Information overload: Whose fault is it anyway?

In the light of my last post and the feelings I had to this comment I read it seems that as communicators we are to blame for a lot of the information overload that employees feel – it’s not just all the stuff they get from each other. I feel it too but I also feel that I can cope by having the skills to find information when I need it or organising it so that others can find it too. Well that’s my perception, I could be entirely wrong. Continue reading »

IT Blogger of the Year awards

IBM sponsored the Computer Weekly IT Blog Awards which were held last night at The Delphina. Andy Piper presented the overall award which went to Project Management for Girls, which is run by Elizabeth Harrin. It won the Project Management category for the third year.   Related articles Awards season, and good causes (andypiper.co.uk)

How do I start blogging?

That was the question I got asked yesterday and quite often get asked. I don’t really consider myself a blogger, not externally but I contribute to several, but I really do it to keep track of what I do and the things I like, occasionally something happens that brings in some useful insight or contact … Continue reading »

About a month in

Not much time for blogging of late, getting to know a new role can be time consuming. My afternoons are a lot busier and my morning less so, with regard to meetings. This does give me the chance to structure my work quite effectively though. The overall culture in STG while not radically different from … Continue reading »

Talking innovation in communications

Last night I did my first stand-up proper talk to non-IBMers and Brunel University to the West London Business group, with Wendy Tarr. It was a scary thing. I’ve always been a behind the scenes person ever since school where me and a friend would always volunteer to be stagehands on the school play in … Continue reading »

How to behave at work

Image by itatton via Flickr Do you know how to behave at work? Common-sense right? Someone once said, “Common-sense is anything but common.” Answers on a postcard please. Those of you on twitter will have seen a number of people mentioning that they have completed their BCG. This is not an injection. This is education, … Continue reading »

Stuff I’m doing today

No idea why you would be interested but this is what I’m doing/done today. Created some graphics for an intranet page Plan and organise a bunch of execs to record in a podcast Set-up a briefing with other comms people in the business to make them aware of an event EcoJamming Design a poster w3 … Continue reading »