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2008.05.16: 'til then ...
2008.05.13: Drama-surfing on the bus
2008.05.12: Why do consultants act the way they do?
2008.05.09: Shades readers in town for Corporate Communicators Conference
2008.05.06: A report from the Road to Find Out
2008.05.06: Organic communication vehicles
2008.05.05: Employee communicators: Are we special?
2008.05.01: A courageous communicator is gone
2008.05.01: The subject of everything
2008.04.29: Sports, kids and America—all the way insane
2008.04.28: Word mavens, police each other
2008.04.28: Let's play, "count the assholes"!
2008.04.25: Even the pretense of a pretense
2008.04.24: Sometimes you've just gotta get it off your chest
2008.04.24: Cincinnati, and HR
2008.04.24: 'Boys, you weren't good. Bad PR'
2008.04.23: The old man's still got it
2008.04.23: Age gets us all
2008.04.22: I say, that Barry Nelson must be a socialist!
2008.04.21: Olympics: Are we having fun yet?
2008.04.21: Good writing goes on
2008.04.18: Profiles in communication courage
2008.04.16: It's hard to give ghostwriters a bad name ...
2008.04.16: Do you cry more as you get older?
2008.04.15: General counsel gone wild
2008.04.14: Obama blew it with "they're bitter"
2008.04.11: On "thanks in advance"
2008.04.10: There is nothing like a good human being
2008.04.10: Now Wal-Mart is a target because Wal-Mart is a target
2008.04.04: Something to chew on
2008.04.03: Mencken is good for you
2008.04.03: What communicators owe (no matter what else we do)
2008.04.02: Wal-Mart ends status as "Worst Person"—by being better person
2008.03.31: A whiff of PR's past
2008.03.28: What in heaven's name is a "biography tour"?
2008.03.27: Wal-Mart CEO Olbermann's "Worst Person"—from now on!
2008.03.26: Thank God for the mopes of the world
2008.03.26: Chelsea, you're not 13 anymore
2008.03.25: You know, I'm thinking of getting a cell phone
2008.03.24: My take on Twitter now on Ragan.com
2008.03.20: You haven't arrived until ...
2008.03.18: Okay. Here's the Obama I've been talking about
2008.03.18: D'Aprix's passion burns like a tire fire
2008.03.17: Bloggers, I'm telling everybody
2008.03.17: Mass media still king when it comes to spreading dumb stories
2008.03.14: Twitter orgy today
2008.03.13: Talking 'bout a one-man parade, y'all
2008.03.13: Book review, by Shew
2008.03.12: I need me some surrogates
2008.03.11: An open letter to Eliot Spitzer
2008.03.10: Thinking of Jane Higgins again
2008.03.07: Pretty good writing, in a crisis
2008.03.07: His name is Gunn
2008.03.06: It's a YouTube world, we're just living in it
2008.03.05: While we're on The Writing Life ...
2008.03.05: Writing boots
2008.03.04: Why you should talk to reporters, anyway
2008.03.03: ... and when it IS engaging
2008.02.28: Why "engagement" isn't engaging
2008.02.28: Politicians are indulging the babies in us all
2008.02.27: The awkward hour
2008.02.27: A cathedral of communication hypocrisy, that's me
2008.02.26: How to go from stiff honky to CEObama
2008.02.25: Real. Communicators.
2008.02.22: brilliant language of God (or BLOG)
2008.02.21: Re. Obama
2008.02.20: Bobby Knight, CEO
2008.02.20: Things fall apart
2008.02.19: Employees in the trenches ...
2008.02.18: Uh-Obama?
2008.02.18: Soul, ego: full
2008.02.12: Speechwriters Conference this week
2008.02.11: A leader is a dealer in hope
2008.02.11: Happiness is
2008.02.08: What's wrong with top management
2008.02.07: Romneys, and Murrays
2008.02.06: Involuntary communication
2008.02.05: We need a "manager," not a communicator
2008.02.04: Are you a Rotarian and a speechwriter both?
2008.02.04: Obama rising
2008.02.01: "I'll never be Dorothy"
2008.01.30: Communication, in spite of ourselves
2008.01.28: Employee communication planet
2008.01.28: Have I gone soft on Wal-Mart?
2008.01.24: One of the most interesting corporate writing jobs is open
2008.01.23: What reeks?
