Last Saturday I took an eight-hour flight from London to Chicago, went straight from the airport to Naperville to watch my son play baseball, hung out with him for as long as I could keep my eyes open, took a train to Chicago, a bus to my apartment, and got home late Saturday night. After I’m not sure, but I may have just pissed all over the next great employee communication idea. Listen to the story, and then you tell me if I’ve uncovered the next hot trend in employee communications . . . . Last

San Francisco, and Atlanta so far, and we’re still going to Seattle, Toronto, New York, and Chicago. I’m having a great time right now, doing a brand-new seminar with Jim Ylisela. It’s It’s s “Advanced Employee Communiations,” and it has a little bit of everything.

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And don't miss this article in the Chicago Tribune about not getting carried away on National Grammar Day. As Doug Fisher says on his blog, Common Sense Journalism : "So on this day to celebrate 'good' grammar, let's simply stop and take stock of what it is, or should be -- and what it isn't --and ask a simple question: Am I making myself as clear as I can to those with whom I am communicating? And we might ask what some of the conventions are and why they do or don't help us communicate."

And I'll buy the winner seven drinks in Chicago at CC I ran into an interesting story in an employee publication yesterday. I sort of had to rub my eyes to make sure I wasn’t seeing things. Here was the headline:

See you in Chicago in May. Okay . . . first of all, THANK YOU to everyone who submitted a haiku. I enjoyed reading them . . . in fact, it's the most I've ever enjoyed doing this blog, and I've enjoyed lots of things out there over the years. Now,

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Add to that three events where I didn’t have to travel, but still had to stay in hotels in Chicago and work very hard: The three-day Ragan Fellowship meeting, the three-day Corporate Communicator’s Conferenc, and my two-day Advanced Internal Communication seminar with Jim Ylisela. Mind Well . . . hello again!

s sort of like how I feel about reconnecting with my friends from my old neighborhood, on the south side of Chicago. Wow . . . a lot of life water has gone under the bridge since last I blogged! In In

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