Time to integrate Innovation into your Comms strategy
Any decent Communication Strategy will integrate offline, online, internal and external communications. But what about your organisation’s Innovation Strategy? I’ve been developing integrated offline...
View ArticleBrand exchange & the new citizen conversation
Do people really want to have a conversation with brands, or their government? [Note: At last, a chance to bury the lede in a blog post. I started this post during my 2012-13 blogging hiatus, never...
View ArticleFast, visual communications: a chat with Ezri and Charlelie (updated)
I recently had a great live Hangout with Ezri Carlebach and Charlelie Jourdan to discuss visual communications, taking risks and creating energy in conferences. [update, 21 October: skip down to ‘Risks...
View ArticleOnline Communities: Slides & Key Take-Aways from EuroPCom15
This post provides the content from my EuroPCom session on online communities, plus some takeaways and extra links. I might follow it up with a Communities 101 post, as I was surprised by how many...
View ArticleHow do you organise communications skills?
The number and diversity of communications skills needed to implement a communications strategy never stops growing. How are you organising them? I’ve helped organise communications operations in four...
View ArticleMy EuroComm2016 Rapido on the Future of Communications
What happened when I was invited to “do a Rápido” at the IABC’s conference in Rotterdam earlier this week. A Rápido, as I explored with it’s originator Ezri Carlzebach last year, is a maximum 5-minute...
View ArticleVlogging events: authenticity ex-Osmo
I finally vlogged my first event. Some first impressions. I’m no gadget freak, but when Damien van Achter showed me the DJI Osmo (right) at the Brussels Hacks/Hackers Event last June I had to have one....
View ArticleTowards a 21st century EU Communications Strategy
With independent journalism increasingly looking like an endangered species, a EU communication strategy that helped European media build the European Public Sphere would be a smarter longterm move...
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