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	<pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2008 02:02:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Teaching Business Writing in the 21st Century</title>
		<link>http://commons.iabc.com/employee/2008/02/20/teaching-business-writing-in-the-21st-century/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2008 02:02:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Valdata</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Please forgive the &#8220;21st Century&#8221; cliche, and consider it shorthand for all of the changes we&#8217;ve seen in employee communications over the past 10 years or so. I mention this because I teach business writing to college students, and although the very expensive textbooks are blinged up with lots of color and sidebars and references [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do employees and bosses really want to be &#8220;friends&#8221;?</title>
		<link>http://commons.iabc.com/employee/2007/07/10/do-employees-and-bosses-really-want-to-be-friends/</link>
		<comments>http://commons.iabc.com/employee/2007/07/10/do-employees-and-bosses-really-want-to-be-friends/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jul 2007 19:42:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie Freeman, ABC, APR</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[A new dilemma for employees&#8211;what to do when their boss invites them to become a &#8220;friend&#8221; on a social networking site like Facebook?  
As an article in today&#8217;s Wall Street Journal describes the dilemma: &#8220;You&#8217;re caught between the career-limiting rejection of virtual friendship or career-limiting access to photos of yourself glassy-eyed at a party.&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A hole in the head</title>
		<link>http://commons.iabc.com/employee/2007/06/08/a-hole-in-the-head/</link>
		<comments>http://commons.iabc.com/employee/2007/06/08/a-hole-in-the-head/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jun 2007 17:18:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Valdata</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[So, I got my ears pierced last October. (Yes, this relates to communication, eventually. Be patient.) 
Most young women I know get this done around age 11; I waited considerably longer, being a total wuss when it comes to needles. Although painful, the event itself wasn&#8217;t so bad&#8211;I was distracted by the red shag carpet [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who Cares?</title>
		<link>http://commons.iabc.com/employee/2007/03/28/who-cares/</link>
		<comments>http://commons.iabc.com/employee/2007/03/28/who-cares/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Mar 2007 21:30:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Valdata</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In a recent article in the San Antonio Express-News, Dave Beck (president of Frost Bank) writes:
&#8220;While compensation and benefits are important elements in making an employee feel valued, an attitude of genuine concern and caring can be even more important.&#8221;
My knee-jerk reaction was to think, &#8220;Yeah, right!&#8221; but then I remembered an incident a few [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Employee E-mail Surveillance</title>
		<link>http://commons.iabc.com/employee/2007/01/30/employee-e-mail-surveillance/</link>
		<comments>http://commons.iabc.com/employee/2007/01/30/employee-e-mail-surveillance/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jan 2007 21:45:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Natasha Nicholson</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[This little piece of news appearing in late 2006 may have escaped your attention but I thought it was worth bringing it up. 
A survey conducted by Fortiva based on 100 North American organizations that monitor and review the messages of their employees found that:
*  Of the 93 percent of companies that have formal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two interviews with seasoned IABC members on Employee Comms</title>
		<link>http://commons.iabc.com/employee/2006/09/08/two-interviews-with-seasoned-iabc-members-on-employee-comms/</link>
		<comments>http://commons.iabc.com/employee/2006/09/08/two-interviews-with-seasoned-iabc-members-on-employee-comms/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Sep 2006 06:40:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee Hopkins</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[
Allan Jenkins and Donna Papacosta, two seasoned IABC communicators, recently agreed to be interviewed as part of a series of interviews I&#8217;m conducting for PR undergraduates at Deakin University here in Australia.
You can hear and download Allan&#8217;s and Donna&#8217;s interviews over on theMediaPod.net site.
Thank you to those of who who have agreed to be interviewed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A look at non-verbal communication</title>
		<link>http://commons.iabc.com/employee/2006/09/05/a-look-at-non-verbal-communication/</link>
		<comments>http://commons.iabc.com/employee/2006/09/05/a-look-at-non-verbal-communication/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Sep 2006 23:04:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carol Kinsey Goman</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m researching nonverbal communication for a new book I&#8217;m writing. Came across this often (mis)quoted study:
Professor Albert Mehrabian at UCLA conducted the classic research on the impact of different channels of communication. His finding:
    * 7% of meaning is communicated by spoken words
    * 38% of meaning is communicated [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The death of employee comms? Not yet&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://commons.iabc.com/employee/2006/08/28/the-death-of-employee-comms-not-yet/</link>
		<comments>http://commons.iabc.com/employee/2006/08/28/the-death-of-employee-comms-not-yet/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Aug 2006 03:14:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee Hopkins</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Back over at FIR (#166), Shel Holtz weighed in with a comment about the recurring theme &#8216;around these here parts&#8217; of the death of employee communication as a strategy now that intranets are commonplace. I&#8217;m not sure the blame can be laid at the foot of the intranet front door.
My own experience as a communicator [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Taking the time to celebrate our work</title>
		<link>http://commons.iabc.com/employee/2006/08/09/taking-the-time-to-celebrate-our-work/</link>
		<comments>http://commons.iabc.com/employee/2006/08/09/taking-the-time-to-celebrate-our-work/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Aug 2006 19:27:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee Hopkins</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[A client of mine is in the process of relocating to a brand new building and as part of my work with them I have created a series of staff newsletters about the move &#8212; all the way from the initial announcement of the start of the final phase of the project (getting the staff [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Failing your way to success</title>
		<link>http://commons.iabc.com/employee/2006/08/04/failing-your-way-to-success/</link>
		<comments>http://commons.iabc.com/employee/2006/08/04/failing-your-way-to-success/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Aug 2006 15:02:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carol Kinsey Goman</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In a recent television interview, Whoopie Goldberg described how she got her first one-woman show in New York: Whoopie was performing her nightclub act and (the director) Mike Nichols was in the audience. He came backstage and offered to create a show for her in a Broadway theater. Whoopie said she didn’t know if that [...]]]></description>
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