Going by the ‘book

Posted By: Cindy Crescenzo | December 28, 2008

So I FaceBook now. Yes, that’s right. I just used FaceBook as a verb. Because when you FaceBook, that’s what you do. Since Cindy started FaceBooking at the same time as me, the word FaceBook has become a verb at Crescenzo Communications. So now we have conversations like this all the time: Steve: “Want to [...]


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Musings from the Christmas commute . . .

Posted By: Cindy Crescenzo | December 27, 2008

Every year on Christmas, I get up at 5 in the morning, quietly dress, give Cindy a Christmas kiss, and drive 45 minutes to my son's house, so I can be there when he wakes up on Christmas morning. It's not exactly A Christmas tradition straight out of Leave it to Beaver . . . [...]


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The audacity of hope . . . for government communicators

Posted By: Cindy Crescenzo | December 17, 2008

I want to preface this post by saying that I am an Obama guy. A BIG-TIME Obama guy. Yes we can!! Change!! Hope!! The Audacity of Change!! The Change of Hope!! The Hope of Audacity for Change!! I've got all the bumper stickers! No, I didn’t vote for him. But I didn’t vote against him, [...]


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Happy Holidays . . . to everyone but the flies

Posted By: Cindy Crescenzo | December 07, 2008

Cindy and I have been experimenting with video (no, not that way. Not yet, anyway) for our new Web site, which we're launching in a couple of weeks. We found this video that Cindy took of me a year ago to the day, and thought it would be a nice holiday greeting to Corporate Hallucinations [...]


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If I tweet your twitter, will you twitter my tweet . . . please?

Posted By: Cindy Crescenzo | December 02, 2008

Well, what the hell. I'm going to twitter. I'm going to twitter my fool head off. Will you join me? If you don't know what twitter is, good for you. From what I can tell, it's a form of "microblogging," or, as the experts call it, "really, really tiny blog items." I've been hearing about [...]


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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.