Coffee Brake! Where are they now? (Your consumers, I mean).

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On Tuesday, I was fortunate enough to be invited to speak to current students at my alma mater, Florida State University, and to meet with Dean of the College of Communication & Information, Larry Dennis, and Director of the School of Communication, Dr. Steve McDowell.  The conversation was about what comes next.  We could have talked for days.

Every organization, large or small, has to stay in touch with its audience.  But never before has the means to do that changed so rapidly and so constantly.  So how do you not only keep up, but [...keep reading]

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Coffee Brake! Lessons from top brands.

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At this week’s Business Development Institute event, “Social Integration – Harmonizing Social Channels into the Marketing, Communications & Service Platforms,” I was able to participate in some roundtable discussions and listen to several leading corporations present case studies regarding their use of social media.

Going into it I questioned whether or not I would gain any insight outside of the use of Facebook and Twitter.  Us media folk aren’t fond of the 8 a.m. start time.  Happily, I left with a great amount of new perspective and knowledge about the thought process behind leveraging social [...keep reading]

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Coffee Brake! Are you a perfectionist?

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Over some really amazing butternut squash soup, I was relaying to a good editor/director/producer friend, Morgan Nichols, my challenge of wanting to do a lot, all the time, and immediately.  But I want everything to be perfect.  So I tweak.  And I edit.  And I perfect.  And nothing gets finished.  I become my own bottleneck.

Morgan suggested the concept of treating things less preciously.  That by creating more, more often, there will be some really great things, and some really not-so-great things, being produced. But there are things being produced. And [...keep reading]

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