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FINAL THOUGHTS...

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“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'” – Eleanor Roosevelt When I began this program a year ago, I jumped in with both feet.   I had wanted this for a very long time, and it was almost as if I had been given a “do-over.”     All I knew was that life had recently thrown me several nasty curveballs, and I felt that going back to graduate school after 15 years was the best way to deal with them.   The thought of graduation, over a year away, seemed forever in the distance, and I had no real plans or ideas of where I was headed or what I wanted to do afterward.   Now, I am one term and one class away from graduation (ten weeks), and I am feeling more terrified than ever.   In essence, I am starting over mid-life and it scares me.   While I believe I finally determine...
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WHAT HAPPENS IN VEGAS...

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What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas!   Or does it?    Perhaps an all girls weekend got a little crazy after your eighth shot of tequila.   You and your girls make your way to the Viva Las Vegas Wedding Chapel, where you marry a sexy dancer from the Thunder from Down Under show.   To make the occasion even better, an Elvis impersonator officiates the wedding ceremony and your girlfriends are your impromptu bridesmaids/witnesses, snapping pictures with their phones and posting the images to social media faster than you can say, “I do!”   It was a magical night until you wake up the next morning and realize you are lying next to a complete stranger in your hotel room.   It couldn’t possibly get any worse until your mother calls you screaming because she just found out you married a total stranger in Vegas, and it is all over social media.   Oh boy, what have you done? A crazy situation like this might sound a bit extreme, but I am...
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The Evolution of the Media

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“The media, like anything else, can be bought. Everything, it seems, has its price. Even the free press.”   ―  Lance Morcan,  The Orphan Conspiracies: 29 Conspiracy Theories from The Orphan Trilogy    ( https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/free-press ) Money talks.  We all know that.  Now, money may not make you a happier person in the end, but it sure does help pay the bills.  So really, it shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone that traditional media is slowly dying a painful death.  “Traditional media” as we know it is being replaced by the sexier, much cooler, considerably more cost-effective new guy, the Internet. Traditionally, newspapers were extremely partisan and geared toward their voters who subscribed to the papers, because that was how they stayed in business.   However, around the turn of the 20 th century, advertising was responsible for the majority of the incoming revenue of most American news organizat...
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The Illusion of TRUE Transparency

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"I think the currency of leadership is transparency. You've got to be truthful. I don't NYC Skyline - view from Statue of Liberty (picture from vacation in 2017) think you should be vulnerable every day, but there are moments where you've got to share your soul and conscience with people and show them who you are, and not be afraid of it."      - Howard Schultz   Over the last nine weeks I shared many stories with you and we have traveled through the world of leadership and communication together.  Although these topics may not have been what I would have thought to write about originally, they have actually given me a little inspiration to get started, or the push I needed to continue writing the personal blog I have been wanting to write for some time now.  I wanted to start a personal blog about my thoughts and share stories, even if no one reads it, so that I can begin to heal.  This leads me to my point this week.  Transparency. We ta...
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The Purse Strings are Connected to the Heartstrings

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“You can never go wrong by investing in communities and the human beings within them.”  –  Pam Moore (@pammktgnut ) There are many ways in which companies differ from one another.  Some provide services while others provide products, some are large and others are small or simply start-up companies, others are based on a cause.  Literally, the list is endless.  But there is one very important factor regardless the size of the business or what they sell or do, one that many people often forget about.  Something so important that it can take a company or idea and turn them into a huge success or into an overnight failure.  Public Relations or PR!  Every company does it, whether they realize it or not.  Some companies are large enough, and are making enough money to afford an in-house PR person, department or even hire a PR company to do this for them.  Other smaller businesses just getting started may have to do this on their own....
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Its (Just) Another School Shooting...

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“Losing your head in a crisis is a good way to become the crisis.”   ―  C.J. Redwine,  Defiance When the concept of crisis communication really became a thing , the great communicators and businessmen and women who came up with this concept did so because of issues in relation to their companies and products.  They needed a way to communicate with the public when something had gone wrong, to bring order back to their business and restore their reputation.  Although scholars claim there is no one clear definition of crisis, many use similar features (Kim, 2015, p. 60).  Barton (as cited in Kim, 2015, p. 60) defines crisis as "a major unpredictable event that has potentially negative results.  The event and its aftermath may significantly damage an organization and its employees, products, services, financial condition, and reputation."  I am guessing when they coined the term crisis communication, no one even considered the possibility th...
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Ads, Ads, Everywhere!!

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“Doing business without advertising is like winking at a girl in the dark. You know what you are doing, but nobody else does” – Steuart Henderson Britt As someone with a marketing degree, I was taught years ago there is advertising everywhere.   Literally everywhere! 
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Finding My Greatness

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"The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs."   -  Vance Havner ( Brainy Quotes - VH ) Most children have dreams about what they want to be when they grown up.
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WHAT HAPPENS IN VEGAS...

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What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas!   Or does it?    Perhaps an all girls weekend got a little crazy after your eighth shot of tequila.   You and your girls make your way to the Viva Las Vegas Wedding Chapel, where you marry a sexy dancer from the Thunder from Down Under show.   To make the occasion even better, an Elvis impersonator officiates the wedding ceremony and your girlfriends are your impromptu bridesmaids/witnesses, snapping pictures with their phones and posting the images to social media faster than you can say, “I do!”   It was a magical night until you wake up the next morning and realize you are lying next to a complete stranger in your hotel room.   It couldn’t possibly get any worse until your mother calls you screaming because she just found out you married a total stranger in Vegas, and it is all over social media.   Oh boy, what have you done? A crazy situation like this might sound a bit extreme, but I am...
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CROWDSOURCING: NEVER UNDERESTIMATE HUMAN GENEROSITY

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“The fellow that can only see the week ahead is always the popular fellow, for he is looking with the crowd.   But the one that can see years ahead, he has a telescope but he can’t make anybody believe that he has it.”   - Will Rogers The concept of crowdsourcing is not necessarily a new idea.  Although, when many people think about it, they believe it started with social media and the Internet.  Not true.  Actually, the basic concept of crowdsourcing has been around for hundreds of years.  Bloomberg Cities tells the story of how the British government used “crowdsourcing” to resolve their issue regarding navigation at sea in the 1700s.  Obviously, this was just a few years before we had social media.  That being said, people use crowdsourcing campaigns for various reasons today.  Sites like GoFundMe and Kickstarter have been created so innovative, remarkable, genuine, and sometimes deceitful people can change the world.  Or mayb...
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