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Issue #16 March 2008
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Greetings!

This month, consider evolving your current communications practices, from creating your own social-networking community online to reducing your paper communications. We're ready to help with the solutions you'll find in this month's newsletter.
 
I'll be training scientists to evolve into great communicators this month and next in California and North Carolina workshops sponsored by the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the National Science Foundation. Go here to learn more about the workshops, and check out the "Communicating Science" website here.  Need a transformation for your team? Contact me at info@dontgetcaught.biz about conducting a customized training workshop for your company or organization.
 
Sincerely,
President
Social Media Evolves...Can You Keep Up?
Consider New Solutions from a Firm that 'Gets' New Media
Just getting the hang of Facebook and LinkedIn, and trying them for your business communications? Still trying to make the case for a company blog? Hang on for another round of evolution in social media, as yet more organizations start their own social-social networking exercise on whiteboardnetworking sites and make their blogs more authentic. The twist? Many of the new sites zero in on a particular audience, subject matter or activities and tasks to narrow their scope -- and some put Facebook to new uses. We give you the scoop on several emerging sites...and look at a new survey that says most PR firms still don't "get" new and social media as a communications tool. But we do, and our advice is based on direct experience with the latest tools. Send us examples of your  experiments with social media at info@dontgetcaught.biz -- we'll cover them on the blog!
 
 
 
Your Next Speech: Top Tips
Skip the Announcements, Plus 3 Ways to Zap Your Next Talk
Amegaphone with "announcement"side from "it's time for lunch," very few speaker announcements work as you hope they will. This month, we dish on four types of announcements speakers should avoid--and the one announcement that will charm every audience. (We offer ideas for replacing or omitting the offenders, too.)  And you'll find three easy tips to zap your next speech with better gestures, storytelling and vocal skills.
 
You'll find all our presentation tips here, and more about our workshops for groups or one-on-one presentation coaching here.
In This Issue
Social Media Evolves...Again
This Month's Speaker Tips
Plan for Less Paper
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Plan for Less Paper
Want to migrate from that magazine, activate your annual report or nix your newsletter? You can use new and social media to reduce your organization's use of paper communications--and save. Read about new metrics for paper use, and contact us about an audit and plan to move you forward.
 
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Try our intensive one-on-one media or presentation training--and save if you book two half-days of training in tandem.  We'll take $500 off the price of a pair of trainings, and recommend you schedule both sessions within a two-week period for best results.  You can mix media and presentations skills...focus intently on a particular speech, presentation or interview...or choose our "Eloquent Woman" training for woman speakers. One-on-one training yields the most learning and can be customized to your special needs. For details, email us at info@dontgetcaught.biz.  
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