When is a “source” not a source?

Posted By: Steve Crescenzo | September 03, 2010

I was reading a story online yesterday when a line in the piece made me stop and re-read it. The story was from the Indianapolis Star, and it was about a person who was injured during the filming of a stunt for the “Transformers 3” movie. After reading that the police did, in fact, confirm [...]


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I ‘like’ you . . . but not THAT much

Posted By: Steve Crescenzo | September 01, 2010

If you spend any time on Facebook (and who doesn’t, these days?), you know that after reading someone’s “status update,” you have four choices: Choice #1: Read it and move on to the other 75,000 status updates that people have posted in the past hour. Choice #2: Read it and say to your spouse, regarding [...]


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Our quote of the week comes from Mexico

Posted By: Steve Crescenzo | August 30, 2010

Our “Unbelievable Quote of the Week” comes from Mexico City, where the Mexican Supreme Court recently legalized gay marriage. The ruling did not sit well with the archbishop of Guadalajara, Juan Sandoval Iniguez, however. Archbishop Iniguez took some time away from covering up the Church’s pedophile priest scandal to comment on the ruling. First, he [...]


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Let us not be afraid of life

Posted By: Steve Crescenzo | August 23, 2010

As regular readers of this blog know, I have an older brother who has severe cerebral palsy. Nicky, who is now 46 years old, has spent his life in a wheelchair, and needs help with the most basic things in life—eating, drinking, going to the bathroom, turning on a TV, blowing his nose. But Nicky [...]


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The oldest, and cheapest, trick in the column-writing business

Posted By: Steve Crescenzo | August 19, 2010

The one thing I can’t stand in columnists and commentators is when they begin a column, or a blog, or a talk-show segment by establishing a “fact” and then use that “fact” as the basis of the rest of their content. Rush Limbaugh, of course, is famous for this. He’ll say something like, “Obama is [...]


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Can you get an abortion in a front alley?

Posted By: Steve Crescenzo | August 16, 2010

Abortion has been in the news a lot lately, because the FDA approved the “Ella,” which is the nickname of a drug that women can take that will thwart a pregnancy up to five days after they have sex. It’s ironic that Ella is also the name of our cat, who can also be an [...]


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This communicator hates doing his employee publication. Period

Posted By: Steve Crescenzo | August 09, 2010

I had a great two days of training and consulting with a large division of a Fortune 10 company a couple of weeks ago. Like any other massive company, this particular organization has some issues . . . one of them being they have too many silos, too many divisions . . . and too [...]


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The immediate repercussions of Prop 8

Posted By: Steve Crescenzo | August 06, 2010

Wow. What a couple of days this has been. Ever since a California judge overturned the ban on gay marriage, known as Proposition 8, things have started moving very quickly here in the home of the brave and the land of the free. In the last two days, since Prop 8 bit the dust, here [...]


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The Five People You Meet on Facebook

Posted By: Steve Crescenzo | August 04, 2010

I like Facebook. I really do. I don’t like it as much as my wife Cindy likes it, because Cindy is addicted to it. She Facebooks in bed, she Facebooks on her iPhone while drying her hair, she Facebooks on the boat, she Facebooks in bed, she Facebooks in the car. In fact, the only [...]


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Don’t accept those Canadian apologies . . . they don’t really mean them!

Posted By: Steve Crescenzo | July 28, 2010

My friend and unapologetic Canadian Kristen Ridley sent me a book in the mail last week (and it was such a treat to get something in the mail that wasn’t a bill, one of Cindy’s stupid catalogs selling all kinds of stupid shit, or a notice from the IRS!). The book is titled: “The U.S. [...]


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September 15, 2010

Corporate Communications 3.0: 7 Ways You Can Be Relevant 5 Years From Now

IABC Webinar: 11:00 A.M. - 12:30 P.M. Central Time

As social media and other factors chip away at the traditional role of the communicator as "publisher," organizations are going to take a harder look at what they're getting from their communicators - and whether or not they need them at all. During this webinar Steve shows you the skills that will always be in demand, no matter how much things change and how you can blend these skills with the ones you'll need for tomorrow.

September 16, 2010

Write & Rewrite Webinar

Webinar: 1:00 p.m. Central Time

Steve Crescenzo (Write) and Jim Ylisela (Rewrite) bring you a webinar with a twist: Steve and Jim will talk about whatever's on your mind: writing, social media, intranets, running an editorial operation, executive communications, boring initiatives and common communication problems.

October 14, 2010

Strategic Creative Communications

Washington, D.C.

The only seminar that links creative communications using print, online and social media tools with strategy, research and measurement.

October 17 - 19, 2010

IABC 2010 Heritage Region Conference

Philadelphia, PA

Cutting through the Clutter: Creating Communications that People Will Actually Pay Attention to . . . and Act on! In this keynote session on October 19, Steve showcases dozens of real-life examples of how to change the very nature of how you communicate so you can cut through the clutter and grab your audiences' attention.

October 28 - 29, 2010

IABC 2010 Employee Communication Conference

Chicago, Illinois

Breakout! Turn the traditional employee communication model upside down. With new media, Web 2.0, changing demographics and shifting corporate cultures, employee communicators need to change with the times and communicate differently. On October 28, Steve will show you how.