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Special Series

• Insider Comms™: examples of real internal memos from a variety of companies and executives

• Intellicomms™: how to use artificial intelligence (A.I.) to become more efficient and productive in comms

• How to earn more money in your corporate communications career: Part 1, 2, 3.

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• Communications As Craftsmanship (an eight-part series)

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• How Internal Communications Can Avoid the Innovator’s Dilemma (a nine-part series)

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Mixternal Communications

• On the War in Israel and Gaza: Don't Rush To Say Something

• Corporate Comms Isn't Always Inspiring (But You Can Find Inspiration) (Part 1, 2)

• Should We Say Something About SCOTUS Ruling on Affirmative Action?

• When Should We Say Something About Social Issues? A Way Forward.

• Roe v. Wade and Employee Communications

• Ukraine: What Can Internal Comms Do?

• The Real Reason to Love Video in Communications

• How Internal Communications Can Support PR Strategies pair with 👉 PR Can Increase ROI Simply by Helping Employee Comms

• How and Why to Conduct a Channel Audit (and What to Do After That)

Editorial Strategy & Content

• Why and How to Do a Chatroom Ask Me Anything Session

• Don't Dismiss the Metaverse As a Comms Channel

• How to Manage a Content Calendar and Editorial Workflow (Part 1, Part 2)

• Why You Need an Editorial Calendar for Internal Communications

• 6 Steps to Develop an Editorial Strategy for Communications ||| (free version)

• Ask Me Anything: A Unique Way to Connect With a Distributed Workforce

• 8 Steps to Create an Ask Me Anything Session

• A/B Testing As a Way to Increase Engagement … and Inventiveness

• Value Storytelling Is a Must for Employee Engagement

• Recycle Your Employee Newsletter Content to Increase ROI

• 8 Reasons Why You Need an Employee Newsletter

• A Spoonful of Sugar Helps the Medicine Go Down (in Your Employee Newsletter)

• To Feed the Content Beast, Create Auto-send Emails

• Back to Basics With Clear Writing: The Topic Sentence

• Two Easy Ways to Increase Open Rates for Your Employee Newsletter

• What Makes a Bad Newsletter?

• Content Creation: Internal Communications Versus Marketing

Operations

• Why and How to Do a Chatroom Ask Me Anything Session

• Corporate Comms Isn't Always Inspiring (But You Can Find Inspiration) (Part 1, 2)

• How to Manage a Content Calendar and Editorial Workflow (Part 1, Part 2)

• Thoughts on Editorial Strategy, Multimedia, and a Multichannel Platform (Columbia University lecture)

• How and Why to Conduct a Channel Audit (and What to Do After That)

• How Internal Communications Can Scale Talent Development Training

• A Business Outcome-Focused Template for Requests for Content

• Why Superficial Statistics Are Important But Not Enough

• Channel Effectiveness Survey (Template)

• 3 Things Senior Leaders Can Do to Support an Editorial Strategy

• To Feed the Content Beast, Create Auto-send Emails

• Two Easy Ways to Increase Open Rates for Your Employee Newsletter

Comms Profession

• Against Industry Awards

• What Makes a Communicator a Good Writer? Answers to 10 Questions From My Lecture at Columbia University.

• How to Earn More Money in Corporate Communications: Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3

• Communications As Craftsmanship (an eight-part series)

• What About That Seat at the Table?

• The Ultimate List of Books for Communications

• Can Internal Comms Thwart Post-Pandemic Job Hopping?

• Content Creation: Internal Communications Versus Marketing

The Future of Mixternal Communications

• Intellicomms: how to use artificial intelligence (A.I.) to become more efficient and productive in comms

• Don’t Dismiss the Metaverse As a Comms Channel

• Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) and the Comms Profession (An Introduction)

• How Internal Communications Can Avoid the Innovator’s Dilemma (a nine-part series)

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• Hologram Technology and Internal Communications: A Hypothetical Case Study

• Communications As Craftsmanship (an eight-part series)

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Interviews With Comms Pros

Cisco, McDonald’s, IKEA, Tapestry, Spotify, and GoDaddy. And here’s an interview with an expert on how holograms can be used for internal comms.