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Showing off
It's not all glamour and glitz as a communicator; we have meeting invites to ignore and spelling mistakes to fixate on as well. Oh the myths!
Everything I know about project management I learnt from Kevin McCloud on Grand Designs
'Grand Designs', a television programme that follows the travails of passionate, amateur, house builders says a lot about how projects go awry.
Help me help your intranet manager and comms team
Take a second to send a link to my website to your intranet manager / editor, in the hopes of brightening their day.
Why does your intranet exist?
A brief reminder about remembering the purpose of your intranet, and checking the relevancy of front page articles.
Copyright – using other people’s content
Easy directions on how to steer clear of breaking copyright and getting your company into hot water. Lead by example by following these points.
Turn ‘show n tell’ seminars into ‘see n say’ discussions
'Show n tell' sessions let you communicate something new to end-users and stakeholders; but what about reversing the flow to be 'bottom up' and running 'see n say' sessions?
We don’t need more corporate communication channels, we need local level conduits
What local level communication channels are available to Mildred, the booking system admin?
Long multi-topic or short single-topic intranet pages?
I need to guide scores of new authors / publishers as to when to create one long comprehensive intranet page and when to create a suite of short, single-topic, pages. What's your vote?
Don’t change your daughter’s, or your intranet’s, name, Mrs. Worthington
Renaming your intranet, or any business system, seems a fun thing to do to create engagement and 'goodwill' towards an improved system. A new name signifies a fresh start, but it does cost a lot of money and it does waste time. Think!
Top level intranet navigation – your menu names
Here's my old intranet menu names and my new one, along with several other navigation menus from other people's intranets! So much sharing!
Internal communication blogs to follow
Ten blogs dedicated to communications and internal communications for you to follow along with me.
Intranet content manifesto – 2nd draft
A second crack at getting some publishing principles across to people who've never written anything but emails.