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Getting the message across – without a word

Posted on Wednesday 16 June 2010

The hurly-burly and excitement of the annual RHS Chelsea Flower Show is now something of a distant memory and I expect all those involved have breathed a huge sigh of relief that all the hard work is over for another year; time for a well earned holiday I expect! As a time-deprived [...]

Denise @ 12:24 pm
Filed under: Communications Strategy
Plugging into success

Posted on Thursday 20 May 2010

While social media really took off in our personal lives several years ago, it has been more of a slower burn in corporate communications. However, happily, in attending the recent Social Media in a Corporate Context conference it was great to hear that as corporate communicators we’re moving from discussing whether and when, to now [...]

Sheila @ 9:53 am
Filed under: Communications Strategy
Graphics: the good old days?

Posted on Monday 26 April 2010

When I grew up in the 60s/70s, the most techie thing spoken about was whether you had a colour or black n’ white tv. We all had hobbies that didn’t need to be plugged and mine was painting.
At 18 I entered the graphics industry. Computers gradually started being introduced and the paint brushes [...]

Gill @ 1:12 pm
Filed under: The Basics
The Sound of Silence

Posted on Wednesday 21 April 2010

Gazing up at the sky over the last few days, it’s been wonderful to see clear blue skies with not a plane in sight. No noise, no vapour trails and no volcanic ash from what I could see. But with news of people stranded all over the world and British airports and [...]

Wendy @ 10:06 am
Filed under: Communications Strategy
Let’s have fun!

Posted on Wednesday 31 March 2010

It can be more fun to use the stairs rather than the escalator, and here’s the evidence!
In internal communications – well, in our daily lives, let’s be honest – it’s usually all about just putting one foot in front of the other and getting from A to B. But what if we [...]

Cara @ 5:22 pm
Filed under: The Basics
Sharing – just another way of networking

Posted on Monday 8 March 2010

Did you do it today? Yesterday? This week? If your answer is no, here goes my (free) advice to you. Join us and do it as often as possible.
Sharing information is an excellent way of using social media as a knowledge distribution tool. Thanks to social bookmarking sites such as Delicious, we can tag and [...]

Felix @ 4:57 pm
Filed under: Communications Strategy and New Media, New Ways
The other side of the fence…

Posted on Thursday 4 March 2010

For the last 13 months I have been working for theblueballroom as their Business Development Manager. This was the first opportunity in my career to have worked in an agency and one that has taught me more about internal communication that I could have hoped for. Now, as I return to the corporate world to [...]

Preferring print

Posted on Wednesday 3 March 2010

There’s so much talk about online comms these days, with organisations wondering whether and how to communicate with employees via an intranet, a social networking site etc. However, many communicators and readers still like employee magazines. Why?

A great number of employees are not PC-based and can’t easily go online during working hours
Receiving a magazine is [...]

Cara @ 12:02 pm
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Melcrum’s Social Media Conference

Posted on Thursday 11 February 2010

I have just returned to the office after attending Melcrum’s first social media conference in London yesterday.
There were many things I was looking forward to about the conference (check out the ipadio interview I did earlier this week) and I was keen to hear how other companies are implementing social media inside an organisation.
It was [...]

Jenni @ 5:05 pm
Filed under: Communications Strategy and New Media, New Ways
An interview with ipadio

Posted on Monday 8 February 2010

In the build up to Melcrum’s Social Media conference this week our Business Development Manager, Jenni Wheller, was interviewed by ipadio to find out more about theblueballroom and what we are looking forward to hearing…

Sheila