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The Strategic Content Checklist
Strategic content creates opportunity for your organization. It motivates the right people to reach out to you. Catalyzes them to work with you, hire you, publish you, hear more of your insights. It’s valuable stuff. Content
Objectivity is a Terrible Marketing Plan
Most researchers can’t stand marketing — that is, until they need it. To distribute a vaccine quickly to 80% or more or the U.S. population, we’re going to need some kick-ass marketing. Not just a campaign
Overcoming Vaccine Hesitancy: Local is Everything
One of science communications’ worst habits is to assume that, once we’ve done some research on a better way to communicate, it should be no problem for the rest of the world to put that better
For This New Year, Ask the Big Questions
No one makes New Year’s resolutions anymore (probably for the best). Now everyone seems to have switched to making New Year’s predictions — definitely for the worse. The prediction space is crowded and polluted. But you’re a research-based
Narrative, Story, Science & Death
Recommended: the essays “Story vs. Narrative? And Why It Matters?”and “How to Break From the Past and Innovate” by Guillaume Wiatr, principal and founder of the consultancy MetaHelm. (H/T: List member Frank McClung.) Money quote from
Substack: Four Lessons for Knowledge Authority
I wrote on Tuesday that you probably shouldn’t start a Substack. But not for the reasons that everyone else is busy dumping on Substack, as the new blogging or the new Medium or the new paywalled