@HelReynolds

🔸 I run @CommsCreatives: online courses and creativity training for #comms pros 🔸Tweeting comms insights & @CommsCartoons 🔸 I 💛 UNcommon sense 🔸 Cat lady

 Newport, Wales
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Joined January 2009
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THREAD: If the #comms profession had an advertising budget...
Digital sign in an airport. Text on comms creatives yellow background: Dear Colin in finance, using Plain English doesn't mean we're dumbing down.

ALT Digital sign in an airport. Text on comms creatives yellow background: Dear Colin in finance, using Plain English doesn't mean we're dumbing down.

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👀 Bookies have SLASHED the odds of 'The Fire Safety Dance' reaching Christmas number one from 33-1 to 20-1 just hours after the song was officially released. We're raising money for @firefighters999 kycker.ffm.to/firesd
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'Following rigorous consideration of all potential seasonal requirements, the key desired outcome for Christmas is yourself' ~ by Mariah Carey
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Shame she’s in the #imacelebrity2024 jungle. This feels like a case only Colleen Rooney can crack… reddit.com/r/AskUK/comments/…
Screenshot from Reddit. Text reads: House likely broken into. Why would they only take £20 worth of chocolate? Right. Night before last the strangest thing in my life occurred and I want your brilliant minds to show me a viable solution.. 1. bought a massive 2.5kg box of celebrations for Xmas period on Monday.. 2. eat 1 single celebration Tuesday night at 2130. (So 2.4999kg still exist) 2a) the 2.49kg of celebrations are now split between a big bowl on the table and the remaining 2kg or so are in a plastic bag loose on the side. 3) wake up 0630 Wednesday morning. EVERY. Single. Chocolate has gone. Vanished. No mess. No wrappers. No evidence. 4) there is zero evidence of animals. Rodents etc and it would have been a Herculean effort anyway.. 5) there is zero evidence of a break in doors all still locked from inside etc. 6) even if you go with human robbery. They didn't bother taking the £300 cash 3 foot away. Or the £2k MacBook 4 foot away. And they emptied the bag of

ALT Screenshot from Reddit. Text reads: House likely broken into. Why would they only take £20 worth of chocolate? Right. Night before last the strangest thing in my life occurred and I want your brilliant minds to show me a viable solution.. 1. bought a massive 2.5kg box of celebrations for Xmas period on Monday.. 2. eat 1 single celebration Tuesday night at 2130. (So 2.4999kg still exist) 2a) the 2.49kg of celebrations are now split between a big bowl on the table and the remaining 2kg or so are in a plastic bag loose on the side. 3) wake up 0630 Wednesday morning. EVERY. Single. Chocolate has gone. Vanished. No mess. No wrappers. No evidence. 4) there is zero evidence of animals. Rodents etc and it would have been a Herculean effort anyway.. 5) there is zero evidence of a break in doors all still locked from inside etc. 6) even if you go with human robbery. They didn't bother taking the £300 cash 3 foot away. Or the £2k MacBook 4 foot away. And they emptied the bag of

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Never, EVER underestimate the time it takes to get a simple comms task done
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Don't want to spend forever making videos for your channels? Want to produce more video content without hiring expensive production companies? Want practical tips and tricks to increase the effectiveness of your brand's video content? Coming up 👇 commscreatives.com/mastercla…
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Can you do some comms about this event we've got coming up? I've attached a photo you can use. Hope it's OK.
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"Thank you everyone for your comments on the draft. Here is the final version incorporating your edits."
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"Can you just make us a logo for this new project we've set up?"
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We're #Comms olympians! No wonder we're always knackered.
Cartoon called 'Comms Olympic Games' by @HelReynolds. Shows 8 squares: 'Delivering a message' (man in running gear sprinting to post an envelope in a postbox). 'Rolling out a project' (woman rolling a huge boulder). 'Launching a campaign' (man rides a rocket). 'Mopping up messes' (Person on ice skaters sweeping the ice on the floor). 'Putting out fires' (woman using a fire extinguisher) 'Spreading the word' (man lifts and stretches the word 'word'). 'Pitching stories' (woman running and throwing a book). 'Hitting targets' (woman doing archery).

ALT Cartoon called 'Comms Olympic Games' by @HelReynolds. Shows 8 squares: 'Delivering a message' (man in running gear sprinting to post an envelope in a postbox). 'Rolling out a project' (woman rolling a huge boulder). 'Launching a campaign' (man rides a rocket). 'Mopping up messes' (Person on ice skaters sweeping the ice on the floor). 'Putting out fires' (woman using a fire extinguisher) 'Spreading the word' (man lifts and stretches the word 'word'). 'Pitching stories' (woman running and throwing a book). 'Hitting targets' (woman doing archery).