2008.01.23: An existential reflection, on Hump Day
2008.01.21: What do we really owe our children?
2008.01.21: A human being in a CEO suit
2008.01.18: Construct this
2008.01.17: YesYouCanSayThatpedia.com
2008.01.16: Of boxing and business jargon
2008.01.15: Streaming video drives writers out from under rocks
2008.01.14: "Be my colleague!"
2008.01.10: Danger: stupid people in public
2008.01.09: Do people hate women?
2008.01.07: Vote the communication ticket!
2008.01.07: 'Who are you to evaluate me?'
2007.12.20: I'm getting ready to shut things down
2007.12.19: 'Authenticity Movement' ~ 2005-2007
2007.12.18: Women of Like Minds unite
2007.12.18: I'm all about communication codification
2007.12.17: The holidays aren't depressing, we are
2007.12.14: Oh no she didn't!
2007.12.13: How about a New Year with more of THIS
2007.12.11: "Words We Wish We Could Hear Those People Saying To Us Just One More Time" *
2007.12.10: I'm searching, anyway
2007.12.07: And speaking of speechwriters ...
2007.12.06: Speechwriter vs. Speechwriter
2007.12.06: He's colder in person than in print
2007.12.05: Photojournalism captures true mood of Thompson campaign
2007.12.05: "Memo to C-Level Speakers"
2007.12.04: A glass of my own bathwater, please
2007.12.03: Signs that wood is dead
2007.11.30: A cry from the wilderness
2007.11.28: "Kitchen" communication
2007.11.27: Disclosure: I've been bullshitting for the last five paragraphs
2007.11.26: No really, honey, you shouldn't have
2007.11.20: The nicest thing you can say about an American
2007.11.19: As the Danish prime minister likes to say ...
2007.11.16: Going to Copenhagen, excited about the airplane ride!
2007.11.15: We should be like Al Jazeera English!
2007.11.14: What institutions do you (still) admire?
2007.11.13: Out came the sun
2007.11.12: Communication is tough all over
2007.11.11: Some comments deserve their own posts
2007.11.09: One reason to appreciate politicians ...
2007.11.07: Permission to speak freely?
2007.11.06: Am I being hysterical, or is she being naive?
2007.11.05: Writers strike! Let's take the day off!
2007.11.05: Monday mourning
2007.11.02: Even as he worries about Iraq dam, Murray falls prey to missing, pretty white girl story
2007.11.01: Let's hope the Guessers guess right on this one!
2007.11.01: Release vs. Reuters
2007.10.31: Karen Hughes is out as head of U.S. public diplomacy
2007.10.31: How nervous would you have been ...
2007.10.30: Communication Day
2007.10.29: Bartleby the juggler
2007.10.29: Department of Things that Never Were (Why Not?)
2007.10.26: Speaker to speechwriter: 'Thank you, Donna'
2007.10.25: Taping the fat back onto the steak
2007.10.24: No boos for Hughes, just tough twitter tweets
2007.10.24: Communication is not technology
2007.10.23: Swearing, at work
2007.10.22: My religious experience, now available to you
2007.10.22: Share, don't tell
2007.10.18: A problem in need of a Solution®
2007.10.17: File away for Mother's Day
2007.10.16: Those were the days
2007.10.16: Let's take care of each other
2007.10.15: Einstein, stick to your knitting
2007.10.12: If bosses were nieces
2007.10.08: When white space mattered
2007.10.08: IABC's chairman talks to himself in platitudes
2007.10.05: IABC's new strategic plan is ... well, it's hard to say
2007.10.04: Mealymouth terms I'm not comfortable with
2007.10.04: A big new survey of the profession (yawn)
2007.10.03: Technical difficulties
2007.10.01: Communication, the beauty and mystery
2007.09.27: Bartleby the editor
2007.09.25: Is Karen Hughes walking into a buzz saw at the PRSA show?
2007.09.24: Beyond communication
2007.09.24: Other constants (besides change)
2007.09.24: Mattel loses moral high ground to China
2007.09.21: It turns out the CEO of Second Life is a numb nuts
2007.09.19: Daley, occasionally (Vol. 1)
2007.09.18: Insight comes atcha fast
2007.09.18: 'Transparency,' RIP
2007.09.17: First, charm all the lawyers
2007.09.13: Four White Dudes Kickin' It Around
2007.09.13: Why fall?
