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The New York Times released an article titled "In Battle to Defang ISIS, US Targets Its Psychology" on December 28, 2014. The article goes into details about how General Michael Nagata is trying to understand the Islamic State and its intangible capabilities. What draws people to the Islamic State and how this messaging is put together.
General Nagata stated that we do not under the movement and until we do we won't be able to defeat it. He further states in the article that we have not defeated the idea. We do not even understand the idea.
The United States and other nations with relatively free societies allow the promulgation of the exact rhetoric that assists in the recruiting process. We have covered this in articles in Europe, Asia and North America. Our piece on ISIS: The French Connection goes into minute details of the recruiting process which some of it can be generically applied to nations around the world.
We have also discussed the social media exploitation done by the Islamic State in our articles discussing how the Islamic State uses social media in its recruiting efforts as well as "preaching" the message. The Al Hayat Media Center (HMC) and the Al Furqan Media Foundation craft religious devotionals in their messaging which is something the western powers still have failed to grasp. Each media clip the HMC and Al Furqan releases has a religious appeal to it. We have also put a lot of detail into articles about HMC and Furqan Media Foundation. How they broadcast their messaging and practically announce where actions or attacks will take place. We had also done an analysis of their social media saturation throughout North America and how they specify a targeted city. There is also the fact that each individual fighter is his own online media host on Twitter, Facebook, Diaspora or other social networks. Some are even broadcasting their messages from the battlefield.
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The Islamic State in several of their recruiting videos shows the Islamic State as a brotherhood as a place where everybody can belong. While they skip the part about requiring you to be a Muslim that is pretty much implied. The Soldiers of Truth Video refers to the fighters as "the brothers" throughout the video clip and several other propaganda videos do the same. This inclusiveness is built upon by experienced military commanders that served in the military of a variety of nations including the US. There are a number of members in the Islamic State that have served in the military in European nations such as France, the UK, Russia, Georgia, Chechnya, the Balkans and more. There are also a number from the Philippines which we had pointed out in the most recent execution video there is a Philippine presence in the Islamic State. Then there are the foreign fighters from the North African nations with military experience. Some of these foreign fighters likely had training from US or other nations prior to the conflict since many countries have been the recipient of military aid from western nations for decades. There is no question that a larger than expected number of fighters have had military experience and this is also why they use US tactics in some cases or that of European nations.
Some of this experience has come from militaries that have psychological operations type units and some of it comes from the computer experts that they have managed to recruit. The Islamic State is very savvy in its recruiting because it looks for fighters, but also computer scientists and social media experts and people with proper placement and access within foreign countries to conduct recruitment or financing operations. Islamic State has been far more advanced in their outreach methodology than Al Qaeda ever has been. There is also the fact that the former regime and military members of the Saddam Hussein era that joined the Islamic State. This was a warning that was given numerous times during the Iraq War specifically about Izzat Ibrahim al Douri.
The former members of Saddam's military that formed JRTN (Jaysh Rijal al-Tariqa al-Naqshbandia) provided a lot of the necessary experience the Islamic State needed back in mid 2011 when they started the "Breaking the Walls" campaign which began freeing prisoners, conducting bank robberies and kidnappings to fund operations. This group also had inroads with groups when the Syrian Civil War broke out. They were also smart enough to obtain aid from the United States under the guise of being a moderate group under various names or sending individuals to pose moderates of other so called moderate groups. Experience from individuals like Omar al-Shishani and Abu Waheeb have also given the Islamic State an enormous advantage over other groups. Waheeb is about as bloodthirsty as it gets killing people just because they aren't able to answer specific questions pertaining to Sunni Islam that he comes up with.
The Islamic State takes the unique capabilities of each individual into consideration during the recruitment process. It does not simply stick a body into a position to become a fighter if they believe the person's talents are best suited elsewhere. This is also something we covered in a quite a few different articles. Ahmad Abousamra from the United States for example became a leader of Al Hayat Media Center, Omar al-Shishani from Chechnya a senior field commander. They recognize the talents for what they are worth to the organization. Abousamra has far exceeded what they expected on the social media efforts. He should be a primary target of the United States and coalition forces.
Assessment: Messaging by the Islamic State focuses on core Islamic values with a heavy emphasis on the necessity to participate in jihad against the apostates. Each of the mass execution videos released has shown this with the "narrator" talking about jihad, how those being executed are apostates for attacks on the Muslims even though some of those being executed are themselves Muslims. The US has been behind the power curve in messaging for a very long time. The US has focused on a message appealing towards humanity while the Islamic State's entirety of messaging is a religious one using specific passages from the Quran. The western powers need to counter that message using those same phrases but reversing their meaning to a more moderate view. We had wrote about this in our article Defeating the Islamic State. We had also discussed how the US had greatly underestimated the strength and capabilities of the Islamic State.
