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Don’t let the tail wag the dog | Talking Cobblers
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Comms strategy 101 →. Don’t let the tail wag the dog. Don’t let process wag strategy. Don’t let spreadsheets wag creativity. Don’t let reporting wag flexibility and responsiveness. Don’t let tomorrow determine the big picture. Don’t let minutiae get in the way of success. Head of Customer Engagement at Australian social analytics company DIGIVIZER, with a background in corporate public relations and marketing. I do what I do because I believe communications can make a difference. Comms strategy 101 →.
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Client work | Talking Cobblers
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Analysing the social web: mapping the Australian social universe. My primary work is now as part of the DIGIVIZER team. Now over three years old, DIGIVIZER is an Australian start-up company, the only Australian company using its own custom-built technology to find, match, retrieve, classify and analyse customer sentiments and comments on the social web, and then to match these back to customer databases. DIGIVIZER cuts away the complexity surrounding all of this, makes the connections, brings sharpness, ...
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Comms strategy 101 | Talking Cobblers
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Don’t let the tail wag the dog. Strategy more essential than ever in communications planning →. The start of the current round of US Presidential primaries reminds us of the impact strategic communications can have on any campaign, political or corporate. The benchmark, certainly in how social media were first engaged in a politically meaningful sense, remains Barack Obama’s first Presidential campaign, in both the primaries and the election itself, in long-ago 2008. And it’s the archetypal play fo...
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Why Talking Cobblers | Talking Cobblers
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Write a blog, they all said. Finally the cobbler soles his own shoes. Here it is. For those not used to English slang and vernacular, talking cobblers means talking nonsense. Of course, this blog aims not to! In the two years that I’ve been publishing these posts, the scope of my commentary has broadened. Influence relations, social media, the shorter news cycle, the fall-out of the media scandals in the UK in particular, have all shaped my comments here and of course the broader conversation. Recent Twe...
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A history lesson | Talking Cobblers
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Always communicate, always explain, never under-estimate your audience. Don’t let the tail wag the dog →. This from veteran and iconic broadcaster Edward Murrow, former director of the United States Information Agency:. 8220;To be persuasive, we must be believable; to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.”. Picture source: http:/ www-tc.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/files/2008/09/286 murrow intro.jpg. View all posts by alansmithoz →. This entry was posted in General.
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Always communicate, always explain, never under-estimate your audience | Talking Cobblers
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Book review: What To Do When It’s Your Turn (and it’s always your turn), by Seth Godin. A history lesson →. Always communicate, always explain, never under-estimate your audience. Communications, in all forms, across all channels, glue everything together: alliances, customers, voters, partnerships, employees, shareholders. Elections. One argument made against the former Labor Government at Federal and State levels was lack of clarity around important policies that were difficult to explain. They require...
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alansmithoz | Talking Cobblers
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Head of Customer Engagement at Australian social analytics company DIGIVIZER, with a background in corporate public relations and marketing. I do what I do because I believe communications can make a difference. Yes, it’s all about influence – and data. The hunting of the Snark. Malcolm Turnbull’s Crazy Ivan. Today’s announcement by Australia’s Prime Minister to recall both the Australian Senate and the House of Representatives, and serve an ultimatum – pass legislation or witness a dou...Disclosure: I&#...
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Talking Cobblers | Page 2
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Newer posts →. Book review: Shel Israel’s Lethal Generosity. Shel Israel’s latest book (. Lethal Generosity – Contextual Technology and the Competitive Edge. Builds on his earlier collaboration with Robert Scoble (. Age of Context: Mobile, Sensors, Data and the Future of Privacy. Which I’ve not yet read) but takes a more personal walk towards the near future. He does so with some conviction. For a CEO or CMO seeking a manageable narrative in business terms, this is a useful book. From on-line optometrist...
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