Steve Harrison: Publicity Power
Steve Harrison teaches authors, bloggers, Internet marketers, and others how to remain in the Publicity Spotlight. Here are a few key strategies for leveraging the media.
Month: May 2012
Social Media For Technical Writers
There are now many social media avenues by which technical writers could use to provide the information required by their target audience. We have FaceBook, Twitter, YouTube, Blogging, Pinterest to just to name a few. With all these social media mediums, do we still need to provide paper documentation or should we just answer questions …
Is Siri Stalking You?
What does your Siri history say about you? How would you feel if we told you that the phone a great deal of your employees are carting around has transmitted data listing every new place they’ve visited in the past several months? Oh, and it’s also copied every entry in their contact list and every …
CFC and Planning for the Fall, Part II
By now, CFC charities know the numbers and total dollar amount of the gifts pledged to them during the CFC Fall campaign. So, if you’re in the CFC, have you asked yourself if you’re satisfied with the results of your last CFC campaign? If yes, great, if no, let me share a few tips that …
More Keys to Easily Accomplishing More – Part 2
Guest Blogger – Jacqueline Ryan Brodnitzki, President , Conscious Success LLC In my previous blog post we introduced the 4 keys to easily accomplish more and discussed the first two keys in detail. As a reminder, here are the 4 Keys to accomplishing more: Become aware of your attention Notice when your attention is strongest …
Career Success Part 2: Get Ahead of the Crowd
The person who is going to be successful is not going to succeed just because of good work. That is a given. It is expected. You get ahead of and stay ahead of the crowd by managing your competitive advantage. Here are three ways to do it. 1. Think of Your Career As A Business. …
Stop Micro Managing: Start Smart Managing
If I was a fly on the wall what would I hear your employees say? Would it something like this? “They won’t allow me to make even the simplest decisions.” “The red tape here makes it very difficult to do my job.” “Management has to sign off on everything; they don’t trust me.” A big …
K is for Killer and KISS slides
Let’s begin with those Killer slides. These days, there is just no excuse for poorly designed slides. Pick up a book like Resonate by Nancy Duarte, or Presentation Zen by Garr Reynolds. You will quickly see that less is more, that slides need to be visually appealing, and that you can use the rule of …
Executive Director, Deputy Director & Founders – Part One
The following is the first part of an email exchange with a reader: “My partner and I are creating a non-profit organization, and we will serve as Executive Director (me) and Deputy Director (my partner) as well as, of course, founders.” Executive Director and Deputy Director are titles of functioning roles. Founder is a description …
Peak Performance Tuesdays
Give your team a mid-week opportunity to celebrate. A poll carried out among British workers suggested that we are at our best at precisely 11.33 am on a Tuesday. Mondays are spent recovering from the weekend and coping with the realisation that there is a full working week ahead, but by Tuesday morning most of …