Social media and the civil service: for better or worse?
I won’t stretch the analogy too far, but staff use of social media in the public sector seems to be following a similarly rocky road to acceptance as gay marriage.
From the forums: the top 10 talking points
What are the topics that have generated the most heat, if not always light, on internal communications forums over the past year?
Here’s our unscientific run-down of the top 10, in nail-biting reverse order…
More insight from the IC forums
What do you call your employees? How do you describe your job to friends and family? And when is a coffee morning not a coffee morning?
Just a few of life’s conundrums exercising internal communicators on the LinkedIn forums right now...
The apprentice’s sorcerers: Holt's key influences on young people
Our attitudes to, and the choices we’re likely to make about, most things in life are set long before we come to the point of decision. Advertising and other dark arts have cast their subconscious spell.
Apprenticeships are sadly no exception to this rule.
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 Richard LomaxEditorial DirectorRichard provides strategic support across our sector teams. He has helped some of Europe's biggest organisations with business-critical communications, from market-sensitive M&A communications in the energy sector, to managing the DfE's digital and social media channels team. He is closely involved with industry bodies including the Institute of Internal Communication, chairing the inaugural diploma accreditation panel, and as an awards judge for the British Interactive Media Association. |
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- Change is coming, as a new generation of leaders and employees replaces the old t.co/B7W60PlKhV Is your organisation prepared?
- Red tape is discouraging SMEs from taking on apprentices, despite the benefits t.co/JR2XmkycbL
- For the first time, children are reading more screens than paper pages t.co/M0SAc8NojS - Does the medium matter?
- Graduate students do not open newsletters or marketing emails t.co/Vkg8OrfOyB (anecdotal, but ri...#highered
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