We produce a lot of podcasts at Comsteria. Many of them feature academics and other experts who’ve been invited on to talk about their work. Our clients often like to begin each podcast with an introduction for each guest. The guest will either lean into the mic and verbally introduce Read more…
Clients enjoy working with Comsteria on video production projects because we’re able to offer many aspects of the creative process without having to outsource. This allows us to keep prices low. One particular area of interest is voiceovers. We have our own VoiceOver studio and our Managing Director Colin Kelly Read more…
At Comsteria, we deliver media training to build you up, not trip you up. Somewhere along the line, it seems media training, and perhaps presentation skills training as well, have acquired this reputation as being a rather painful experience. We know some of our competitors favour an old fashioned approach Read more…
Powerful Communication is about much more than press releases you issue, what you do on socials and how you come across in television interviews. It’s everything. From your pricing structure, to the greeting I get from your receptionist when I arrive for a meeting and the ‘404 error’ page when Read more…
Tim Davie, BBC Director General and Team GB equestrian star Charlotte Dujardin have both issued apologies this week. Both lack specific reference of the issue they’re apologising for. As a result, they’re continuing to receive criticism and risk the issue growing and causing them more damage over the long term. Read more…
We’ve become aware recently of a quite concerning double standard across Meta owned properties, specifically Instagram, with users facing restrictions (sometimes called ‘shadow banning) on their accounts for sharing what the platform considers to be ‘sexually explicit or erotic’ content. There’s never any clear definition of what is actually defined Read more…
Comsteria’s Managing Director Colin Kelly shares the full story of how Comsteria came to be, what we do, who we work with and why we’ve got the edge over our competitors. Since 2012 we’ve been delivering more than 200 corporate communication training sessions to clients throughout Scotland and beyond each Read more…
Editing a podcast can be time consuming and frustrating. A particular challenge is when a podcast guest runs several words into each other and sentences don’t end cleanly. This is part of natural speech patterns but presents a problem when you’re trying to lift ‘clips’ out of a sentence, perhaps Read more…
You can enjoy on demand training from Comsteria right now with our blogging live stream from earlier this week. Colin Kelly presents this 2 hour session explaining how blogging can help your business, how to get started and more. This is a taster session – get in touch if you Read more…
In our media training courses I encourage clients to spend more time consuming media critically. Listen to radio news, watch bulletins on TV and try to spend some time with a different newspaper each week. Developing a better understanding of what the mainstream media actually does is key to improving Read more…