Category: Professional Development

  • Melcrum’s social network for communicators launched

    Hard on the heels of MyRagan.com launched by Ragan Communications earlier this month comes the Melcrum Communicators’ Network from London-based research and training firm Melcrum. Perhaps ‘launched’ isn’t the right word as Melcrum don’t plan any specific announcements, relying instead…

  • Speaking at upcoming events

    I’m speaking at some terrific conferences in the first half of June that might interest you, whatever area of organizational communication you’re involved with. On Tuesday June 5, Delivering The New PR 2.0 takes place in central London. This is the second…

  • 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,…