Category

Title

Main Link

Summary

UK Services

Gatehouse Internal Communication

Gatehouse Internal communication group work with you to shape your Culture to improve the way your employees, managers and leaders communicate; and to mobilise your people behind change.
 

Blogs

Rules of disclosure for blogs

http://commons.iabc.com/employee/
2006/03/29/internal-blogging
-and-the-rules-of-disclosure-
an-irreconcilable-difference/

Corporate

Nokia’s Internal Communications Focus

http://www.nokia.co.uk
/nokia/0,,34230,00.html

Basic outline of Nokia’s internal communications program.

Directory

Communitelligence.com

http://www.communitelligence.com
/cdps/majorcat.cfm?
cid=20&ma
j=Internal%20Communications

Directory of internal communications resources, mostly consultants.

Directory

Marketing Tool

www.marketingtool.com

Directory of communications companies

General

Basics in Internal Organizational Communications
by Carter McNamara, MBA, PhD

http://www.managementhelp.org
/mrktng/org_cmm.htm

Not a bad refresher on the basics of internal communications; can serve as foundation for education for staff members with no professional experience or for managers in other areas.

General

Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internal
_communications

Basic definition with some do’s and don’ts.

General

Melcrum

www.melcrum.com

Fairly robust commercial site with loads of information for a price. Some information is available for free.

General

Guidelines for Communications

http://www.colby-sawyer.edu/assets/pdf/csc_internal_
communications.pdf

General

Gossip as an employee communications strategy

http://www.edelman.com
/speak_up/empeng/
archives/2005/08
/gossip_as_an_em.html

Short article with a few insights on the value of gossip and using administrative assistants as well as front line managers to get the message out.

Government

CIA’s Commitment to Employee Communications

http://www.cia.gov/cia/public_affairs
/employee.html

Now that must be a challenging job trying to squeeze out information.

Jobs

Indeed.Com

http://www.indeed.com/jobs?q=
internal+communications&l=&radius=

Fairly comprehensive and up-to-date job search tool. Can be narrowed by geography and job type (director, publications, etc.)

Jobs

Exec-appointments.com

http://www.exec-appointments.com
/index/internal-communications-jobs.asp

Mostly higher-level jobs, mostly in the UK

Jobs

IABC Jobs site

http://jobs.iabc.com/home/
index.cfm?site_id=65

One of the best listings of open internal and external communications positions

Membership Organization

PRSA

http://www.prsa.org/_Resources
/Topic/internal.asp?ident=topic9

PRSA offers some internal/employee communications information online, but most is available only to members.

News

Internal communication at a dead end

http://www.corporateblogging.info
/2005/06/internal-communication-at-dead-end.asp

Interesting results of survey of 12,000 employees in 24 Scandinavian companies about internal communications.

Reference

Conference Board

http://www.conference-board.org/

Many top-notch research reports on topics spanning from: communications during a merger to

Research

Ark Group

http://www.ark-group.com
/home/ic/pubs.asp

UK-based communication consultant offering number of publications that cover many different communications topics, including intranets and portals. No experience with them but they have a clean Web site, which is more than most.

Strategy

Sheffield Hallam University

http://www.shu.ac.uk/services/
marketing/ic_frame.doc

Internal strategic communications  plan for university.

Survey Tool

Pollstream: where opinion becomes action

http://www.pollstream.com/ic.html

Survey tool with branching capability.