Are you afraid to negotiate? Does your heart start racing and do you start to get that sick feeling in your stomach? Or maybe the…
“Wait, I have a great idea for a video!”
As a communications professional, I am fairly confident you are asked at least once or twice a week for your thoughts about a great video…
Advice from a CEO
One of the best pieces of advice I’ve ever received was from one of my former CEOs. I had just been through a particularly rough…
Global Perspectives: Building an Online Community
Welcome to the fifth edition of Global Perspectives featuring Elenice Tamashiro. Based in São Paulo, Brazil, Elenice Tamashiro has worked in the social entrepreneurship and…
Pitching Journalists You Don’t Know
The following article was published by @PRNews on November 26, 2013. Approaching journalists you do not know to pitch coverage can often times be intimidating….
Managing the Self-Appointed Communications Expert
Let’s talk about the elephant in the room – those within your organization who unintentionally or intentionally try to undermine your work and the work…
Leading the Conversation
Last night I had dinner with a director of an organization who asked me to explain how Twitter could work for him. This was somewhat…
Your CEO on Twitter
Social media is a powerful tool to increase brand awareness and to lead conversations in your industry. The executive voice – the voice of your…
Global Perspectives: Lessons from a journalist
Welcome to the fourth edition of Global Perspectives featuring Cindy Shiner. Cindy Shiner has worked as a journalist for more than 20 years with a…
Becoming the Public Voice of Your Organization
Working with the media, to me, has always been the most favorite part of my job. I think it has to do with my beginnings….
Global Perspectives: Communicating Donor-Funded Projects
Welcome to the second edition of Global Perspectives featuring Samar Roy, CEO of Media Professionals Group in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Samar Roy is the CEO of…
Filling the Void in the Absence of Strategy
I think all of us at least once in our careers have come across those large PowerPoint strategy decks with endless boxes, value chains, diagrams…
Global Perspectives: To ‘rear’ or to ‘raise’, that is the question!
Welcome to the Global Perspectives series! Over the next several Wednesdays, communications professionals from around the world will be providing their advice on communicating internationally…
Reviving Internal Communications
Do the words ‘internal” and “communications” make you want to cringe on the inside and roll your eyes when no one is looking? I once…
Enhancing Your Brand with Celebrity Ambassadors
As a new arrival to the bright lights and big city of New York in the late 90s, I worked as a consultant with the…
Your Global Brand Reputation – Can it be Managed?
It can’t. I know. There are many agencies out there that will promise you to no end that it can. And making such a claim…
