Impactful communications with local communities require a strategy that is well-thought-out. Your community communications strategy must consider audiences, channel and timing of message delivery. Tailoring messages to meet the specific needs, issues and concerns will be crucial for building trust and understanding. Onsite community managers ensure cultural nuances of the community are correctly prioritised. Thorough…
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How to use community communications to help your business
When is a good moment to go back to first principles? When did you last review how your community audiences are hearing you and your approach to community communication? Good, planned and timely communications build trust and broaden understanding. By keeping people informed about a project’s plans, purpose and the actions that are required to…
Getting ESG right is good for you
Next week’s Mining Indaba in Cape Town will be an opportunity for miners to share best practice and news of corporate progress. I hope these conversations take note and reflect the interesting reports on the positive impact strong ESG practices are having on operational and stock performance. This weekend the Mining Journal highlighted these trends…
Disinformation, foreign state interference and local communities (2)
Part 2 – divide and conquer The COVID-19 pandemic opened a lid on today’s information environment. For the first time many people became aware of the breadth of conspiracies and disinformation – often aired by armchair pundits but countless times initiated by malign foreign state actors[1]. With the pandemic lifting the lid we could see the…
Disinformation, foreign state interference and local communities
Part 1 – An Introduction – two worlds colliding The commitments to NetZero carbon economies made at COP26 was a major step down the road of developing our future economies. At varying speeds of acceleration, we will see the major industrial nations take the necessary steps to achieve the Zero Carbon objectives, with other nations…
Building a Communications Strategy
Working in an environment where your local communities matter means you need an active communications programme that reaches key target audiences and has an impact in those communities. Yesterday TCCS Founder, Giles Bancroft, ran the first of three communication capacity building sessions in partnership with the Shared Endeavour Fund. These are designed to help local…
CVE Workshop for Mayor of London
With the launch of TCCS imminent, we were delighted to run a communications workshop at a daylong conference for civil society organisations supported by the Shared Endeavour Fund.
TCCS at the Mines and Money Conference
ESG was the hot topic at Mines and Money 2021 and our attendance vindicated our view that Environment, Social and Governance was something mining needed to take seriously and get on top of.
TCCS launches!
We are hugely excited to be launching The Community Communications Service. It will help companies save money AND improve their societal credibility.