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Great Ideas from Unlikely Places »
Sometimes tips and ideas for effective communications come from unlikely sources. I got a first-rate lesson at a local elementary school science fair. A sixth grader did a memory experiment to see what kinds of words people best remembered. First, people were shown a column of about 20 concrete nouns such as mountain, flower, desk, horse, [...]
Forget 2010. Are you ready for 2020? »
While catching up today with a recent issue of the IABC's CW (Communication World), I came across an interview with the group's incoming chair Mark Schumann, in which he challenged communications professionals to think where they want to be in 10 years. He said: "Throughout our profession, each of us needs to imagine where we will be in 10 [...]
In Wake of Fort Hood Shootings, a Speech on the Need »
At the time of this writing, there has been no definitive word on the motivation of the gunman in the tragic shootings at Fort Hood today. Whatever the truth turns out to be, I wanted to share this powerful speech about the psychic damage of battle, which was recently delivered at a Veterans Expo in New York. I initially studied it as an [...]
