For the latest profile in the Canberra Communications Professional Series, I spoke to Chris Wagner from TalkForce Media. A bit more about Chris… Chris spent two decades forging a successful career in communications and media management before joining Talkforce Media…
Canberra Communications Professional Series: Eleanor Ashton
Eleanor Ashton is Assistant Director, strategic communication and regional delivery team, Inland Rail at the Department of Infrastructure. El is one of the most passionate people I have ever met. She is passionate about climate change, politics, hiking, communications, and…
Canberra Communications Professional Series: Jo White
Jo White is the Communications Manager at The Australian National University. She is also a friend, ex-colleague and client. Jo is one of the best media minds I have ever met and is politically astute (obsessed?). I first met Jo…
Canberra Communications Professional series: Victoria Taylor
Why I work in communications
I have been asked more times than I can remember — why do you keep doing it? I work in a profession that can be relentless, where it can feel like you are moving from one urgent thing to the…
Canberra Communications Professionals series: Erin Chancellor
For the third edition of the Canberra Communications Professionals Series, I spoke to Erin Chancellor. Erin is currently a Strategic Communications Advisor at Evoenergy. I love the story of how I met Erin. A few years ago, Erin called me…
Communications: going above and beyond
Communications is a hard gig. Everyone thinks they can do it – it’s just writing. It is often an undervalued service in an organisation. You can be doing a good job and still getting criticised every day. Here is a…
Canberra Communications Professional Series: Sally-Anne Clark
For the second edition of the Canberra Communications Professionals Series, I spoke to Sally-Anne Clark. Sally-Anne is the Senior Director, Content for the ACT Government Environment, Planning and Sustainable Development Directorate. Sally-Anne brings a different perspective to this weeks’ edition.…
Adapting your message to your audience
We are doing some renovations at the moment. At the best of times renovations can be stressful. There are a lot of details to work through, and without fail things pop up during the build that you don’t expect. To…
What does demonstrating value mean?
Share Recently, I have been contemplating why I think it’s so important to be able to demonstrate value when working in communications. It is the purpose of my business but I realised I have never really articulated what it means…