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Call for entries for UK Social Media Communications Awards 2017

Neville Hobson Leave a comment Business, Communication, Events, Professional Development, Social Media

For seven successive years, the UK Social Media Communications Awards contest (hashtag: #somecomms) has been a benchmark of good and best practices in the roles and uses of social media in organisational communication. This week, organisers Don’t Panic Events announced the call for entries for the eighth annual competition: The UK Social Media Communications Awards celebrate the very best in UK social media communications and reward the individuals, companies and organisations who are using online platforms to communicate in fresh and innovative ways. The awards are open to all corporate, creative, design, digital, marketing, advertising, media and public relations organisations that are based in the UK. The 2017 awards will attract over 300 digital and communications professionals from across the […]

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Takeaways on #BigData at #EuroComm17

Neville Hobson 1 Comment Business, Communication, Events, IABC, Professional Development, Technology, Workplace
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Like everyone in the contemporary workplace, communicators confront information – data – on a scale unimaginable a decade ago. We’ve all heard the term “Big Data” but do we really understand what this means? Can we see what we must do right now to enable our competitive differentiation, operational effectiveness and early-mover advantage that are essential in the cognitive business era of the coming decade? In a presentation session at the IABC EuroComm 2017 conference in London next week, I’ll be joined by Jonathan Oldershaw, Research Director at Madano in London, to discuss and share information and insights on an area of increasing significance and importance to communicators. You’ll learn how providing colleagues and customers with knowledge and insights will […]

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Submit your entry for the 2017 SNCR Excellence in New Communications Awards

Neville Hobson 8 Comments Business, Communication, Events, Innovation, Professional Development, Social Media, Technology
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The Society for New Communications Research of The Conference Board (SNCR) has begun a call for entries for the 2017 Excellence in New Communications Awards. The winning case studies will be published by The Conference Board and winners will be honoured at its 22nd Annual Senior Corporate Communications Management Conference to be held in New York in Spring 2017. The deadline for entries is Friday February 3, 2017 at 11:59pm PST – just over three months away. Founded in 2005, SNCR is a research and education institution dedicated to the advanced study of how new and emerging communications tools and technologies (such as digital, social media, and mobile) are affecting business, media, health, law, culture, and society. In February 2016, […]

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Meet the omni-channel experience that is Wimbledon 2016

Neville Hobson 23 Comments Business, Communication, Events, Experiences, IBM, Innovation, Marketing, Mobile, Public Relations, Social Media, Software, Sport, Technology, Web

The Championships, Wimbledon 2016 started yesterday, June 27, and run until July 10. During these two weeks of intense competition, Wimbledon and the competing players will be names and brands in an event that will not only be on television screens large and small across the globe in real time and recorded, but also available and accessible on myriad devices, from smartwatches to big-screen PCs, almost anything that can connect to the global internet any time anywhere. To be sure, there’s a terrific amount of great tennis to interest and captivate tennis fans as the process of elimination in these championships reaches its culmination in the finals on the Centre and No 1 Courts on Sunday July 10. The courts will […]

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The EU referendum was a political gamble that didn’t pay off: what’s next?

Neville Hobson 7 Comments Communication, Europe, Events, Experiences, Leadership, Politics, Public Relations, Society

It’s been a tumultuous few days since polling stations closed at 10pm on Thursday June 23 and the UK awoke on the morning of Friday June 24 to the news that the result of the national referendum on whether this country would remain a member of the European Union or not turned out to be not. I am very sad at this result – one that took many people by surprise, me included – as I believe that our future is intertwined with that of our European neighbours, individually and collectively; that this is a very good thing; and that being an influential part of the European Union is mutually beneficial and will lead to greater prosperity for all. I’m […]

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