We’re delighted to have been recognised with a Gold Quill Award for employee engagement from the International Association of Business Communicators.
Water Cooler has opened its UK office. We’re still working with our Australian clients, supported by our fantastic team of associates on the ground.
My husband is a blogger. A good one. He can rattle blogs out like nobody’s business. I’m not so good. I encourage leaders to blog more but between client work and motherhood, I struggle to find the time.
IAG launched Yammer as its social media hub for employees in 2010. It was originally confined to the comms team as a test and learn case study, but one rogue invitation…
REA Group is looking for a PR and Corporate Affairs Manager to join its fabulous internal comms team.
Getting help with Yammer or another internal network is a hot topic for a lot of internal communicators.
REA Group is looking for an Internal Communications Coordinator to join its fabulous internal comms team.
A client sent through her latest internal newsletter and I cringed to see the word ‘cohort’ in there. You see, this client has…
Foxtel is looking for a new Digital Communications Manager for its Internal Communications and Events Team.
Optus is looking for a Senior Communications Advisor for its Consumer Sales and Service Channels team.
Are you a geek who gets comms? If so, this could be the job for you…
Great article from Step Two designs for anyone managing an intranet with no budget or team – and let’s face it, that’s a lot of people.
Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade announces to 30 ‘low-ranking’ public servants at the Australian Passport Office that their jobs were being outsourced – as an April Fools’ prank.
One of my favourite writing resources is Daily Writing Tips. Each morning I look forward to learning something….
Getting ready to launch Yammer from start to finish in just six weeks in a company that has traditionally resisted social media is no mean feat…
One of my clients asked me recently why I dislike the word ‘engagement’. This blog post from my favourite copywriter….
Great opportunity for a passionate employee communications professional
Writing to your employees can be a daunting prospect – especially if the news is likely to be unsettling…
This month’s Water Cooler Session on diversity was topical for me. Firstly because we had male representation again (that’s two months in a row!) and secondly…
My uncle Derek refuses to put my address in his address book. I’ve moved house so many times that after I’d trashed the ‘N’…
I spend a fair bit of time thinking about how to bridge the communication gap between CEOs in suits and their Gen Y employees…
When I saw that HP had appointed Meg Whiteman as its new CEO and that her first email to employees had been shared on the internet…
I recently set myself a challenge of writing emails that had 500 characters or less, for a week.
