Effective Communication: Choose Your Words Carefully
We all become comfortable with terminology and acronyms we use every day. But for effective communication, it is a huge mistake for a number of reasons.
Finding the Public Relations Hook: What’s Your Story?
Image via Wikipedia Storytelling Do you remember being read stories when you were a child or more recently, perhaps, reading to your own children? It always amazed me that my children wanted to listen to the same stories over and over again. With children the appeal often comes from the rhyming words, short [...]
Noodling: Nurturing the Slow Hunch
Noodling is what I call it. Everyone has his or her own way to describe where good ideas come from, but for me, noodling just sounds like how it feels. The Temptation That first flicker of an idea asks to be shared and explored, gently — wherever it originates. You may not recognize it yet [...]
10 Places to Look for Writing Ideas for Your Company Blog
Image by juliejordanscott via Flickr “What can I write about?” That’s usually the first question a client asks when we talk about starting a company blog. It's likely to be your first question too. (Hey, it’s the first question I asked when our company decided to start a blog!) Despite the fact that [...]
Reframing the Impact of Technology on Our Brains
I was talking with a friend recently about the impact of technology on our brains. This is an old and dear friend from my childhood, a writer and expat who lives in Italy, and someone I don't get the chance to talk with as much as I'd like to. She said: "I'm so tired of [...]
Writing: Getting Started is the Hardest Part
What do you do when the page is blank? As I look outside my window and see the mountains of surrounding, deep, clean, crisp, clear white snow banks — I think about how many things I love that are white. New clean white sheets on a freshly made bed, fluffy white mashed potatoes, white jeans, [...]
Women and Men – Can We Talk?
You may be able to recognize a gender difference in the two responses when I ask my son and daughter the same question: Question: How was school today? Son’s Answer: Fine. Daughter’s Answer: WELL, it all began when I decided to have a granola bar for breakfast….{insert 10 minutes of continued subjective monologue, focusing on [...]
