PRWeek has been very kind and given me a soapbox, featuring me as a PRWeek Guest Blogger. I’m posting throughout this week on my take on pressing issues in the PR industry.

My first post of the week is in response to Forbes’s story “CEO as Storyteller in Chief.” Here’s a quick excerpt of my takeaways in my PRWeek post:

“As PR professionals, we need to provide the C-suite with sharp storytelling skills and the multi-channel expertise to take these conversations to market. Our mantra needs to be ‘audience-centric, channel-neutral communications.’ Whether we’re Tweeting, blogging, or speaking with a journalist, it all comes down to telling a compelling story to the right audiences via the right channels.”

To read the full post, please visit PRWeek.

I’ve also dissected for executives and entrepreneurs how to tell a great story in a prior post on BiteMarks.

The Magic of Storytelling

April 4, 2009

“A need to tell and hear stories is essential to the species Homo sapiens – second in necessity apparently after nourishment and before love and shelter. Millions survive without love or home, almost none in silence…the sound of story is the dominant sound of our lives…” – A Palpable God, by Reynolds Price
Telling stories is [...]

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Data visualization: a key element to digital storytelling

March 23, 2009

All you online junkies out there have likely stumbled upon cool data visualization projects that reside on the internet.  Whether it’s watching the growth of Wal-Mart over time, or visualizing conversations and connections on Twitter, the concept is catching fire as the volume of data grows almost exponentially by the day, the availability of that [...]

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