by Rob Cottingham | Apr 25, 2019 | LCWRC, Podcast, Speaking, Speechwriting
The applause from your speech may have faded, but the connection you make with your audience doesn’t have to. Engaging online can help you deepen and broaden your audience relationship, while building a growing network that may become one of your most valuable assets: your platform.
by Rob Cottingham | Jan 20, 2016 | Speechwriting
There’s a point I’ve been hammering for years now (and I do mean years): the rise of social networks and easily-shared media should mean a profound change in the way speakers and speechwriters approach our craft: at once both broader in scope and more... by Rob Cottingham | Mar 2, 2015 | Social Media
To celebrate Dr. Seuss’ birthday today, HootSuite has posted a really clever Dr.-Seuss-inflected guide to Twitter, and invited their friends and followers to share their own rhymes, hashtagged #HootSeuss. Naturally, I found myself helpless to resist. (P.S.—I... by Rob Cottingham | Sep 14, 2014 | Vancouver
This morning brought the news that municipal party Vision Vancouver’s Twitter following (along with Mayor Gregor Robertson’s) had ballooned overnight, and that most of those followers were fake. What should have been a non-story wasn’t, because...
