What challenges and opportunities do the Olympics present for Comms pros?
How can you ensure your organisation makes the most of and copes with the London 2012 Olympics? The scale of the London 2012 Olympics is staggering. It is the biggest sporting event to come to the UK and includes 34 venues, 70,000 volunteers, 20,000 journalists, 17,000 athletes from 205 companies, and 10.8 million tickets. Phew! […]
Read more >Connecting a whole town – Monmouthpedia
Last week I joined the Financial Times Digital Media conference through livestream pinged to the TV in my bedroom via AirPlay. Through the wonders of technology I was able to watch Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales’ keynote speech. (If you missed it, you can catch up here by watching eight sessions on demand) Wikipedia often makes […]
Read more >The freshly baked smell of success
As professional communicators there are a number of bread-and-butter issues that most of us encounter at some point in our career that help us earn our crust: change comms, introducing new channels, exit plans for CEOs and launching new visions, values or brands. I’m going to stop with bread puns now, but read on to find […]
Read more >Business Leaders in Communications have their say
This week VMA Group hosted its Business Leaders in Communications Study launch in London. I was hoping to go but unfortunately wasn’t able to make the launch, so I’ve been reading about it and thought I’d share what I’ve learnt as it makes fascinating reading. The study surveyed 95 Directors of Communications in leading FTSE […]
Read more >A picture paints a thousand words… how to use images to communicate
Like many internal communications professionals, I’ve often been asked over the years to help combat the complexity of company strategies and communicate them in an engaging way. This week I came across a fantastic example of how to do exactly that thanks to Melcrum’s Strategic Communication Management magazine and their article on the power of […]
Read more >Internal communications – the future
Next week Communicators in Business (CiB) will formally become the Institute of Internal Communication (IoIC). As professional communicators look to the future, I was in touch with Sarah, my mentee, today and recommended she reads a book I came across last year while studying. It’s called Effective Internal Communication (PR in practice) by Lyn Smith […]
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