For public relations and communications practitioners, to cover your challenges, large and small, from editing and speechwriting to communications planning, audience skepticism, networking and more. As featured on Ragan.com and PR Daily, and on the don't get caught blog.
2. Chase’s Calendar of Events
• Puts the 12,500 special
days, weeks, months, holidays
and anniversaries into
calendar form
• Helps you plan your events
with or around major holidays
• Average 34 events per day!
3. ProBlogger
• “Secrets for Blogging Your
Way to a Six-Figure Income”
• Advice on content,
measurement, monetizing and
more
• Updated in 2012
4. The Freelancer’s Bible
• “Everything You Need to Know
To Have the Career of Your
Dreams—On Your Terms”
• How to set up, whether to take
the leap, financial
issues, workspace and more
• Great whether you work with a
lot of freelancers, or dream of
becoming one
5. The Associated Press
Guide to Punctuation
• More specialized than the AP
Style Guide (which gets
updated in July)
• Settle those office debates
about serial commas and
parentheses
6. Trust Me, I’m Lying
• “Confessions of a Media
Manipulator”
• Controversial
• Cautionary tale
• Clues to why your media
efforts are met with skepticism
7. Power Verbs for Presenters
• “Hundreds of Verbs & Phrases
to Pump Up Your Speeches
and Presentations”
• Coming in February, available
for pre-order
• Using active verbs makes your
speech more concrete and
persuasive, research shows
8. Beyond Argument
• “A Handbook for Editorial
Writers”
• From the Association of
Opinion Journalists
• Learn how they do it, and how
you can do it better
9. Network Like an Introvert
• “A New Way of Thinking
About Business Relationships”
• Useful whether you are an
introvert or extrovert
• A new spin on networking, and
useful for everyday office
interactions
10. See more on the DGC blog
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Denise Graveline
Washington, DC-based communications consultant