Connecting people with purpose
Following the Olympics opening ceremony a week ago, there have been various articles online about storytelling and how it can be used within corporate communications. I thought I’d round up a few of my favourites from the week to share with you. First up is coach Vera Woodhead’s article for this blog, where she looked […]
Read more >The challenge of charity comms…
What do you think are the main communication challenges when working for a charity? Many assume that budget restrictions would be the toughest issue, with the perception that this would lead to less creativity (less ability to produce stuff) or more creativity (more pressure). Alex Smith is Head of Communications at Target Ovarian Cancer, the […]
Read more >Telling tales: Storytelling as a communication tool
Friday night’s opening ceremony of the London 2012 Olympics was simply stunning. The brains behind the vision was Danny Boyle, and he brought to life the story of Great Britain and Northern Ireland through costume, music, drama…. and parchuting James Bond and The Queen into the stadium. I noticed Boyle’s Twitter biog describes him as […]
Read more >Building a social collaborative culture, part two
Here is the second part of Sonsoles Lumbreras‘ article on the Social Workplace Conference last week. If you missed the first part, you can read it and the background here. Over to you Sonsoles… Social collaboration and knowledge sharing at Accenture Priya Banati, Collaboration Strategy Lead for Accenture UK, explained how they encourage knowledge sharing and […]
Read more >Building a social collaborative culture, part one
Carrying on my series of guest articles is comms professional Sonsoles Lumbreras who attended the Social Workplace Conference last week. Here she writes for Diary of an internal communicator to share her experience of the event. She’s written two articles and the first is here and will be followed by the final part later this week. […]
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Using social media for learning
Following on from my article yesterday by leader Dean Royles on the value he places on social media, I was contacted by another senior manager with similar views, and thought I would share his thoughts with readers of Diary of an internal communicator. Perry Timms is Head of talent and organisational development at the Big Lottery […]
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Why blog or tweet? An NHS leader shares his view
Professional communicators spend hours influencing and persuading their stakeholders and business partners. One conversation which has become increasingly popular is the importance of senior management regularly communicating with employees, particularly through social media. I’ve lost count of the number of articles I’ve come across which focus on top tips for internal communicators to help them […]
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Find out how to ‘Rock Your Comms’
What’s the single, most important thing that you’ve learned in Internal Communication (IC)? At the end of last year I contributed to a book being written by and for IC professionals to address this very question and to help raise money for Make-A-Wish UK, and Rock Your Comms is now available. The book was collated […]
Read more >Bursting out of the IC bubble?
Tonight was the launch of VMA Group’s (@VMAGroup) Professional Development in Internal Communications Report 2011-2012 in London. What happened? What was discussed and what did the report say? You can search the hashtag #vmaicsurvey via Twitter to see what attendees said. I was hoping to attend but was unable to make it, so Kim Borrowdale, Director […]
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 >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 […]
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