Countdown to Christmas: Day 15 – Digital Comms
How are leading companies achieving digital success in their employee communication? Back in June Luke Dodd, who at the time was working as Digital Content Manager at Melcrum, wrote for my blog to share this thoughts on this topic. I’m republishing his article today as part of my countdown to Christmas series, highlighting a post […]
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Countdown to Christmas: Day 14 – Footie fun
One of the major sporting events from 2014, the FIFA World Cup, brought its own challenges for organisations in working out the best way to enable business to continue, while embracing the fun. As part of my Advent series I’ve turned the clock back to the Summer and am republishing an article looking at how […]
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Countdown to Christmas: Day 13 – All Change
How do you communicate change in your organisation? What have you learned from change comms campaigns in your current or previous role and what top tips would you pass on to other communicators? In March this year I featured a guest article by Rosemary Scott of Westminster City Council and am republishing it today as part […]
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Countdown to Christmas: Day 12 – connect with employees
The choice of language in an organisation has a key role to play in how you connect with employees. Every organisation has its own unique identity, reinforced in part by the terminology you find within it, which helps define and underline its culture and enhance its sense of community. Today’s guest post as part of […]
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Countdown to Christmas: Day 11 – remote workers
How do you communicate with a mobile workforce? Do you have ‘hard to reach’ employees in your organisation? What two-way channels do you have in place to ensure their voices can be heard? Today’s guest article as part of my Advent series looks at this topic and features Eloise Hindes putting this issue under the […]
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Countdown to Christmas: Day 10 – IC careers
Today’s article in my countdown to Christmas (how are we on day 10 already?!) features Steph Ayre who wrote for my blog back in February about her impressions of entering into the world of internal communication. If you’ve missed any of my Advent articles to date, just search the Advent tag to read them all. […]
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Countdown to Christmas: Day nine – teamwork
Back in June I featured comms pro Luke Dodd who was working at Melcrum. In a guest article for my blog, which I’m reproducing today as part of my countdown to Christmas, he looked at the competencies and skills internal communicators need. Building your IC team: competencies and skills Should your IC team consist of […]
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Countdown to Christmas: Day eight – using the familiar
Today’s article in my Advent series features Dawn Robinson who shared her story about using the familiar to explain something new back in February this year. To read any posts you may have missed over the past week, search the tag Advent. Don’t forget you can sign up to receive notifications of new articles via […]
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Countdown to Christmas: Day seven – SMiLE
Social Media inside the Large Enterprise by @simplycomm, part of Social Media Week London. Over 200 internal communicators joined the conference at the prestigious St Paul’s etc venue on 25th September. Many followed us virtually. The hashtag #SMiLELondon became trending topic in the UK.
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Countdown to Christmas: Day six – independence
Back in September this year Scotland faced a key decision when it had to vote for or against independence. At the time, communicator Keith Lams wrote for my blog to look at what was happening and what comms pros could learn. This is the latest post in my series of articles taking a look back […]
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Countdown to Christmas: Day five – graphic facilitation
Today’s countdown to Christmas article as part of my Advent series focuses on the use of images and graphic facilitation for internal communication. It was written by Ashley Freeman and was first published in June this year… Using graphic facilitation to break down barriers to internal communication They say a picture is worth a thousand […]
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Countdown to Christmas: Day four – Future of comms
Day four in my Advent series of articles by comms professionals features Jarrod Williams looking at the future of communication. I first published this article in June 2014 and it focuses on the excellent #futurecomms14 event that happened in the Summer… What does the future of communication look like? This week it’s been a bumper […]
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