Communications Strategy- Comms Strategy When Everything Keeps Changing - The NonProfit Times April 27, 2026
- City hones communications strategy - Traverse City Record-Eagle April 24, 2026
- Spencer Stuart hires Bill Launder as chief communications officer - Consulting.us April 23, 2026
- VCU Health names inaugural AVP of marketing and communications - VCU Health April 20, 2026
- Aligning Strategy, People, and Communications During Facility Closures - BDO USA April 20, 2026
- ScanSource Advances Converged Communications Strategy With Dedicated CX Team and Arrow McLaren Partnership - marketscreener.com April 16, 2026
- ScanSource Advances Converged Communications Strategy with Dedicated CX Team and Arrow Mclaren Partnership - marketscreener.com April 16, 2026
- Anomaly Names Kira Montgomery Executive Strategy Director, Head of Communications Strategy - Little Black Book | LBBOnline April 14, 2026
- University Governance
- Penn Faculty Senate releases document on responsibilities within University shared governance - The Daily Pennsylvanian April 28, 2026
- Gaurav Gogoi to raise university governance issues in parliament, writes to PMO over NE institutions - MSN April 27, 2026
- President Tebboune: The new and victorious Algeria is steadily moving toward establishing modern university governance based on efficiency and accountability - AL24 News April 25, 2026
- Are WA’s universities ‘scaremongering’ over merger plans? - WAtoday April 21, 2026
- NCKU Tops 2026 CommonWealth University Citizen Award for Sustainability Governance and Social Responsibility - Ncku.edu.tw April 21, 2026
- Digital push for university governance - The Times of India April 21, 2026
- Draft CUC Code of Governance - Wonkhe April 20, 2026
- South Africa’s biggest universities are collapsing - Daily Investor April 19, 2026
Author Archives: Robert Basil
Accent-removal class
Notes Mark Liberman at Language Log: “In a better world, the speakers of the ‘standard’ variety would take a prejudice elimination class instead.”
The Work of Molly Crabapple
Molly Crabapple‘s only peer as an illustrator / artist / journalist is the great Joe Sacco. The tone of their work is very different, though. Whereas Sacco’s reporting is dispassionate and ironic, Crabapple’s is emotional and argumentative. Sacco’s art – black … Continue reading
“No Fireworks on the Fourth of July?”
Virginia Postrel‘s book The Future and Its Enemies: The Growing Conflict over Creativity, Enterprise, and Progress, published in 1999, has long been one of my favourite libertarian works: smart, funny, level-headed (that is, not dogmatic). Her more recent work has focused on … Continue reading
Where are the women in the high-tech industry?
Vivek Wadhwa crowd-funded the publication of his new book, Innovating Women: The Changing Face of Technology (cowritten with Farai Chedey). He also “crowd-created” it with the help of more than 500 women who contributed research and writing. In this podcast with … Continue reading
Acting Together
For its first two and a half years I was the “knowledge dissemination adviser” for the Acting Together research project. Based at Kwantlen Polytechnic University and funded by a federal Social Sciences and Humanities Research grant, the project’s goal was … Continue reading
Really good, free online technical communications text
A couple years ago Dave McMurrey’s online technical-writing textbook vanished from the Internet – not sure why. But *it is back*, and I suggest you bookmark it. A wonderful resource.
When judging others is necessary
I teach my students that, by and large, the purpose of social and workplace communications is to “foster and maintain relationships” (and “to not screw up”). Blogger realsocialskills (Twitter handle: @rsocialskills) notes that this rule does *not* carry the day … Continue reading
Copyright protections trump oil pipeline
Cantech News explains an Alberta land-owner’s ingenious use of copyright law: Alberta artist Peter van Tiesenhausen has provided an interesting legal precedent in his long-running battle with oil companies seeking to run a pipeline through his 800 acre territory. He … Continue reading
“The Franklin Effect”
Benjamin Franklin wrote his autobiography, “Enemies who do you one favor will want to do more.” He illustrated the maxim with a story: A political adversary had been lambasting Franklin in public speeches. Franklin knew that this person was very proud … Continue reading
Damned, lying lawyers
On Twitter recently I noted that, oddly enough, no word rhymes with doggerel. My friend Jonathan Mayhew tweeted back, “pettifogger hell, though it would rime with doggerel only in doggerel.” I had never even heard the word “pettifogger” before, so … Continue reading