Every day the Islamic State holds terrain it increases its status in the eyes of wannabe jihadists around the world. This is why the problem extends from beyond Syria and Iraq to Asia where groups in the Philippines have pledged allegiance to the Islamic State and have sent fighters. The chaos in Libya is spreading to neighboring Egypt and Ansar al-Sharia has already proclaimed a caliphate in Libya as well as pledged allegiance to the Islamic State. Tunisia has sent some 3000 fighters to the Islamic State and continues to do so, at some point those fighters will be returning to stir unrest there. Boko Haram continues to gain influence and terrain in Nigeria and has done cross border attacks in neighboring Cameroon. There are other groups that have pledged allegiance to the Islamic State such as Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis (ABM) in the Sinai.
The US and coalition forces need to recognize that this is a worldwide problem not just contained to Syria and Iraq. Defeating the ideology must start in the countries that are not yet physically involved in conflict. There is already strong support for the Islamic State in bordering countries like Jordan, Turkey and Saudi Arabia. If these governments do not rapidly and decisively counter the messaging of radical imams then the conflict will surely spread into their countries in the form of armed conflict. The swatting at flies approach to the Islamic State allows it to adapt and change its operational plans on the fly. When the US began its bombing campaign we accurately predicted that the Islamic State would turn west and north which led them to Kobani. Once the US began to bomb the area around Kobani the Islamic State pushed closer to Baghdad. Recently, it was reported that the Islamic State had engaged Jordanian forces along the border which would be an indicator of another shift in the group's strategy and testing support. Jordan attempted a crackdown on radical imams, but must engage with the more moderate imams and increase the sphere of influence that they have. We had also talked about this in the Defeating the Islamic State piece. This must also be applied to other countries and not just those on the border areas of the conflict.
The US and other open societies must figure out how to continue the freedoms that their citizens enjoy while also ensuring that their citizens are secure. Numerous Islamic Centers around the world have ties to known or suspected jihadists, promoters, financiers and leaders. These organizations are not investigated well enough to come to the correct conclusions in analysis. These organizations are also quick to use the legal system against any organization or individual that attempts to expose them for contributing to jihadist groups financially, through recruitment or otherwise. This is something we are referring to as Judicial Jihad. While some of these organizations are outright supporters some are duped into supporting individuals that they are unaware of having ties to terrorist groups. However, governments must determine which organizations are actually suspect and choose the proper course of action to move forward.
Something else we have discussed is that the Islamic State has a very limited war production capacity. They are limited because they do not produce the weapons which they possess particularly the heavy weapons such as tanks and artillery. They can't even produce a vehicle for combat. Everything that the Islamic State uses on the heavier end of equipment is obtained through battlefield recovery. Normally, when one thinks of battlefield recovery it is on a much smaller scale such as equipment and ammunition recovered after an ambush or a raid on a small objective. However, in the case with the Islamic State they have conducted battlefield recovery on a massive scale by seizing entire military installations in Iraq and Syria. These facilities must be reduced immediately after they have been seized to prevent that captured equipment from being used against Iraqi Security Forces. The US and coalition forces should target facilities in Iraq and Syria that have been seized destroying all equipment located in those facilities.
We have wrote about this extensively in the ISIS Study Group and in our articles we cover a lot of this not just in Syria, Iraq or the Middle East, but worldwide. We go into a lot of detail about the organization, how it functions, how it recruits, how it uses social media and how it plans attacks. We also show how this has moved well beyond the Syria/Iraq area and extends into northern Africa, Europe, Asia and North America. In fact we angered some financiers in the Philippines that they started responding to articles on the site with threats of lawsuits. That is also a jihadi tactic that the western powers need to address since it is happening more often. The longer the Islamic State holds terrain, especially a large amount of it, the more fighters it gathers to its cause. We show how they use social media in the recruitment effort as well as the messaging effort. We wrote a detailed plan for a beginning phase of defeating the Islamic State which had it been followed IS would likely hold much less terrain now and multiple Iraqi bases/camps in Anbar would not have fallen and scores of troops would have been spared.
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Chapter 1: The Box
Qwerty Stevens found the box at four o'clock in the afternoon on October 18. He would always remember the date because it was the day after his thirteenth birthday.
He found the box right after he'd had another one of those arguments with his mother. She said he had gone over to Joey Dvorak's house without getting permission first. He said he had asked for permission. She said "maybe" did not mean "yes."
He said, she said. The next thing anybody knew, Qwerty's mother was saying that he was grounded.
Mrs. Stevens wasn't mean. She just seemed mean sometimes. It was hard for her, bringing up Qwerty and his two sisters all by herself. Six years earlier Qwerty's dad had been killed in a car accident. He was driving home on Franklin Avenue in West Orange when a teenager lost control of a Jeep Cherokee and plowed right into Mr. Stevens's little Honda. He was killed instantly. The teenager walked away with a few bruises.
