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February 09, 2010
Organisational communication 2020

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Posted: February 9th, 2010, 1:32pm EST by Sharon O'Dea

This was the 50th meeting of the London Communicators and Engagement Group, an informal monthly meetup of (mostly internal) communicators. After 50 meetings you’d think organiser Matt O’Neill would be out of topics to cover – but you’d be wrong. This time, Matt invited David Galipeau (from eighty20.org /United Nations/Academia) to deliver a mini exposition into [...]
February 04, 2010
UKGC10 session four: The future of journalism

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Posted: February 4th, 2010, 5:40pm EST by Sharon O'Dea

Eve Shuttleworth proposed this session in response to a question that arose earlier in the day: Where is journalism heading, and how do press offices need to change in response? The web professionals session I went to earlier touched on the same issue – how do we develop the skills we need within our web and [...]
January 27, 2010
UKGC10 session three: Google Wave

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Posted: January 27th, 2010, 3:27pm EST by Sharon O'Dea

Shane Dillon led the post-lunch session on Google Wave. I’ve blogged about Wave a couple of times before, one a general overview and another looking specifically at what application it might have in internal communications. That being the case, I’m not going to repeat my comments here, but instead on my notes from the session [...]
January 26, 2010
UKGC10 Session two: Socialising Internal Communications

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Posted: January 26th, 2010, 1:23pm EST by Sharon O'Dea

The second session of the day was the one I was looking forward to the most, having discussed it ahead of the event with Kim Willis and Mark Watson. Kim took the lead on facilitating, but as it turns out the discussion managed to veer though the full swathe of internal comms issues without the need [...]
January 24, 2010
UKGC10 session one: Web Professionals

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Posted: January 24th, 2010, 11:25am EST by Sharon O'Dea

The first session I went to at UKGov Barcamp 2010 was led by Vicky Sargent from SOCITM, who is looking at how we can develop a framework for professionalising web careers. Vicky began by explaing that historically SOCITM have been the industry body for senior IT managers in local government. But they’ve begun looking at how we can better support people [...]
UKGovCamp 2010: it was epic

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Posted: January 24th, 2010, 8:30am EST by Sharon O'Dea

Yesterday’s UKGovCamp was predictably excellent. It was a genuine pleasure to spend the day with such an amazing group of inspirational people and hear about the great things they’re doing to make UK Government a little bit better UKGovCamp is an informal ‘unconference’ event, for people working in public sector tech and comms. This was the third annual [...]
January 22, 2010
Epic Visionaries FTW!

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Posted: January 22nd, 2010, 2:43pm EST by Sharon O'Dea

Tomorrow is the third annual UKGovCamp, when over 100 web people from across government will meet at Google’s offices in ThatLondon to share ideas on how we can use technology to change government for the better. It’s because of that vision, tenacity and willingness to get up early on a Saturday morning to talk about websites [...]
January 19, 2010
Intranets are key to recovery in 2010, say surveys

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Posted: January 19th, 2010, 7:35pm EST by Sharon O'Dea

Each January, Jakob Neilsen’s annual intranet design annual is released. This showcases the top ten intranets of the year, and is a good indicator of trends in intranet design and usability. This year’s Neilsen report found intranets are becoming a higher priority for organisations, intranet teams are growing in size, and increasing numbers feature mobile accessibility and [...]
December 29, 2009
Intranets and urban sprawl: a postcard from down under

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Posted: December 29th, 2009, 8:41pm EST by Sharon O'Dea

This month I’m taking a bit of a break before starting my new job in the new year. In desperate need of some sunshine, I jetted off to Sydney, Australia. After spending some time lolling about on the beach, throwing shrimps on the barbie and wandering around town wearing a hat with corks on, I decided [...]
November 27, 2009
Passing the baton

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Posted: November 27th, 2009, 1:21pm EST by Sharon O'Dea

Has it really been a month since I last wrote a proper blog post? What a busy month it’s been, too. I’m moving on from my current job, taking a break before starting a new role in January. This is my final day, so after the frantic period of activity running up to this week’s staff awards [...]