inCommunicado - eric eggertson

Do some capital letters on your business card make you an expert?  Does their absence make you incompetent?
The obvious answer is no.  So what possible reason is there to pursue a law degree, earn an accounting designation, earn your professional assocation certification, or for that matter, any other official recognition of accomplishment or learning?
At least […]

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The redesign of the International Association of Business Communicators’ web site was just part of the the group’s web revitalization. This weekend they launched IABC Communications Commons, a group of blogs authored by various IABC members and aimed at elevating the discussion about business communications.
I’ll park my skepticism about the extent to which the blogs […]

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Ragan Communications’ David Murray critiques IABC Cafe blogger (and board chair) Warren Bickford for writing bland posts, and not doing it often enough, in the December 19 Ragan Report.
Reminds me of the complaint about restaurant food: "The food here is terrible! And such small portions!"
Last winter, there was a sustained attack by bloggers on then-chair […]

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Allan Jenkins is calling on bloggers and communicators to spend more time and energy doing something useful about disasters like Hurricane Katrina.
From his blog, Desirable Roasted Coffee:
So what can IABC and its members, PRSA and its members, any communicator — or any one of us, for that matter, do to help this effort?

Well, we […]

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Communications measurement guru Angela Sinickas will be in Saskatoon October 18 for a half-day workshop called "How to Measure Your Communication Programs: Developing An Ongoing Process." A luncheon presentation on "Calculating the ROI on Your Communications" is included in the $199 fee, or can be attended separately ($40, or $25 for IABC/CPRS members).
If you haven’t […]

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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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The lesson to be learned from IABC’s choice of a four word lengthy tag for tracking postings and photos seems to be: if it isn’t simple, it won’t work.
All the tagged items so far on Technorati are from IABC’s own blog. No one else who’s blogging of posting photos about the IABC international conference being […]

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The New York Law Journal reports that the Public Relations Society of America and its COO Catherine Bolton are pursuing a lawsuit against a former PRSA employee who sent what he or she thought was an anonymous e-mail about Bolton to members of the board of directors.
Though there has been some coverage in subscription-only Jack […]

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Dave Traynor says it best in the IABC Cafe comments section, when he sums up what transparency is all about for business communications, following an IABC workshop in Toronto called The Naked Communicator:
"I don’t think there is a right answer at the moment to the question
of what delivering transparent communications means. As someone pointed
out at […]

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Ken Kerrigan poses the question:  what kind of professional association wants me to be a member, and will give me room to grow as a senior public relations person?
He’s having trouble coming up with an answer.
A very interesting post, in an interesting new blog.
See the IABC discussions in earlier postings:
IABC Membership Perk, or Open Discussion?IABC […]

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