Not to be left behind by the good souls at Ragan, the good souls at Melcrum have waded into the social media pool with the launch of the Communicators Network. This site provides integrated links to many of the Melcrum resources.
My home over there is:
http://www.communicatorsnetwork.com/?page_id=24&tgt=1191768646
Since it’s launch earlier this year I have been watching Ragan’s new networking site, myragan with interest.
Following the amazing number of new joins in the first days, the site now seems to have settled down to provide a good selection of tools, resources and dialogues.
My profile over there:
http://www.myragan.com/Ragan/jonathanchamp
As an aside, the launch of the site coincided with a review of internet policies by the organisation I am working with currently – and prompted debate as to the barring of social networking sites that have a primary business or professional purpose. The result is that our firewall does allow access to the site, but not to the videos.
Since 2006, Melcrum have provided the excellent Internal Comms Hub as a digest of their resources as well as articles from the UK an US versions of their publications. Earlier this year, they extended this to cover the Australian market. There is a range of Australian content available.
The move, alongside the steady growth of the local IABC chapters, indicates the continuing development of the internal communication profession within Australia.
http://www.internalcommshub.com/open/memberhomepage.shtml
Communication World, the IABC monthly newsletter features a short piece on how work I have been doing within QBE to align internal communication around a common internal brand.
For details of the article, read here:
(Note -requires IABC membership to view)
http://www.iabc.com/cw/private/pdf/2007/GlobalPerspectives_2007_0304.pdf
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