Top holiday gift ideas for internal communication professionals #icgifts

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Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Presents for Internal Communication professionals'Tis the season of giving. But do you have that hard-to-buy-for employee communicator in your life and are struggling with what to get them for Christmas?

To help you with ideas, I reached out to several of my employee communication friends on Twitter to see what they thought every communicator needs on his or her Christmas list. Some were serious. But most were not. 

Dana Leeson A suit of armor to protect you when delivering honest feedback to the CEO about their approach to an employee briefing to deflecting missile launched laptops when you remove the coveted cafeteria menu from the intranet. 


Colleen Hawk An extra large bottle of aspirin, an additional two hours in the day, and clients who don't try to do your job.


Paul Barton Starbucks gift card (caffeine is our lifeblood), kitchen sink (we do everything), hat rack (we wear many hats), & a CPR course (we bring dead copy to life). 


Steve Crescenzo The Kodak Zi6 HD Pocket Video Camera with a microphone and cord for better audio. 


Rachel Miller Mine would be scissors to cut through red tape & silos to enable conversations to happen. That or a fabulous pair of Jimmy Choos!


Sean Williams Three things: subscriptions to Melcrum's IC Hub & Strategic Communications Management magazine, plus a course in knowledge management.


Christy Loerzel Advil. No really - a case for iPad/old school notebook. Nice pens and notebooks rate with me!


Dave Meyer Evernote Premium for papers (and a Fujitsu Scansnap to import their papers)


Jenni Wheller Honesty... So we can understand more and support our colleagues better


Christopher Swan I'd go with the external communications experience. Consumer marketing and social features can translate to the internal world. Stretch your ideas!


Jeremy Schultz I recently bought the Tascam DR-05 digital recorder…light years better than my old one.


If you have your own gift idea, please share it in the comments and I'll add them to the list. Or better yet, post them on Twitter with the hashtag #icgifts. 

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