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
- 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
- Deep Dive: The 2026 State of Internal Communications - Ragan Communications April 10, 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
“Ladies Learning Code”
A brilliant former student of mine highly recommends this organization, “a women-run not-for-profit working to empower and inspire more women and girls to become passionate builders – not just consumers – of the web and technology.” Ladies Learning Code is … Continue reading
Goosebumps
This new ad, titled “Missing Work,” was created by Bell Canada for its “Let’s Talk Mental Health” initiative. It captures a moment – a short routine, really – very common among the chronically depressed. It is staggeringly understated and beautiful. … Continue reading
Quantifying the Costs of Workplace Conflict
Steve McGuire has an excellent, concise piece in Mediate.com showing how the “hidden” costs of workplace conflict can, in fact, be helpfully quantified. Various indirect factors go into calculating the real (hidden) costs of workplace conflict. In addition to wasted … Continue reading
New $ for Visual Artists?
The United States Copyright Office has recommended to the U.S. Congress that it reconsider its copyright laws so that visual artists can benefit from the resale of their work. Visual artists typically do not share in the long-term financial success … Continue reading
Again I agree with Clarissa, one of my favourite bloggers: It is shocking that this completely idiotic piece on LinkedIn [“All Linked Up with Nowhere to Go,” by Amy Friedman] has been declared one of the best pieces of business journalism in 2013. … Continue reading
“Undermining Infrastructure at the Core”
Our friends at Sophos have issued their Security Threat Report 2014. The entire report is necessary, sometimes grim reading. Here are two “trends to watch”: Attacks on corporate and personal data in the cloud: As businesses increasingly rely on various cloud services for … Continue reading
A Generation of Mentors
It’s hard for me to re-read KPMG‘s October report “BC Junior Mining at a Crossroads,” commissioned by the BC Securities Commission, without feeling not just loss but what will be lost. The report’s findings echo the lamentations of my friends … Continue reading
Vancouver’s Commonweal
In North America it is Canada’s decided, tenacious commonweal that sets it apart. We look after one another more often than not, and less out of zeal than out of habit and good sense. A city’s public library is a testament … Continue reading
You talk just fine?
When teaching oral communications to my students, I don’t feel comfortable critiquing those who speak in “uptalk,” that habit of ending sentences with a rising inflection so that declarative sentences sometimes seem to sound like questions. To me that would … Continue reading
“More bad writing” …
… presented courtesy of our friend Jonathan Mayhew’s superb blog, Stupid Motivational Tricks: Scholarly Writing and How to Get It Done.” It is a lovely post that ends with this poignant sentence: “There are more objectionable sentences here that I … Continue reading