Continuing on my storytelling kick from last week here… Last weekend I had the pleasure of seeing Ira Glass speak in Seattle about the history of This American Life and the masterful art of storytelling that goes behind each and every episode. Interestingly, one of the very first posts I did on this blog more […]

NOTE: This blog also appears on Waggener Edstrom’s Thinkers & Doers blog. Get ready. The giant social networking behemoth known as Facebook has finally stirred from its hibernation in location-based land. A move of this nature by Facebook is undoubtedly always followed by a flurry of activity by communications pros as everyone races to establish […]

Pathos. Sure, it may be a word that you haven’t thought about since half hearing it uttered by a droning professor during a random communications class back in college. But, as communications professionals, “pathos” or the art of emotional appeal, is something we all embrace as a core function of our job. Whether drafting a press release, brainstorming […]