Archive for the ‘Communication’ Category
Client News: StopColonCancerNow.com Launches
One of our health care clients, AmSurg Corporation here in Nashville, recently launched StopColonCancerNow.com, a national awareness and prevention campaign. Throughout March — Colon Cancer Awareness Month — the company will be doing national media relations, local events and social media stuff to get the word out.
Parthenon Supports TEDxNashville
As soon as I heard TED was coming to Nashville (in the form of TEDxNashville), I knew I had to get involved. TED had been my own personal Facebook-style addiction for almost two years now, i.e., while my wife learned which of our friends posted the latest round of baby photos on the popular social networking site, I was parked on the couch with my laptop watching video after video on TED.com. I even created a DIY Smartboard in my wife's first grade classroom after watching Johnny Lee's Wiimote wizardry.Write for Readers
The title got me, and I immediately clicked through to read a health newsletter's article about the "25 diet-busting foods you should never eat." Strangely enough, the most valuable information was in the comments.
Sprouter: A New Social Networking Tool to Grow Ideas
Do you have a great entrepreneurial idea and want an unbiased - yet experienced - opinion? Asking family and friends what they think of your brainchild or next business venture can be helpful, but wouldn’t it be ideal to get feedback from fellow entrepreneurs experienced and knowledgeable in your industry of interest?
Coworking Coming to Nashville
Our very own Matt Bigelow writes the Nashville Pulse section of Digital Nashville's eNewsletter. This month he wrote a piece about Coworking, or a type of work environment that "targets independent creative types who desire the sense of community and collaboration that comes from a shared work environment, without the bureaucracy of a corporate job."Manners in the Workplace
Are you rude at work? Am I?
Etiquette by definition is a show of respect for another. But at work, the lines are often blurred.
I saw this article on CNN and it got me thinking about what’s rude and what’s not. I put my napkin on my lap, say please and thank you (well, most of the time), and keep the cell phone calls to a minimum. But I don’t really mind elbows on the table and can’t remember the last time I said “sir” or “ma’am”.
Visually Thinking: A Book Review
As a communicator, I find few things more painful than sitting through a poorly executed presentation where the presenter literally reads his word-overloaded slides to me. Too many people use PowerPoint and too few actually know how to use the tool well. Enter Dan Roam. Dan contends that anyone can be a great communicator by simply taking a more graphic approach to presenting. In his book, The Back of the Napkin, Dan outlines how a few visuals are often more powerful than pages and pages of text. He calls this idea “visual thinking.”
In business, silence wrecks relationships. Are you talking?
When it comes to employees, customers and members, mum is not the word. Why you should get strategic with your internal and external messages.Communication is at the heart of building business relationships: top-to-bottom, bottom-to-top, peer-to-peer, internally and externally. The best relationships are two-way with active dialogue. You can have a solid plan and vision, employees with phenomenal capacity and business integrity – but not communicating to your employees, customers and members can be toxic.
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