2000-2001 Board Nominees Announced.Congratulations to the following nominees to the IABC IABC International Association of Business Communicators IABC Indo-Americans for Better Community executive board! The slate will be presented to the executive board for approval at the February 2000 meeting in London, U.K., officially elected by the board in June, and ratified by the delegates at the IABC annual general meeting in Vancouver, B.C., in June. John Clemons, ABC ABC in full American Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. television network. It began when the expanding national radio network NBC split into the separate Red and Blue networks in 1928. , APR APR See: Annual Percentage Rate , director, employee communication, Ameritech, Chicago, will succeed Charles Pizzo as chairman. Brane In theoretical physics, a brane or p-brane is a spatially extended, mathematical concept that appears in string theory and its relatives (M-theory and brane cosmology). The variable p refers to the spatial dimension of the brane. Gruban, ABC, president, Pristop Communications, Ljubljana, Slovenia Ayelet Baron, IT project manager, Cisco Systems “Cisco” redirects here. For other uses, see Cisco (disambiguation). Cisco System,Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO, HKSE: 4333 ) is an American multinational corporation with 54,000 employees and annual revenue of US $28.48 billion as of 2006. , San Jose, Calif., U.S.A. Paul F. Mlodzik, ABC, VP, marketing and communication, The Co-operators General Insurance Company, Guelph, Ont., Canada Stephanie M. Griffiths, senior partner, Material Assistance Communication, Johannesburg, South Africa. Paul M. Sanchez, executive vice president, Stoorza, Ziegaus & Merzger, San Diego, California “San Diego” redirects here. For other uses, see San Diego (disambiguation). San Diego is a coastal Southern California city located in the southwestern corner of the continental United States. As of 2006, the city has a population of 1,256,951. , U.S.A. IABC Research Foundation 2000-01 Board Nominees Announced Congratulations to the proposed slate of nominees for the IABC Research Foundation board of trustees board of trustees Politics The posse of thugs who oversee an institution's administration. See Board of directors. : Chairman, John Gerstner, ABC, manager electronic communication, John Deere & Co., Moline, Ill., U.S.A. Vice Chairman, Tamara Gillis, ABC, assistant professor, communication, Elizabethtown College, Elizabethtown, Pa., U.S.A. Trustee for two-year term, Gloria Stackpole Walker, ABC, consultant, Middlesex, U.K. John Gerstner, ABC, will succeed David Kistle, ABC, as chairman. This slate will be proposed to the IABC Research Foundation board and ratified by the executive board at its meeting in February. Attend IABC Seminars and Workshops It's not too late (or too early) to make plans to attend upcoming professional development events: Next Wave eCommunication, March 9-10, Washington, D.C. This conference, the first of its kind, is for senior-level business communicators to develop results-driven online programs. It has five focused tracks: * Knowledge management * Human capital * Marketing * Public and investor relations Investor relations The process by which the corporation communicates with its investors. * Internal communication Keynote speakers are James Taylor, Ph.D., a futurist, author, lecturer and consultant, and Robert H. Buckman, chairman of the board and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Bulab Holdings, Inc. And for spring, the popular Writing for the Wired Workshops, led by Shel Holtz, ABC: April 6 - Chicago April 12 - San Francisco May l - New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of May 9 - Toronto May 30- London June 1 - Brussels A QUESTION OF ETHICS Think you know your way around ethical issues? Try your hand at the following question -- then turn to page 46 to see how your response compares with that of the IABC ethics committee ethics committee A multidisciplinary hospital body composed of a broad spectrum of personnel–eg, physicians, nurses, social workers, priests, and others, which addresses the moral and ethical issues within the hospital. See DNR, Institutional review board. . We'll be posting queries such as this in future issues of Communication World to bring more awareness to questions of ethics that often pose dilemmas in the work place. Situation: For the past year, in addition to your corporate communication position, you have contributed a column on communication practices to a regional business publication. You have received a letter from an IABC colleague who read a recent column. The letter states that you have included in your column material first published by another author in a professional journal. A copy of the original article is enclosed. You remember reading the original article, but did not consider it actively while writing your column. You decide to: A. Send a letter thanking your colleague for the article, but explaining that you did not consider it actively while writing your column. B. Publish in your next column an attribution of the material, sending a copy of the column and attribution to your colleague and the original author. C. Ask the business magazine to publish your colleague's letter as a "letter to the editor," with no comment. D. Do nothing since you did not consider actively the original material in writing your column. Answer: B. The IABC Code of Ethics Code of Ethics can refer to:
If you'd like to pose questions of your own, please do so. You can forward them to us via e-mail (ggordon@iabc.com) or go online (iabc.com) and post them in CWOnline's Ask the Experts section, where Don Bruun, ABC, is one of the Experts. He is chairman of the IABC ethics committee and is available to answer your questions. |
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