Posts in Financial & Corporate
Sex and Turkeys – are you ready for your organisation to be sold?
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The London communicators group is having a meetup on March 9th to talk about:
Sex and Turkeys – Are you ready to manage a merger, acquisition or joint venture?
The session will be run by Doug Ross and Phoebe Dunn of award winning consultancy, Square Peg International. (http://www.squarepegint.com)
Your organisation is for sale. All organisations are for sale – it is just a matter of price. And when it happens it is the communications functions who will feel the pain as they are often faced with managing the issues of transition with respect to often-declining productivity, performance and morale during times of change. More...
Investor communication improving in response to shareholder activism
Herron, who is herself no stranger to calling the boards of public companies to account, cited the recent case whereby investors have successfully tabled questions at the forthcoming Shell Annual General Meeting in May about its approach to Canada’s tar sands. More...
CIPR corporate blogging workshop
Westpac Deletes Quirky Tweet - Proves it Hasn't Got a Clue(train)
Why is it so hard for a major company - in this case, one of Australia's biggest banks - to lighten up and have a bit of fun?
Why do large organisations find it so difficult to express their human side?
In today's social media age, this is emerging as a huge issue - the disconnect between big companies and their customers. It happens across so many fronts, but every now and then, something jumps out and screams:
"Why don't these companies get it?"
A couple of weeks ago it was Macquarie Bank.
Today it was Westpac's turn.
It started innocently enough when this quirky 25-character message appeared on the bank's official Twitter account: More...
How Richard Regan uses Twitter to make million-dollar trading decisions
Richard relies on a core group of about 40 people who he follows on Twitter. These are people that he trusts to have spent the time to comb through news and identify the stories of importance.
"Twitter has worked out to be a great provider of real-time news," Richard says.
The part about how Richard uses Twitter to make million-dollar trading decisions is at 4:20 in the video. More...
Cool Job Alert: Video interview with Allan Schoenberg CMEGroup
I spent yesterday morning with Allan Schoenberg, who is Director of Corporate Communications for the CME Group, the world's largest derivatives marketplace (futures exchange).
We spent most of our time on the historic trading floor of the Chicago Board of Trade, the first organized futures exchange, founded in 1848.
Allan has a really cool job. Imagine working in corporate communications in what I think of as "the center of the news universe."
Please take about 7 minutes to watch this fascinating video interview.
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Allan discusses how he works with the media, his media and social media monitoring. More...