London at the:"The Women, Power and Politics" season of plays. She also did readings of her short stories at Heffers Bookshop in Cambridge and the books are also on sale at the Aldeburgh Bookshop, Suffolk and The Westminster Bookshop, Artillery Row.

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I am Executive Producer of Women's Parliamentary Radio www.wpradio.co.uk. In January 2009 I was awarded an OBE in the New Year Honours list for "Services to Broadcasting and Public Relations".
It is an online broadcaster for women MPs across party in this country and internationally. Partners include the BBC, the Hansard Society, the Electoral Reform Society, the EOC and Fawcett.

I have been at the forefront of the new media "convergence" agenda and have just been voted one of the 20 most influential women in Britain by Women in Public Policy Magazine.

I was nominated for the Dods Scottish Widows female political journalist of the year award 08. I have also been a nominee for the Channel 4 political awards in January 2008 and a nominee for the Orwell Prize in journalism in 2005 from my book: "Women in Parliament:The New Suffragettes" published by Politico's.

I have scripted and voiced video and audio podcasts for clients which are now on their websites and mine www.camcasting.co.uk

I have 30 years experience spanning print journalism, network and local television and radio. I helped launch BBC News 24. I have been a political editor and local government and education correspondent for BBC TV in the East and a newspaper columnist. I also broadcast with BBC Radio 4 on public sector issues.

I have my own on-line training systems aimed at teaching the trainers how to train: www.ecsskillnet.co.uk

My short stories have been published in the East Anglian Daily Times in Suffolk and I have made a film for Anglia television featuring my own poetry.

In 1992 I was elected a fellow of the Department of Education at the University of East Anglia.