Adapatability – key to evolving role of internal communicators

How does one describe the role of internal communicators? Strategic? Tactical? Complex? People oriented? Results focussed?
An executive administrator from a leading organization who was keen to join the ranks of an internal communications team got cold feet when she dived headlong into projects. “I am better off with what I am doing today if this [...]

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Information overload and the role of internal communicators

Organizations are waking up to the alarming increase in information overload and drop in productivity among their staff.
According to RescueTime, an organization which analyses computer use behavior, a typical information worker who sits at a computer all day turns to his e-mail programme more than 50 times and uses instant messaging 77 times.The research also [...]

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Career potential and Web 2.0

At a New Media and Career workshop for students conducted today, I posed the following questions:
Is your resume New Media ready?
Do you know what makes a curriculum vitae tick in the social media space?
Are you sending the right messages for recruiters trawling the web?
Is your career Web 2.0 proof?
Recent shifts in the [...]

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