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Media Training Insider’s Mike Bako on WTGM 960 Sports Talk breaking down the NFL lockout
Posted by TJ Walker in Analysis, Audio, Media, Media Training, Press Room on April 27, 2011
Ann Coulter, Sound Bite Queen
Posted by TJ Walker in Analysis, Best Speaker of the Day, blogging, Body Language, celebrities, Government & Politics, Politics on February 14, 2011
Once again Ann Coulter stole the show at the annual conservative gathering in Washington known as CPAC. 10,000 conservative activists listened to dozens of presidential candidates and pundits. Here’s an example of what made Coulter so popular:
“[President Obama] turned over our entire healthcare system to the Department of Motor Vehicles. You know those interminable lines at the DMV. Now imagine you’re standing in one of those lines, but this time you’re in a hospital gown that’s open in back. That’s Obamacare.”
Old People Now Using Social Media Almost as Much as the Young
Posted by TJ Walker in blogging, Communications, Social Media on December 27, 2010
Social media has now morphed from the “new high technology” thingy that you people like to dabble with in order to feel cool to simply “normal.” It’s become normal to use social media in the way it’s been normal to use a cell phone the last 10 years and normal to use a regular phone for 50 years before that.
The other trend? Blogging, at least at stand alone blogging sites, is dropping among the young.
Success Goal for Internet startups: Getting your name to become a verb
Posted by TJ Walker in Analysis, Best Speaker of the Day, blogging, Body Language on December 1, 2010
Fascinating New York Times piece today on how the most successful companies have turned their names into verbs that replace more generic words. Not so long ago, companies fought against becoming “Kleenex.” Now, the idea is to become a part of your customers’ mental space. More at the New York Times.
If you aren’t blogging, why not?
Posted by TJ Walker in Analysis, blogging, internet marketing, Pitching, Presentation Skills Training on November 30, 2010
Martin Zwilling knows all about why entrepreneurs don’t have the time or energy to blog, given all the other demands on them. But he enumerates 7 very specific benefits to blogging. I think we are closely getting to the point where a blog is seen as a business card, you don’t necessarily get credit for having one, but you look strange, odd and are penalized if you don’t have one. More at Business Insider.
What this TJWalker.com blog is trying to be
Posted by TJ Walker in blogging, Communications, Crisis Communications, Media, News, publishing, reputation management on November 21, 2010
About me
TJWalker is a news site featuring communications analysis of the top stories of the day. I am looking at the news through the filter of how the messages are communicated and how the newsmakers are communicating.
The site is for news junkies, public affairs hounds, and people who work in or have an interest in any of the communications industries, including public relations, journalism, marketing, public affairs, corporate communications, investor relations and crisis counseling.
Homeless woman makes nearly $100K/yr blogging
Posted by TJ Walker in advertising, blogging on November 15, 2010
Why aren’t we all doing this? Read more at Ad Age
Rule # One on the Internet, there are no rules
Posted by TJ Walker in blogging, Social Media on November 5, 2010
It has long been a mantra of the Internet savvy that all articles and videos on the web must be short. Anything longer than 200 words or 90 seconds is supposed to spell doom. Well, not so fast, Longreads is a website devoted to really long, substantive news articles and it’s doing quite fine, thank you. The Times gives it a very positive review today. New media lesson: if you have a passion for something and you can find a few more like-minded people out there, then do it on the internet because you are likely to find a significant number of people like you on the Internet, even if everyone says you are breaking the rules.
If you aren’t yet convinced on how Internet video is Changing Everything in the world, you need to watch this video
Posted by TJ Walker in Analysis, blogging, Communications, Media, Media Training, News, Presentation Skills Training, Public Speaking Skills, publishing, Social Media on November 2, 2010
Dawn Fotopulos: “Best Small Business Help.com” on TJ Walker Interactive- presentation training
Posted by TJ Walker in Analysis, blogging, Body Language, Government & Politics, PowerPoint, Presentation Skills Training, Professional Speakers, Public Speaking Skills, Social Media, Social Speaking, Video, Workplace on October 7, 2010
Beware False Social Media Prophets
Posted by TJ Walker in Analysis, blogging, Communications, Media, Social Media on October 2, 2010
I am constantly amazed at how many people I know selling their services as social media experts, how to make money using social media and how to build a social media business. The shocking thing is that when I dig a little deeper to check out their background, I invariably find out that they don’t have any real social media successes or audiences to speak of.
One well known sales guru I know just did a big workshop on how speakers can use social media to build their business. He doesn’t even have a blog! Good Lord!
Study: People Spend More Than Half Their Day Consuming Media
Posted by TJ Walker in Analysis, CEOs/Financial, Communications, Sales and Marketing, Social Media on September 25, 2010
By Brent Lang
Citing a new Ipsos OTX study of 7,000 online consumers ages 13 to 74, Friend said that thanks to smartphones and laptops, people are now spending one-half of their waking days interacting with media, and have increased their media consumption by an hour per day over the last two years.
Blogs only work if you are consistent – communications media training
Posted by TJ Walker in blogging, Communications, Help, internet marketing, Media, Social Media on September 23, 2010
In the process of building my own blog roll at tjwalker.com I have reviewed other people’s lists of the top 100 public speaking blogs. The big surprise? Nearly half the blogs that made someone’s top 100 list just a year or so ago have been either abandoned or postings are so infrequent they might as well be dead. I’ve also started looking at more of the web sites of people I admire from the National Speakers Association. Again, my big surprise is that people I consider really successful and as thought leaders either don’t have a blog or they’ve only made three postings all year, which is the same as not having a blog.
Wildly successful people like Seth Godin, Tom Peters, and Guy Kawasaki blog every day. But many people a notch or so below don’t. Why? My theory is that they have just never gotten over the hump where they started to get real or tangible benefits from blogging, so it became an easily expendable activity.
Can athletes Tweet their way to fortune? $$$
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Top speaking stories of the day 9/20/10- TJ Walker Interactive
Posted by TJ Walker in Analysis, Communications, Crisis Communications, Government & Politics, Great Lectures, Professional Speakers, Public Speaking Skills, Video on September 20, 2010
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Lady Gaga To Attend Maine Anti-’Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ Rally
Posted by TJ Walker in Analysis, Social Media, Social Speaking, speech writing, Story Telling, Technology, Video on September 20, 2010
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