After ten happy and fulfilling years in Singapore, where we founded Smart Word and built our business, we have moved to Australia.
In a writing workshop I conducted recently for a corporate client’s graduate trainees, I used the apostrophe as an example of how some of the English language’s more arcane ‘rules’ can baffle second-language writers and learners. This provoked an interesting reaction from my bright, engaged audience.
It’s a common misconception that creativity is something free and untrammelled that gushes abundantly from arty types and just needs to be tapped to deliver wonderful, innovative, fully-realised work. This belief can be a problem when working with agencies for your communications and design work – resulting in frustration, wasted time, and expense.
We internal communicators spend a lot of time thinking of strategy, messaging, channels, analytics, but there’s one element of the internal comms toolkit that makes a huge difference to how our electronic comms work – the images.
In modern commercial organisations, how can traditional communications and marketing professionals work better together toward achieving their goals — and those of the company
Here’s a question for internal comms professionals at companies with multiple locations – perhaps globally – and different staff profiles: do all your colleagues have access to a PC?