Showing posts with label communications. Show all posts
Showing posts with label communications. Show all posts
Thursday, May 12, 2016

Indecent Prepositions

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Are you excited for this post? If so, you're probably a lot younger than me. To baby boomers and our elders, "excited for...
Thursday, June 27, 2013

My Communicate! Blog

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You may have noticed that in this blog, Welcome to My World, I've gone back to musing and ranting about Jewish and political topics from...
Friday, May 24, 2013

Three Simple Questions to Create a Communications Strategy

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Do you get overwhelmed by the concept of a communications "strategy"? Does it seem so daunting that youkeep on doing what you...
Thursday, May 23, 2013

Share of Mind, Share of Heart, by Sybil F. Stershic: a review

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Sybil  Stershic wants you  Taking Care of the People Who Matter Most : the employees, volunteers, and Board members of your nonprofit organi...
Monday, May 13, 2013

My Recent Book Reviews about Communications

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I'm learning a lot, and getting many good reminders about what I already know, by reading smart writers' books about Communications....
Tuesday, April 30, 2013

The Nonprofit Marketing Guide, by Kivi Leroux Miller: a review

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Kivi Leroux Miller feels your pain.  And she wants to help. You work at a nonprofit organization.  Either it's too small to have a com...
Sunday, April 28, 2013

Robin Hood Marketing, by Katya Andresen: a review.

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You care passionately about something.  You want other people to get involved.  You want their time, money, ideas, commitment.  How do you r...
Monday, April 15, 2013

A Priest, a Rabbi, and a Communications Pro Walk into a Bar...

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Can you tell a joke?  Then you can write for blogs and social media. I don't mean to say that what you write has to be funny.  Althoug...
Sunday, April 7, 2013

Strategic Communications for Nonprofit Organizations, 2nd Edition: a review

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Strategic Communications for Nonprofit Organization: Seven Steps to Creating a Successful Plan by Sally J. Patterson My rating: 3 of 5 st...
Thursday, March 14, 2013

"Three Ways You're Making Sure I Won't Read Your Tweet"

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"It's like drinking from a fire hose," people say about social media. We all know the problem: there's so much information...
Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Switch: How to Change Things When Change is Hard (review)

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Can you get families to eat healthier food, delinquent students to start showing up on time, businesses and governments to save millions of ...

Who Cares? The Need for Personalized Communication

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Today I received a letter in the mail from my health insurance company.  You are taking a certain medicine, they said, so every year, you sh...
Wednesday, February 13, 2013

Obama's Two Speeches

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Last night, President Obama's State of the Union address was a tale of two speeches.  The first one was disappointing.  The second offe...
Thursday, February 7, 2013

Chopsticks, Hammers, and Social Media

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My dear father could never master the use of chopsticks.  He resented people who did.  Whenever we went out to a Chinese restaurant and othe...
Thursday, January 3, 2013

Resolve to Communicate Better in 2013!

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It’s a new year.  Here are ten resolutions that every organization should make to improve their communications in 2013. Google your...
Saturday, August 11, 2012

Review of The Networked Nonprofit:Connecting with Social Media to Drive Change

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Beth Kanter and Allison Fine have a warning and a promise for nonprofits.  The warning: with the rise of social media (and a generation that...
Monday, June 25, 2012

"Elevator Speech" for People Talking about You

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Many thanks to Joel Nitzberg for thoughtful advice on networking for a new job.  Many of us know that whether we are promoting our organizat...
Friday, June 1, 2012

"Transparency is the New Black"

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Review of Share This! Deanna Zandt has written a wonderful guide to social networks for people who don't feel at home there.  She expl...
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Monday, May 28, 2012

The First Step

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I'm 55 pages into Deanna Zandt's Share This!  I've had two big surprises so far.  One is that the book has said very little abo...
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What We Have Here is Tailored to Communicate

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"Tell me a story." Beginning in childhood, we all ask to hear stories.  They entertain us.  They delight us.  They help us make...