Category: Communication

  • The Ragan and Melcrum competition

    Last week, Chicago-based Ragan Communications launched MyRagan.com, a free service aimed at communicators around the world that’s a mix of social network, knowledge and information resource. It’s captured a lot of imaginations and got off to a cracking start. When I…

  • Listen to PR Unspun

    Last week in London, I was on a panel to discuss a broad and thorny question: How is the PR industry adapting now that social media is heading for mainstream adoption? The event was PR Unspun, organized by Chinwag Live.…

  • Ragan launches social network for communicators

    A phoned-in comment to yesterday’s FIR podcast from PR podcaster Bryan Person brought news of a new social network for communicators launched by Chicago-based Lawrence Ragan Communications. MyRagan.com quietly opened for business a few days ago. So quiet, in fact,…

  • Things that keep communicators up at night

    If I were on the corporate, PR and/or internal communication teams involved in any of these current business situations, I’d undoubtedly be burning candles at all ends: As soon as Barclays Bank’s bid for ABN Amro Bank looked likely to…

  • Push the distributed communication envelope

    Canadian blogger Mark Evans has a thoughtful post about how to communicate better. He talks about the tools – phone, email, SMS, IM, etc – and concludes that face-to-face is the be-all and end-all of communication between people. I don’t…