"Robert Edward Stevens!" Mrs. Stevens called out in her firmest voice. "Don't you ever go anywhere without getting my permission first, do you understand me?"
Mrs. Stevens called him by his real name only when she was mad. And she used all three names only when she was really mad. The rest of the time, she called him "Qwerty," like everyone else.
He had gotten that nickname when he was in third grade. The whole class was in the computer room practicing keyboarding one day. The computer teacher told the class to put their fingers on the keyboard and type — without looking — the top row, left hand (QWERT), then the top row, right hand (YUIOP). Then they were instructed to type the middle row, left hand (ASDFG), and the middle row, right hand (HJKL;). Then they had to move their fingers down and type the bottom row, left hand (ZXCVB), and the bottom row, right hand (NM,./). Then they had to print out their work and turn it in.
Robert Stevens had a problem lining up the paper in his printer. Somehow he clipped off his name from the top of the page. When the computer teacher was going through everyone's papers, she held up Robert's to show what happened when you didn't load the paper into the printer correctly. This was what the top line said:
From that moment on, everybody had called Robert Edward Stevens "Qwerty."
Qwerty slammed the back door on his way out. Mom's just being overprotective, he thought. I'm thirteen now. I'm old enough to go over to my friend's house by myself. She's just afraid the same thing that happened to Dad will happen to me.
When Qwerty was mad, or when he was in a bad mood, he liked to dig. He'd take a shovel out of the garage and go to a corner of the backyard where the grass never grew. Then he would dig a hole. He never had a goal in mind. He just liked to dig holes. He found it relaxing.
Qwerty never dug up anything good. One day he found a rock in the shape of a triangle that looked like it could have been an old Indian arrowhead. More likely, it was just a rock in the shape of a triangle.
While he was digging, nobody ever bothered him. He didn't think about anything.
Mrs. Stevens figured digging gave Qwerty an outlet for his anger. And to be honest, it kept him out of her hair for a little while.
It was while he was digging that Qwerty found the box.
The ground was well worn. He had dug holes out in the backyard many times before. Maybe if I dig deep enough, he thought, I can climb in and nobody will ever bother me.
Qwerty pointed the shovel at the earth and placed his right foot on top of it. He leaned in, and the blade sliced into the dirt. And then, less than a foot below the surface, something stopped the blade from going any farther.
Thunk. A definite thunk. It wasn't a clank, which would have told Qwerty he had hit something made of metal. No, it was definitely a thunk.
Qwerty pulled up the shovel and placed it a few inches to the left of the mark he'd just made. He leaned on it again, just enough to cut through the soil without damaging anything that might be down there.
Thunk. There was something down there. It didn't feel like a rock.
He placed the shovel a few inches to the right of his original mark. When he leaned on it — very carefully — he felt something stop the shovel and heard the thunk noise again. Whatever was down there had to be at least a foot wide.
Qwerty got down on his knees and began to loosen the dirt with his hands. It came away easily. In a few minutes he had cleared off enough dirt so he could touch the top of whatever was down there. It felt like it was made of wood.
"Whatcha doin', Qwerty?"
Qwerty looked up quickly. He had been concentrating so hard on digging that he hadn't noticed anyone standing there. It was Thing One and Thing Two — his sisters.
Madison, the little one, was six. She was curious but harmless. Barbara, the bigger one, was sixteen and nosy and had achieved her full potential to be annoying.
Qwerty didn't say anything about what he was doing. Whatever was buried down there, he didn't want to share it with them.
"Nothin'," he lied.
"Whoso diggeth a pit shall falleth therein," Barbara recited dramatically.
"Nobody asked you, Barb."
Barbara had recently discovered a love of poetry, which made her more annoying than ever.
"It's a free country, Nerdy. Ever hear of freedom of speech?"
"Aren't you going to get in trouble for digging up the backyard?" Madison asked.
"I never have before. And besides, trouble is my middle name," Qwerty replied, getting up and clapping the dirt off his hands.
"No, it's not," Madison said. "Your middle name is Edward."
"Come on, silly," Barbara said as she took Madison by the hand. "The only thing dumber than digging holes in the ground is watching somebody else dig holes in the ground."
When Thing One and Thing Two were out of sight, Qwerty got back down on his knees. He pushed the shovel all around the hole he had made and figured out that the object had to be a rectangle about two feet wide and one foot long — about the size of a backpack. He couldn't tell yet how tall it was.
Dirt was packed around the thing pretty tightly, and Qwerty was having a hard time getting it out. There was no handle or anything on top to grab on to. He scraped more dirt around the sides and tried to rock the thing back and forth. Dirt was getting under his fingernails, and his hands were filthy. He knew his mother would get on his case about that, but then, what else was new?
Finally Qwerty removed enough dirt on all four sides to free the thing from its grave. He lifted it out of the ground.
