The Papakōwhai shared path construction project in Porirua was about more than just providing a nice wide path and some pedestrian crossings. It was about connecting communities by linking together schools, parks and public transport and filling a gap in the national Te Araroa trail.
Porirua Has Talent is the obvious highlight of 2024 for me. Run for the first time this year the event provided a platform for Porirua tamariki and rangatahi to shine. I put my hand up to help event manager Tania Carr (think Real Talk), to project manage the event.
We’ve just been working on a comms and marketing revamp for one of my favourite clients – Partners Porirua. A lot has changed since we started working with this not-for-profit organisation in 2015 - check out how we've revamped their comms and marketing acitivies to suit the 2023 environment.
Creating content is easier than you think with some great tools and ideas to help get you going. Before you put pen to paper (or fingers to the keyboard) think about the problem you are trying to solve, who you're solving it for and how they will get the information. That's the hard part done - now you can start to create your great content!
When everyone started talking about ChatGPT recently I thought I better find out more. After all, if the robots are going to take over our jobs, we should check out the competition and maybe even make friends with said robots.
Getting things done on time and on budget is a real stumbling block for many of our clients. They’ve got lots of ideas to improve their comms and marketing activities, to work smarter, and to use technology to gain efficiencies. But they don’t know where to start and they get distracted by their core business. Over the years we’ve finetuned our project management skills so that you can relax and know you’re in safe hands.
Writing a blog can be difficult enough at the best of times. The four free tools that I love using include a thesaurus, a te reo macron inserter, a free photo library and a photo resizing tool. I'll talk you through these tools and show you how to make them work for you.
In a recent community engagement exercise we moved everything online to Zoom. That’s because the country was in the ‘red traffic light’ Covid setting making in-person engagement difficult. Here are some of the pros and cons to engaging online and top tips to get the most out of your sessions.
We’ve all worked in those places where doors are shut, secret conversations are held, and no one knows what’s really going on. Morale is low, everyone is suspicious and they’re all just looking out for number one. Yes, there are times for confidential conversations and yes there are instances where not everyone needs to know everything. But for a company or organisation to thrive conversations need to take place and communication needs to be clear, concise and timely.
To get the most out of investing in your case study you’ll want to repurpose the content in as many ways as possible. This will also help ensure your case study is ultimately seen by more of the people you are wanting to connect with.That means thinking about the different communication channels you use and how you can repackage your case study to get as much mileage as possible.