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Corporate Communication Lessons from Children’s Stories
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Corporate Communication Lessons from Children’s Stories

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111 books in 2011: #79/111: Get Content, Get Customers

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What is it about?

A whole book about content marketing, yeah! Joe Pullizzi and New Barrett write about creating your content strategy, choosing your platform and providing information.

What can I learn?

Integrate your content marketing: This is an important first step. Often there is…

The Epic List of Most Annoying Sayings

Diane Schwartz, SVP and Group Publisher of PR News, provides this fun, if not “epic,” list of overused sayings.

Keep Your Communication Human: one of 26 points in this A to Z Corporate Communication post
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Keep Your Communication Human: one of 26 points in this A to Z Corporate Communication post

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Not Dead Yet! 7 Reasons to Consider Print

Content Marketing Institute’s Joe Pulizzi makes the case (seven, to be exact) for print and why blanket statements like “Print is dead,” are malarky.

10 Signs Your Brand is In Trouble

Ken Hanson, CEO of Hanson Dodge Creative, gives us this primer of symptoms ailing brands have in common.

Forecast: Ad Industry Faces Tough Year

2012 might not be the worst year agencies and marketers have seen but it definitely won’t be the best, either, reports Andrew McMains in AdWeek.

Six Ways to Write a Bad Business Blog

There are lots of ways to ruin your company blog, but these six are among the most egregious.

Via Inc.com by Jeff Haden

10 Worst Corporate Gifts

Tis the season, so beware of corporate gifts that might leave the wrong impression.

Via Portfolio.com

Straight Talk from LinkedIn: Enough with the Buzz Words

Across the board, corporate speak is out of control. In places where corporate types gather to hawk their corporate skills, it’s bound to be worse. LinkedIn suggests buzzwords are not helping us and may be hurting us

Via Social Times