Big news here at Corporate Hallucinations: The C.R.A.P. Awards are coming back!  I started the C.R.A.P. Awards about 75 years ago, it seems, back when I still wrote for Ragan Communications.  Out of the hundreds of columns I wrote for Ragan over the years, the C.R.A.P. Awards were by far the most popular. And, in [...]

(Note: We interrupt our three-part series on the creepy side of Social Media to take on an important timely subject: Fat men who take up two seats on airplanes.) Enough already with this Kevin Smith slob. By now you’ve heard the story: Smith, who is really superfat and obnoxious and arrogant, was kicked off a [...]

Social Media has gone mainstream. I know this, because formy son’s travel baseball team, several of the parents suggested Twitter as away to stay in touch to provide updates on schedule changes, game times, andother news. Six months ago, nobody even knew what Twitter was. Now, I'm not saying it is 100 percent mainstream. For [...]

Had a great time in Kansas City last week, at the KC IABC Chapter's Business Communications Summit. And, as usual, all the really cool, awful, scary stories came out in the bar after the day's sessions were over. My favorite came from a graphic designer who works with a lot of big companies on various [...]

I just got back from the Kansas City IABC chapter’s BusinessCommunication Summit, which was an awesome event, held at the famous KansasCity Uptown Theater. I am always blown away by the passion, commitment, andtalent that chapter volunteers pour into these events. As someone who rarelyvolunteers for anything, I stand in awe at the amount of [...]

Whenever I ask the folks in my seminars to raise their handif they have a strategic communication plan, only about 20 percent of thehands go up. So, since the average seminar numbers about 50 people, that meansonly 10 of the people in the room have a plan. The rest are flying by the seat of [...]