Category: Communication

  • IABC brings professional development opportunities to China

    As a long-time member of the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC) with a strong belief in the value of connecting communicators on a global basis, I was very interested to learn that IABC has partnered with the Shanghai Public…

  • Unspinning PR one dent at a time

    Nearly 150 people crowded into a private room at the Slug & Lettuce pub in London’s Soho last night for PR Unspun, an event organized by Chinwag Live. I was there as part of the panel which included Jacqui White,…

  • The return of TechCrunch UK

    So TechCrunch UK is planning to relaunch on June 1. Part of the prep is hiring a new editor. The big TechCrunch falling-out was a lively story in the blogosphere late last year when Michael Arrington shut down the UK…

  • The silence of the Blackberry

    The Blackberry outage that left North American users of the ubiquitous wireless handheld email device in the dark for much of Wednesday didn’t prevent plenty of people communicating. Communicating about the loss of service, that is, via blog posts, Twitter,…

  • PR unspun

    How is the PR industry adapting now that social media is heading for mainstream adoption? That’s a good introductory description to an event I’m speaking at in central London in the evening of Tuesday April 24. The event is ‘PR…