Category Archives: Content

The people journey at the Olympic Delivery Authority

Posted on May 15, 2012 by Martin

Michele Owens, head of HR and OD at the Olympic Delivery Authority talked through the ‘people journey’ in her keynote at TrainingZone live 2012. Clearly, the Olympic Games is a huge project with an enormous audience – as can be … Continue reading →

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Are you acting alone together?

Posted on May 14, 2012 by Martin

Here is some brain food for a Monday morning. Last week, I heard a talk  by Mark Brosnan, a psychology lecturer at Bath university. Mark covered a lot of ground including the concept of being alone together. After some further … Continue reading →

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Winners of the Towers Watson’s Awards for Excellence in HR Journalism 2012

Posted on May 11, 2012 by Martin

The winners of the Towers Watson’s Awards for Excellence in HR Journalism 2012 were announced last night. HR Journalist of the Year – National Media Winner: Andrew Hill, Financial Times Highly Commended: Peter Crush, Freelance HR Journalist of the Year … Continue reading →

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21 hours, 20 collaborators, one blog post, Twitter and one Google doc

Posted on May 8, 2012 by Martin

In less than I day we (I say ‘we’ because this is about me and 19 other collaborators) created a narrative for the story of a socially engaged business. Amazing. When I set out the idea I didn’t realise it … Continue reading →

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Help write the story of a socially engaged organisation

Posted on May 3, 2012 by Martin

I like Pecha Kucha presentations – 20 slides timed to change every 15 seconds. You have to tell your story quickly. I did one at Ignite Bristol last year and helped out organising Ignite Bath earlier this year. I thought … Continue reading →

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Video: How Google search works

Posted on May 1, 2012 by Martin

This video does exactly what it says on the tin. This is a ‘how it works’ video and well worth a look if you want to get an understanding of how Google crawls the web, indexes pages and ranks the … Continue reading →

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Want to produce engaging content? Then look, listen, ask . . .

Posted on April 24, 2012 by Martin

It was great to see the importance of content put centre stage at the recent Social Media in Recruitment Conference. Andy Headworth wrote a good post on it. So how do you begin to find out what your audience (customers, … Continue reading →

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Social media in the business – it’s an internal and external thing

Posted on April 19, 2012 by Martin

Social media tools provide a huge opportunity for every business to improve communications and create and share relevant, useful and timely information. Look both ways But if you look at job adverts for social media manager roles, you’ll notice that … Continue reading →

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Tipp-Ex does it again . . .

Posted on April 13, 2012 by Martin

If you enjoyed the first ‘Hunter shoots a bear‘ campaign, then you’ll probably like the follow-up. [H/T @callumsaunders and The Drum]

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Facebook buys Instagram: some links

Posted on April 10, 2012 by Martin

Picture app Instagram has been snapped up by Facebook in a $1bn deal. I really like the app – I like it because it is social and because it enables you to easily take great shots. The filters allow you … Continue reading →

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