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At one company, a leader discovered by chance that AI was rejecting job candidate applications within seconds of their arrival. One reason: They graduated from college before 2010, which contradicted the instruction to...

We have been hearing about work slop for a while now, and evidence is mounting that it can create long-term problems for companies. Yet we are hearing very little (if anything) about what businesses are doing about it...

Episode 132 of IABC's Circle of Fellows examines what the newly released Reimagining Tomorrow 2026 report from the Global Alliance for Public Relations and Communication Management means for the profession. The report...

Most companies are experiencing some level of turmoil over their adoption of Artificial Intelligence. They should be able to lean on their managers to interpret these issues at the ground level. Research, however, finds...

Everyone from CEOs to politicians has been talking about the likelihood of AI-related job loss, and several companies have already let people go in anticipation that AI can do their work. Ford Motor Company is the...

The Economist has gone public with an experiment: it has created a shadow website featuring an AI-friendly version of its front-of-paywall content. The idea is to improve the odds of this content surfacing in AI answers...

In this episode, Chip and Gini cover the practical and emotional side of client departures, from the moment you get the news to the lessons you take away. Continue Reading → The post ALP 307: What to do when a...

Communicators long for "a seat at the table." In this episode of "On the Same Page," the internal communications podcast, Shel and Steve share their perspectives on this age-old aspiration and discuss the real ways to...

In the second of our special Circle of Fellows discussions, Brad Whitworth moderated a panel to discuss the remaining three chapters of the book, “ The 7 Cs of the New Communication Compass .” The book’s author and...

In this episode, Chip and Gini dig into the numbers and find the gap between how owners think they’re using AI and the reality of what’s happening inside their businesses. Continue Reading → The post ALP 306: What...

Employees at the Pentagon have spun up over 100,000 AI agents. In the private sector, we're seeing reports of 10,000 or more agents being deployed by employees at a variety of companies. The problem is that most...

There's a concept circulating in Platformer, the Reuters Institute, and Nieman Lab: the text-based social networks that defined the last 15 years of public communication may be in irreversible decline. Apptopia reports...

In this episode, Chip and Gini explore how to use AI tools as more than just a content machine. Continue Reading → The post ALP 305: How agency owners can use AI as an always-on thought partner appeared first on...

Welcome to the first-ever episode of On the Same Page , the new employee communication podcast from communication veterans Shel Holtz and Steve Crescenzo. In this first episode, Shel and Steve tell their origin story...

Neville and Shel dig into a provocative Harvard Business Review article that argues most marketing teams are structurally unprepared for the speed and scale that agentic AI now enables. The bottleneck, the authors...