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Posted by D. Mark Schumann, ABC
Ours can be a lonely profession.
How many times, if you tell someone you are in “communications” or “public relations” or “marketing” or “investor relations,” do they respond, “well, then, you must like people?” Has that ever happened to you? And do you ever think the question is just a bit [...]
Posted July 28, 2009 by D. Mark Schumann, ABC
Sometimes I am overwhelmed by the immediacy of our IABC world.
This afternoon the International Executive Board held our July meeting. Each month we gather, virtually, to review the business of the Association, pursue new ways to bring value to our members, and consider new ideas to advance [...]
By D. Mark Schumann, ABC
Tuesday was such a good day.
We kicked off our monthly calls with presidents of IABC chapters around the world.
Each month – the third Tuesday in fact – Gretchen Hoover Anderson and Janna White of IABC staff, and me, are talking with the chapter presidents, twice during the day, in group conference [...]
By D. Mark Schumann, ABC
I stayed out too late.
The night before I took the accreditation exam – at the US District 6 conference many years ago – I intended to go back to my room and study. I had one book – the original “Inside Organizational Communication” – and I planned to review its excellent [...]
By D. Mark Schumann, ABC
For many of us, the death of Walter Cronkite strikes a chord.
He was, in the United States, a national voice of reason during so many years when so much was turbulent.
To appreciate Walter Cronkite is to remember times when our national needed calm voices. Those times are, realistically, many years ago. [...]
By Julie Freeman, ABC, APR
On July 16 a Reuters story revealed that “Technology website TechCrunch published sensitive internal documents belonging to Twitter, including financial projections.”
The documents were obtained by a hacker.
Twitter’s meteoric growth has put it in the limelight. And many are wondering how on earth it will ever make money.
So it is not surprising that [...]
Posted by: Robin McCasland
It seems some folks are all a-Twitter over the results of the IABC Research Foundation’s first “pulse” survey.
We posed a question to members about whether Twitter will be as popular two years from now, and 67 percent of respondents said Twitter will not be as popular. Of those people, 64 percent said [...]
By D. Mark Schumann, ABC
Every organization has a soul.
And that soul is a mix of what the organization believes, how the leaders behave, what moment in time the organization finds itself, how the organization invests in its people, and how it gives back.
Tough times challenge the souls of even the best organizations.
And, as communicators, we [...]
by D. Mark Schumann, ABC
My mother, who was a professional musician, used to tease me, a bit, about being a communicator.
She would say, “I never know what to tell the ladies in my bridge club what you do, and what qualifies you to do it.”
Rather than try to “trump” her concern (no pun intended) – [...]
by D. Mark Schumann, ABC
This year, in my blog as IABC chair, I am looking at the anchors of our Association, and how they give us clarity to look to our futures.
Today, let’s consider a most fundamental anchor, the global community that we share, the “C” in our Association’s name.
When I think of our IABC [...]
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