In most cases containing physical gestures is key to effective public presentations. Looking like a windmill, arms flailing, is generally not recommended, at least in most American public forums.
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But consider the rest of the world – in particular Italy – where experts say some 250 different gestures are used in everyday conversation.
Read more Red Flags Over The NFL
The NFL can’t win for losing:
· Last February 4 we posted an item on this blog taking the National Football League to task for failing to communicate promptly with the media and the public when the lights went out in the New Orleans Superdome in the middle of the Superbowl.
Read more The “Gross” Factor: Social Media Monitoring in the Retail Food Sector
Monitoring social media is essential for any business, but because of its potential “Gross Factor” it’s especially important in the food industry.
Many will remember the seminal disgusting “prank” YouTube video posted four years ago by two Domino’s Pizza employees that garnered global headlines, resulted in felony charges against the pair, and damaged the pizza chain’s brand for months.
Read more Booz Allen & Edward Snowden – What did they know? When did they know it?
At the moment, Booz Allen Hamilton is what is called “collateral damage” from the revelation that self-confessed government document leaker Edward Snowden worked at the government contracting/consulting firm.
The immediate damage was to the company stock which was down as much as 5% after the leak and Snowden’s association was made known. Read more
Where’s the Beef? Black Angus version
We don’t usually advise clients to waste time in media interviews bashing the competition. Reporters like it but it doesn’t benefit your cause to have your one and only quote about “them” instead of your message.
Read more PR Contest: How many other ways could the IRS have confessed its improper audits of Tea Party names?
All joking aside, what the IRS auditors did in targeting Tea Party groups was just dumb, dumber and dumbest.
Even worse was their PR “plan” to tell the world via a planted question at an American Bar Association meeting.
Read more What NOT to Assume About Controversial Quotes
Abercrombie & Fitch CEO Mike Jeffries’ comments in an interview about how he doesn’t want plus-sized girls and “losers” shopping in his stores has angered a lot of people, particularly moms.
Read more Getting Good Ink
A story on low morale among federal workers on NPR’s Morning Editionthis morning contained one of those memorable quotes of the type that we at CommCore work with our clients to create. Read more
OMG! Private Rants Are Public
One of the more recent viral internet events involves the leaked email rant from a University of Maryland sorority sister. The profane-laced letter quickly went global and is now one of the more popular memes (move over grumpy cat) spawning photos, hilarious videos, and chatter.
Read more Think Before you Tweet
Justin Bieber recently became a social media target – not just someone to follow – after his visit to the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam. He signed the guest book saying he hoped that the teenage Holocaust victim “would have been a belieber,” causing an uproar once it was posted on the museum’s Facebook site.
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