It’s a blog’s life…
One of best outcomes of having my blog is the people who get in touch as a result of what they’ve read, and the interesting conversations and thoughts it sparks. Over the past fortnight a number of things have happened which has opened up the world of Internal Comms even more to me and I […]
Read more >Have you got the Comms X Factor and want to meet the judges?
Judging panels are all the rage at the moment on TV and you can’t move for people wanting to meet the judges and spending column inches debating their thoughts and outfits. The comms industry is no different and this year the Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR) is calling for entries for the CIPR Excellence […]
Read more >Are you ready for Google+
Are you ready for Google+? Do you want to see how you can engage with your audiences through Google’s new social media offering? Want to work out how to integrate all your social media channels? Need to effectively evaluate your G+ efforts? Now you can do all this and more thanks to a series of […]
Read more >How to win at internal comms…have you got the write stuff?
Last week I was contacted by Ian Harris who is a Director at Internal-Communication.com. He is currently writing a book and is looking for Internal Communicators to contribute. I provided input and having spoken with him, he’s casting the net wider to offer other Internal Communications professionals the opportunity to have their say too, and you’ve come to […]
Read more >Internal Comms professionals learn about social media
On 1 December a Social Media seminar for Internal Communicators took place in London, I saw on Twitter that Sonsoles Lumbreras was attending and asked her to write an article for Diary of an internal communicator to share what happened with readers of my blog. You can see some of the discussions from the day […]
Read more >The Social Workplace Conference in a nutshell
Following on my series of reports from recent conferences and events, I’m pleased to introduce Adam Britten, Community Manager at Crexia. Adam is a Master of Digital Marketing student at Hult International Business School and has written a guest post for Diary of an internal communicator on the recent Social Workplace Conference. Follow him on […]
Read more >Day two of Melcrum’s Strategic Communication Management summit…
As promised, here is part two of Steven Murgatroyd’s write-up of Melcrum’s Strategic Communication Management (SCM) summit. If you’d like to view a short film about the summit, which took place from 12-13 October, Melcrum has now published one on their site and you can view it here. Congratulations to everyone who won SCM awards, you can read […]
Read more >Been anywhere good lately?
To continue my series of guest writers, I asked Steven Murgatroyd (@steve_murg) to write his take on the recent Strategic Communication Management (SCM) conference hosted by Melcrum with readers of my blog. Over to you Steven… Hi all, hopefully this article will be able to give you a taste of what the conference was like […]
Read more >Report: Melcrum’s Future of internal comms conference
As mentioned the other day, my friend Jenni Wheller presented at Melcrum’s Strategic Communication Management conference yesterday. The theme of the conference was The future of internal communication: Enabling change, engagement and strategic IC partnerships in the new world of business, and it took place in London. By all accounts the session went well and Jenni has […]
Read more >IC in Wonderland
This week I booked my ticket for the annual Internal Communications (IC) Conference hosted by the Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR). Taking place on 6 October in London, it will be the CIPR’s 10th annual IC Conference and is called Face the change – Employee Engagement in Turbulent Times. It promises to be an […]
Read more >Between a job and a hard place
As part of my ongoing series of guest writers for my blog, I’m pleased to introduce Euan Gillies (@egillies). Euan is a recent graduate from Aberdeen who moved to London to pursue a career in internal communications and here he writes about what it is like to start out in the industry and try to find […]
Read more >Internal Communication in the chain
As the saying goes, variety is the spice of life, and seeing as I enjoy reading the thoughts of other professional communicators and learning from them, I thought I would bring you another guest writer in the hope that you will too. A couple of weeks ago I opened the invitation up to other comms […]
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