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It's October 1, do you know where your holiday card is?
By: Tammy Stankey
10/01/2008 - It's that time of year again, and no, I don't mean "Black Friday" (a reference to the major stock market crashes that tend to occur in October), but something less sinister - time to start work on the holiday greeting card. At Standing, we rotate…
Blog Pulse - it's like spying on conversations!
By: Tammy Stankey
08/11/2008 - Recently I attended Bulldog Reporter's PR Universtiy "Social Media Bootcamp" for PR professsionals. I'm still digesting all I learned and trying to experiment with a few things to keep them the top-of-mind. One (of many) tools trainer Sally Falkow demonstrated was Nielson BuzzMetrics' Blog Pulse.…
"Good afternoon, Standing Partnership"
By: Tammy Stankey
08/08/2008 - In a July 21 article titled "Flexible schedules work best when thought out, detailed," Chicago Tribune reporter Barbara Rose looks at the pros/cons of flextime in the business world. She points out that rising fuel prices may be spurring some organizations to be more flexible…
Is vacation time important to doing well at work?
By: Tammy Stankey
07/30/2008 - As I was driving to work listening to KWMU I heard a statistic on American Public Radio's Marketplace Morning Report that surprised me: According to a poll taken in April by the Conference Board, fewer than 40 percent of Americans planned a summer vacation this…
Seeing the big picture: leveraging a corporate opportunity to enhance employee relations, reinforce
By: Tammy Stankey
05/22/2008 - A year ago, one of our clients, The Doe Run Company, asked our opinion about an opportunity they received to invite employees to participate in keeping a day journal for consideration of an upcoming book. We advised them to participate with authors Joni B. Cole…
What's your New Year's Resolution? Why not add Social Media?
By: Tammy Stankey
01/03/2008 - Over the past year or so, clients and colleagues alike have been talking about, experimenting with and putting to good practice the many opportunities that social media affords to businesses, organizations and communicators. Why? It works. This just in: According to an article in Bulldog…
Who's your goalie?
By: Tammy Stankey
12/05/2007 - I recently had the opportunity to watch my nephew play a Peewee hockey game in Edmonton, Alberta – home of Wayne Gretzky. Besides noticing the obvious – eleven-year old boys in Canada can really skate – I noticed something more. I noticed the tenor on…
Text what you won't say out loud
By: Tammy Stankey
10/30/2007 - My family has become avid users of text messaging. It started, of course, with the eldest of my two daughters. Our family vacation and that of her boyfriend overlapped, meaning they couldn't see each other for two weeks (horrible, I know). So they began sending…
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