IABC Chair Blog Can Succeed

Fellow IABC member and blogger Allan Jenkins posted a scathing commentary about IABC and Chairman David Kistle yesterday (and has attracted a bit of flack in the comments to his post as a result). What especially caught my attention in Allan's post was his comments regarding the IABC Chair blog. Allan writes: [...] While an excellent IABC Chairman's blog would not necessarily indicate great communication and management leadership, a poor one is certainly indicative of the malaise and uncertain drift of Kistle's administration. From the misprints (Reaching our my (sic) 2004-5 goals) to the bad grammar (Tsunami Affects (sic) Continue), to the lack of relevant content (Ketchum anyone? Insights from his near constant travel?), to the sheer paucity of posts, the IABC Chairman's blog has fallen flat. Launched last October, the cautious enthusiasm which gradually if not quickly turned into huge disappointment as the months went by and the quality and quantity of posts never reached the level that one would have expected from the chairman of our professional association. The blog has never developed into a place for discussion on the weightier issues affecting the profession. For example, as Allan mentions in his post, no Trevor Cook pointed out recently.) Will anything change when Warren Bickford, the next IABC chair (NevilleHobson.com blog which focuses on business communication and technology.

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