by Deborah | Nov 24, 2020 | Behaviour, Communications, Content, Copywriting, Crisis management, Customer service, Language, Perception, Tone of voice
I do like the phrase ‘reading the room’. Sometimes I can’t put my finger on why some words and phrases sound just perfect and others grate. What does reading the room mean though? And what does it mean to you? Reading the room to me is about understanding...
by Deborah | Oct 8, 2020 | Behaviour, Branding, Communications, Content, Copywriting, Crisis management, Customer service, Digital, Facebook, Perception, PR, Social media, Twitter
Does your business have a social media presence? How many people have access? Do you remember to revoke their access/change passwords when someone leaves? How much training have they had? Are your brand guidelines documented in an accessible and easy to read format?...
by Deborah | Aug 26, 2020 | Behaviour, Ethics, Perception, PR
I’ve been having moments of optimism recently. I know! Strange times, unprecedented, yadda yadda, but also, we are now in a period of intense and rapid change. Once we are out of the other side of this, what will we keep hold of and what will we ditch? Who knows. But...
by Deborah | Apr 17, 2020 | Behaviour, Communications, Content, Crisis management, Language, Perception, Social media, Twitter
I know I bang on about plain English, direct communications and making things simple but this situation we are in now – a global public health pandemic – reinforces this five hundredfold. The situation is a conspiracy theorists wet dream. I’d like to think I...
by Deborah | Sep 9, 2019 | Behaviour, Communications, Content, Crisis management, Perception, Twitter
What do the words grab bag mean to you? My first thought is a giant bag of crisps or sweets placed by the till in a shop. Just me? On Sunday (8 September) tweets started to appear using #grabbag. A competition to win a giant bag of crisps? Nope. They were tweets from...
by Deborah | Aug 30, 2018 | Communications, Content, Copywriting, Perception, Twitter
I saw an online ad today for an upcoming event. A charity do, for a worthy cause, with a celeb host. The host’s name was spelled wrong. My finger hovered over telling them and quickly hovered away. “Don’t be that person” my inner pedant voice said. Experience tells me...
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