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Essential AI insights from Q2 25

By Eve Michell 07/24/2025

1. UK science teachers using GenAI reduce lesson planning time by 31% A study comparing GenAI user and non-GenAI user groups found that ChatGPT-assisted teachers saved an average of 25.3…

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Written By Eve Michell24/07/2025
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Unlock your creativity – how to think like Bill Gates and Thomas Edison 

By Tony Hallett 10/14/2024

I made a throwaway comment under one of our company LinkedIn posts the other day and someone challenged me on it.  I said I’d “never come across many professional writers…

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Written By Tony Hallett14/10/2024
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Never stop caring about style and grammar – here’s why

By Tony Hallett 07/30/2024

If we’re so strategic about content – about content contributing to the success of your company, team and career – then why do we sometimes harp on about commas and…

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Written By Tony Hallett30/07/2024
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Plagiarism Week – why?

By Tony Hallett 05/20/2024

I’ve seen people lose their careers because of plagiarism. And I’ve seen companies lose reputation and revenue. That’s why we care at this agency. Stepping back a bit, I understand…

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Written By Tony Hallett20/05/2024
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Content pollution: Tips for a greener content climate

By Zoe McNeill 01/29/2024

Attention is a finite resource. It’s critical to engagement and becoming harder to capture. Whether you believe the claims of shrinking attention spans, there is an appetite for shorter, punchier…

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Written By Zoe McNeill29/01/2024
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Around the world in seven words

By Andrew Smith 12/04/2023

Around the world in seven words The are many reasons to sign up to the Collective Content newsletter, which you can do here. One of them is the Word, or…

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Written By Andrew Smith04/12/2023
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What does generative AI mean for content marketing?

By Aled Herbert 06/07/2023

We have been watching with amazement the speed at which generative AI has developed and affected so many areas of our lives and our work. While AI has enormous potential…

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Written By Aled Herbert07/06/2023
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Lessons from a half-empty seminar room: What content marketers can learn from poetry

By Eve Michell 11/01/2022

As a student in Canterbury, the city that inspired the eponymous title of Chaucer’s most famous verses, I discovered a deep and fulfilling love for poetry: reading it, writing it…

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Written By Eve Michell01/11/2022
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11 essential content marketing links from Q2 21

By Tony Hallett 07/01/2021

1. No one likes ads. So let’s do something about it. When Getty Images recently bought stock imagery wunderkind Unsplash, some people were less than happy. But could initiatives like…

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Written By Tony Hallett01/07/2021
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Covid, career search and Collective Content

By Eve Michell 12/22/2020

July 2020: Graduating from Zoomiversity 2020 has been a remarkably virtual year. Due to the pandemic, my final university classes took place over Zoom rather than in lecture halls, and…

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Written By Eve Michell22/12/2020
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Fighting ‘barbarism’ in content marketing

By Shirley Siluk 09/25/2019

As a content marketer, what’s your job? Everyone in the field will likely have their own unique answer to that question. But, to distill it down to the essentials, ‘content…

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Written By Shirley Siluk25/09/2019
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Getting to know you: Why we love working on retainer

By Aled Herbert 07/23/2019

It probably won’t come as a big surprise if we told you we love to write. As former journalists we like a good story. As a content marketing agency, we…

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Written By Aled Herbert23/07/2019
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