Drawing attention to yourself: The consulting challenge

GREAT PORTLAND STREET - Not far from our offices is the Chinese Embassy in the UK.  Across the street there’s a booth set up and someone practising Falun Gong 24 hours a day. Falun Gong (which just looks like aerobics to you and me) is illegal in China.

It’s undoubted that they are annoying the Embassy by doing this. [...]

Wired world: Location is still important

LONDON — Kim’s in Egypt this week. 

Yea.  That’s something isn’t it?

You wouldn’t imagine that someone is in Egypt, after we watched the recent (mostly peaceful) revolution, and not think it mattered.

Detroit.

It’s a city that may have passed it’s prime.  Today I read that 25% of the population of Detroit has left in the past 10 years.  And that [...]

Go ahead! Google me!

MARBLE ARCH — I was visited by a charming man from Brussels yesterday called Hugh. We had a nice chat about PR, communications and change management. We talked about schools in Kenya and wine in Kuwait and real estate in Cirencester.

When it came to the subject at hand — work — Hugh blushed a bit and said “I [...]

Google Wave and MS OneNote: Re-program my brain

LONDON — There seems to be quite a bit of excitement out there about Google Wave. Here’s a blog I was sent to earlier today. Look how many comments there are in a few hours.

There’s a lovely short video here too that will show you what Google Wave is all about.

To me [...]

People still talking about CommsFlashMob

LONDON — I am delighted to see that people are still talking about last month’s CommsFlashMob.

Liam and his buddy Paul have both written about it recently.

It seems like maybe the CommsFlashMob should keep on rolling.

Ideas?

/df

@CommsFlashMob: How we did on Wikipedia…

LONDON — A few of us got together in one place today and made an effort to quickly update the “Internal Communications” page on Wikipedia.

We learned a lot in the process.

All tolled there were 28 amendments made to the page, and more are still being made now. Some people watched. Some emailed, texted and tweeted [...]

CommsFlashMob? What is that?

LONDON — It started as an idle comment on Twitter. Either Rach or Lee started it. Well, actually Wedge started it… Maybe I should start again.

Anyone interested in social media and communications will know that Wikipedia, while fantastic on the marriage of [...]

Social media course tomorrow: Warm up the wireless

I am excited about an event that I am running with Neville Hobson tomorrow. He’s already blogged on it. And, being Neville he’s put it on Twitter and created a hash-tag and all.

So, if you are social media savvy you can follow along. We were plotting today a [...]

Is your company comms ready for fame?

LONDON — There’s a website associated with Antony Gormley’s latest artwork. The ‘work’ is called ‘One and Other’ and it’s strangely addictive. It is a programme for 2,400 different people to stand one hour on the fourth plinth over the space of almost 3.5 months. Have a look at the site. [...]

MySpace speaks up for… the analysts?

“MySpace today announced its intent to restructure its international operations and refocus personnel around a smaller number of territories, while retaining a robust global consumer presence.”

That’s what News Corporation’s MySpace said in their press release yesterday. According to the Flesch-Kincaid reading ease measures that sentence requires about 15 years of [...]