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It's easy to become overwhelmed when you start looking into using recycled paper. In the last few years, recycled papers have become available for more purposes, in more weights, colors [...]

Using recycled paper One of the primary reasons for this heightened focus on recycled paper and paper products is the growing, worldwide environmental movement and the subsequent desire by individuals [...]

Professional communicators have messages to communicate. They also have a choice of channels. Do different messages belong on different channels? The answer is yes. The Web is best for short, [...]

Paper towel usage in western countries ranges from 70 percent to 92 percent of all households, and the towels are a fixture in almost every kitchen. But in Taiwan, use [...]

One of the best pieces of editing advice I ever got was to make sure I heard what people were saying. I was working at a midsize daily newspaper, and [...]

The IABC Research Foundation has announced Requests for Proposals for two new research projects. One focuses on Effective Use of Communication Policies and the other explores Supervisor/Employee Communication Best Practices. [...]

In September, the IABC Research Foundation announced RFPs for two new research projects. One focuses on Ethics and Communication and the other explores Commonalities of Best Practices in Communication. The [...]

A preface on sustainable paper products for the November 2007 issue of "Communication World" is presented.

Recently I attended the 42nd annual PRIMA conference (a gathering for Europe's Paper and Related Industries Marketing Association), where industry leaders vigorously engaged with one another and the invited speakers [...]

The article discusses the White Cashmere Collection: Fashion with Compassion (WCC:FWC) campaign organized by Strategic Objectives, a public relations (PR) agency in Toronto, Ontario. It states that the fashion show uses the country's best-selling bathroom tissue with an aim of promoting the tissue company Cashmere and raising money for the benefit of Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation. Also mentioned are the hiring of top five models, Cashmere Facebook Page, and attendees in the fashion show.

Information about several papers discussed at the 2009 World Conference of International Association of Business Communicators (IABC) that was held in San Francisco, California on June 7-10, 2009 are presented. Topics include the crisis in communication, building brands and strategies to harness the power of social media. The conference's session provided the participants the chance to explore real-life instances of the challenges and situations of communication.

The article presents a case study on the marketing campaign of the Cashmere bath tissue by the Kruger Products Ltd. in Canada. It notes the on-line media concept brought by a Toronto, Ontario-based firm, Strategic Objectives, that developed Kruger Product's annual fashion show called the White Cashmere Collection that featured the newly-branded Cashmere bath tissue. Kruger Products has tied up with the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation (CBCF) as part of the company's global media buzz.

Information on several events and papers discussed at the 2011 International Association of Business Communicators (IABC) World Conference held in San Diego, California in June on the challenges facing communicators is presented. Topics include the role of the brain in decision making, the challenges of leadership, and finding balance in the profession. The conference featured speakers, including author Jonah Lehrer, journalist Sheryl WuDunn, and business author Marshall Goldsmith.

Focuses on a paper-trained business communicator's foray into the world of the Internet. Establishment of a web site called Bonjour Paris; Themes of English-language chat rooms; Downsides to owning a web site; Effective way for people to understand one another's cultural differences; Tool for honing language skills.

The article reports that the Slovenian government adopted an amendment to the regulation on the management of packaging and packaging waste, to reduce the use of light plastic bags. It mentions that the free-of-charge plastic bags would be banned at all sales outlets in Slovenia. It mentions that convenience store chain, SPAR Slovenia, developed a communication program to respond various challenges.

Writing h easy: All you have to do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood appear on your forehead. --Gene Fowler Businesses are filled with [...]

Knowledge is power. But information? Can there be anything more dis-empowering than the torrent of e-mails, memos, newsletters, magazines, flyers, brochures, white papers, what-have-yous that cascade across our desks and [...]

International Association of Business Communicators' (IABC) 2002-2003 Chairperson, Annette Martell has named Julian de Beer, director of de Beer Marketing& Communications in New Zealand, the recipient of the 2003 Chairman's Award. Anne Forrest, non-executive chairman-Asia for Golin/Harris International Ltd., Hong Kong, is the recipient of IABC's 2003 Fellow Award. The IABC Research Foundation chairman, Warren Bickford, has honored Charles Pizzo with its 2003 Lifetime Friend Award, which recognizes outstanding leadership and support for the IABC Research Foundation. The Research Foundation has also named Eric M. Lears of Ithaca College the winner of the 2003 Student Call for Papers program.

In 2003, the IABC Research Foundation continued its effort to advance the communication profession by delivering knowledge, findings and tools vital to effective communication. The Foundation added to its growing inventory of work by publishing two new reports: "Intangible Assets and Communication," and "Communication Behavior of Virtual Workforces." Collaborating with Watson Wyatt Worldwide, the Foundation convened a panel of top communication executives to analyze the value that communication delivers to organizations, and to identify best practices for measuring that value. The winning student paper was submitted by Megan D. Sullivan of Ithaca College, Ithaca, New York, USA. The Foundation conducted a Think Tank panel, including 16 senior communication practitioners and academics. The Think Tank report pointed to a number of significant themes and emerging issues in communication, which will help frame the research agenda of the Foundation in the year to come. These research programs are made possible through the efforts and financial support of the Foundation's trustees, volunteers, sponsors and staff.

