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As we get ready for the first annual Houston Summit, I've been working on how to talk about Houston. It's tricky. I've run across some things that Paul O'Connor, who worked on developing a more focused identity for Chicago said… Paul O’Connor on City Branding at the Memphis Tourism Foundation: A central theme of Mr. O’Connor’s presentation…

via blogs.houstonpress.com Jeff Balke takes us on a wonderful trip across Houston to intriguing restaurants.

Today I spent some time looking at other blogs about marketing communications, and I began to be concerned that I'm wasting my time. My work seems so insignificant in comparison. I'm not so witty or insightful or forceful in my opinions. So far as I can tell, few people value the work I do. But…

I'm a day late on day two of my 'improve this blog' project, but I'm confident I'll catch up this evening. I'm in Boston with my daughter helping her move into her first apartment. After I finish this we have to start scrubbing several years of dust off her lovely hardwood floors. How to sip…

I have committed to joining Christine Tremoulet in a month-long effort to improve our blogs using Darren Rowse's book, 31 Days to Build a Better Blog. Lately I've been on a self-improvement binge, and frankly, some efforts seem to bog down all too quickly. On the other hand, I've been looking for ways to keep up with my…

I stumbled across this quote while looking for information about a different Tony Schwartz, but the information is vital to my day-to-day challenges. You can be clear and focused in your communications and still be ignored, because FIRST you have to say something that matters to people. Tony Schwartz, The Responsive Chord, 1974 “The communicator’s…

How many times have you quit before you began to get better? I'm too embarrassed to think about it. Schwartz gives very specific recommendations about how and when to practice. Can you guess what he says? HBR Blogs: Six Keys to Being Excellent at Anything, 2010-Aug-24, by Tony Schwartz One of Ericsson's central findings is…

Data is flooding into the internet it becomes cheaper to track everything. We no longer have to guess what matters. Just track everything and look for patterns. In this article Conrad Quilty-Harper singles out ten examples that can open your eyes. Telegraph.co.uk: 10 Ways Data is Changing How We Live, 2010-Aug-25, by Conrad Quilty-Harper The…

Daniel S. Hanson, Cultivating Common Ground: Releasing the Power of Relationships at Work, 1997 Meaning and relationships are very much connected. In reality, meaning is discovered when we work together around a life and a task in common. There is no other way to find it. When we do discover meaning in our relationship at…