What is the difference between Strategic Communication, Public Relations, Public Affairs, and Digital Marketing? Although there are slight differences between the government practices of Strategic Communication and Public Affairs and...
The subject of regulating tech companies has been a sustained topic in mainstream media over the last several years. The topic gained and continued its momentum stemming from several incidents....
Developing an organizational narrative is useful in several ways. The process of developing a narrative is useful because it can serve as a forcing mechanism to address all the variables...
The information environment is constantly changing and it requires the communication planner to continually reassess the strategic context of the organization he or she is working for. Detailed communication plans...
Henry Mintzberg’s 1994 book The Rise and Fall of Strategic Planning is well worth a read if you have never read it. It is probably the most influential work published by...
I arrived back at ISAF Headquarters in January, 2012, and am serving as a Strategic Communication Planner as a part of my SAMS utilization tour. This is the third time I...
I was interested in seeing what Google + was all about just like all the other social media users. After receiving an invite and working on it a day or two,...
We are starting the Design portion of the curriculum here at SAMS, and to kick things off we had an orientation to the topic by listening to some employees of...
Paper.li is a social media site that creates a daily, online newspaper by aggregating the posts of your Twitter or Facebook friends. I learned about it several months ago after seeing...
I turned the news on last night to see the ongoing coverage of the Arizona shootings yesterday. In case you've been under a rock, a 22-year old opened fire outside a...
It's been a while since I've posted anything. Part of it is because I've been extremely busy at work finishing up ILE and for the past 2 months, the Red...
I have a great deal of interest in “soft power” because I think it will become increasingly more important in the years to come out of sheer economic necessity. It is...