Category: Communications
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Where do your ideas come from?
It’s a question that can stop us in our tracks. In the hustle and bustle of daily life, where every task feels like it’s tied to an ever-growing (and never completed) to-do list, it can be hard to find time to pause and reflect. Yet, it’s often in these moments of stillness that our best
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All the colours remind me of you
Writing a post like this is never easy but I’ll do my best. Several weeks ago, I was one of the many that knew nothing about the Northern Lights paying the UK a visit. I had turned in, oblivious that anything interesting would be going on in the sky and woke up to endless photos
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Words to use more in 2024
Another year has gone by and, as always, I’ve been keeping an ear out for words that I’ve found appealing – whether ancient, new or previously unknown to me. Of course, there are always the official words of the year. Oxford University Press opted for “rizz” – a shortening of charisma, pertaining to someone’s ability to
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To meme, or not to meme
Social media. WhatsApp. Text. Email. Zoom. Skype. Teams and the inevitable “you’re on mute”. We have more ways to connect with one another than ever before. This freedom (or perhaps lack of it), has been driven by improving technology. In the western world, most of us carry this technology in our pockets – a generous
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You’re punbelievable! Puns – culture, marketing, groaning
Ah puns. They have been dividing opinion for a long, long time. No matter how refined your sense of humour may be, I believe there is always space for a little punnery. Whether they are in the realm of a dad joke (cue the odd eyeroll), or something a little more unique, puns have a
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Jargon, babble and balderdash
It’s 8.30pm on a Monday. You’ve just sat down for dinner after a long day at work and taking care of all those other life issues that pop up unannounced – boiler giving up, the cat letting a live mouse loose in the house, clearing up that broken glass that you skillfully elbowed off your
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Heroes, storytelling and marketing
We are all storytellers. Throughout history and across the world, we have told stories of great heroes, daring deeds, magic, love, gods and adventures far from home.Through these stories, we can learn about the morals of the cultures that they stem from and how they were used to promote shared values. After all, a shared
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