Geneva Roundtable: The Future of Corporate Communications

Here’s an event we at the Geneva Communicators blog are involved with:

As part of the Future Series, the International University in Geneva and Geneva Women in International Trade present a roundtable:

“The Future of Corporate Communications”

Tuesday 14 November 2006, 6 p.m.
Movenpick Hotel, ICC, Rte de Bois 20, 1215 Geneva

Panel members:
– Cary Adams, Managing Director, Lloyds TSB International Private Banking
– Charlotte Lindsey, Deputy Director of Communications, International Committee of the Red Cross
– Peter Warne, Senior External Communications Manager, Nestle

“Through blogs, wikis and podcasts, publics are conversing amongst themselves and building influential sources of information as alternatives to traditional media. Are organisations ready and willing to converse with publics? Can corporate communications cope with competing sources of influence and use social media to build relationships with their key audiences?”

Entry fee: 25 CHF (15 CHF for GWIT members and IUN Alumni)

Agenda:
6.00 p.m. Welcome
6.30 p.m. Presentations followed by discussions
7.30 p.m. Cocktail and networking

Register by sending an email to info@iun.ch

Hope to see some of you there.

Glenn  

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The Email Revolution


An interesting article in the IHT on the role of email and communications: 

E-mail cannot yet wash our dishes or balance our checkbooks – soon, no doubt – but the more dependent we become on Internet communications, the more new features e-mail seems to sprout.

One is “hands-free e-mail.” A Canadian company called Intelligent Mechatronic Systems says it has the world’s first hands-and-eyes- free e-mail system, designed for use while driving. It was previewed at the IFA consumer electronics fair last week in Berlin…..

Read the complete article here >> 

Patricia

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