by swilson | Apr 14, 2016 | Eloquor, entrepreneurship, IABC
Years ago, a client asked me to help them generate more patents through improved communication with employees. For that organization, patents were an important part of business success. The more patents, the more new products they could sell and the more intellectual...
by swilson | Apr 12, 2016 | IABC
Last week Eloquor lost one of its team members. By my measure she was young. She was an amazing writer. More importantly, she was an amazing strategic thinker. She was one of only a very few people I’ve worked with in my more than three decades to whom I felt...
by swilson | Mar 3, 2016 | Digital Workplace, IABC, Intranet and Portal, social technology, Writing
The theme for this year’s IABC World Conference is RISE: Innovating Global Communication. The great team of communicators I lead that developed this theme saw it delivering several meanings: Innovating reflects: How we innovate the profession and practice of...
by swilson | Feb 25, 2016 | Digital Workplace, IABC, Intranet and Portal, Intranet Governance, social technology
“Why can’t you just tell us what to do?” This question came to me while I was facilitating a client session to help the organization develop a governance model for a new intranet. The asker was a low-level manager who would eventually be tasked with day-to-day...
by swilson | Feb 18, 2016 | Digital Workplace, IABC, Intranet and Portal, social technology
My son wants to be an engineer or a nuclear physicist. He’s got the STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) skills to be sure; but does he have the skills outlined by Geoff Colvin as the most important in our future economy in his recent Humans are Underrated?...
by swilson | Dec 10, 2015 | IABC
Serving as the 2016 IABC Program Advisory Committee (PAC) chair has brought many revelations. One very important one is that being an IABC member and a long-time volunteer is not enough to ensure my place as a speaker. I’ve submitted to speak to World Conference...
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