Posted on June 4, 2009 4:00 pm by Shel Holtz | IABC | Research | Social Media
On Saturday, I’m chairing the annual Think Tank for the IABC Research Foundation, which funds research into communication issues that can benefit the entire profession. The Think Tank is meeting ahead of the IABC World Conference, which kicks off in San Francisco on Sunday.
This is my second go-around chairing the Think Tank, which brings a diverse group of some 20 or so…
Posted on March 25, 2009 5:10 am by Shel Holtz | IABC
I recently had the privilege of serving as a blue ribbon panel judge for IABC’s Gold Quill awards. Submissions to the annual international communication award program go through a first-tier judging process. The entries that score high enough are passed on to the blue ribbon panel, which meets for two grueling days of judging at IABC’s San Francisco headquarters.
If the judging…
Posted on February 16, 2009 7:47 pm by Shel Holtz | IABC
Even as the number of tales mount of communicators whose jobs have become casualties of the economy, companies are at the same time hiring to fill critical communication positions. Here are three resources that list open positions companies are trying to fill:
The International Association of Business Communicators (IABC) lists jobs ranging from the executive level to specialists. Current listings include…
Posted on February 12, 2009 8:10 am by Shel Holtz | IABC | Twitter
I just delivered the opening keynote talk at the Business Communicators Summit, an annual event put on by IABC’s Kansas City chapter. Attendance is about 210 or so, up from about 130 last year.
The conference has embraced a variety of technologies, mostly Twitter. There’s a hashtag (#kcbcs) you can use right now to follow the conference, and participants were encouraged during…
Posted on February 7, 2009 8:18 am by Shel Holtz | IABC
A number of people are recognized at the annual international conference of the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC). For example, the association’s newest Fellows are named and a non-communicator senior executive (usually a president or CEO) is presented the EXCEL Award for supporting outstanding communication.
Then there’s the Chairman’s Award, which is presented at the sole discretion of the current IABC chair to a…
Posted on November 23, 2008 11:14 pm by Shel Holtz | IABC | PR | Social Media
The very best PR and organizational communications is, at its core, about building relationships. That should make it the ideal function to coordinate a company’s social media presence. But is the PR business at large ready to assume that kind of role?
Certainly there are people and agencies among the ranks of communicators who have paid attention to the shifts in the…
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