IC and Engagement
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss – corporate purpose and employee engagement
June 14, 2018Well, that’s a relief. Appears that engagement, as the raison d’etre for internal communication, is falling out of favour. Turns out that people are beginningContinue Reading
Communication and Engagement – Not The Same Thing, Not Even Close
February 21, 2018I consider myself a complete communicator (try and ignore the hubris) having worked, variously, in external communication, internal communication, public affairs, investor relations and reputationContinue Reading
A Tipping Point For IC?
November 15, 2017The thing about being an old communicator is that, over time, years of experience become clarified and whittled down to very simple basics. Sometimes thisContinue Reading
A Few Truths About Internal Communication and Employee Engagement
September 12, 2017As an old communicator, I’m certain that Engagement isn’t my bag. Employee engagement is not internal communication or, indeed, vice versa. The reason I takeContinue Reading
Internal and External Communication Go Hand-in-Hand – It’s Only Common Sense
August 22, 2017Being an old communicator means, perhaps, not being as in touch, or as conversant, with some of the latest communications thinking or tools as oneContinue Reading
Writing and Language
Forget the IoT, AI is the NBT
November 22, 2017As a communicator – if that’s what, like me, you are – I think there is an implied duty to keep it simple, concise, accurateContinue Reading
Moving to 280 – Removing a Valuable Discipline?
September 27, 2017So Twitter is trialling 280 character tweets. According to Biz Stone, Twitter’s founder, “science and study showed us phonetic languages want and need ~280. NotContinue Reading
What’s In A Name?
March 27, 2015Sometimes, I feel that all this was made up just for my benefit. My older readers will remember a movie called The Truman Show, inContinue Reading
Word Rage
September 20, 2013Here’s a thing that ticks all my boxes – in the same way that The Sound of Music has everything one wants in a film (Nazis,Continue Reading
What’s Wrong With the English Language?
May 2, 2013What is wrong with the English language (with its 1 million, nineteen thousand, seven hundred and twenty-nine point six words – yes, point six –Continue Reading
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