You may think I’ve been unusually quiet recently, but I’ve been diverting my energies into other channels, including a guest spot at Simply Communicate a site that collates advice, toolkits and templates covering every aspect of internal communication inside organisations.
Here is a taster:
Internal blogging can give us:
- The ability to get to know our colleagues as people and individuals encouraging give and take.
- An easier way of building networks of like-minded or useful people.
- An easy way to find out what colleagues are working on (and joining the dots with our own work).
- An easier way of finding out what people extracurricular interests and skills are (and harnessing them).
- The ability to scan the internal environment, take a reading of the organisation’s mood, and spot and pre-empt issues.
- An easy way to get a rounded sounding on ideas and test out theories or approaches – both by yourself by beginning to articulate ideas for the first time, and with others as a community of interest which helps to test and build the idea.
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Basically, what I need to work out, and what I’d hoped to have the opportunity to discuss, is what do I do with the following list of tools? Is there a clever way of piggybacking on them or using them that I am missing? How on earth does crisis management work in these fora? In fact how do you manage communications through them without looking like you are donning your Nazi jackboots and behaving in a completely inappropriate way?
A couple of years ago, at Warwick, I was interviewed about what it was like being a blogger for a series of promotional shorts.
This month I am honoured to have been invited to guest blog at 