Members of the British Association of Communicators in Business have voted to change the name and status of the association to the Institute of Internal Communication (IoIC).

A new microsite is launching to highlight best practice social media case studies aimed at helping not-for-profit organisations utilise social media communication tools.

Communicate magazine has launched “Words of Wisdom”, an embedded AudioBoo player that runs 30 second interviews with leading opinion formers from the corporate communications world.

A new press release site has been launched to help companies target bloggers with corporate news stories.

ThomsonReuters, the global business intelligence firm, has bought Hugin Group, the European IR and PR distribution group from NYSE Euronext.

Glide Technologies, the provider of web based integrated press office software and BroadView, the video strategy and solutions firm have linked up to help corporate communicators find video production and content distribution solutions.

Government 2010, a one day conference, with an accompanying free web broadcast is taking place in October.

City University London have poached Steve Schifferes, Online Economics Correspondent of the BBC, to create a new MA programme in financial journalism, the first of its kind in the UK.

With American newspapers falling like Autumnal leaves, the Newspaper Association of America seems to have gone, cap in hand, to Google, the mighty oak of online news aggregation.