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		<title>Letting Employees Blog, Tweet, and Network for the Company: Yes or No?</title>
		<link>http://cutthroughcommunications.wordpress.com/2009/08/26/letting-employees-blog-tweet-and-network-for-the-company-yes-or-no/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:04:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>paulanz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I ran across an interesting blog post a few days ago by Jeremy Robert, titled &#8220;Internal Communications- Freedom of Speech? You cannot be serious!&#8221; In it Jeremy says he cannot understand companies like Coke and Ford letting their employees loose in social media channels &#8211; they&#8217;re planning to let them talk on behalf of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cutthroughcommunications.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3509518&amp;post=359&amp;subd=cutthroughcommunications&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Corporate Email Subject Line: &#8220;Please read: You have been fired.&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://cutthroughcommunications.wordpress.com/2009/08/24/all-corporate-emails/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 22:34:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>paulanz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[corporate communications]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Check out this great post I just ran across at &#8220;General Smelectric&#8221;, a spoof blog as far as I can tell.  A funny example of extreme internal spam. A lot of it rings true&#8230; Recent research has shown that out of 300,000+ employees: 95% do not read this email 33% automatically filter it into a folder [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cutthroughcommunications.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3509518&amp;post=353&amp;subd=cutthroughcommunications&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Join Us: Protect Employees from Internal Spam</title>
		<link>http://cutthroughcommunications.wordpress.com/2009/08/17/join-us-protect-employees-from-internal-spam/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 21:27:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>paulanz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Please join us this Thursday for a 30-minute webinar to discuss how to protect employees from internally-generated email noise and irrelevancies. I commented a few weeks ago here, wondering why internal communicators don&#8217;t spend more time protecting employees from internal spam and got some good feedback, which we wanted to share! This webinar will explore [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cutthroughcommunications.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3509518&amp;post=347&amp;subd=cutthroughcommunications&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Creating Custom Access for Administrators: Specifying by Target Group, Campaign, SnapComms Tool</title>
		<link>http://cutthroughcommunications.wordpress.com/2009/08/07/creating-custom-access-for-administrators-specifying-by-target-group-campaign-snapcomms-tool/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 22:17:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>paulanz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[communications technology]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[employee communications software]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Recently the Content Manager controls have been updated &#8211; they now provide Master Administrators 3 ways to limit sub-Administrator&#8217;s rights: by Targeting Group, by Campaign Folder, and by SnapComms Tool.  Here&#8217;s what this looks like: 1. Targeting Groups.  Master Admins can access any Administrator&#8217;s profile and specify which Targeting Groups they will be allowed to use when sending [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cutthroughcommunications.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3509518&amp;post=333&amp;subd=cutthroughcommunications&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>CEO Connects with Employees by Scrolling &#8216;Tweets&#8217; Onscreen</title>
		<link>http://cutthroughcommunications.wordpress.com/2009/08/05/ceo-connects-with-employees-by-scrolling-tweets-onscreen/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 20:48:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>paulanz</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.cutthroughcommunications.com/?p=299</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A global company based in the UK is using the SnapTicker to broadcast internal &#8216;tweets&#8217; twice a day from the CEO, according to Chris Leonard, one of the founders of the SnapComms software company.  We met up in June at the IABC World Conference in San Francisco, and he told me the story: The company [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cutthroughcommunications.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3509518&amp;post=299&amp;subd=cutthroughcommunications&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Melcrum&#8217;s SCM Summit Sept 09: Extra Discount</title>
		<link>http://cutthroughcommunications.wordpress.com/2009/07/16/melcrums-scm-summit-sept-09-extra-discount/</link>
		<comments>http://cutthroughcommunications.wordpress.com/2009/07/16/melcrums-scm-summit-sept-09-extra-discount/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 15:30:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>paulanz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[corporate communications]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[SnapComms, the software company behind the Snap Messaging Tools for employee comms which we market in the U.S., are a Global Sponsor this year for Melcrum. As their U.S. partner, we&#8217;re able to extend to our network and customers in North America a 25% discount on registration for the upcoming Melcrum Strategic Communication Management Summit (Chicago, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cutthroughcommunications.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3509518&amp;post=296&amp;subd=cutthroughcommunications&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Protecting Employees from Internal Spam &#8211; Who&#8217;s Doing it?</title>
		<link>http://cutthroughcommunications.wordpress.com/2009/07/14/protecting-employees-from-internal-spam-whos-doing-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 18:12:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>paulanz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[corporate communications]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Doesn&#8217;t it make sense for the Internal Communications function to take on the role of protecting employees from internal spam and managing communication overload?  So why isn&#8217;t it happening? The lack of case studies, best practice writings, combined with the number of Communicators who&#8217;ve told me that they struggle to get employee&#8217;s attention due to internal overload, makes me think [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cutthroughcommunications.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3509518&amp;post=287&amp;subd=cutthroughcommunications&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Power of Visuals</title>
		<link>http://cutthroughcommunications.wordpress.com/2009/07/10/the-power-of-visuals/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 19:47:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>paulanz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[corporate communications]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[What do your internal broadcast messages (probably email)  look like?  Do they: Use color? Have a consistent structure? Make the Call-to-Action Clear? One of the suggestions I made in a recent article published by CW Bulletin (IABC) on Ways to use Visuals in Everyday Communications was: use Layout, Color and Icons to provide visual cues and make it easier for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cutthroughcommunications.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3509518&amp;post=270&amp;subd=cutthroughcommunications&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Communicators Blamed for Employee Inaction</title>
		<link>http://cutthroughcommunications.wordpress.com/2009/06/29/communicators-blamed4employee-inaction/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 22:37:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>paulanz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[corporate communications]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A recent article on Ragan.com about &#8220;Why Employees Don&#8217;t Read Your Emails &#8211; and What to Do About it&#8221; was very enlightening, not for its familiar recommendations, but for the reader comments:  Several corporate communicators wrote in with stories about how they were blamed by Management for a lack of employee response, despite sending several quality emails out [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cutthroughcommunications.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3509518&amp;post=259&amp;subd=cutthroughcommunications&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>IABC &#8217;09: Tuesday&#8217;s Employee Comms Panel</title>
		<link>http://cutthroughcommunications.wordpress.com/2009/06/15/iabc-09-tuesdays-employee-comms-panel/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 06:56:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>paulanz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It's going to be a massive task to win back trust of employees once things have moved on. What are communicators going to do to re-engage the employees who are left after the cuts and restructures?<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cutthroughcommunications.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3509518&amp;post=242&amp;subd=cutthroughcommunications&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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