Rob Biesenbach
Communications pro, actor, author
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Recent Posts
- How a Story Can Save Lives
- 5 Life Lessons I Learned From My Cat
- 5 Lessons from The Great Gatsby School of Writing
- The Art of the Bad Apology (And a Lesson from Bill Clinton)
- To Be a Better Writer, Accept Edits with Grace (5 Steps)
- Sterling’s Gold: 7 Lessons for Success from Mad Men
- The Myth of Body Language
- I’m Not Angry
- 3 Quick Tips for Presenters and Public Speakers
- The Secret to Being a Better Editor (Plus 5 Essential Tips)
Categories
- Audience (29)
- Book (17)
- Communication (44)
- Crisis Communication (3)
- Editing (13)
- Emotion (14)
- Grammar & Usage (11)
- Language (16)
- Leadership (11)
- Listening (7)
- Management (7)
- Media Relations (4)
- Messaging (2)
- Obstacles to Communication (5)
- Presentations/Speeches (50)
- Promotion (1)
- Proofing (1)
- Quotes (5)
- Relationships (2)
- Review & Approval Process (13)
- Show, Don't Tell (20)
- Social Media (8)
- Storytelling (27)
- Uncategorized (5)
- Using Humor (9)
- Video (7)
- Visual Communication (6)
- Web (11)
- Working with Lawyers (7)
- Writing (36)
My Other Stuff
Tweets
- No atheists in fox holes? Wolf Blitzer finds the answer in Oklahoma youtu.be/rIDrmYyfWe8 8 hours ago
- @TomKolovosTKO @WGNNews Nice job, Tom! I've been rocking the orange/red pants for a year now. 18 hours ago
- Death at the Grand Canyon: How a Story Can Save Lives bit.ly/17YKLwE Latest blog post #storytelling 21 hours ago
- Regarding Apple and taxes, don't hate the player, hate the game. Reform the system. 21 hours ago
- If Mad Men episodes were created by committee, last night's show would never have been seen. And that's why committee suck. 1 day ago
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Category Archives: Book
A Little Self Promotion
One indicator that you’ve come upon a subject that you’re passionate about is that in all the thinking and analyzing and dissecting, you constantly come up with new ways to talk about it. I’m doing a couple of PR industry … Continue reading
Posted in Book
Tagged Martha Stewart Living Radio, PRSA, Public Relations Society of America
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Get Over Yourself — You’re Not That Special
I did this TV interview on Friday and learned a little something that I should have already known, since it’s something I always preach. People tend to think that their job or their industry is enormously complex and that an … Continue reading
Posted in Book, Communication, Listening
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Tune into Your Audience
When I started writing the book, I thought about crowdsourcing it. There are sites where you can put up a chapter at a time, invite comment, ask questions and start debate. I quickly realized that that’s never been the way … Continue reading
Delivering some sound advice
This morning I’ll be appearing on All Sides with Ann Fisher, a talk radio program broadcast out of Columbus, Ohio. We’ll be talking about the book and taking questions from callers about how to communicate and write more effectively. And … Continue reading
Soundbites: The Long and Short of It
Bill Clinton was a great communicator. A greater communicator, I think, than THE Great Communicator. As we all well know, he could talk his way into and out of just about anything! But he was not what you would call … Continue reading
Now on Sale
I’m not a big fan of traditional business books. I think I got to #4 in the 7 Habits of Highly Effective People before bailing. (Maybe that says something about my effectiveness.) So when I set out to write my … Continue reading
Posted in Book
Tagged Annie Hall, David Mamet, Seven Habits of Highly Effective People
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