by sc-webmaster | Jul 5, 2016 | Uncategorized
June 7, 2016 Dear IABC/SC Members, Some like Spring and Fall. Others like Winter. Here in famously-hot Columbia, I have a hard time finding anyone who likes Summer. For me, it’s baseball season — the...
by sc-webmaster | Jul 1, 2016 | Uncategorized
Talk Down to Me By Jeanne Reynolds A virus is stalking the land — one we as communicators need to be especially on guard against. No, I’m not talking about Zika. I’m talking about Uptalk. You know: that annoying habit of ending statements with an upward inflection so...
by sc-webmaster | Jun 17, 2016 | Uncategorized
Practice Doesn’t Make Perfect By Reba Hull Campbell “Practice makes perfect.” Surely a mantra we all heard as kids…whether it was in sports, spelling, music, or math. This was a standard line repeated by grown-ups who were just trying to help us learn....
by sc-webmaster | Jun 10, 2016 | Uncategorized
Transparency in Government by Ellen Priest Transparency in government: it’s something we in the media fight on a daily basis. Filing Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests is an almost daily occurrence. Some agencies willingly share information and others keep an...
by sc-webmaster | Jun 8, 2016 | Uncategorized
Letter from the president: May 2nd, 2016 Dear IABC/SC Members, I know it wasn’t my idea, but I can’t remember who deserves credit. A couple of years ago, I tried to stop asking “what should we do” and instead ask “what could we do.”...
by sc-webmaster | May 2, 2016 | Uncategorized
April 1st, 2016 Dear IABC/SC Members, Because this letter is going out on April Fools’ Day, I was tempted to use it as a prank. But, then I got to thinking about the idiom “a fool’s errand.” Merriam-Webster defines it as a task that is “needless or profitless.” That...
