A picture no longer represents a thousand words. And so it is with our Canadian Maple Leaf, even when it lies softly nestled in the green zone of our new $20 polymer based bill. It represents 35 million people going about their every day lives, making change in the world. The new bill, however, has … Read more
Lines were all abuzz as to what Jodie Foster, aged 50 and an actress since she was 3 years old said, yet didn’t actually say at the 2013 Golden Globes.
Imagine 47 years to assemble the words, that lasted but a few moments and captured the desire for her privacy, developed over all those years.
She chose to express her single state, her sexual preferences and what she values and yet NOT say the actual words that Hollywood has been waiting for her to say.
Another famous “Armstrong” in this week’s news, but this one, not heard from, at least not as much as we expect these days. In our highly connected world, we expect posts, comments, likes and videos at least by the 11 p.m. news cut off!
Do YOU think it’s better in Lance Armstrong’s case to remain silent, and not defend with details the stripping of his 7 Tour de France titles and it’s impact on a 14 year career in competitive cycling?
Should Armstrong stand silent and let history’s judgement chips fall where they may?
Neil Armstrong truly went where no man had gone before when he became the first human to touch down and then walk our moon’s surface.
He’s been a part of my life since I was in grade school. I had joined the many millions around the world who watched on all our black and white TV screens and held our breaths as he landed on his feet and took that historic first step.
Will you get your message over the noise of the crowds and through the hurtles along our way this year?
Summer Olympic Games, set to go every four years, are on, yet You are in your starting blocks daily, training to finish well in your daily trials and meets.
Will you make it to your personal finish line?
Yes, brevity is best in a message. Good advice for a first hearing or when you are given an opportunity to introduce yourself, your product or your service.
To achieve a clean, clear and easily understood yet short message takes time. You likely know from your own writing experience that it may take many drafts to create a final piece of communication.
At 7:30 a.m one day last week I was invited to “Tell us about yourself?” by the host of the networking group whose breakfast meeting I was attending. The expectant faces turned towards me were open, interested and they were on a time limit. They had parking meters on their minds. Their egg breakfasts were … Read more
“Be the Message and Communicate in Any Medium” is adapted from Helena’s June Communication Culture Column for The Afro News.
When we prepare to communicate with others, we now have a lot of choices on the “medium.” Is it going to be a pen and paper, a text, a phone call, an email, a public social media post or a private in-mail to get your individual message across?
Contemplating brand messages and how we ingest them in our consumer culture came to me well before any consideration of breakfast today.
It landed via tweet from a marketing colleague now super wellness coach, Carol Hutchinson. Her post led me to read “HartBeat.” This edition of The Hartman Group’s newsletter has all kinds of tasty connections to the things I find most delicious in language: information, insight into culture, analysis of cultural trends and how these messages are communicated in our every day choices – and evidence of all this in our food selections.
To support my passionate cry for keeping pens, pencils, crayons and the magical markers as our tools on creative quests, I posted a study taken from the Huffington Post, in July 2011. Now, The Wall Street Journal has joined us in the campaign to connect to our creative potential with a fun, old-fashioned “communication tool”. Apparently it’s all in the wrists.