So, as part of my new blog tradition, I want to use a Monday morning post to highlight some of the wonkish nits to pick more technical sides to writing and speech that so many of us communicators love.  A great source of these things often is the folks at Ragan.com, who send me a daily email of various snippets that
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As a communications director, I’ve been asked to provide advice and guidance for professionals interested in starting a blog.  (In my case, these folks are lawyers, who, you might guess, have no shortage of opinions but who also are very cautious about sharing them in a public forum like a blog.)  The first bit of guidance I usually give them is
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My daughter had a sleepover party this weekend, and there was the usual best dramatic performance by a 12-year-old girl, the award rotating among the group by the hour.  Not surprisingly, my wife the planner and supervisor was exhausted by the end of the evening — 10:30 for us old folks — but the girls weren’t even close to settling
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In a word:  No.  I just had the experience of telling folks at my law firm that the firm has a presence on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn.  They were surprised.  I was not surprised by their surprise. It seems the work of a communicator, or communications in general, is Sisyphean.  No matter how many times you think is appropriate or acceptable
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