New policy allows openly gay adult leaders

Psychologists have found that emotions, such as sadness, fear, anger, and happiness, influence information processing and memory in different ways. We’re more likely to recall events that happened decades ago due how we felt at that time over the details of a business conference call from last week.

This morning I watched the video announcing a monumental policy shift by Boy Scouts of America (BSA) President and former Secretary of Defense, Dr. Robert Gates. As you are most likely aware, the BSA has removed the national...

Does someone who works in CSR and sustainability communications even belong at a conference on positive change through the media?

This question ran through my mind again and again as I drove through the Catskill  Mountains of New York last month, headed to the Images & Voices of Hope (ivoh) Summit.  The four-day conference and retreat brought together media professionals from a wide variety of fields: journalism, performing and visual arts, game design, advertising, public relations, non-profit leadership, psychology, academia and...

Hopefully there is someone on your team in charge of writing tweets to talk about your organization’s corporate social responsibility efforts. Ideally, this person also is well aware of hashtags and this post will give them a few ideas to keep striving for the perfect tweet. I stress the word striving here because social media is like a living creature, just when you think you have it figured out, it changes on you and adjustments will need to be made. If hashtags are still a foreign concept, this post will help with the translation.

Many communication pros still struggle...