An overview of preliminary results from the first two phases of research for the IABC Member Research Study was presented to the IABC executive board at its June meeting in Los Angeles. The research also finds that members do not take full advantage of the member benefits available to them. In the coming year, lABC's board will be addressing both concerns as well as the additional findings to be investigated in the next phase of research. The study was undertaken by a team from IABC and the IABC Research Foundation and conducted by the Organisation Research team from Mercer's Communication Practice to. The goal of this yearlong study is to provide IABC's board and staff with valid and reliable information from the membership so that resources can be allocated in ways that support IABC's mission, respond to member needs and stimulate international growth. The research is proceeding in three phases: chapter focus groups, all-member e-survey and an in-depth paper survey to be sent to a representative sample of the membership throughout the world.

Focuses on the improvements the Internet was expected to produce in the communication profession and business and in people's lives. Impact on online delivery of news and information on paper consumption; Impact of productivity on discretionary time.

O come, all ye who labor in the fields of fiber media...Encarta's back in town with the definition of that -- 'n, the media that use paper, e.g., newspapers and [...]

Among the most common settings for organizational photographs is an office. Office space consists of partitions, desks, chairs, files, cabinets, papers, phones and computers. Yet such things communicate little by [...]

A Retrospective on the Evolving Field of Communication The idea of 'arguing with myself on paper' came from a friend during a trying time in my life. Its cathartic value [...]

How will you find your next job? What if your next job finds you? Isn't it about time that technology did away with the arcane process of paper resumes piling [...]

Six Steps to a Company Style Guide In the. U.S. movie 'The Paper,' actor Clint Howard plays a newspaper copy editor who, in his first appearance on screen, calls out, [...]

Faced with rising paper and postal costs, the obligation to meet recent environmental-protection regulations, and competition both from high-quality photocopiers (see previous article 'Printing on Demand: A New Market Niche' [...]

Almost every communicator I have known has a hidden yearning to write a book--to put pen to paper creatively rather than journalistically. Some want to record an event they reported [...]

Do you believe you could be more productive if you were independent? Do you feel that juggling paper flow, emails and client communications should be easier? Would you like to [...]

Mailers that get results! New EnvyPak™ features clear poly and poly/paper mailers for effective media mailings, employee mailings, marketing direct mail and meeting or project materials. Stock products ship fast [...]

A representative sample of IABC's membership will receive a paper survey with this issue of Communication World or separately by mail. This survey completes implementation of a three-part research plan [...]

You Can Get Organized Pictures this workplace: piles of papers teetering on every surface; heaps of books and magazines; precious time evaporating in search of that elusive quote or statistic. [...]

By way of salutatory, one asks for your observations concerning this sentence plucked from a Boston, Mass., daily paper: 'Brian Callery, a 49-year-old Canton man with a thick head of [...]

If you're going to pull a quote, pay attention. The pullquote in a Boston Globe story about wastewater from a pulp and paper company said, 'A Maine mill is the [...]

The paperless office? Let's see if we can settle for the signature-less office. This story begins several centuries ago when the barristers of England argued that paper was of insufficient [...]

Books and papers away, it's quiz time ! Boston magazine's cover story last November flaunted 'New ways to stay fit longer by eating better and exercising less.' Worth a look, [...]

Is it possible to have deep warmth and true authenticity and be a brilliant, trailblazing leader all at the same time? Irene Lewis is proof positive that such leaders do [...]

Ah, the good old days. Back when business communication meant pushing out well-edited information to two audiences: external and internal. To reach the external audiences, you sent a press release--typed, [...]

Odds are, you've never heard of femtocells. They are small cellular base stations that extend cellular broadband coverage indoors. Mostly used in small businesses or residences, femtocells have been adopted [...]

It's all the rage for companies these days to tie their marketing efforts to a social or environmental cause. After all, why, not make money and help out a cause [...]

Fourteen years ago, RBC, one of Canada's biggest companies and among the largest banks in the world, introduced a center of expertise called Organizational Change Communications. Housed within the corporate [...]

Marketers, public relations professionals, social media managers--at our core, we are all communicators and relationship builders. Today, more than ever, we benefit from having a variety of means with which [...]

Speaking recently in Amsterdam at the Orange Business Live conference, Denmark's Peter Sondergaard, senior vice president for Gartner Research, told the audience that innovation happens at the user level, an [...]

Technology has brought an explosion of interconnectivity. People can communicate with one another with greater ease and seek information more quickly than ever before. But at the same time there [...]

This year, IABC celebrates its 40th anniversary. Instead of looking back on where we've been, CW convened a panel of nine experts in February to look at where we're going. [...]

Africa faces a great many social challenges. The United Nations Millennium Development Goals, set in 2000, outline the most pressing of these, including reducing poverty, hunger and illiteracy, and focusing [...]

You could call it the perfect storm of communication chaos. Combine the worst economic downtown we've seen in decades with a complete toppling of old communication hierarchies and the unprecedented [...]

Mandating creativity is like demanding wisdom or requiring beauty. It's not something one can merely turn a switch to achieve (or we'd all be wise, beautiful and creative). Our ability [...]

True, there's no formula for creativity. But there is definitely a flow in the way highly creative people glide toward bold, bountiful ideas. A fellow who spends more time at [...]

Is transparency an inherent good? Like other courses of action, such as maintaining an open-door policy or trusting markets to make the right decision, transparency can often be held up [...]