An occasional and inconsistent commentary on people, politics, communications, music, and technology.

Telling a story from the other side of the world with Storify

Posted: July 24th, 2011 | Author: | Filed under: Communications, Online | Tags: , | No Comments »

We hold a huge, global, annual competition each year at CIMA called the Global Business Challenge. There are several rounds of the competition, culminating in country finals, and then the global final.

This year’s global final is in Chengdu, China. Our team on the ground have been providing a constant stream of social media updates, which my team and I have been gathering, editing, and adding to over the weekend in a Cover it Live embedded on our website and on Facebook. Read the rest of this entry »


Using YouTube and a Flip HD for internal communications

Posted: July 25th, 2010 | Author: | Filed under: Communications | Tags: | 1 Comment »

The introduction of YouTube’s unlisted option really makes it a useful platform for those  internal communications videos where security through obscurity (you don’t know where the video is unless you know the URL) is enough.

At CIMA we have a number of UK homeworkers and staff in global offices who can sometimes miss out on HQ’s successes (and vice-versa). This video was one of our first attempts to use a Flip Mino HD camera to go behind the scenes at an event, there’s clearly work to do to get better, but I think the Flip has huge potential as an internal comms tool.

I filmed the main event on our Sony HVR-A1E camera (purchased with the aid of the excellent and knowledgable sales team at Calumet), and you can see those videos on my video page.

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