The Here and Now of Participatory Communication

On Thursday, I travelled to Brussels, Belgium, to participate in the 50th anniversary conference of FEIEA, the federation of European business communicators' associations. My role was to make a presentation on new media communication channels (blogs, RSS, etc) and participatory communication as a constituent part of Centre Nationale de Recherche Scientifique, France's national research institute, on information, communication and scientific challenges. There was also a very interesting case study by Stanislas Haquet of PSA Peugeot Citroen on how the French car maker uses electronic print production systems for multiple sites and multiple publications. I have a PDF version of my presentation "http://www.tle.us.com/pubfiles/051020_NewMedia_FEIEA.pdf". Feel free to download it (5Mb) and let me know if you have any questions or comments. I hope you find it helpful. (One of the troubles with PDFs of presentations is that you get the slides but none of the conversation. So I'm planning to make a Reader Comments... Neville Hobson is the author of the popular Crayon. Visit Neville Hobson's blog: