Things I learned in 2010

Might As Well Go For a Soda

• You can listed to your local radio half-way around the world. On the 14 bus even. And I now think I may finally know why some Canadian rock and roll never found a larger audience. April Wine? Tom Cochrane?  Kim Mitchell? Yea.

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• Speaking [...]

Live from Wimbledon final on Twitter

SOUTHWEST LONDON — We have been entering the lottery for Wimbledon for 10 years. And we got our first tickets this year. I just opened to see we are about 7 rows back, near the net. So it should be even better than I had hoped.

I’ll take my phone along and update Twitter on [...]

Internal Comms in South East Asia

ANOTHER TAXI IN KL — I am on my way to the airport. The circus is leaving town. In another 24 hours of lounges and airplanes I will be home.

It’s been a hugely rewarding experience. I have spent the last two days locked in a room with internal communications people from Vietnam, Malaysia, the Philippines, Brunei, and [...]

The Able Round Table: Thursday 26 March

TCR — We are confirming attendees for the Able Round Table tomorrow night. It’s happening at an undisclosed location, but we have a great panel and some excellent people coming.

We have been planning this for a while and as I send our reminders today I realise that some of our readers may be planning to come but haven’t told [...]

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DISTRICT LINE — We already have some dates in diaries. Four speaking engagements, to be precise. Two are in the UK and in the next few weeks and two are overseas. I’ll tell you about those later.

This organisation used to be called something else. Not just the IPR becoming “Chartered” but the organisational communications part…? [...]