Rehearsal makes perfect for a video newbie

On Friday I did a new post on the Communitelligence Communication Skills blog about the rehearsal I did with a client new to video production. I encourage you to read it to learn some new tips about how to make such a rehearsal work really well for you. In addition,...

IT as strategic partner – leadership op for communicators

I just did a new post on the Communitelligence Communication Skills Blog. We’ve been doing a lot of work lately with IT professionals and last week a colleague put out a query about working with IT. It is obviously a hot topic. Some of what I talk about in my...

How connected we are

I just finished presenting a webinar with NewsGator. Before the Q&A was done I had several e-mails from attendees and several new Twitter followers. I thought about blogging about the content, but one of the new Twitter followers has already done that on his blog....

Discipline and documentation

I spent a day and a half this week with a client on intranet/portal governance. They are excited – that’s right “excited” – about getting more disciplined and documenting processes and accountabilities. They talked about formalizing currently...

Policy and code of conduct for social tech

As I was presenting today at the Communitelligence conference on social technology, I realized I’ve never actually blogged about policy and code of conduct for social technology. It’s something we help our clients with often and there are some key...

Social technology doesn’t make you more authentic

There was a lot of talk this week at the IABC world conference about authenticity. Some seem to think that social technology makes authenticity possible. Culture, attitude, personality, familiarity with the topic – these enable an authentic voice. Social...