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The International Association of Business Communicators (IABC) is a non-profit network of more than 16,000 communication practitioners from all over the world.  As a global association, what we do is built around the simple idea of “connecting”. We connect people; we help make the essential connections between business issues and communications solutions; we connect organisations and communicators.

IABC Europe and Middle East conducts a variety of events throughout the year, including professional development seminars, speaker programmes and social networking gatherings. Get involved, raise your profile, develop your skills. Join the IABC today.

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4 out of 5 of us use social media for employee comms

Almost four-fifths (79 percent) of the respondents in a new IABC research report reveal that they use social media frequently to engage employees and foster productivity, outranking even e-mail (75 percent). The IABC Research Foundation and Buck Consultants recently conducted the survey to determine how organisations are communicating with employees to keep them engaged and productive. The survey received responses from nearly 1,500 participants representing a broad industry and geographic base.

What else did they discover?

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Book Launch - International Communications Strategy

On 9th September, The International Alliance for Women and The University of Chicago Booth School of Business – Europe Campus will host the launch of International Communications Strategy Developments in Cross-Cultural Communications, PR and Social Media by two of our members, Silvia Cambié and Yang-May Ooi.

The book examines the cross-cultural challenges currently facing business communication, including the rise of emerging markets multinationals and Web 2.0. It has recently been nominated for the Financial Times Goldman Sachs Awards.

We congratulate Silvia and Yang-May on their achievement and can’t wait to read the book!

For more information, visit the publishers: Kogan Page
To pre-order the book now with a discount, go to Amazon

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Featured Member

Ben Wilson, Group Internal Communications Manager

When I started out as an internal communications assistant in finance six years ago, employee communication and engagement was focussed on the written word, so I drew extensively on my original training and work as a newspaper reporter.  Read more…

Where are you now? Got a great story to tell? Be Heard.


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