Empowering Non Profits with Social Media and Communication

NASSCOM Foundation invited me to speak on ‘Leveling Web 2.0 for social causes’ at their Connect IT forum at Bangalore today. The other panelists in my session were Sachin Malhan, CEO, Inclusive Planet (who did a great job of moderating the session) and Anu Unnikrishnan, Marketing Consultant, for Jaago Re a popular campaign by Tata [...]

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Media, Manipulation and Internal Communication – Challenges and Directions for Change

I had the opportunity to share perspectives on media, whistle blowing and manipulation at a two day national seminar  (Media Manthan) conducted by St. Aloysius College, Mangalore on January 21- 22, 2011. Justice N Santosh Hegde (Karnataka Lokayukta Head), BBC’s former producer Adam Clapham, Kuvempu University’s Professor Poornananda and Justice Saldanha, a recognized social activist were among [...]

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Internal Communication Trends for 2011

Happy New Year to you! As we step into the New Year I wanted to share my perspectives on internal communication trends that I believe will shape the future of businesses and contribute to increased employee engagement.  Talent management and retention will draw even more on the power of internal communication: Attrition is looming as [...]

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Celebrating Company Milestones and Workforce Engagement

Have a milestone worth celebrating? Unsure how to get your employees singing the same tune? Every organization big or small has reasons to celebrate important milestones during their journey to energize their staff. Be it the completion of your company’s years of operations, a new product launch, an employee growth success story or even the [...]

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The Benefits of Revisiting Your Internal Communication Priorities

This month I caught up with my team at Chicago and we stepped back to re-chart our goals and focus areas for the year and beyond. To me it meant unlearning and looking at our stakeholders from a different lens altogether. Personally this meeting taught me a few pointers on structuring a team’s strategy for [...]

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How Internal Communicators Can Lead Your Organization’s Social Networking Beginning

Planning to get your organization on the social media map? There are factors which I learnt along the way that is needed to get completely immersed. Read more about the do’s and don’ts of kick-starting your firm’s social media communication. Understand also how you can leverage internal communication context and content. The power of social [...]

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Looking for ‘Recession Proof’ Corporate Communication ideas?

Is the recession shrinking your communication budget? Is the downturn causing you to rethink your communication goals? Attend this half-day workshop to learn more about ‘recession proofing’ your corporate communication. Leverage contemporary tools and resources to improve connection, engagement and awareness among your employees, customers and other stakeholders. Read more about the workshop… Topics of [...]

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Are you justifying your existence as a communication professional?

The recession can surely make communicators sweat! It also seems to be making communicators revisit their purpose and justify their existence. A mail from a fellow communicator in India pointed to just that – it read ‘we are gauging the span of the Corporate Communication and roles vis-a-vis number of employees. It’s going to hopefully [...]

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