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Let's do more of this
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In some jobs you get the tasks, do the tasks, then move on to the next to-do list. But in #comms, we have a never ending carousel of things we can, should and want to do. Loads of stuff in front of us, always moving! Things are constantly added to the belt. We do our best to pick off the most important tasks and deal with a few things at a time. And some tasks have to just stay on the belt and go round and round. It can be fun, but frantic sometimes. Have a little sit down and let the bags go round once in a while :-)
Cartoon shows an airport luggage conveyor belt with suitcases going around, and a sign on the wall that says: ‘Welcome to the comms conveyor belt, by HelReynolds’. Most suitcases have 'task' written on them and the front ones say: 'big deadline'; 'very fiddly task (takes longer than you think); and 'last minute request'. Person at the front holds a bag that says 'yet another task!!) and looks a bit overwhelmed as they stack their trolley with suitcases.

ALT Cartoon shows an airport luggage conveyor belt with suitcases going around, and a sign on the wall that says: ‘Welcome to the comms conveyor belt, by HelReynolds’. Most suitcases have 'task' written on them and the front ones say: 'big deadline'; 'very fiddly task (takes longer than you think); and 'last minute request'. Person at the front holds a bag that says 'yet another task!!) and looks a bit overwhelmed as they stack their trolley with suitcases.

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One of my all time favourite quotes. I scribbled it on paper for a slide in this month's @commscreatives #comms creativity course. Legendary tennis player, Arthur Ashe, said it in relation to how he achieved greatness in sport. It's a great way to approach work, learning and life.
My crappy handwriting on paper: ‘Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.’

ALT My crappy handwriting on paper: ‘Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.’

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Remember: YOU are the subject matter expert. Not them. If you experience self-doubt, anxiety or imposter syndrome- don't be scared to speak up. Your words have power- even when your voice shakes.
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If comms had its own advertising budget....
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It’s such a brilliant course, delivered by the social media legend @luanwise with a lovely group of super talented #comms pros like Rachel 🧠💫
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I’ve landed in Sydney for a week of comms chats and bringing the gospel of @commscreatives to Aus 😀 Lovely spending Sunday sightseeing and getting to know the other cool businesses on this @WelshGovernment trade mission. If you’re in comms and in town this week, and fancy a drink and chat after work, give me a shout 😀
Me (blonde white woman with red lippie and sunglasses) on a ferry to Manley with Jess (brunette in sunglasses) smiling like maniacs

ALT Me (blonde white woman with red lippie and sunglasses) on a ferry to Manley with Jess (brunette in sunglasses) smiling like maniacs

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Have a good day ☕️
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Inspired by real events
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Happy #comms Valentine’s
Cartoon. Man and woman look at each other with a love heart between them. Caption: Did you implement a robust crisis comms plan when you fell from heaven ?

ALT Cartoon. Man and woman look at each other with a love heart between them. Caption: Did you implement a robust crisis comms plan when you fell from heaven ?

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I found my original list of ideas for corny #comms jokes on Valentine’s 🤡🤦‍♀️
Comms chat-up lines upp... es: 1. "Did you implement a robust crisis comms plan when you fell from heaven? 2. Is you name social media measurement? 'Cause I should be doing you, I Th... 3. Are you an exhibitionist lobbyist? Because I want us to have public affairs. you ... 4. You must be a spin doctor because I want to take a proper gander at you /ell... 5. "Your branded t-shirt and fleece would look great on my bedroom floor" time... 7. Your story must be great, because you have your hooks in me you…. 8. Do you run regular evaluation reports? Because you made an impact on me 9. I like working in a PR agency but I would like us to move in-house me... 10. You must be a headline because I want you over my body. 11. DO you do propaganda? Because you got me in a spin. 10. Your audience must be huge, because you have lots of opportunity to see me

ALT Comms chat-up lines upp... es: 1. "Did you implement a robust crisis comms plan when you fell from heaven? 2. Is you name social media measurement? 'Cause I should be doing you, I Th... 3. Are you an exhibitionist lobbyist? Because I want us to have public affairs. you ... 4. You must be a spin doctor because I want to take a proper gander at you /ell... 5. "Your branded t-shirt and fleece would look great on my bedroom floor" time... 7. Your story must be great, because you have your hooks in me you…. 8. Do you run regular evaluation reports? Because you made an impact on me 9. I like working in a PR agency but I would like us to move in-house me... 10. You must be a headline because I want you over my body. 11. DO you do propaganda? Because you got me in a spin. 10. Your audience must be huge, because you have lots of opportunity to see me

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