Category Archives: Minutiae

Personal musings and the details of life.

Getting it done and choosing success

I’ve come to know three things about getting big things done. So many people have told us what success is built around, but doesn’t success, and even happiness, come down to these three things? Nothing easy, but simple enough yeah?

Nothing’s final in life

Document control. Don’t send, share or publish files / documents with the word ‘final’ in the file-name or on the document. It is rarely true, and it is always confusing.
Here’s a handy reminder for you to download, email around or print.

Nothing’s final – PNG image (printable quality) 76KB
Nothing’s final – PNG image (web / email [...]

Would you like to team up to write about internal communications?

I’ve been writing about comms for years now, and seriously talking about good practices for over a year. Considering Chris Brogan’s prediction that solos will need to consolidate and collaborate in 2010, I’d like to throw out an idea and invitation to you.
If you’re working within an Internal Communications department, would you like to join [...]

Frank’s naked truth about HR communication

I just have to point you to Frank Roche’s 35 bullet points about Internal HR Comms – I particularly like numbers 4, 19, 21, 26 and the last one.

The Naked Truth About Great HR Communication

The design of your comms matters. The tone, the voice, of your comms matters. You don’t have to write the perfect [...]

Check me on your mobile

You can get my articles via web, mobile, iPhone, email, RSS and Twitter. Phew.

Internal Communications at TweetCamp

‘TweetCamp’ was a ‘BarCamp’ like UnConference held in Richmond on Saturday 27 June.
I realise I’ve just opened with three geeky nouns that may make no sense to half my readers; I’ll start again.
‘TweetCamp’ was the name of the Twitter get together that I attended and participated in on Saturday. It was hosted by GumTree in [...]

Where does all the time go?

Am I too busy to join a professional body?

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