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Reducing Information Pollution
Reducing Information Pollution
Communications strategist and principal, The Bill Boyd Group
Director, IORG
Bill began his communications career working for two all-news radio stations in Washington, D.C., during the Watergate era. In the mid-1970s, he moved to Seattle, where he spent nearly a decade as a reporter for KIRO Newsradio, KVI Radio, and KSTW-TV. He also served as press secretary to two political campaigns.
Moving into corporate communications, Bill published the company newspaper at Weyerhaeuser and managed employee communications at AT&T Wireless, Recreational Equipment Inc. (REI), and Terabeam (a high-tech startup). Bill spent five years as a partner in Outsource Marketing in Bellevue, Wash., leading the firm’s internal communications practice and working with clients such as Cray, Safeco, T-Mobile, Starbucks, Microsoft, and Expedia. From 2008 to 2011, he led a team of communications consultants at Group Health in Seattle. He is now principal of The Bill Boyd Group, focusing on internal communications and information overload.
Bill’s interest in information overload stems from his experience as a communicator who has found it increasingly difficult to connect with employees and other audiences as they contend with overflowing email boxes, electronic distractions, and myriad other demands on their time and attention. He’s concerned with how all this affects productivity, quality of life, job satisfaction, and the ability of individuals and organizations to make sound decisions.
Bill has a degree in communications from Ohio University. He is accredited by the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC) and produces 6-8 programs a year aimed at senior-level communicators for IABC/Seattle. He’s also a member of the Communication Leadership Exchange and co-founder of the Seattle Internal Communications Leaders Forum.
Bill and his wife have a son who works as a network administrator for Weyerhaeuser, a daughter who works in the music industry in Seattle, and four grandchildren.
Overloaded 2012 a success – more events planned in future!
Feb. 26, 2012
The Information Overload Research Group’s Overloaded 2012 un-conference, a lively one-day gathering of information overload crusaders from a diversity of domains, was a complete success. Two dozen attendees spanning academic, industry, consulting, analyst and public sector backgrounds came together, exchanged research results, viewpoints and opinions, and formed friendships and plans for future cooperation. We heard [...]
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