It was a wooden box with a curved top, sort of like one of those carriers people used for bringing their cats to the vet. It wasn't too heavy. Qwerty could lift it easily. There was a small lock on one side. Part of the wood was rotted away. This thing, whatever it was, had been buried in the backyard for a long time.
Dirt was still caked on the sides of the box. Qwerty brushed it off with his hand, revealing these letters in flowing gold:
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The new method is the subject of a paper titled "A general framework for estimating the relative pathogenicity of human genetic variants," published in Nature Genetics.
Current methods of organizing human genetic variation look at just one or a few factors and use only a small subset of the information available. For example, the Encyclopedia Of DNA Elements, or ENCODE, catalogs various types of functional elements in human genomes, while sequence conservation looks for similar or identical sequences that have survived across different species through hundreds of millions of years of evolution. CADD brings all of these data together, and more, into one score in order to provide a ranking that helps researchers discern which variants may be linked to disease and which ones may not.
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The goal in developing the new approach was to take the overwhelming amount of data available and distill it down into a single score that can be more easily evaluated by a researcher or clinician. To accomplish that, CADD compares and contrasts the properties of 15 million genetic variants separating humans from chimpanzees with 15 million simulated variants. Variants observed in humans have surviv
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When I search Twitter for the term "media training," I frequently come across a tweet that suggests that a celebrity or politician who said something controversial "needs media training."
In some cases, that's true. But I've often observed that many people reflexively want to send everyone who's ever uttered a controversial or provocative comment to media training immediately.
Media training isn't about preventing people from ever expressing an unpopular or controversial view.
I occasionally work with someone who has a deep-seated belief about a controversial topic. We discuss the likely consequences of expressing that belief in the manner the person would like to do so. Sometimes, they'll modify their approach to make the same point in a way that's less likely to alienate their audiences. But ultimately, once they understand of the potential consequences, the choice of whether to proceed is theirs.
What's important, therefore, is that spokespersons understand the potential consequences of saying something unpopular.
From a purely strategic perspective, expressing an unpopular thought isn't always the wrong decision; in fact, it can be the type of marketing differentiator that allows someone to stand out from their more traditional peers.
Bill Maher, for example, has made a long career out of testing the boundaries of politically correct thought. A comment he made shortly after 9/11 cost him his job on ABC, and recent comments about Muslims prompted a strong backlash. But was the cure for those comments "media training," or was Maher keenly aware of the potential consequences associated with expressing his views?
That said, as a general rule, celebrities (e.g. Bill Maher, Miley Cyrus) and politicians (e.g. Sarah Palin, Chris Christie) have more license to brand themselves as provocative than spokespersons representing a company or organization (e.g. the CEO of Boeing or Johnson & Johnson).
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- 4. Could they be more effective in their roles if they chose their words and picked their battles more effectively?
- 5. Will their words not only potentially threaten their own brands, but hurt the people and brands they're associated with?
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According to The Toronto Star, a Toronto news anchor has been suspended due to concerns about a possible conflict of interest:
"Global Television news anchor Leslie Roberts has been suspended from the network after a Toronto Star investigation found he is secretly the part owner of a small public relations firm whose clients — lawyers, small businesses and others — appear on his show.
Roberts helps clients with pitches and media training and has tweeted positive comments about some of the clients to his 20,000 followers on Twitter. In one instance, during a morning show on which supermarket shopping was being discussed, he blurted out the name of one of his firm's clients and suggested viewers "check it out." At no time did he disclose to viewers his connection to the companies or his public relations firm: BuzzPR."
"'At Global News we take matters of journalistic integrity very seriously,' Global spokesperson Rishma Govani told the Star. 'Mr. Roberts has been suspended from his duties indefinitely as we conduct a full investigation into this matter.'"
The Star presented its findings to Roberts early this week. Roberts said he had done nothing wrong but would resign from BuzzPR, the public relations firm he owns with a partner."
This post isn't specifically about Mr. Roberts. Instead, I want to use this incident as a launching pad to a broader question: Should working journalists simultaneously serve clients as media trainers?
That's not a theoretical question. I'm aware of firms who boast that their media trainers are working journalists. (I'm not disparaging those firms—at least one I know of that employs working journalists has a terrific reputation.)
From a client perspective, I can see the advantage of working with someone who's still in the game. But how about from a journalism ethics perspective?
I suppose there are some exceptions for journalists who don't train clients who fall within their coverage area. A sports reporter who trains a lifestyle expert, for example, probably wouldn't raise too many flags—although I wonder if even that comes at too great a risk to the public perception of their journalistic neutrality.
But a general interest reporter who might be called upon to report on one of the people or businesses he or she has trained? How is that even remotely appropriate?
