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Adopting social media inside the enterprise – challenges and opportunities for internal communicators

This article featured in Simply-Communicate, a UK based internal communication publication that reaches 15,000 communicators globally. http://www.simply-communicate.com/news/companies-india-adopt-social-media-inside-enterprise Read on for the complete article here as well. According to an IABC report over 79% of global companies leverage social media internally to improve productivity and engagement. India, however, still lags behind when it comes to adoption.  To […]

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Is the value of internal communication dependent on the quality of the people who represent it?

A comment in a research report ‘Developing tomorrow’s Internal Communications Professionals, Liam FitzPatrick and Hamish Haynes’ (Working: May 2004) citing recruitment specialist Watson Helsby got me thinking. This is how it read: “The internal communications role has not attracted enough high caliber individuals. Inevitably, the perceptions of the value of internal communications are intrinsically intertwined […]

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Is there a common understanding in India of what corporate communications really does?

The Education Times edition of the Times of India dated May 11, 2009 carried an article on Corporate Communications and its role by taking the viewpoint of leading Indian practitioners. Interestingly, there wasn’t a consensus among these leading professionals on what constitutes corporate communication leave alone the roles and responsibilities of the function. The benefits […]