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Hootville Communications is a PR and communications agency offering media, marketing and communications training, website / social media development, campaign planning and event emcee services. Brett de Hoedt founded Hootville in 1999 with no business plan beyond straightforward world domination and the motto: Communications for good not evil. Both the motto and the plan remain in tact today.

Hootville has worked on issues including mental illness, youth homelessness, legalisation of euthanasia, child sponsorship, conservation, hepatitis prevention, disability employment and Indigenous reconciliation – all of which are preferable to promoting perfumes and sports drinks.


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Superb copywriter sought by Hootville client
Melbourne-based copywriter? Efficiently create readable, attention-grabbing copy? Ready for a large project? Reject the overuse of rhetorical questions and fragments? Good. Inner South Community Health Service (for which we are developing a stupendous new website) is seeking a copywriter. They are a smart, passionate nonprofit. Here is their current site... More »

Hootville to emcee ACFE conference in Melbourne
What does ACFE stand for? We’ll tell you: Adult Community and Further Education. Who is emceeing the 2012 ACFE metropolitan provider conference on October 18 and 19? We’ll tell you: Brett de Hoedt. Now you know.... More »

Media training in regional Victoria
Brett will be donning Akubra, moleskins and Driza-Bone for a May jaunt through regional Victoria delivering Online Savvy 101 to members of the Hume region Family Violence Alliance. The three sessions will take him to Benalla, Nagambie and Beechworth training about 20 folk in each town. It’s time to saddle up... More »

Analytics Savvy 101 announced
Analytics Savvy 101 Tuesday June 12 from 10am to 11.30am. (Five places left – book soon.) Got a website? Of course. Got Google Analytics? Sure. Look at your Analytics regularly? Kinda. Constantly use Analytics to improve your website’s perfomance? Well… Well it’s about time your all important online investment was... More »

Public Media Savvy 101 workshop in Melbourne filling fast.
Hootville is holding a rare public Media Savvy 101 workshop in Melbourne Wednesday June 6, 10am to 4pm. It’s our first such workshop since 2010. We already have Bush Heritage Australia, Brotherhood of St Laurence, Victoria Legal Aid, Barwon Community Legal Service and Reseach, Edit, Write attending. Why not you?... More »