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.
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?
A Dow Chemical exec did a take-off on this to amazing dramatic effect to open a speech.
Dow executive communication director Fletcher Dean will take the stage as part of my jam session later this month at the big executive communication conference in Phoenix, and show you how it was done.
(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.)
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.)
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.)
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