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Google Wave and MS OneNote: Re-program my brain

LONDON — There seems to be quite a bit of excitement out there about Google Wave.  Here’s a blog I was sent to earlier today.  Look how many comments there are in a few hours.

There’s a lovely short video here too that will show you what Google Wave is all about.

To me it looks quite [...]

CommsFlashMob? What is that?

LONDON — It started as an idle comment on Twitter.  Either Rach or Lee started it.  Well, actually Wedge started it…  Maybe I should start again.

Anyone interested in social media and communications will know that Wikipedia, while fantastic on the marriage of Britney Spears, is not so great on topics like Internal Communications.

In fact, the [...]

Internal Comms in South East Asia

ANOTHER TAXI IN KL — I am on my way to the airport.  The circus is leaving town.  In another 24 hours of lounges and airplanes I will be home.

It’s been a hugely rewarding experience.  I have spent the last two days locked in a room with internal communications people from Vietnam, Malaysia, the Philippines, [...]

Are you rescuing cats from a tree?

THE BREAKFAST TABLE AT 6AM — My young son is reading his school book aloud.  To practice.  I am pretending to listen.

“What!?” he says suddenly.  “Rescue a cat from a tree?  Firemen don’t do that, do they?”

I sense disappointment.

“Yes,” I reply.  “But only for old ladies in cartoons and movies.”

“OK,” he says, as if I [...]

Internal Communications: Getting the basics right

KNIGHTSBRIDGE — It’s easy to forget what the world is really like when the newspapers are running dizzying and depressing tales every day.

However, it is true that most sizable businesses in the world do not have a solid, consistent or dependable system of internal communications.

(Now you may know that we are slowly trying to move [...]

Making the banks more successful in a rotten economy

TOTTENHAM COURT ROAD — They’re all in a mess today.  Citigroup was once my poster-child for what a global business could be.  Now they’re borrowing more than the GDP of Oman.

Standard Chartered has long been a favourite because they bank neatly in places that need neat banking – India, Africa, Asia.  But they’re in trouble too.

And [...]

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TOTTENHAM COURT ROAD — It’s 9 am on Monday, 8 September and we are pleased to be able to tell you about Able and How.

This is a new kind of consultancy.  We focus on strategic organisational communications.  We help organisations better deliver their corporate strategy, through communications.

We’re not [...]