Comments on: Communications propaganda http://www.mediainfluencer.net/2007/07/communications-propaganda/ helping people break out of pigeonholes since 2003 Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:15:59 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: John Connell http://www.mediainfluencer.net/2007/07/communications-propaganda/comment-page-1/#comment-577 John Connell Sat, 04 Aug 2007 12:32:39 +0000 http://mediainfluencer.bigblogcompany.net/2007/08/communications-propaganda/#comment-577 The crux is in the comms professional's definition of 'organizational cohesion'. It is not that the contribution of the internal bulletin board stretches credibility, but that the use of the bulletin board to give employees a voice enriches the definition of organizational cohesion itself! As Euan says, because the raison d'etre of the comms person is to speak in the voice of the corporation, whatever that means, he/she is incapable of grasping what that wider cohesion - paradoxically chaotic, messy, real - might look like and sound like. The crux is in the comms professional’s definition of ‘organizational cohesion’. It is not that the contribution of the internal bulletin board stretches credibility, but that the use of the bulletin board to give employees a voice enriches the definition of organizational cohesion itself!

As Euan says, because the raison d’etre of the comms person is to speak in the voice of the corporation, whatever that means, he/she is incapable of grasping what that wider cohesion – paradoxically chaotic, messy, real – might look like and sound like.

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