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10 Ways to Find Your Podcast Audience
Now that you’ve taken that first step to fulfill one of your New Year’s resolutions and recorded several podcasts, how do you ensure that your hard work and investment lead to an engaged and supportive tribe of listeners? Commitment to consistency and great...
Catching Up with Courtney Sims from IABC’s Connect2comms Conference
We caught up with fellow SF IABC member, Courtney Sims, to unpack her experience as a breakout session speaker at the IABC 2019 connect2comms conference in Kansas City, Missouri. Courtney is a director of special programs for SF IABC and an internal communications...
Start A Podcast (You Know You Want To)
Podcasting has been around since 2004, but in the last five years, productions like This American Life and Serial — both with around 19,000,000 weekly listeners — have made the content hybrid a national obsession. Today, every major print publication produces at least...
10 Tips on How to Engage Distracted Employees
At our November Networking 9 dinner in Lafayette, several Bay Area communications professionals gathered to discuss best practices for waking up busy and distracted employees. Here are my 10 favorite employee engagement strategy tips to come out of that meeting:...
Using Collaboration Tools to Evolve Your Communication Approach
Recently, IABC co-sponsored a breakfast summit with Workplace by Facebook. Held in the Menlo Park Facebook campus and moderated by SF IABC President Maureen Thompson, the event focused on how companies are leveraging new workplace tools to drive collaboration, culture...
Get a Step Ahead with the Fall 2019 Mentoring Program
Whether you’re a seasoned communications professional or a newbie in the field, you may want to consider participating in SF IABC’s Mentoring Program! There are so many ways you could benefit from being a mentor or mentee. Let us count the ways: Networking...
A Note on the Wildfires
Here in Northern California, another devastating wildfire year has begun. As I write this, the Kincade fire remains active after burning 76,825 acres, with 60% of the fire contained. Evacuations continue across Sonoma County, and elsewhere in the Bay Area, skies are...
Change Communications Are in the Air (Part 2)
6 Key Networking 9 Meeting Takeaways on Change Communications In our two-part series, we explore six communication pathways for effective communications, as addressed at a recent Networking 9 event. The examples we outlined in Part 1 of our series point to corporate...
Change Communications Are in the Air (Part 1)
6 Key Networking 9 Meeting Takeaways on Change Communications “Culture eats strategy for breakfast.” – Peter Drucker, Author Corporate culture is the set of beliefs and behaviors that govern how people act in an organization. The impacts of culture are profound,...
An Event Abuzz with Brand Discussions
Imagine mingling with like-minded communications professionals in a commodious conference room in DocuSign’s San Francisco headquarters, where a wall-sized window admits the vast expanse of the San Francisco Bay into view. Throughout the evening, you partake in tasty...
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Eat. Learn. Play. Foundation: Vice President of Communications
Founded in 2019 by Stephen and Ayesha Curry, the Eat. Learn. Play. Foundation is committed to unlocking the amazing potential of every child by fighting to end childhood hunger, ensuring students have access to a quality education, and providing safe places for...
Stitch Fix: Internal Communications Manager
ABOUT THE TEAM The Stitch Fix Communications team is charged with bringing the story of Stitch Fix to life for all our audiences, from consumers to business press and investors to our own employees. We tell important, inspiring stories about our industry, our company,...
How Communicators Can Rock Social Media According to Guy Kawasaki
Whether you are in marketing, employee communications or managing your personal brand, social media can fuel your strategy. But COVID-19 has made a significant impact on social media as it increasingly became a tool for connection when most people began working...