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Internal Communications Executive
Lloyds TSB International Private Banking (IPB), Geneva, for up to 6 months.
The successful candidate will be involved in a major new internal communications strategy to support a wide ranging change programme, making a great opportunity for anyone wanting experience in Corporate, Change or Internal communications. (POST NOW FILLED).
See our Careers Page for full details >
Good luck!
Thank you to the 45+ Communicators who attended our last apero at the Chateau des Penthes. The beautiful setting was ideal for networking. A few photos have been uploaded to our flickr account.
We take this opportunity to wish everyone a wonderful summer holiday and look forward to seeing you at our next lunch meeting in September.
Best regards,
The GCN Team
For those that like lists, here are a few that have recently been published:
The Guardian’s Top 100 websites
American Mensa’s top 50 websites
BBC audiences favourite 30 words
Fortune’s 50 most admired companies
Jakob Neilsen’s Top 10 Intranets
Top 25 books for Internal Communicators
Top 20 Social web sites
Thank you to all the participants who attended our workshop at Lift yesterday. It was a very interesting discussion. Here are the slides summarizing some of the major points.
Lift09 Networking Workshop Slides
Stay tuned for some photos and video coverage of the session.
Enjoy the rest of the Lift conference!!
Patricia
Could ‘the Conference Bike’ be the solution to effective meetings we’ve been waiting for?
Melitta
We wish you all a Joyous Holiday Season and a Prosperous New Year.
We thank you for your ongoing support and look forward to many great events together in 2009.
Patricia, Melitta, Glenn, and Vincent
All the technical details have been finalised and we look forward to a very interesting event next Tuesday. It is not too late to register for the event.
To register please click here>>
Full details on the event:
Phones are rapidly evolving beyond talk and text devices to fully fledged, ubiquitous tools able to enhance our lives in ways never dreamed of. Video conferencing, social networking, even paying for your coffee are all a reality right now. What are the implications of this to us as communicators? Where are the opportunities? Where are the challenges? How do we stay relevant with ever increasingly segmented audiences?
To address these questions, we have decided to organise a special evening conference jointly with the London Area Communicators Group. The conference will feature one of the UK’s premier consultants on the mobile communications industry.
Ewan Macleod, founder and editor in chief of www.mobileindustryreview.com (over 300,000 unique visitors per month ), will provide an update about what’s happening in the world of mobile communication and technology. Participants will be able to follow his presentation live via video broadband from London. The presentation will be followed by a question and answer period from Geneva to London.
This event is organised in collaboration with Thierry Weber’s Culture Pod. An expert in podcasting and mobile communications, Thierry will be animating our discussion in Geneva. He will provide video coverage of the event.
Date & time: Tuesday 23 September 2008, 19h00-20h30
Location: International University in Geneva, ICC building, Rte de Pré-Bois 20, Geneva (Map)
This event is free of charge. Drinks and small snacks will be offered courtesy of the International University.
Registration: please register – click here>>
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We look forward to seeing you there!!
Patricia Goldschmid
Glenn O’Neil
genevacom@gmail.com
The magazine Communications Director published an interesting issue recently about the relationship between journalism and public relations. Several experts provide insights in to challenges linked to their coexistence, the misperceptions on each side and possible solutions for better collaboration.
In an increasingly globalised environment with rapid technological changes, our roles are shifting. which is a challenge for many. Today, the Internet is a breeding ground for amateur reporting of all levels of news. Journalists are caught between their desire to write quality articles and keep up with the fast pace of online publication while communications professionals struggle to keep an open flow of information between teh various stakeholders in their organisation.
The issue looks at various perspectives from how PR and journalism helped Poland make the shift towards capitalism to the role education plays in influencing the two professions in Spain. It also includes an article by award-winning UK journalist, Nick Davies, who criticises the influence which he claims PR has in today’s media.
It also lists the top 100 crucial PR – related publications selected by top communications experts.
For more information, check the table of contents on their website.
This morning, we concluded the 3rd communicators blog breakfast meeting at the Geneva Press Club. Expert storyteller, consultant and coach, Sue Hollingsworth, entertained some 50 communicators with a very animated and interactive presentation about storytelling.
Unfortunately, time was scarce and many had to rush off to work. If you would like to get in touch with Sue, send us an email and we will send you her details.
We have added a few photos on our photo feed to the right of your screen…
Thank you again to Sue for her interesting presentation, to Nicole Voillat for making this possible, and to all of the participants who contributed to the discussion.
Any suggestions for future breakfast meetings are most welcome!
Patricia & Glenn
