From the monthly archives:

April 2010

The Foreign Office blunder – who allowed a culture of joke emails?

by Victoria Tomlinson April 25, 2010
The Foreign Office blunder – who allowed a culture of joke emails?

The BBC has this morning reported, “The Foreign Office has apologised for a ‘foolish’ document which suggested the Pope’s visit to the UK could be marked by the launch of ‘Benedict’ condoms.”
It turns out this was the result of a brainstorm in the Foreign Office as to what the ideal papal visit would look like. [...]

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Learning from Linkedin

by Victoria Tomlinson April 20, 2010
Learning from Linkedin

A lot of our clients don’t ‘get’ Linkedin.  They are great networkers, have a far larger contact book than they will ever put onto Linkedin and are regularly in touch with their contacts.
What could they get from Linkedin?
One of the answers is interesting research.  Let’s look at two examples

Joining Linkedin groups

For me, Linkedin started to [...]

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Julie and Julia

by Victoria Tomlinson April 6, 2010
Julie and Julia

What do you do on a miserable, cold Bank Holiday weekend?  Too wet to garden, I went self-indulgent and rented out the films I never got to see in the cinema.
Settling down to Julie and Julia, I realised a key theme of the film was that of blogger Julie Powell.  I’ve been thinking what lessons [...]

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The Catholic Church – a lesson in (poor) crisis communications

by Victoria Tomlinson April 4, 2010
The Catholic Church – a lesson in (poor) crisis communications

The Guardian this weekend reports “The archbishop of Canterbury has said the Catholic church in Ireland has lost “all credibility” because of its poor handling of the scandal of paedophile priests.”
Two weeks ago the pope made an unprecedented move and issued a letter of apology to Irish Catholics.  No doubt he thought this would silence the [...]

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