I love April Fool's Day. It caters to my two favorite audiences: the gullible and the paranoid.
When I did corporate communications full time, I always tried to have some fun with April Fool's Day. Never at any one particular person's expense but enough that it would make me giggle.
At one company, I passed around a memo from the Information Technology Business Service (ITBS) Department requesting that all mouse balls be turned in to be cleaned and calibrated. Most got the joke, but it was funnier to see people walking down the halls holding their mouse balls.
I'm also a big fan of publishing April Fool's newsletters and intranets. It's just good clean fun. (And important to note that I always got executive approval beforehand.) Corporate communicators tend to get beat on so this was the one day to really have some fun and be creative with employee communications.
I'd love to see or hear examples of April Fool's content that anybody created for their digital signage network.
I recently learned that the BBC actually has a sense of humore and puts out an April Fool's video news story. This one is from a few year's back about a special colony of penguins. Funny but also harmless. So have some fun today.
When I did corporate communications full time, I always tried to have some fun with April Fool's Day. Never at any one particular person's expense but enough that it would make me giggle.
At one company, I passed around a memo from the Information Technology Business Service (ITBS) Department requesting that all mouse balls be turned in to be cleaned and calibrated. Most got the joke, but it was funnier to see people walking down the halls holding their mouse balls.
I'm also a big fan of publishing April Fool's newsletters and intranets. It's just good clean fun. (And important to note that I always got executive approval beforehand.) Corporate communicators tend to get beat on so this was the one day to really have some fun and be creative with employee communications.
I'd love to see or hear examples of April Fool's content that anybody created for their digital signage network.
I recently learned that the BBC actually has a sense of humore and puts out an April Fool's video news story. This one is from a few year's back about a special colony of penguins. Funny but also harmless. So have some fun today.
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