Sparklines
If a picture is worth a thousand words, what can you say about a picture the size of a single word? Infoguru Edward Tufte has coined the word “sparklines” to describe wee word-sized graphics that pack a lot of data in a tiny package. Conventional wisdom...Google News goes RSS over teakettle (or, Seven steps to your own custom media monitoring command post)
At long last, Google News has enabled RSS feeds on news searches. Now, suddenly, Google’s e-mailed news alerts are just so five queries ago. You want to keep on top of news coverage of a particular subject? Say, the name of your organization, or its...A perfect PR storm of Telus’ own making
Short of actually causing a loss of human life, a major oil spill or the bulldozing of an orphanage, companies don’t often have a worse stretch of PR than Telus has weathered over the past few weeks. Just as the dust was settling from the site-blocking fiasco, a...I’ve been For Immediate Released
Hey, I’ve made the big time – my comment on the phrases “they don’t get it” and “going forward” made it onto the latest podcast of For Immediate Release: The Hobson and Holtz Report. Apart from shameless self-promotion, you...Podcasting and PR for beginners
Wondering what podcasting is, and what it means for public relations practitioners? Just listen to last week’s episode of For Immediate Release: The Hobson and Holtz Report – which is itself a podcast, and if you don’t know what the means,...
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Public speaking and speechwriting: the essential guides
Looking for advice on public speaking, speechwriting and leadership communications? Here are some of my most comprehensive posts, on topics that people ask me about most often.