Mr. Roberts has resigned from Global Television. In a resignation letter, he wrote:
"I am resigning my position as News Anchor and Executive Editor of Global Toronto effective immediately. I regret the circumstances, specifically a failure to disclose information, which led to this outcome.
Over the past 15 years, I have worked within a news organization and among colleagues who are the best in the business. For that privilege, I will always be grateful.
Leslie Roberts"
Tags: Leslie Roberts, media training, Media Training Industry, The Toronto Star
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CNN.com recently ran a fascinating piece about the "GOP's secret school," in which candidates learn how to interact with the media. The school is a reaction to the high-profile crises the GOP has inflicted upon itself in recent years—from Todd Akin's "legitimate rape" comment to Christine O'Donnell's "I am not a witch" ad—and party officials are determined not to repeat past mistakes. According to the article:
"Since the beginning of 2014, the RNC says it has graduated over 200 operatives and placed many of them as communications directors and press secretaries in Capitol Hill offices and federal campaigns nationwide…[Instructor] Rob Lockwood has also conducted media training boot camps with nearly 1,000 candidates, staff and local political figures in a dozen states."
It appears that this GOP training class is doing everything right in its effort to improve external communications. There's good advice here for everyone involved in politics, regardless of party or cause. In this post, I'll highlight the excerpts that caught my attention most.
1. Don't Treat Reporters As Your Enemy
Tim Miller, the executive director of America Rising, says:
"'If you treat reporters with hostility, there will be blood….As recently as 2008 and 2010, you would sit in these rooms and it would be somebody from the Lee Atwater era, talking about how the media is your enemy…My talk was about talking the ways to use the 24/7 news cycle and Twitter and social media to your advantage, as well as recognizing the pitfalls.'"
2. Think Twice Before Holding Press Conferences
"'Doing a press conference just to do a press conference doesn't work anymore,' Lockwood tells students. 'It's an antiquated way of thinking. If you don't know what you want your headline to be, and think you can go out there and say what you want in five points, and answer none of the questions, that the news reports are going to be about your five points. Nope. The reports will probably be about the five things you didn't answer.'"
3. Remember That Dull Can Be Good
Lockwood tells his audiences that being a bit dull may be preferable:
"'Don't use jokes that you've never told before … Jay Carney showed everyday that it's better to be dull than offensive,' referring to the former White House press secretary who is now a CNN political commentator. 'Don't introduce new phrases, like Etch-a-sketch.'"
4. Maintain a Bit of Healthy Paranoia
"'I'd rather have candidates being careful to a fault than, you know, having a fountain of blabber coming out of their mouth that's not disciplined,' [RNC Chairman Reince] Priebus says.' We are training candidates, training state parties, training operatives to appreciate that communicating isn't just a free-for-all, natural-born type of activity. People need to be trained and disciplined.'"
5. Don't Chase Every Story
Although "rapid response" is key to every political communications shop, it doesn't mean you have to respond to everything:
"As much as the classes focus on the capacity of the web to drive a message, students are urged not to chase every shiny object or micro-story that pops on Twitter."
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Tags: Election 2014, media training, Media Training Industry, politics, Reince Priebus, Republican National Committee, Rob Lockwood, Tim Miller
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I've worked with many people who don't trust or like the media. But one recent group of trainees from a public entity was more emphatic in their hatred of the press than I'd ever encountered before.
This group constantly felt besieged by a rapacious press corps that couldn't be satiated, and they believed that reporters were far too busy pursuing their own predetermined agendas to give them a fair shot.
Given the hostility of this group toward the press, I decided to try something different. The result was striking, if not outright shocking.
Instead of playing the role of reporter (as I usually do in media training sessions), I decided to divide the group in half.
The first group played their usual role of serving as corporate spokespersons. I gave them a scenario to work with, asked them to develop their messages and media strategy, and told them to assign a person who would deliver a press conference.
The second group was tasked with playing the role of reporters during a press conference. I told them that their job was to do everything they could to get the facts the spokesperson was reluctant to offer. I instructed them to get past the spin, challenge evasive responses, and do whatever they could to get to the truth.
The second group took their job seriously. When the press conference began, they were unforgiving of anything that remotely bordered spin. They asked tough follow-up questions, used evidence to contradict some of the spokesperson's claims, and adopted an almost hostile tone. Frankly, they were tougher than most of the reporters I've ever seen at press conferences.
The "Aha!" Moment
When the press conference ended, I asked both groups what they were feeling. The group representing the company said they felt exhausted and beaten up. But the group of reporters was pissed. They felt that the company was being evasive, and they resented the company's lack of candor.
I didn't have to say anything. My takeaway message seemed to wash over everyone simultaneously: Reporters aren't always being jerks just to be jerks; sometimes, they just resent that you're not being straight with them.
That profound realization, which reminded me of the old adage about walking a mile in someone else's shoes, changed their perspective. Suddenly, they understood how they were complicit in the media's reaction to their attempts at media management—and they recognized the need to begin doing things differently.
