Tag Archives: internal communication
About the Book: “Lincoln to LinkedIn: The 55 Minute Guide to Social Communication”
“From Lincoln to LinkedIn: The 55 Minute Guide to Social Communication” is a call to action , and in some respects, a call to arms. Having worked in political campaigns before moving inside of large corporations, one thing I noticed … Continue reading
“It’s Not Just About Social Media”–An Introduction to Social Communication
“It’s Not Just About Social Media–An Introduction to Social Communication” is a new presentation that outlines the core of my approach to communication strategy–to focus on the informal social groups and networks (tribes) in organizations and communities, alongside a focus … Continue reading
Germany: A Look at an Emerging Internal Comms Powerhouse
Is Germany the world’s emerging internal communication powerhouse? For 11 days back in March, I travelled the length and breadth of the country and met with practitioners of all stripes–and found an industry on the verge of a breakthrough on … Continue reading
Free Associations: An Interactive Post on CommScrum
In this posting, the men and the woman of CommScrum discuss their short history, their commitment to free discussion, and the reactions they have received from unexpected places…in the script of an online SkypeChat. The conversation, which covers such topics … Continue reading
Is More “Top-Down Inspiration” Really the Answer for Organizational Recovery?
Challenging the conventional wisdom that the answer for reviving organizations is a more-of-the-same focus on “employee engagement” and “top-down inspirational leadership” is the purpose of this piece, written as a reply to industry association IABC’s recent introduction to its Communication … Continue reading
Democracy’s Mirror Images
In my first piece for the leading European political journal “E!Sharp”, I take on an observation I’ve long noticed about European and American societies: that the American political system and the European workplace are designed to encourage democratic behavior, while … Continue reading
Towards a Social Communication Model
The idea of a communication model that unifies internal communication, external communication and knowledge management forms the premise of my new post on Communitelligence: “Towards A Social Communication Model”. While the emergence of social media is important to this premise, … Continue reading
Enterprise Re-Engagement: Will Corporates Get It?
Whether corporations can join together their collective thinking about stakeholder engagement—or whether the current thinking of employee engagement as a sort of free lunch for employers ends up prevailing—is likely to have a decisive impact in the next few years. Continue reading
Will Social Media Drive Integrated Internal-External Comms?
In the first-ever “Thought Leaders” post on the site of CIPR Inside–the internal communications community within the UK’s Chartered Institute of Public Relations–I discuss some of the key attributes of social media likely to drive greater integration of internal and … Continue reading
CommScrum Rugby-Tackles “Internal Communication”
Challenging the very viability of what’s currently known as “internal communication” was the focus of my recent posting to CommScrum—a cooperative blog dedicated to “Full Contact Internal Comms.” The Commscrummers: UK-based Dan Gray and Kevin Keohane, Netherlands-based Lindsay Uittenbogaard, and … Continue reading
