by Rob Cottingham | Sep 14, 2012 | Everything Else, How to..., Speechwriting
5. Research speakers’ Twitter usernames beforehand. Keep them on a piece of paper or notepad for easy reference. 6. Confirm the event hashtag. Find out what the official hashtag for the event is, and make sure you use that watch out for typos. If there’s isn’t one, make a nice short one up check it’s … Keep reading →
by Rob Cottingham | Sep 12, 2012 | Everything Else, Social Signal
After reviewing 1,000 Facebook posts and updates from 20 non-profits with large followings on the site, Capulet’s Theo Lamb and Darren Barefoot can reporta) that it’s a really good idea to get other people to tally the metrics for 1,000 separate posts …
by Rob Cottingham | Sep 7, 2012 | Everything Else, Social Signal
Every once in a while, titans team up. Sometimes the results are catastrophic (Lex Luthor, meet Brainiac) — but once in a while, you get something so wonderful (“You got chocolate in my peanut butter!”) it’s almost enough to rehabilitate the word “sy…
by Rob Cottingham | Sep 7, 2012 | Everything Else
For several years now, my friend Ian Reid has been fighting an extremely rare breed of tumor called a chordoma. He blogs about it at The Real Story – along with his posts on politics. A few days ago, those two topics converged in a remarkable post... by Rob Cottingham | Sep 6, 2012 | Everything Else
It’s hard to think of many other occasions when more is riding on a speechwriter’s craft than the moment when a presidential candidate officially accepts nomination. My biases are probably pretty clear, but for the record, I dearly hope President Barack... by Rob Cottingham | Sep 4, 2012 | Everything Else
You can find it here. I’m going to take it for a spin, liveblogging a pre-recorded episode of Nikita.
