And maybe other non-blogger and semi-blogger intrnet based publications.

I suggest that there are a lot of lousy blogs that will run any old crap, but in the world of PR people writing for PR people and other folks too, lots of good blogs are happy to pass on, reprint, write about, etc. GOOD CONTENT.

So is it safe to assume that tied to the IABC world conference, the incoming IABC world chief will present a barnburner of a speech focusinging on the actual life and death issues around the world that excellent communications is involved with.

And then the IABC’s brand new PR woman — is she actually allowed at the conference this year? In the past PR people were left at home — will not only make sure that Tom Firedman, invited and encouraged to attend and thus in the rushing to get this story printed around the world.

And the Nevons and Roasted Coffees and Shels of our elves and O’Dwyer and me, and assorted other web-based folks will have the full text sent to us, plus some comments from people in the audience about what parts resonated best with them, for us to run, too?

I don’t really care about drivel from some HR consulting firm about asymetrical face to elbow first line supervisore inter-factual exchange paramters. But the boss’s speech about how people die chained to the ceiling of prison cells in Afghanistan because internal communications does not work in the US Army? Now we’re getting somewhere.

There are probably journalists in Washington from at least two-thirds of the 67 IABC countries.

How many are even on an IABC distibution list, let alone already notified of the date and time of the incoming world-wide chairman’s keynote speech?

BAK