Temple Grandin Discusses Her Autistic Mind

March 12, 2010 · Categories: Conference/Event, Language, Video · View Comments 
I recently watched HBO’s wonderfully done biopic Temple Grandin, about an autistic woman of the same name who grew up to graduate from college and become a pioneering animal scientist. The film did a brilliant job of portraying how her autism caused her to perceive the world. In this TED talk, Grandin explains just that. I [...]

Brainstorming

February 25, 2010 · Categories: Books, Language, Organizational Dynamics · View Comments 
Photo courtesy of alex92287 I was at a party not long ago when the topic of brainstorming came up and I said how much I loved the exercise, to which one guy responded with a dismissive wave of the hand. “Brainstorming,” he intoned, “is a waste of time.” His contention was that most of the time devoted to [...]

Wordcloud: Tim Pawlenty’s 2010 State Of The State Address

This is a wordcloud of Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty’s 2010 State of the State speech, via Bloiswire:

Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty's 2010 State of the State Speech Wordcloud

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How To Create A Generic Television News Report

February 18, 2010 · Categories: Keepin' It Real, Language, Video · View Comments 
This is very funny if only for how accurate it is. Found at YouTube from eightySeventh via Holy Kaw!

A/B Testing Using MailChimp By Cary Lenore Walski

February 5, 2010 · Categories: Email Marketing, Language, Minnesota, Online Communication, Video · View Comments 
I had the pleasure of meeting Cary Lenore Walski yesterday at a presentation my Tunheim colleagues and I gave for the Minnesota Council of Nonprofits Communicators workshop. I’ve known Cary from Twitter; it’s always fun to meet the real person behind the username! You can find Cary on Twitter @defiancecary and she blogs at Defiance. She [...]

Persuasion Words

November 29, 2009 · Categories: Conversational Marketing, Language, Online Communication, Video · View Comments 
Some words to consider when communicating online. Found at YouTube from marketingincltd via Holy Kaw!

My Bacon Haiku: No Problem With Bacon

September 8, 2009 · Categories: Conference/Event, Language, Minnesota, Social Networking, Video · View Comments 
There was a bacon haiku poetry contest for the last Minneapolis/Saint Paul Social Media Breakfast but I was too busy to write and submit an entry. It was not for lack of desire and considering how important I think poetry is to social media and strategic communications, I felt obligated to write my own bacon [...]

Poetry Is The Original Social Media

Earlier this year, during a going-away party for two of our interns, I don’t remember how but the Lewis Carroll poem Jabberwocky came up in conversation and it became readily apparent that no one was familiar with the poem. I, of course, was appalled. So I found it online and started reading only to be confronted [...]

Obama’s Millennial Marketers

So what is it about the Millennials that made them such effective advocates for Barack Obama? For the first article in this series about Barack Obama’s online marketing campaign, I took a look at the product itself, candidate Obama. But a leader is no such thing without followers, so today I’ll examine them.  And while people [...]

Need Black Green Livers In DC

That’s a headline from yesterday’s Help A Reporter Out email, a service to which reporters post requests for sources. So, does the reporter need livers from DC that are greenish black? Black with green stripes? Why does a reporter want livers anyway, black, green or otherwise? And what’s so special about livers from DC? [...]

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