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How to encourage people to accept the facts – a scientific method
It’s a very common challenge – how to encourage people to pay attention to, and make decisions based on facts and not myths, rumours and misperceptions.
Does Prime Minister Justin Trudeau say “umm” too much? Does it really matter?
Umm, yes it does eventually but not nearly as much as many people might suggest. An article in the National Post today is highlighting a verbal tic the Prime Minister has within his speech patterns. He says “umm,” often. There’s video of one response to a reporter on YouTube in which he says it 50…
Doing a media interview by phone
Interviews by phone – for the last three decades (my entire time in media and communications) this is the most common type of interview. There are a few reasons for that. Print journalists have never had enough time to meet enough people in person; these days they’re rarely allowed out of the office. Most radio…
3 social media ideas to build relationships with news media
“Hey, you’re the Social Media Mayor”
Tara Veer still shakes her head when she thinks of that moment. Newly elected as Red Deer Mayor in 2013, a lady approached her at an event and applied the friendly label. “I was really struck by it because I hadn’t self-identified as that but what she was expressing was how much we use social…
