Tag: Freelance consultant

Four years on

Wow, not sure where they went, but the last few years have been a heady mix of my children growing older and starting school, and my new-found independence as a freelance comms professional. August is a special...

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Internal Communications Insight

Back in November, Denise Cox from Newsweaver invited me to answer a few questions about my insight on internal communication. Here’s the article: In an ongoing series, I invite internal communications...

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Three years on

It’s my third anniversary of working for myself this August. It’s been an exciting time and I’ve learned a lot freelancing from my home office in Bournemouth. I posted a while ago about three little...

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What is a communication strategy?

So often we can get caught up writing the editorial, tweeting, designing websites, creating events or any one of the miriad of tactics available to a communication professional, we can forget the importance...

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Beautiful questions

It was raining. That, combined with the bad traffic out of Bournemouth meant I was running late to get to Southampton. I hate being late. It wasn’t a beautiful evening. But it became more enjoyable....

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Winning awards

I promised I’d write about the #insidestory awards for internal communication back in my last blog post in February. It was an extremely busy month, culminating in the awards ceremony on 28th February....

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Learning more

One of my three things for 2013 was to trust my instinct. I’ve been freelancing in Bournemouth for a little over two years now and as a qualified professional with lots of different experience from...

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Pop-up PR and a pint

Last year I created ‘Pop-up PR and a pint’, a chance for anyone working in comms and PR across Dorset to meet and share ideas, challenges and learning. I’m planning to do more later this...

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Why?

Why, is one of my favourite words. Why? Because, it’s small, and yet so powerful. It’s a word we use effortlessly as a child. My two children are relentless in their questioning. Why this,...

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