Waxing UnLyrical

article thumbnail

What a Sandcastle Reminded Me About Strategy

Waxing UnLyrical

After all, there has been no dearth of “hooks” in the past couple of weeks to kick off the new year + decade with musings on innovation, strategy, new directions… the kind of thing one expects to be reading (and writing about) when a New Year rolls around. Sandcastle as strategy. Smart strategy needs to be flexible.

Strategy 253
article thumbnail

Relationship Advice: Your Nonprofit Organization and Building Community Organization Partnerships

Waxing UnLyrical

Our culture used to have a clear line between “business only” and the “good feeling” of nonprofit organizations. Now, in our culture, we are seeing the mutually beneficial advantages of establishing and maintaining a relationship between a nonprofit organization and corporate business. Laurence D. Create an employee advocacy cohort.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

I Need to Develop a Strategy. Now What? The Winnie-the-Pooh Way Forward

Waxing UnLyrical

Vision, Statement, Mission, Goals, Organization, Strategic, Planning, Analysis. Organization is paramount in moving from planning to developing, and then executing, the strategy. You need to plan, then write your strategy based on these findings. A communications strategy can then be developed around these objectives.

Strategy 220
article thumbnail

Three Keys to Blueprinting Your Social PR Strategy

Waxing UnLyrical

It was an intense couple of days, but absolutely essential to mapping out and implementing their social PR strategy, which is what we’ve been retained to do. There is no organization around that doesn’t say “it’s different.” So here we go. That is why they want “PR.”

Strategy 243
article thumbnail

What Does Blood Have to Do With Internal Communication Strategy?

Waxing UnLyrical

Obviously, the heart is an important organ (#truth). 1 seed in the Vital Organs Tournament of Champions. You’d be left with gangrenous extremities disintegrating off the bone, dying muscle and failing organs in some Bizarro-Tinman nightmare where you have a heart and literally nothing else. It’s most definitely a No.1

Strategy 150
article thumbnail

12 Tips to Organize and Run a Tweetathon

Waxing UnLyrical

As I mentioned earlier, I’d had the idea of doing a tweetathon-style “event” when we were first planning our strategy. Now, following the first tweetathon, I started getting a lot of pitches from PR agencies and organizations to participate in similar events. 12 Tips to Organize and Run a Tweetathon.

article thumbnail

The Most Effective Change Comms Formula? KISS. Then TELL.

Waxing UnLyrical

That doesn’t mean your strategy can’t be intricate. But the more intricate and/or layered your strategy, the greater the need to keep your core message + communication thereof simple. Angelo’s career history includes leading comms at organizations as varied (and large) as AOL, Sodexo and NII Holdings.