Communications Strategy- City hones communications strategy - Traverse City Record-Eagle April 24, 2026
- Rozelle Laha joins ZETWERK as Corporate Communications Lead - Exchange4Media April 22, 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
- Gaurav Gogoi to raise university governance issues in parliament, writes to PMO over NE institutions - MSN April 26, 2026
- Process Without Transparency: UWC Senior Management's Governance Failure in the TMoSAF Proposal to Rename the University After Allan Boesak - dailynews.co.za April 25, 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
- 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
- Government moves to reshape university governance through new council appointments - The Eastleigh Voice April 13, 2026
- Postgraduate students: become a member on the University Council - La Trobe University April 13, 2026
Author Archives: Robert Basil
Your title is verbose.
An example of editing.
Yelling at your editor
In earlier writing here on mentorship, I noted that you do not have to actually like your mentors to have a fruitful relationship with them. In one post, “Mentorship without Friendship,” I wrote: “A mentor sees in her or his … Continue reading
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Copyright laws have always been a real bear
Ted Goia’s Substack newsletter is enlightening – with truly startling frequency – about things I probably should have known about already. From yesterday’s post: The most extreme case of music copyright comes from Elizabethan England. Here the Queen gave William … Continue reading
Rethinking is thinking.
That’s my motto as the summer semester starts (orientations today). There will be a million more of these articles:
“Prompt Engineering”
Even before my friend Chet fully explained to me what this term meant, I was on board with it. From Forbes the other day: The democratization of Artificial Intelligence and, specifically, the generative models boom seems to have changed everything. … Continue reading
Be fair and be good to the artists
Artist and writer Molly Crabapple, whose work I have long admired, has written an open letter “imploring publishers to restrict their use of A.I.-generated illustrations.” I signed. Since the earliest days of print journalism, illustration has been used to elucidate … Continue reading
Everything will be suspicious
Longtime NoContest.ca friend Chet Wisniewski has “Three Cybercrime Predictions in the Age of ChatGPT.” I don’t know anyone who writes more clearly and helpfully on these things. Organizations (like my own) have trained their employees to recognize phishing and other … Continue reading
Best answer yet to that question
By rocker Susanna Hoffs: It’s worth it for me to remember that, because I am a bit of a snob formalist when it comes to evaluating published writing (prose or verse). The NYTimes “By the Book” series is always fun, … Continue reading
New at No Contest
We have added two news-feeds, for Artificial Intelligence and Universal Design for Learning (UDL), to go with our feeds on Social Media Policy and Kwantlen Polytechnic University, and we’ve significantly expanded our resources list at the top of the page. … Continue reading
Phonics and the State of the Union
Our friend Jonathan Mayhew has been wondering whether the “balanced literacy” approach to teaching reading has neglected fundamental ways the brain apprehends and organizes sound itself, to the detriment of a generation or more of young would-be readers. Professors of … Continue reading