internal communications

My very good friend Gerry McCusker has pointed me to a superb video by a client of his, ABT.
The video points out how Internal Comms often gets overlooked by Ad/Marcomms types, giving perfectly good reason why Internal Comms should stay a separate and equally senior part of the management team.
FYI: ABT has been around [...]

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 The time has come, the walrus said, to run the annual Social Media workshops for Melcrum.
Running just in Sydney this year, it’s a three-day extravaganza of lights, music, singing, dancing, cabaret, vaudeville and death-defying feats of derring-do.
Ok, maybe not.
But there are three workshops, two run by me on Social Media and one run [...]

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In one of those serendipitous moments I stumbled blindly across this post from a church blog.
This from Sarah Cunningham at the end of the first chapter of Dear Church: Letters from a Disillusioned Generation.
Sometimes I wonder if the disillusionment that twenty-somethings feel isn’t (at least partly) due to their own lack of interest and [...]

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by Philip Yaffe

Some people have experiences early in life that seem to have nothing to do with their intended careers but later turn out to be crucial. I am one of those lucky people.
I graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 1965 with a degree in mathematics and no intention of [...]

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Melcrum have wrapped their best Internal Comms case studies into one nicely sparkling package - the cunningly-named "Melcrum’s 50 Best Case Studies."
It’s split into eight chapters – one for each topic area:

Structure, teams and planning
Manager communication
Communicating business strategy
Employee engagement
Change communication
Social media and new technologies
Senior leader communication
Measurement

And [...]

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If, as a business communicator, you are irrelevant to your company then why should you get your salary? Say goodbye to your nice house, your nice car, your kids’ private educations, your wine cellar, your holidays on Hamilton Island.

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Further to my rant the other day about the cluelessness of PR agencies in Australia, a fevered series of emails has crashed into your humble correspondent’s inbox.
Most of them are from agency seniors who took umbrage at my labelling of them. However, as they are all very experienced practitioners, they framed their comments in [...]

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