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Practicing Creativity

The Hoffman Agency

I’m lucky enough to be at an agency where growth opportunities are endless, and resources are everywhere. Similarly, learning to prioritize client and team needs while finding a way to be creative with messaging (even if it’s just in an email) has been one of my favorite lessons.

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Creative Storytelling: Picture This: It’s Not Just the Words – It’s What You Do with Them

Waxing UnLyrical

The great Brian Solis, who I had the pleasure of seeing live in 2013 as keynote speaker at the PRSA’s International Conference, recently published this article on LinkedIn about creative storytelling. Solis says that 550,000 LinkedIn members describe themselves as storytellers. Image: Via Pixabay, Creative Commons CC0.

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Creating a Video Storytelling Strategy That Gets Results

PRSay

But one surefire way to stand out from your competition is with excellent video storytelling. I’ve spent more than 20 years honing video storytelling skills with my team at MediaSource. So when you’re considering video storytelling, here are four key steps, from strategy to assessment: 1. Evaluation.

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Book Review: Social Media for Strategic Communication By Karen Freberg

Deirdre Breakenridge

One of the best ways to kick off the New Year is with a good book that offers great guidance and takes a deep dive into being more strategic with your storytelling. Once again, you’ve published a resource that will guide many in their communication in 2019 and beyond!

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Helping Non-designers Get the Visual Storytelling Religion

Ishmael's Corner

Previous posts have discussed the challenge for PR folks to embrace visual storytelling in communications. Responding to the crush of information and more people accessing content on mobile devices, they definitely have the visual storytelling religion. A recent Gizmodo story on Bloomberg Businessweek reminded me of this very point.

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Associated Press Story Innovator Ted Anthony Urges Communicators to Be Curious

PRSay

Anthony, director of new storytelling and newsroom innovation at The Associated Press , was the guest on Feb. For its February issue , PRSA’s Strategies & Tactics was devoted to the topics of writing and storytelling. Anthony urges storytellers to be omnivorous in their curiosity. You can watch a replay of the session here.

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Data-driven Storytelling with Matthew Lynley

The Hoffman Agency

According to Matthew Lynley , who graciously instructed the Hoffman team and guests in the power of data-driven storytelling, this is because there is more data than ever before. Why use data-driven storytelling? That’s in fact one of the key things Matthew highlights as something to avoid when getting into data-driven storytelling.