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Tags: media relations tips, media training, Public Relations, working with reporters
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"Our company was founded in 1922."
Whenever I hear a speaker say something like that, I think, Who cares? That piece of information, presented without context, could lead the audience to have one of two reactions:
1. "Wow, they've been doing this a long time. They must know what they're doing."
2. "Wow, they're old. I wonder if they're a traditional company that's too slow to embrace change."
I often tell speakers to stop being their company's Wikipedia page by merely listing factual information. Their job during a presentation isn't to list facts, but to create a useful context into which those facts fit.
In the above example, the speaker should have said something closer to this:
"Our company was founded in 1922. Our industry has gone through three major transformations from then to now—and the only reason we've been able to continue our growth is because we have the experience to identify and embrace tomorrow's trends before everyone else."
Here's another example. Don't simply state that you have 18 offices around the world. Instead, infuse that fact with meaning, and say:
"We're a global events planning company. We can help you plan top-notch events in New York and Los Angeles, but also in Mexico City, Berlin, Mumbai, Johannesburg, and 12 other major international cities. And if you want to plan an event in a city outside of those 18 locations, our closest regional office can successfully plan it for you from there, as we did in 145 cities last year alone."
As you practice for your next presentation, pay close attention to the moments when you're verging on becoming a context-free, facts-only presenter. Then, repeat this mantra: "I am not a Wikipedia page!" and add meaning to those facts.
Want more free public speaking tips? Check out our 25 Most Essential Public Speaking Tips.
Tags: media training, presentation training, public speaking
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You've just boarded a plane. You arrange your bags, remove your reading material, and say hello to the stranger who will be your seatmate for the next six hours. (For the purposes of this post, let's assume your strategy isn't to instantly put on your headphones and tune your neighbors out.)
The person seated next to you begins chatting with you and asks what you do for a living. "I've never heard of your company," he says in response to your answer. "What is it?"
That moment—what I've dubbed "the plane test"—is a wonderful opportunity to test your brand messages. If your fellow passenger's eyes glaze over at your response, you'll know that your messages need some work. But if it leads to an interested reply and a relevant follow-up question, you'll know you're on the right track.
Your seatmate is a free, one-person focus group. He or she will never know you're testing different versions of your brand message on them. And you should take advantage of that opportunity every time.
When asked about their companies, most people deliver an uninspired "what" answer:
"Well, the Association for the Advancement of Arkansas Education is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization with 25 employees working in four statewide offices to improve elementary and secondary education in Arkansas."
By the time you said 501(c)3, your seatmate probably started wishing he had just pressed play on the in-flight movie.
There's a better technique to describe your company called the "Why + What," which I elaborated upon in my book, The Media Training Bible: 101 Things You Absolutely, Positively Need To Know Before Your Next Interview. Here's an example:
"In Arkansas, we rank 50th in the United States in high school graduation rates. That means our students are among the least prepared in the nation when entering the workforce and the most likely to live in poverty for the rest of their lives. The Association for the Advancement of Arkansas Education is dedicated to changing that and to making sure our students get the high-quality education they need to successfully compete in the global marketplace."
That answer is more likely to provoke a "wow!" response and prompt a bevy of follow-up questions from your seatmate: Why is Arkansas last? What can you do about it? What, if anything, has been working? Can you really change that trend?
If your company, organization, group, or government agency has developed messages, test them at every opportunity possible. Your "plane test" may occur while you're in flight, but it may also occur when you're earthbound at a cocktail reception, your child's school play, or your local grocery store.
Take advantage of those free, one-person focus groups—and revise your responses until you find the language that regularly produces a "wow."
Like the blog? Read the book! The Media Training Bible: 101 Things You Absolutely, Positively Need to Know Before Your Next Interview is available in paperback, for Kindle, and iPad.
Tags: media training, media training messages, the plane test
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I recently media trained a well-regarded executive.
Off camera, this client was funny, warm, and engaging. But her first on-camera interview was terrible. While answering my questions, she appeared stiff and restrained, bordering on unlikeable. As I sat listening to her answers, I thought, "How in the world am I going to help her improve?"
After we stopped recording, I mentioned to her that although she had all of these wonderful traits in person, I wasn't seeing them come across during the interview. I asked what was holding her back.
She told me that she had been told by a previous boss that she has too much personality—and, over time, she's learned to dial back her performance in order to be taken more seriously. (In my experience, this has been a recurring theme with many more women than men.)
I asked her to do another interview with me—but this time, to be the person she truly is, the one that hasn't been criticized or critiqued in the past. I wanted the unrestrained version of her, the one that goes out to dinner with her closest friends.
Guess what? Freed of her self-defeating internal monologue, she delivered a great on-camera interview in the second round. Even better, she actually enjoyed the experience after I gave her permission to be herself.
