Congratulations to Rachel Pearson, Mary Ehlert, ABC; and BDN Aerospace who brought home Gold. The Gold Quill awards were made at the IABC international conference in New York last week. Rachel won a merit award for the Scottsdale Convention and Visitors Bureau’s 2007 Annual Meeting in the category o ...
Content summary: Shel Holtz presents Social Networks and Business Communication, a session during the ‘All-Star’ slot at the IABC International Conference in New York City on June 25, 2008. (The All-Star track features speakers who have received high ratings during previous conferences.) Listen to t ...
Seth Godin plays with words. He practically owns the phrase “permission marketing” but now has a better way of describing the lack of it - “TV thinking.” He makes fun of YAA (yet another acronym), but isn’t averse to throwing in his own: BA, DA and AA. They stand for Before Advertising, During .. yo ...
When I heard that the IABC International Conference would be in New York this year, I registered immediately, because I never pass up a reason to visit my home town. I really do like living in the Toronto area, but I’ll always love New York (as this sculpture on Sixth Avenue says). Over four days, I ...
When I heard that the IABC International Conference would be in New York this year, I registered immediately, because I never pass up a reason to visit my home town. I really do like living in the Toronto area, but I’ll always love New York (as this sculpture on Sixth Avenue says). Over four days, I ...
What exactly happens to the story you’ve pitched to a TV station before it gets to be news? At the IABC conference in New York, I attended session titled “A day in the life of a TV reporter” by Gerard Braud that involved role playing. It was interesting to see the friction of having us communicators ...
Follow up to my post about Bill Marriott’s blog, Marriott on the move, I find it interesting that he does not type his posts but dictates it to his communications manager using a digital recorder. It retains an essential conversational element that tends to get edited out when some people put pen to ...
Break out the bubbly and throw in a slice of the Big Apple, earlier this week at the Annual IABC Conference held in New York DDB Canada walked away winning the Awards of Excellence and an Award of Merit. DDB Edmonton won an Award of Excellence in the Economic, Social and Environmental Development Ca ...
The term ‘meat space’ may be an awful way of describing why conferences like this –where the focus is on faces, not Blackberries– matter. But it’s true. We have come here to escape the digital world and connect back in analog fashion. IABC tells me that are attendees from nearly 50 countries. The sh ...
I attended an amazing session yesterday titled “A day in the life of a TV reporter” that may have seemed like it was about news, but was really about PR. Specifically about pitching your story to a TV news team, Gerard Braud who ran the session is a been-there-done-that kind of guy. It was not the u ...
