One thought about the 2009 IABC World Conference in San Francisco has been floating in my mind since I was at the event in early June.
That thought is to do with connectivity.
By that, I mean the difficulty I experienced (as did others) in getting a consistent and reliable-strength wifi signal in most of the [...]
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Content summary: Shel Holtz was part of the "All-Star" track at the annual world conference of the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC), presenting on the role of the news release in the social media era on June 9, 2009. The talk covered both the traditional news release and the social media release.
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I’ve been in two minds all week about whether to post this photo here or not. It seemed too much like own-horn tooting or trumpet-blowing.
But today I thought, what the heck, it’s a milestone event, let’s just get it up there!
So here it is – yours truly last Sunday evening June 7 with the IABC [...]
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Even thought it’s Wednesday and mid week, my mind is still full of thoughts about an amazing long weekend that concluded for me yesterday after a whirlwind 10,700-mile round trip to San Francisco and the IABC 2009 World Conference.
As the conference ends today, many people’s thoughts will be on the coming year and what [...]
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On Saturday morning, I’ll be on a plane from London Heathrow to San Francisco to take part in the 2009 IABC World Conference.
The prime reason I’m going is because I’m receiving the 2009 Chairman’s Award on Sunday evening, a singular honour for an IABC member which, frankly, I’m thrilled to be getting.
You can read [...]
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Last Thursday, May 28, I participated in “Web 2 EU: Publication 2 Participation,” a half-day conference in Brussels organized by the IABC Belgium chapter.
As I mentioned in my post last week, I was there but not physically so: I was able to take part from my home office in the UK with the help of [...]
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Tomorrow afternoon, May 28, I’m going to be speaking at an event in Brussels organized by IABC Belgium.
“Web 2 EU: Publication 2 Participation” is a half-day conference taking place at the Boston University in Brussels. I’ll be joining Charles Crouch, Helen Dunnett, Philip Weiss and Mathew Lowry to address a range of topics related [...]
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I received the May-June 2009 edition of Communication World, the member magazine from IABC, the other day and, boy, does it have some outstanding content.
For instance, if you want access to some of the best thinking around about organizational communication, social media tools and communication measurement, this is the edition of CW to get [...]
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In last Thursday’s FIR #436 podcast, I reported on a call to action by current IABC Chair, Barbara Gibson, concerning moves by the New Zealand government to reduce the number of communications staff in government as part of its efforts to better manage budgets, among other things.
IABC issued an open letter from Barb to [...]
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An intriguing post showed up in my RSS reader this morning under the ‘public relations’ tracking tag: Ten things to manage in a recession: 1 – memberships.
The writer, Paul Wilkinson, says:
[…] if you are a marketeer, what can you do to help your business survive (and – perhap more importantly – keep your job!)? […] [...]
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