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New Year’s Resolutions for Leaders

Happy 2011 everyone!

This is the time of year when many of us make promises, set goals, create that list of resolutions for the year to come. As leaders, what we do and how we do it influences so many. During this time of reflection we have a new opportunity to take the first steps in [...]

#IABC10 World Conference feedback – compliments, suggestions and criticisms

… and now for the compliments suggestions and criticisms
Applause, Applause – What #IABC10 Did Right
1.    Great location
2.    Warm and welcoming staff and volunteers to provide assistance throughout the conference
3.    Fabulous opening ceremonies and Gold Quill Award ceremony
4.    Engaging keynote speakers who challenged us to think beyond the business of communications
5.    Well orgainized tourist support and dine [...]

IABC 2010 world conference thoughts, themes and take-aways

In addition to the fabulous people, professional sessions, terrific networking opportunities and heaps of fun,here are a few of my views about this  year’s conference…

The future looks fabulous!
As communicators we’re a lucky bunch! Our future looks fabulous. It promises to be dynamic, challenging and rewarding. But, to take advantage of the opportunities that await us, we’ll [...]

Incredible Insights from Howard Rheingold on Collaboration

Are you part of a smart mob?

Are you as cooperative or as collaborative as you could be?

How well have you embraced enabling technologies?

Rheingold discusses the technologies of COOPERATION & SHARING economies. He hypothesizes that if in the past, new forms of cooperation created new forms of wealth we may be moving into yet another economic form [...]

‘Nuf Said

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The Future of Publishing

Some messages should just be shared. And, then shared again. Pass it on…

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What TED can teach Conference Organizers

What’s the consummate conference experience? TED of course.  TED has become synonymous with innovation, inspiration. It thrills and inspires audiences around the world to join in the conversation.

As stated in their history,

TED was born in 1984 out of the observation by Richard Saul Wurman of a powerful convergence between Technology, Entertainment and Design. The first TED [...]

What Matters Now (A Montage of Ideas from 70+ Great Minds)

What Matters Now is the latest free  e-book from Seth Godin and friends -it’s provocative, insightful, inspiring and just plain powerful!

Download it, read it, live it….just trust me on this…this IS what [...]

What Silicon Valley said at Said

PDA, the digital content blog, featured a recent post that highlighted the discussions of a star-studded internet rock star panel who met at Said Business School in Oxford recently to discuss the future of the web. These great technology minds considered some basic, yet tough and far reaching questions including:

After social networks, what next?

Are social networks [...]

Don’t get too comfortable!

I’ve always said that the most valuable skill we can cultivate in work and in life is our ability to embrace new experiences and adapt to change. For change is truly the ONLY constant.

And, nowhere is this change more exponential than in the evolution of the technology available to us today.

So, if you’ve got nothing urgent to do with the next five minutes, [...]