Awards programs such as IABC/DC Metro's Silver Inkwells are a great place to make new contacts, renew old ones, and learn from the winning entries.
Team Crescenzo on the move
I first met Steve and Cindy Crescenzo a couple of years ago, when I teamed up with Ragan Communications to present a few measurement-oriented workshop for a large government entity.
Having heard of “Team Crescenzo” (as I call them) for years, it thrilled me no end to actually meet them.
I was also a little worried, because I’d thought of Steve for the longest time
as one of those stratospheric communication leaders who might rip me a new one if I said or […]
Words.
We think them.
We write them.
We hear them.
We say them.
We sing them.
Words.
Image: Hello Turkey Toe’s Flickrstream, Creative Commons
They are the stuff we humans are made of, ever since speech was invented (which itself is up for debate).
They are so much a part of our lives, they often become trite.
Yet for us communicators, they are our coin; what we use to demonstrate our knowledge of our craft, our proficiency at our trade, our ability to help our organizations and clients transmit the core of their […]
Yesterday was a bit of a red-letter day. It was my husband’s birthday (and he thanks you kindly for all the good wishes, both here as well as on Twitter), which is a pretty big deal in and of itself.
Over and above that, though, IABC/DC Metro (y’all know I’m current president, right? Disclosure and all…) hosted a very special event: a three-hour writing workshop, sponsored by Johns Hopkins University (additional disclosure, I teach there) and Marketwire, with the renowned Ann Wylie, who […]