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Geneva Communicators Network Lunch – Friday 30 January 2009 – fully booked!

We have had a great response for our next Geneva Communicators Network Lunch on Friday 30 January – so much that we are now fully booked and have closed the registrations – we can’t fit more people into our conference room. Sorry for those who missed out – we will be organising another lunch seminar soon..

Glenn

By | January 21st, 2009|GCN lunch events|0 Comments

Speech writing – the new Rock ’n’ Roll?

Last year, it seemed there was continually politicians and business leaders in the news because of their latest speech. At the time, it got me thinking about the power of this communications medium, but none of these speeches compares with the global impact Obama’s inauguration speech has had.

As a medium, speeches have a lot to deliver. They have to entertain, inform, inspire or influence us, whilst simultaneously raising the profile and reputation of the speaker – who only has one chance to get it right.

A great speech can last for generations; we are still looking to the speeches made by people such as Martin Luther King (“I had a dream…”), John F. Kennedy (“Ask not what your country can do for you…”) and Winston Churchill (“Never has so much been achieved by so few…”) for inspiration and example. So deliver a great speech and you could be making history!

With so much pressure on getting it right, speech writing can be both absolutely terrifying and hugely exhilarating making it, in my opinion, the ‘Rock ‘n’ Roll’ of communications.

So if you haven’t tried speech writing yet, I’d wholeheartedly encourage you give it a go. It’s hard work, but like everything that requires that extra effort, the rewards are high!

To get your regular speech writing and pubic speaking fix, try visiting a local Toastmasters club, there are 14 in Switzerland, including two in both Geneva and Lausanne.

‘Rock on!’

Melitta

By | January 21st, 2009|Other resources|0 Comments

Feedback on our virtual event: entering enterprise 3D virtual worlds – what does it mean to us as communicators?

Last night, members of the Geneva Communications Network participated in a virtual event where we met in a virtual “world” and spoke about how they work for communications applications. Ron Edwards of Ambient Performance took us through the virtual environment of Forterra Systems with a demonstration as to how it works. We were all sitting in a virtual conference room and members of the London Communicators Group were watching it all *live* from a conference room in London. Here is a screen shot of the virtual conference room:

virtual-wolrld

Thanks again to Ron Edwards and Matt O’Neill of the London Communicators Group for organising the event and inviting members of the Geneva Communicators Network to participate.

By | January 21st, 2009|Other events|0 Comments

Top 10 Intranets of 2009

This week Jakob Nielsen announced the best 10 Intranets of 2009, with the observation that Intranets are becoming more strategic, attracting more support and resources, and are improving significantly in design and userabily.
Read his full announcement >

Melitta

By | January 15th, 2009|Other resources|0 Comments

New careers in communications

New communication jobs in Geneva are up on our careers page. See below!

 PR Director, Ralph Lauren
Web Communications Manager, World Economic Forum
Manager, Events & Sponsorship, SITA

By | January 13th, 2009|Careers|0 Comments

Good news: it’s time to deliver bad news

In an article published in The Guardian this week, Danny Rogers, editor of PR Week, looks at the ongoing success of PR despite the current economic downturn.

The article suggests that the Internet is partly responsible for this, since PR’s biggest advantage over advertising is that it can create an ongoing dialogue with audiences, rather than simply broadcasting positive messages. The growth of blogs, social networking and Google has made such dialogues essential if today’s organisations are to impress and thrive.

The article goes on to look at how the need for companies to continually communicate with stakeholders, particularly during hard times such as we are currently experiencing, is good news for the PR industry who craft and deliver the messages – especially those linked to governments and the finance industry where the most bad news is to be found.  Read the full article >

Melitta

By | January 9th, 2009|Other resources|1 Comment

Sneak preview of Friday 30 January 2009 event

If you are interested to hear a preview of what Dr Aggarwal will speak about at our event on 30 January, listen to Dr Aggarwal and Glenn O’Neil of the Geneva Communicators Network discuss the challenges of inter-cultural communication on World Radio Switzerland:

Listen to the WRS show “Your Space” of  5 January >>

By | January 5th, 2009|Other events|0 Comments

Geneva Communicators Network Lunch – Friday 30 January 2009

We are pleased to announce our first event of 2009: Dr Surabhi Aggarwal will speak about how to communicate effectively across cultures – What do communicators need to consider when communicating to global and diverse audiences? How can cultural misunderstandings be avoided and communications be successful?
Dr Aggarwal was formerly Associate Professor at the University of Delhi and is currently teaching communication theory, social psychology and intercultural communications at the International University in Geneva.

Topic
: Communicating across cultures
Date: Friday, 30 January 2009
Time: 12h20 to 14h00
Location*: The Swiss Press Club, Route de Ferney 106, La Pastorale, 1202 Geneva (for directions, click on Map)
Fee: CHF 10.- per person for a light lunch
Please register here for the Geneva Communicators Network lunch event for Friday 30 January 2009 at 12h20.

If the above link doesn’t work, please copy the following link into your Internet browser: http://optima.benchpoint.com/optima/SurveyPop.aspx?query=view&SurveyID=145&SS=gQX62O

We look forward to seeing you there!!

*Location sponsored by the International University in Geneva (IUG)
By | January 4th, 2009|GCN lunch events|0 Comments

Employee Communication spending to rise in 2009

An interesting article on the Internal Communications Hub suggests that despite the economic downturn, companies plan to increase their spending on Internal Communications in 2009. This is positive news given that surveys in the latter half or 2008 showed that staff felt that there was a lack of management communication and this was resulting in plummeting morale and productivity.

It is not all good news however. There is evidence to suggest that in many organisations, only a third of workers will believe the messages they receive from managers. Therefore, Internal Communications specialists will have a key role to play in 2009 to help leaders restore employee confidence and performance to the levels needed to steer them through the current economic challenges – but to really succeed, they will need to engage and involve stakeholders from across the organisation. Read the full article >

Melitta

By | January 4th, 2009|Other resources|0 Comments

IABC Event in Geneva

Written Communication: million dollar cost or strategic asset? That will be the question addressed by Sarah Clark, a consultant and trainer, at the next IABC seminar, following their AGM. 

The event will take place at 18:30 on Thursday 29 January at the Hotel Bristol in Geneva. Cost: Members CHF 25, non-members CHF 35.

Please register for the event by sending an email to: marcus@ferrar.ch

By | January 4th, 2009|Other events|0 Comments