Category: Professional Development

  • An opportunity to learn

    I’m in Manchester today to take part in the seventh annual CIPR Northern Conference, a one-day event of professional development and networking opportunities for PR practitioners in the north-west of England. I’ll be leading a Masterclass session this afternoon that…

  • Spreading the word in September

    Just updating some details on my speaking engagements at events in the next few months as we look ahead into autumn. In the final half of September, I’m speaking at these two events in the UK which you might find…

  • A good time to join IABC is now

    If there’s one professional association I’m always willing to actively talk about, promote, and otherwise persuade communicators to be part of, it’s the International Association of Business Communicators, IABC. I’ve been a member since 1989. I’ve found the knowledge I’ve…

  • Social media focus in latest IABC podcast

    One of the volunteerism activities I do for IABC, my professional association, is produce Cafe2Go, their monthly podcast. It’s a pleasurable task, one that I share with my podcasting partner Shel Holtz, as each monthly show always has content that…

  • What academics think about social media

    Find more videos like this on PROpenMic Two weeks have gone by since Edelman’s New Media Academic Summit 2008 in Chicago, plenty of time to digest some thinking and take a look at other people’s thoughts as they’ve posted them…