Keeping Up With Your Resolutions Three months into the New Year, it’s time to reflect on how resolutions are going. Resolutions typically involve taking steps to improve aspects of your life. A common area that we all want to improve is our career. Did you make goals to grow [...]
How To Facilitate Virtual Meetings For the last 15 years, I have facilitated and moderated meetings – virtual meetings, in-person meetings, strategic planning, focus groups, listening sessions and many more. I loathe meetings. So, it’s a tad ironic that so much of our work starts with meetings. But, I see value [...]
Can Your Audience Read That? Five strategies to write for the reader, not for you. The best business writing needs to stay as simple and straightforward as possible. This maximizes clarity and reduces the possibility of the audience misunderstanding your writing or even worse, ignoring your writing. Simple writing is a [...]
What is Public Relations Anyway? When I graduated from college, with my degree in journalism and public relations I had a cursory knowledge of marketing and advertising. Don’t get me wrong; I had a strong fundamental writing degree, understood PR and was acutely aware of brands and advertising as a hobby [...]
You Aren’t Communicating To The General Public. Try a Persona! I say this a lot. More than I think I should, but still. It’s something I believe in and can sell. Regardless of what you are trying to achieve, if your message and communications strategy is geared toward the general public [...]
10 years old and a barrel of…Authenticity As you’re reading this, Anthology Communications has turned 10, launched its new brand and new blog. As the owner of this company and the person who has treated it as her baby for ten years, I could be cliché and tell you how hard [...]
