inCommunicado - eric eggertson

There’s a tendency on the Internet to make personal attacks, when in fact you merely disagree with the ideas or the methods another person uses.
So it was refreshing the other day to read Shel Holtz’s lengthy rebuttal of T.J Larkin’s theories about employee communications, as espoused during a speech at the IABC International Conference in […]

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The coverage of the IABC international conference offered by conferenceattendees themselves is refreshing for a number of reasons (see The IABC Cafe)..

You get different perspectives on the conference, so you can recognize
the comments that seem credible to you.
Stories about travel conditions, networking, and the mechanics of being at the conference, added a human touch to […]

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Shel Holtz proves once again why he’s one of the best communications/PR bloggers around.
His notes about the James Carville and Mary Matalin keynote at the IABC Conference are remarkable for their clarity, simplicity and impact.  He reminds us that the tools of the trade change, but the need to communicate remains at the centre of […]

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I’ve been guilty of the kind of tunnel vision I warned about over corporate blogging.
In my case it was a corporate extranet for key member organizations.
I decided our organization needed an intranet/extranet. I pushed the project through in advance of the IT department and our main audience. We ended up with a very robust tool […]

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Getting the CEO to include "Let’s do a blog" on their to-do list might be the worst thing you could do.Focus on your organization’s strategic direction, and the relationships you need to maintain to achieve your goals. Then determine the tools you need to strengthen those relationships.
If the result is "Let’s do a blog", then […]

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