Sun Microsystems’ Jonathan Schwartz was the first big CEO blogger and he’s the first CEO to resign via Twitter. If you’re interested, here’s the story.
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Vital Speeches of the Day podcast: EXECUTIVE COMMUNICATION FORUM—How to avoid becoming a h-h-h-h-glib writerFebruary 4, 2010By David Murray EXECUTIVE COMMUNICATION FORUM: How to avoid becoming a h-h-h-h-glib writer David Murray dares to ask, and his speechwriter correspondents dare to answer: How do you avoid becoming a hack? (4 min.) Click here for more FREE podcasts on the subject of executive communications. If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to our RSS feed! For executive communication pros, the main event airs after the Super BowlFebruary 4, 2010By David Murray This rare bit of Executive Communication Must-See TV is Undercover Boss, and the premier is right after the Super Bowl, on CBS. See communication consultant Carol Kinsey Goman’s preview in the Washington Post. Because your faithful editor will be, shall we say, immersed in the Super Bowl festivities this weekend—visiting a journalist colleague in Gulfport, Miss. this weekend—Vital Speeches is leaning on you, dear blog reader, to review the show in the comments section here. Help us out. Help all of us out. Is this a show we all ought to watch together every Sunday, or one we should we should stay away from in droves? If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to our RSS feed! Clever palindrome technique makes grabby speech openingFebruary 3, 2010By David Murray A Dow Chemical exec did a take-off on this to amazing dramatic effect to open a speech. (By the way, it’s still not too late to register for this show, to be held Feb. 24-25 in Phoenix. And as the band leader, I’m authorized to make special backstage deals. E-mail me at vseditor@mcmurry.com.) If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to our RSS feed! How do you make sure you don’t become a h-h-h-h-h—low-quality writer?February 1, 2010By David Murray In this article, I dare to address the “H” word, and give a few of my tips on how not to become, even in the corporate communication hum, a hack. (There, I said it.) What are your techniques? Or have you given in? Confess your sins! If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to our RSS feed! INTERVIEW: The Day After—Analysis of President Obama’s State of the Union AddressJanuary 28, 2010By David Murray INTERVIEW: The Day After—Analysis of President Obama’s State of the Union Address The stakes were high for this year’s State of the Union address. We ask speechwriting impresario Dan Gerstein for a rhetorician’s take on the big speech. (8 min.) Click here for more FREE podcasts on the subject of executive communications. If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to our RSS feed! SOTU, Steve Jobs speeches offer lessons in CEO communicationJanuary 28, 2010By David Murray Corporate speechwriters will want to check out speechwriter and faithful Vital Speeches correspondent Jeff Porro’s fine piece in the Washington Post online today. If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to our RSS feed! Most speechwriterly analysis of SOTUJanuary 27, 2010By David Murray At Dan Gerstein’s Gotham Ghostwriters blog, Presidential speechwriters and other rhetoric pros tackle the SOTU from every angle that we care about. If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to our RSS feed! SOTU drinking gameJanuary 26, 2010By David Murray Here at Vital Speeches, we take the State of the Union speech seriously, so you don’t have to. But sober or not, join your speechwriting mates and rhetoric chums (and me) during the speech, on the Gotham Ghostwriters’ real-time SOTU yak-off. If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to our RSS feed! Blackboards and teleprompters don’t mixJanuary 26, 2010By David Murray First My Pet Goat, and now President Obama is reading from a teleprompter in the classroom? Maybe presidents should just stay out of classrooms.
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