2007.09.12: I know David Petraeus
2007.09.10: Nastiest stuff ever written
2007.09.10: George Carlin on branding
2007.09.07: Advice—unwanted today, too late tomorrow
2007.09.05: Malice in Wonderland
2007.09.04: Princeton Review snubs PR!
2007.09.03: On this "Ghetto Handbook"
2007.08.31: Ode to Ragan Communications
2007.08.29: How to tell any story well
2007.08.27: Great companies don't cling to "current market practice"
2007.08.23: The Communication Candidate
2007.08.23: We have some concerns
2007.08.22: But have you tried "animal communication"?
2007.08.21: These kids today
2007.08.20: Bob Murray goes underground
2007.08.20: As we shamble toward Labor Day
2007.08.15: If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kerfuffle
2007.08.14: Whither Bob Murray?
2007.08.13: Why are communication departments dysfunctional?
2007.08.09: Knowing Eddie
2007.08.08: Melcrum wants me to help you help me ... help them?
2007.08.07: Murray eats crow
2007.08.06: Car accident
2007.08.06: Do we see top execs as they are?
2007.08.03: Sneak preview: MyRaganTV
2007.08.02: And the politicians played on
2007.08.01: If we're going to hell in a handbasket, what's the rush?
2007.07.31: We hold these truths to be self-evident
2007.07.30: Writers, and emoticons :(
2007.07.20: Creeps and wackos all around me!
2007.07.19: Into thin air
2007.07.18: Built to fly
2007.07.17: Built to Collapse
2007.07.17: The blogging blogger blogged
2007.07.12: The Last Bachelor Party
2007.07.11: Blog me? Blog you
2007.07.10: Goodbye, 'Goodbye'
2007.07.09: Note to self
2007.07.08: Jargon creeps
2007.07.01: Great America
2007.06.28: As another week winds down ...
2007.06.27: 'My God am I angry!'
2007.06.22: WHAT THE HELL?
2007.06.22: Crystal blog: Dateline, New Orleans
2007.06.20: One more thing about transparency
2007.06.19: Sensible translucency
2007.06.18: On writing stupid stuff for stupid people
2007.06.14: On killing bugs
2007.06.14: Questions for IABC brass?
2007.06.13: Strategic silence
2007.06.12: Who do they think they are?
2007.06.11: CEO compensation: It's our problem
2007.06.08: A bowl of golf
2007.06.07: We don't have to tell the truth, but we have to know it
2007.06.06: Shades of Gray BULLETIN!!!
2007.06.06: Car dealers and doubletalk
2007.06.04: You've come a long way, ladies
2007.06.01: This kid is a communicator
2007.05.30: Don't ask your readers what they want
2007.05.28: We shall overcome
2007.05.24: Strategery, and the ink-stained wretch
2007.05.22: The communication rule communicators most often forget
2007.05.21: Most-violated communication commandment
2007.05.18: What happened to "morale"?
2007.05.17: Windbags, Made in China
2007.05.14: Generation Y, please help me
2007.05.14: Always looking for a better "model"
2007.05.10: Conference ecstasy
2007.05.08: We are all alone
2007.05.07: On trust and faith, and wait and see
2007.05.04: How we learn and how we remember
2007.05.03: Welcome to MyRagan, so glad you could make it ...
2007.05.03: Newsletter editing, for keeps
2007.05.01: Are communication case studies true?
2007.04.27: Spacey writers
2007.04.26: If writers ran the circus
2007.04.25: McCain's speechwriter is a hack
2007.04.24: Am I crazy?
2007.04.23: The Long War
2007.04.20: Words
2007.04.17: What I woulda said if I coulda laid tongue to it
2007.04.17: Communicators: Always in trouble
2007.04.16: Would Franz Kafka approve of town hall meetings?
2007.04.12: "Creative Server Crash" was the subject line ...
2007.04.12: Shit, Vonnegut is gone
2007.04.12: Editors: You’re the boss
2007.04.10: Don Imus, right on time
2007.04.08: The ethics of embalming photographs
2007.04.05: The Engagementist
2007.04.03: We were talking about the lives of writers ...
2007.04.03: Faint PR
2007.04.01: Hi

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