Communication World articles from August 2001

Communication World archives from August 2001

A look in.(international coverage of communications)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... As we strive for CW to become more internationally oriented (and that is my primary goal for the coming year!), we're discovering that just wanting to do this, and actually doing it, could be a formidable task in many respects. For starters,...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.
August 1, 2001... A Shock to the System The graphic design of my article on working with the media in the Asia Pacific (June/July) was so arresting that the illustrations communicated loudest to many members arriving at this page in the publication. And for...

StandUP StandOUT.
August 1, 2001... REFLECTIONS ON 2001 IABC INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE HELD IN NEW YORK CITY In a global economy where a product or service can be replicated at the speed of light, where price competition is the order of the day, our organizations will...

CLASSIC COMMUNICATION.
August 1, 2001... REMEMBER THE CLASSICS of literature and philosophy that you read in your high school and college humanities courses? Remember thinking: Why do I need to know this stuff? I'm reminded of this scenario every fall when as a college professor I...

Break the tyranny of distance through Video Conferencing.
August 1, 2001... For some, videoconferencing might seem a dated technology of the 1980s that gained wide-spread usage only in our universities and other major institutions. For others, the arrival of broadband Internet connections, with PC-based cameras,...

WEB CASTING ONE'S LIFE AWAY.(web conferences for the communications professional)
August 1, 2001... The Return of the 'Talking Heads' I have never met Ted Craver, a senior vice president and chief financial officer with Rosemead, Calif.-based Edison International, a multibillion-dollar energy holding company. I don't know what he looks...

Face-to-Face or e-mail: the medium makes a difference.
August 1, 2001... Each year some 4 trillion e-mails are sent worldwide from about 600 million electronic mailboxes. In 1995, employees sent three e-mails per day and received five. E-mail usage has jumped more than sixfold, with employees now sending an average...

email: tool or torment?(Statistical Data Included)
August 1, 2001... Growth in e-mail usage Two-thirds of the 130 million adult workers in the United States send three billion e-mail messages every day, equating to 21 messages per electronic mail box per day. To put that into perspective, the U.S. Postal...

Are you up for Dewy Decimals meets Diagnosis: Buzzworditis.(proper grammar)
August 1, 2001... The new weatherperson on our NBC TV affiliate here in Boston set the table for today with "It looks like we're in store for sunshine...." No doubt you pounced on the misused like and substituted as if, recalling that like is not an...

Improving the office shot: use work space as context for meaning.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... Among the most common settings for organizational photographs is an office. Office space consists of partitions, desks, chairs, files, cabinets, papers, phones and computers. Yet such things communicate little by themselves as photographic...