Great online panels: Tips and tricks
You don’t often hear someone say “I went to this awful panel and Susie Creamcheese was just great on it.”Continue Reading
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On Organizational Communication to the Previously Disenfranchised
We’re being deluged with announcements from organizations about their new programs to benefit people they have previously underserved, ignored, or outright disenfranchised. Many of these announcements are problematic. Here’s why.
Email tips for organizations in times of pandemic
I’m not a health professional, so I can’t tell you much about dealing with COVID-19 but as a communications professional,Continue Reading
Curiosity meets fear in Alternative Truths: Endgame
Everywhere I go, they’re talking about paths to the future. What will our food, and our food supplies, be like?Continue Reading
Lyft—where reality meets the road
I had, by this time, commandeered the phone. If my mother had seen the screen she would have spent the next 30 minutes in the Dunkin’ parking lot, refusing to agree to the cancellation fee and trying to figure out how she could call directly Lyft and give them hell.
Foresight, hindsight, and the mid-term elections
“Bonding over stories is an ancient, primal pastime. Bards and tale-tellers kept the lights on through the dark times, and hopefully we can do the same.”
Where will we be After the Orange?
The writers and editors who put together the Alternative Truths and More Alternative Truths anthologies have taken a collective leap into ourContinue Reading
How (and why) to write while furious
How can I write about marketing communications topics when I’m shaking with anger and shame about the political situation in this country? Joe Hage helps me figure things out.
Anthologies: Variations on a Theme
The Metaphorosis Books anthology Reading 5 x 5 was designed to provide insight into the process by which authors write to a detailed theme.
More Alternative Truths: Stories from the Resistance
In “The Right Man for the Job,” desperate Democrats hold a séance to bring Molly Ivins, Adlai Stevenson II, and Walter Cronkite back from the afterlife to “do something” about Trump.
