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Take the Research Foundation survey on communication departments: Are you the head of your organization's communication department? Help us examine how successful organizations staff effective communication departments, regardless of situational challenges.
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New CW Radio podcast: Crisis expert Caroline Sapriel talks about the common mistakes organizations make in crisis communication and how to avoid them.
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July CW Bulletin: Experts offer global communication strategies, including how to effectively run a global branding campaign and how to engage employees around the world.
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Quiz: How well do you know IABC?: IABC celebrates its 40th anniversary this year. To mark this milestone, we invite you to participate in a fun quiz about the people, programs and milestones in our 40-year journey.
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Let Feedback Ring: 7 keys to spark conversations in your workplace: with Linda Dulye, 31 August
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Corporate Communications 3.0: Seven ways you can be relevant five years from now with Steve Crescenzo, 15 September
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Media Coaching for Media Coaches: Insights on shaping the spokesperson with James Lukaszewski, ABC, 29 September
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Strategic Creative Communication Seminar : Washington, D.C. 14 October
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Employee Communication Conference: Chicago, IL 28-29 October
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Corporate Communications Social Media Summit: New York, 8 October
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Communication and Measurement Conference: Seattle, WA 18-19 November
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Strategic Creative Communication Seminar : San Francisco, CA, 9 December
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Recent Posts

The relevance of a global event in a developing country – posted by Mari Lee, ABC – It is not about things, it is about people. This was very clear in the recent FIFA World Cup hosted in South Africa during June & July 2010. The 92nd birthday of Nelson Mandela was celebrated just days after the World Cup Final, with South Africans being urged to spend More...

Is it PR's job to drive sales? – posted by Justin Goldsborough – This question came up in a new business presentation last week. We were discussing whether PR should be responsible for creating awareness and buzz, actually driving sales or both. There was a restaurant operator and a director of marketing in the room. The operator said PR — and marketing btw, because he viewed them as one More...

The Awfulness of Business Writing: What's a Communicator to Do? – posted by Natalie Canavor – If you don’t participate in the IABC Linked-In Group (as I didn’t myself till recently) you won’t know that the last article I contributed to July’s CW Bulletin generated a lot of discussion there. The “Working Words” column talked about “Why is Business Writing So Awful,” reporting on a piece by Jason Fried with that More...

Writers are feeling righteous – posted by Julie Freeman, ABC – The subject of business writing may not seem like an explosive one, but it has generated a great deal of discussion recently Two weeks ago, on IABC’s LinkedIn Group, Angela asked the question, “Why is business writing so awful?”  She has received 53 replies and they are still coming in. Independent of the discussion on LinkedIn, blogger More...

It's not just the fax – posted by John Elliott – I’m sorry that I haven’t been blogging lately. But, I’ve been busy doing lots of stuff… …like thinking about getting rid of my fax machine. I haven’t decided yet, but it’s on my list. You see, I can’t remember the last time I sent a fax message – which is odd, considering I can still recall quite More...