Having someone to bounce ideas back and forth with…colleagues who know what you’re going through who can offer ideas and assistance…tools and advice on best practices. Internal communications professionals are now being offered a means of staying up-to-date without finding, paying for and flying to distant conferences – The Hub.
Melcrum, a research and information company focusing on best practices, has just introduced The Hub, for Internal Communicators. The following list of resources is clipped from their website:
WHAT THE HUB GIVES YOU:
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Best-practice advice and tips
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“How to” guides
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Training resources
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Downloadable tools and templates
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Ask the expert clinics
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Discussion forum
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Weekly e-update
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News and analysis
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People moves and jobs
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Vendor directory
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They’re offering a 7 day free trial of their service, so I decided to check it out. The information and articles are thorough and detailed. For instance, an article on “Five Steps to Strategy Planning” provides a detailed framework for pulling together a collaborative team, asking the hard questions, clarifying values, structuring plans and determining the best ways to implement the plan.
The site is clearly positioned as an aide to professionals already in the field, to keep them professionally current. It looks to me that it will help to do that (it’s not a crib sheet for the uninitiated), and I found the most useful thing for me was seeing a structure, organization and processes that I can use in working through an issue or a problem.
Try it – and let me know what you think. Has it helped you? If so, how did it help you work through a particular issue? $395 doesn’t buy a lot in terms of education and resources, but is The Hub worth it? I think so, but you tell me.
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