Communications Alumni Network
A blog for the global network of Northeastern organizational communicators
How a capstone project turned into a book
During my studies in the Corporate and Organizational Communication master's program, I had the pleasure to meet Kathleen Anderson. A young, inspiring woman from Edinburgh who came to the States to pursue her graduate degree. In 2016, she returned to Edinburgh not...
Strengthening our program — underscoring the value of your degree
We’re kicking off 2017 with several initiatives. The first involves adding more concentrations to our master’s program to meet the needs of our students – we’ll soon have eight concentrations! And the second is designed to create additional pathways to a graduate...
Making a Mark in 2017
January is often a time to develop resolutions for the New Year. Prior to thinking ahead, I like to reflect on the past. It can be fruitful to consider the communication trends at the societal level, which often influence the...
Have you been to a professional conference lately?
Why were professional conferences developed? My guess is as a means of efficiently delivering professional development to a large group of people at once. It was a one-stop shop for confirming regulations, gathering new knowledge, gaining motivation, and meeting...
Whats’s on your must-read org comm list?
I find that staying abreast of trends in a dynamic field like organizational communication seems, at times, hopeless. The first challenge is that there are so many moving parts! Consider, for instance, digital media. It seems like every week a new digital medium...
The Vision ‘thing’ – Northeastern 2025
As John Kotter (2002) argues in The Heart of Change, visioning “involves trying to see possible futures. It inevitably has both a creative and emotional component” (p. 68). As communicators, one of our jobs is often to help craft visions, and, more often, to talk...