I’ve just returned from the Communication Directors’ Forum on board Arcadia and had an extremely productive few days. I met lots of interesting communications and PR professionals from a whole range of industries from charity to transport, retail to healthcare. What struck me were the commonalities between us all regardless of our sectors and types [...]
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June 21st, 2010 | Tags: Arcadia, Communications, Internal Comms, linkedin, PR, social media | Category: Communications | 3 comments
Thank you again to everyone who submitted their top tips to be included in my presentation for internal comms professionals. I had the pleasure of meeting the current group of students working towards the post-grad diploma in Internal Communications Management at Kingston Uni/Capita Learning & Development today. Alongside Geoff Timblick @GeoffTinUK from Vodafone (and ex-classmate [...] April 29th, 2010 | Tags: corporate communication, Internal Comms, linkedin, social media | Category: Communications | Leave a comment
I’m currently preparing my thoughts as I’ve been asked to speak with the students studying for Kingston Uni’s year long post-graduate diploma in Internal Communications Management. Regular readers will know this is the course I graduated from in January, and I’m looking forward to returning to the classroom to meet the current group of Internal Communications [...] April 19th, 2010 | Tags: Communications, Internal Comms, linkedin, social media | Category: Communications | 10 comments
We all recognise the importance of meeting people face-to-face and last week I had the opportunity to do just that with lots of people I’m connected to via Twitter. I was invited to attend what was billed as “the first UK HR Tweet Up” (#ConnectingHR), an event organised by Courtenay HR and advertised via [...] April 6th, 2010 | Tags: Communications, linkedin, social media | Category: Communications | 6 comments
Supporting fledging Communications and PR professionals is extremely important and I’m in touch with and supporting various students to encourage them and help showcase their opinions and insights. The post below is written by Sarah Whyte who is studying the use of social media particularly for crisis communication. Please do share your thoughts with her, Rachel. Hello, [...] March 3rd, 2010 | Tags: diary, linkedin, PR, social media | Category: Communications | Leave a comment
Conversation prism by Brian Solis I’ve just spent the whole weekend writing about the potential impact Web 2.0 and social media tools could have at my company and seeking out as many case studies as I could find. One discovery I made which particularly interests me is the conversation prism (aka The Social Web) that has been [...] March 23rd, 2009 | Tags: crisis comms, Internal Comms, social media | Category: Communications | Leave a comment
Every single book I am reading for my disseration seems to have a checklist of buzzwords around social media and internal comms: engagement - check, motivation – check, knowledge management – check, cross-silo networks – check, end-user engagement – check. But the biggest and baddest of them all is collaboration. It apears to me that if in [...] March 21st, 2009 | Tags: dissertation, Internal Comms, social media | Category: Uncategorized | Leave a comment
Just about got room for a cuppa! Am actually drowning in books and papers! Got home last night to find a surprise parcel from my oldest friend Debs which contained a funky glass jar of retro sweets from our childhood. Accompanied by fab note saying they were to keep me going while writing my dissertation, [...] March 21st, 2009 | Tags: dissertation, Internal Comms, social media | Category: Uncategorized | One comment
So I’ve finally done it and have set up my very own blog. Hurrah! I’m currently writing a disseration for my post-graduate diploma in Internal Communications Management on social media/Web 2.0 and its impact on internal communication. A truly fascinating subject that is keeping me awake at night (literally) as I’m making contact with lots of [...] March 21st, 2009 | Tags: dissertation, Internal Comms, social media, web 2.0 | Category: Uncategorized | Leave a comment
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