Publicity 2.0: When you still need to get some press
You can define yourself all day, but media stories still help confirm your reputation.
Confident communication in uncertain times
Why leaders must start a healthy dialogue with internal and external audiences, in the middle of the storm.
Faceless, or firebrand? What kinds of leaders are we looking for?
A reflection and a speech excerpt on the need for visionary leaders rather than “humble, self-effacing, diligent and resolute souls.”
Speech geeks, gather round: speech script becomes evidence in investigation
The New York Times reports that an investigation of the cause of Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s death might not be the hypertension and ensuing brain hemorrhage that’s always been the story. …
A good old-fashioned partisan barnburner
Democratic New Jersey Senator Robert Menendez spoke Nov. 21 on the U.S. Senate floor in favor of health care reform, in favor of the Democratic Party.
What you call a mistake, your enemies call a lie: A cautionary tale
Some speechwriters are better fact-checkers than others. It appears that Michelle Obama’s speechwriter—the one who wrote what I thought was an intellectually dishonest address in support of Chicago’s failed Olympic …
Remembering Chuck Francis, fondly
Chuck Francis died on Wednesday. What you won’t read in his obit, which reviews his happy career as a speechwriter and general communicommando at IBM for 30 years and his …
A speechwriting lesson, on the 146th anniversary of the Gettysburg Address
Speechwriter’s speechwriter Tack Cornelius reminds his brethren that President Lincoln delivered his great Gettysburg Address on this date in 1863: Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth …
File this Veteran’s Day speech in your Memorial Day Folder
In speech titled “A Debt I Am Proud to Owe,” a veteran shares his gratitude for what his military service gave him
FREE TOOL: Evaluating speaker effectiveness
What if there was just a quick form your clients could fill out to assess their own strengths and weaknesses in the wide variety of relevant categories? There is.