5 Ways Incompetent Leaders Dis-Empower Good People
An egotistical need for control – in those with positional authority – dis-empowers others. In reality, incompetent leaders are afraid of empowered people.
Quote of the Day: Video over IP
Video over IP… was an important evolution for the industry. The AV Industry has been steeped in hardware based, point-to-point video distribution technologies for far too long. Granted, we’ve come a long way from the days of five-wire bnc and the like, but we still have a long way to go..
Mike Brandes, CTS
3 solutions to social media brand problems
Brand managers can forget what social media is truly about and begin to shout at their potential audience, assuming people will happily participate with their content and ultimately buy their products. When they start marketing their brands online and see no results after a month, they give up and claim that social media doesn’t work.…
7 essential Google Analytics reports every marketer must know
For marketers, there are few skills more important than a deep understanding of Google Analytics and its conversion measurement capabilities.
Technology Quote of the Day
“We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works.”
― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt
Humanize your content, and move beyond marketing.People do business with people, not brands.
Something strange happens to some PR and marketing professionals when they approach social media for a brand. Brand managers can forget what social media is truly about and begin to shout at their potential audience, assuming people will happily participate with their content and ultimately buy their products. When they start marketing their brands…
Quote of the day by Elie Wiesel
Holocaust survivor and Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel speaks of the importance of the “otherness of the other:” “We are not alone in this world. God alone is alone. Human beings are not. We are here to be together with others, and I insist on the others — which means, in some places, in some groups,…
Quote of the Day about Radio
“In certain places where you need to work with certain demographic groups, whether that’s women or Latinos, radio forms a great level of targeting, that you might see employed in some of these races that maybe wouldn’t have occurred otherwise. Radio may afford a form of advertising that can be targeted specifically to certain media…
There are now nearly 5 PR pros for every reporter
The American Society of News Editors found that the number of U.S. newspapers staffers has dropped 40 percent in just eight years, from 55,000 journalists in 2007 to 32,900 in 2015. Because newspapers are typically the starting point for original coverage that gets picked up by other media outlets, the drop in newspaper reporters…
The importance of nonverbals
Body language affects how others see us, but it may also change how we see ourselves. Social psychologist Amy Cuddy shows how “power posing” — standing in a posture of confidence, even when we don’t feel confident — can affect testosterone and cortisol levels in the brain, and might even have an impact on our…
