Get Used To Transparency, IABC

In yesterday's edition of The Hobson & Holtz Report, our bi-weekly podcast show, Shel and I talked a little about IABC. We're talking about IABC a lot these days. Our the critical post by Allan Jenkins that he published last week. Like IABC member. Allan's post has discussing yesterday was that this very interesting conversation about IABC is taking place openly in a blog authored by an IABC member and without anyone from IABC itself - neither the association's leadership nor its administration - participating. This is a perfect example of how a blog can be a highly-effective catalyst for open and transparent discussion, which will happen wherever and whenever people want to discuss a particular topic. And it will happen with or without the subject of the topic joining in, as this example shows. I was very much hoping that Allan's post would have prompted someone from IABC - perhaps the incoming Chair, Warren Bickford - to join in the conversation. No such luck, so obviously a wholly naive expectation. Yet I really would have expected by now that someone from IABC's leadership or the headquarters staff would see what's going on with the various critical posts in recent weeks in blogs like Allan's, Shel's and mine. Heck, three people from IABC headquarters in San Francisco participated in the candid, no-holds-barred debate about IABC over which IABC has no control. Do read it!) Neville Hobson is the author of the popular Crayon. Visit Neville Hobson's blog: