From humble beginnings five years ago, Flow Communications heads into 2010 with a staff of 30 based in South Africa’s three metropolitan regions: Johannesburg, Cape Town and Durban.
The company is loosely divided into three divisions: programming, e-marketing and writing, and design. Since the work Flow does is so closely integrated due to online advances, we believe we will strengthen our position as an integrated communications provider, by equipping staff with useful and relevant new skills related to their current positions within Flow.
By launching Flow School, Flow Communications will be in an even stronger position to provide clients with cutting-edge communications solutions.
The Flow School concept emerged from our 2010 management strategy meeting, where it was agreed, in the interests of staff development and providing clients with a holistic service, that Flow staff would benefit by sharing their skills with their colleagues.
So it was with an air of excitement that staff armed themselves with notebooks and pens and gathered for the inaugural session of Flow School on Friday 26 March.
The idea was for various individuals to present half-hour workshops on topics that would be of relevance to fellow Flow Stars. With this in mind, the first three such “lessons” were presented to a rapt audience.
Richard Frank presented “An introduction to Google docs”, Richard and Tara presented “Web-based emailers” and Stephen Frank gave a more tech-centred presentation on the “back end” or the vital html coding that creates emails and newsletters.
Each presentation was well received and the positive response augurs well for future Flow School workshops.
The best news from a client’s perspective is that due to numerous requests, the Flow School concept is to be expanded to cater for clients at a series of dedicated client workshops. Watch this space for news of the workshop programme!
The first two workshops will be “Google to the max” on 18 May 2010 and “Introduction to social networking - twitter, flickr and a bit about facebook” on 01 June 2010.