Like many of our trainees, advice she had received from someone earlier in her life—in this case, a former boss—had killed some of her spark.
If you've ever been given advice from a supervisor, friend, partner, media or presentation coach, or anyone else that isn't sitting right with you, question it. Don't dismiss it entirely; there's always a chance they could be right. But allow for the possibility that you know something about yourself that the other person simply doesn't know.
And remember: There's no one model for what a spokesperson should look like, other than themselves at their best. Spokespersons can succeed as communicators whether they're quiet and shy or personable and high energy. So to this client's former boss, I say this: personable people can be taken seriously.
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A surprising number of our clients share with me a piece of advice they learned from a media trainer somewhere along the line: "Don't answer the question the reporter asks you. Answer the question you want to answer."
I've met several of my industry peers—and have read articles, blogs, and books from some of those I haven't—and I've yet to encounter a professional media trainer who offers that advice to their clients. So I really don't know where that bad advice is coming from.
What I do know is that it's pervasive. Many clients, who work all over the country and have never met one another, have heard that bit of hackery somewhere along the line. And if they take that advice into their interviews, they're going to create a disaster for themselves.
Perhaps that advice comes from an earlier era, one in which reporters were less likely to air the full raw tape of a spokesperson dodging a question. To the degree that era ever existed, it's over. Journalists regularly (and rightfully, in my view) shame spokespersons who refuse to answer direct questions by exposing their evasions.
As an example, check out this video of British Labour Party Leader Ed Miliband, who pretends that the journalist is invisible.
Naturally, there may be times when you don't want to answer a question. Perhaps the reporter is asking you about something off-topic instead of the thing you really want to be speaking about. Maybe a journalist wants to know an embarrassing detail you'd rather not reveal, or about a confidential detail your lawyers have banned you from elaborating upon. (Read more about "Commenting without Commenting" here.)
Even in those moments, it's almost always better to answer the question directly—and briefly—before transitioning to something else. In some situations, you may even be able to answer the reporter's query with incomplete sentences and responses in which you don't cite the subject by name ("DUI" becomes "that issue"), to make your answer more difficult to quote. But answer the question.
Here's an example:
Let's say a reporter is asking you about a campaign staffer who was arrested for DUI. You've decided not to fire that employee, and you already answered questions directly about his arrest yesterday; every major newspaper, website, and news channel covered the story extensively today. You're reluctant to continue speaking about it, as your detailed responses will only lead to additional news stories that will take you far off your campaign's message.
Reporter: "A lot of people in the media are asking why you didn't fire Bob Smith yesterday? You've been speaking about the need for personal responsibility throughout this campaign, and your refusal to fire him seems to contradict your message."
You: "You know, I addressed that question and several others on this topic yesterday. My answers haven't changed, and there's nothing new to add. Many members of the press have already spent a full day covering that story in detail. Given that we only have three weeks left in this campaign, I'm going to spend today speaking about the important issues voters consistently tell us they care about most."
That answer doesn't share any new information. It doesn't give reporters any juicy quotes to add to their news story. But it does address the specific question that was asked.
So ignore that pervasive but pernicious piece of advice. A direct question deserves a direct answer—even if it's not the direct answer the reporter hopes to hear.
Learn more about the best ways to answer media questions in The Media Training Bible: 101 Things You Absolutely, Positively Need to Know Before Your Next Interview.
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Posted: February 24, 2014|
A FIGHT that broke out at an 18th birthday party in Swadlincote saw police dogs called in to intervene.
The trouble broke out at Swadlincote Catholic Club, in Darklands Road, on Friday night and saw bottles smashed in the street.
Derbyshire Police's dog section posted on social networking site Twitter that officers had attended a dispute following an 18th that had 'gone wrong'.
The tweet said: "Police dog Hero assisted with clearing the streets of drunk youths."
A police spokesman said: "We were called at 10.32pm to reports of people fighting and throwing chairs and bottles. Police arrived and within a few minutes it had calmed down. We had no complaints of any assaults. The dog section were there for about 20 minutes."
Pat Murray, a member of the congregation at the neighbouring St Peter and St Paul Catholic Church, said the club was leased out.
He said: "I was told there was a private 18th party and a fight broke out between some youths that got out of hand, so the police were called. Nobody was physically hurt – the police broke it up and the club closed it down."
He said the club was not run or managed by anyone from the church.
Nobody was believed to have been injured.
A spokesman from the club said youngsters were throwing bottles outside.


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Here's what ELA members are accomplishing in the field of education law. If you are an ELA member and would like to include your recent education-law-related news on this page, please log in to our members section and fill out our submission form.
Richard Fossey and Todd DeMitchell have teamed up again, creating a companion to the book noted below. This new title is "The Challenges of Mandating School Uniforms in the Public Schools: Free Speech, Research, and Policy" published by Rowman & Littlefield. (June 2015)
2014 McGhehey Award winner Richard Fossey and Todd DeMitchell have published a new book with Rowman and Littlefield, "Student Dress Codes and the First Amendment."
