Communication World articles from June 1998

Communication World archives from June 1998

John Finney discusses his year as IABC's chairman. (International Association of Business Communicators)(Interview)
June 1, 1998... Finney took office as IABC chairman at last year's international conference. Since that time he has helped steer the association into many exciting new ventures, seen membership grow at record-breaking numbers, and created new alliances with the...

PR & propaganda ... where do you draw the line?
June 1, 1998... National security interests combined with strategic dissemination of fact seem to yield a kind of communication highly prone to propaganda. PR and propaganda: two communication tools, at opposite ends of the spectrum. Sitting in the movie...

The civilization of cyberspace. (interview with cyberspace specialist Esther Dyson)(Interview)
June 1, 1998... CYBER-REALIST: ESTHER Dyson She's the doyenne of the digital age, a cyber-social butterfly. She flits between being a high-tech analyst, author, newsletter publisher, conference impresario, venture capitalist, and electronic-liberties lobbyist...

Building a world-class organization.
June 1, 1998... To achieve world-class status, an organization must stimulate creative thinking, encourage dialogue and introspection and promote understanding and new actions. Most important, it must give people - inside and outside the organization - something...

Communication or knowledge management? (bridging the gap between the two disciplines)
June 1, 1998... It's Time to Wake Up and Smell the Koffee Dear Communicator: This is an open letter from Jane and Joe Workforce. You know...we're the forklift operators, health care providers, hotel reservationist, potato chip and computer chip makers, and...

Confronting globalization straight on: the new issues for communicators.
June 1, 1998... Is it any wonder that former astronaut and now Senator John Glenn wants to board the shuttle and participate in another flight into space? Certainly the perspective of the view back to earth can provide insights into what globalization really...

Organizational communication: fad, fiction or fact?
June 1, 1998... What do you get when you cross a monkey, an alligator and a bird? It can fly, it can swim and swing through trees. Well, that's what it feels like to work in the field of organisational communication (OC) sometimes. OC is one of the buzzworks...