Hard to Beat the Classic Immigrant-Makes-Good Story
…Mexican heritage and their parents were migrant farm workers. From these humble beginnings, Bismarck and Bel Lepe gained entry to Stanford which led to a gig at Google and set…
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Word Choice in Even the Simplest Communications Can Make a Huge Difference
…John Gottman at the University of Washington and Stanford University’s Laura Carstensen — launched a longitudinal study of 156 middle-aged and older couples in the San Francisco Bay Area who…
Fake News and a Different Approach by the French (Naturellement)
…people either don’t take the time or don’t have the skills to evaluate the legitimacy of a media property. Consider an exercise conducted at Stanford, in which a…
A Librarian’s Sensibilities on Evaluating Online Content
…to a post on Nieman Lab, which linked to a working paper (56 pages) from Stanford. . This information is nothing new to professional librarians. We help people evaluate…
Where the Hell is PR on The New York Times Careers Chart?
…a computer land a client story in TechCrunch with news of a paltry VC investment of $3M and founders who didn’t graduate from Harvard or Stanford or the Indian Institute…
Creating a Company Video That Actually Tells a Story
…to Stanford, so we got lucky in being able to find exactly what we needed. LH: I also thought it was clever to weave in the vignette, “He sells the…
Contrast, a Poor Man’s Failure in PR Storytelling
…to experience pain in resolving the debacle makes for a good read. Patricia Sellers, a journalist at Fortune, articulated the appeal of this formula in an interview with the Stanford…
The One Hack Rarely Discussed to Increase Productivity at Meetings
…question in my mind that Silicon Valley puts that number to shame. If someone took the time to research meetings in Silicon Valley — perhaps a Stanford Ph.D. candidate in…
How a Personal Touch in Communications Failed Big Time
…a newly minted Stanford MBA makes the rounds on Sand Hill Road trying to raise venture capital for the radical idea of bringing back the “milkman” for home delivery of…