Every day, 55 million status updates are made on Facebook, 500 million tweets are sent, and daily newspaper chiefs-of-staff receive 500 media releases.
2014 was the year of the Ice Bucket Challenge. What will be the new communications and engagement campaign to go viral in 2015.
Type in the phrase “top ten ways” into Google and you’ll get 227 million results in 0.48 seconds.
Yes, that’s 227 million times someone has come up with the top ten ways to do something.
From climate change to new planning schemes and earthquake recovery, take a sneak peek into the latest projects at Articulous.
The 1990s spawned an industry of leadership coaches, focused to a large part on how to build leaders who could build a vision and then share that vision with staff.
Ah, January. A time for making New Year’s Resolutions. February – a time for breaking them!
If you want to make a New Year’s Work Resolution that will make your working year simpler, and a resolution you’re likely to stick to, then consider one of these:
Community Engagement for Mental Health - What Happens When The Right People Are In the Room?
A TV producer recently said to me, “I’m assuming you’ve got a fly-through so can you send that on to us.” The answer of course, was yes.
For some of us, change is exciting; for most people, change is something to fear and for others, change is terrifying and they will reject it.
Here’s a secret most Executives won’t tell you: on their route to the top, they most probably received communications training.
Technical brilliance and business acumen will have made them stand out, but it’s often the softer skills of interpersonal communication, business development or networking as well as presentation skills that pushed them to the top of the pile.
Amanda Newbery regularly contributes to Steve Austin's expert panel on The Hidden Persuaders on ABC 612 to discuss advertising and how it shapes our lives.
So you’ve done your community engagement. The public is happy. They’ve been heard, influenced and perhaps collaborated in or empowered the decision making.
Then what?
Amanda Newbery is a regular guest panelist on Steve Austin’s The Hidden Persuaders on ABC 612 where they critique advertising, marketing and the media, and how it shapes our lives.
Amanda Newbery is a regular guest expert on the Hidden Persuaders with Steve Austin on ABC612 to discuss advertising, marketing, the media and how it shapes our lives.
Amanda Newbery is a regular guest expert on the Hidden Persuaders with Steve Austin on ABC612 to discuss advertising, marketing, the media and how it shapes our lives.
Amanda Newbery is a regular guest expert on the Hidden Persuaders with Steve Austin on ABC612 to discuss advertising, marketing, the media and how it shapes our lives.
Amanda Newbery is a regular guest expert on the Hidden Persuaders with Steve Austin on ABC612 to discuss advertising, marketing, the media and how it shapes our lives.
Some community engagement programs are easy to predict. They're relatively routine.
But others suddenly turn from routine to tragedy.
You're at a networking breakfast at a table full of strangers. It's early. The coffee hasn't arrived yet. And you worked late last night. Somehow you've got to make small talk.
Just as our personal lives need decluttering, so too do our businesses. And it's not just decluttering our desks.
Increasingly our internal and external communications are being bogged down in unnecessary systems and processes. Processes that are outdated but we that cling to out of misguided loyalty or organisational hoarding.