The global pandemic has caused a fusillade of company and industry messaging. Everyone’s got their examples – I’ve probably received twenty or thirty unique messages in the past 2-3 days.
The global pandemic has caused a fusillade of company and industry messaging. Everyone’s got their examples – I’ve probably received twenty or thirty unique messages in the past 2-3 days.
Before modern social media, my college fraternity shared a group e-mail listserv, for planning and buffoonery. If you wrote more than three lines, you‘d be shamed. Nobody wanted to read
We gave you our best reasons why your organization’s social media (like all things) must match your command team’s tone. This last post was light on “how,” so here’s our
Let me know if this cycle sounds familiar: Spend money on food. Don’t use the food. The food expires. Throw the food away. Let’s try to think of our interactions
Remember this post? There’s more to the formula. Review – Everyone in my shop knows everything, all the time – this is called shared understanding. Understanding enables action. Action gets
Know that guy who accidentally hits Reply All on an e-mail chain, and sends all recipients into an uproar? We prefer the guy who purposely hits Reply All to go wide
By Commander Lesley Lykins. Every now and then, professionals we trust send in guest posts because it’s their professional responsibility to make the joint Public Affairs community better. Pay close
Microsoft Outlook works for you, not the other way around. Never let yourself become a slave to your inbox. “Just digging through e-mail” is yet another thing staff officers say
I often get emails that end with, “I hope this helps.” I hope you hope it helps or else why did you write the email? It would have been more
Only communicate in order to enable action. If you’re about to communicate for anything other than action, stop and wonder why. Even informing or making someone aware of something enables