I’m an internal comms geek. So when I went to Google’s London HQ this week I was really surprised that their internal comms people favour the old school poster-in-toilet approach.
Proof positive that even in the most tech-savvy of environments you still need traditional print and face-to-face internal comms channels.
But in the loo? Is that an appropriate environment to be advertising in? Internal communicators are pretty split on the issue.
More on GoogleLocalGov soon.
2 responses so far ↓
Martin Black // August 18, 2009 at 2:12 pm |
The loo is an excellent place for internal comms, content will be actually read, unlike the council magazine which tends to get tossed into the recycling bin after a cursory flick through.
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