Wendy Beetlestone, a member of ELA from 2006-2014, assumed office on November 21, 2014 as a judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, having been nominated in June. Judge Beetlestone served ELA as a reporter for the School Law Reporter for several years while a shareholder at Hangley, Aronchick, Segal, Pudlin & Schiller. Prior to that, she served as general counsel for the School District of Philadelphia, among other attorney positions.
Jeffrey C. Sun and Neal H. Hutchens recently published College Students' Online Speech: Searching for the Appropriate Standards Within First Amendment Case Principles, 2014 Cardozo L. Rev. de novo 129. Visit http://www.cardozolawreview.com/de-novo-2014.html.
Congratulations to Justin Bathon, an associate professor in the Department of Educational Leadership Studies and a director of the Center for the Advanced Study of Technology Leadership in Education (CASTLE) at the University of Kentucky, for being awarded tenure.
Janet Decker and Suzanne Eckes have announced that the 2015 keynote speaker for the Martha McCarthy Education Law & Policy Summer Institute will be Gary Orfield, Professor, UCLA Graduate School of Education; Co-Director, The Civil Rights Project at UCLA.
Mark Gooden, of the University of Texas at Austin, recently completed his year as president of the University Council for Educational Administration.
Congratulations to ELA members who have made career moves recently:
• Board member Cynthia Dieterich is Visiting Faculty, Cleveland State University, Cleveland, Ohio.
• Board member Mark Lineburg is Superintendent of Winchester Public Schools in Winchester, Virginia.
• Board member Jeffrey Sun is Professor, Department of Evaluation, Leadership, & Organization Development, University of Louisville, Kentucky.
• Board member Dannelle Walker has left the Tennessee State Board of Education and is now with the U.S. Department of Education Office of Civil Rights, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
• Susan Bon is Associate Professor of Education and Law at the University of South Carolina, in Columbia.
• Stephanie Klupinski, formerly Organizational Program Manager, Hawaii Public Charter Schools Commission, in Honolulu, Hawaii, is now Executive Director of Charter Schools with the Cleveland Municipal School District in Cleveland, Ohio.
• Named Of Counsel at King, Spry, Herman, Freund & Faul, LLC, in Bethlehem, PA, was Kathleen Conn.
• Brenda Kallio started a three-year term as chair of the Educational Leadership Department at the University of North Dakota, in Grand Forks, July 1.
Jon Anderson, attorney with Godfrey Kahn S.C., was named Lawyer of the Year in Education Law for Madison, Wisconsin.
Cynthia (Dieterich) Mooney, Nicole Snyder, and Christine Villani have had an article accepted for publication in the Brigham Young University Education & Law Journal (ELJ). "Bullying Issues Impacting Students with Disabilities: Highlights of Section 1983, Title IX, Section 504, ADA, and IDEA Cases" is anticipated to be published in the Winter 2015 edition. Their ability to meet and collaborate is a direct result of their attending the ELA Annual Conference!
Congratulations to Past President Bill Thro, whose book review,The Future of Racial Preferences: A Review of Russell K. Nieli's Wounds That Will Not Heal: Affirmative Action and Our Continuing Racial Divide & Randall Kennedy's For Discrimination: Race, Affirmative Action, and the Law was just published in the Journal of College & University Law.
ELA's Past President Philip T.K. Daniel has been awarded The Ohio State University's 2014 President and Provost's Award for Distinguished Faculty Service. Daniel is the William Ray and Marie Adamson Flesher Professor of Educational Administration in the College of Education and Human Ecology and adjunct professor of law.
Quoted in a June 19, 2014, Wall Street Journal news story ("Family of Illinois Boy Sues Over Bullying," by Andrea Gallo and Joe Palazzolo) were ELA members Rick Miller, Jr. and Allan G. Osborne, Jr. The WSJ reporter contacted the ELA office and was directed to sources for the quotes. Miller, a Baltimore-based consultant who trains school districts in bullying prevention, is a highly rated presenter at ELA conferences and currently is co-writing a monograph on the subject. Osborne, a former principal living in Massachusetts, is a past president of ELA who remains a very busy editor and author of education law publications. Both will be presenters at this year's 60th ELA Annual Conference in San Diego.
Dr. Neyland Clark, retiring Superintendent of the South Harrison Community Schools in Corydon, Indiana received UCEA's Excellence in Education Award. The award provides recognition to practicing school administrators who have made significant contributions to the improvement of administrator preparation. Indiana University School Administrators Association, which recognized Clark as Superintendent of the Year for District 8, presented him the award during their annual reception and awards ceremony June 12, 2014.
John Dayton and a host of other ELA Members and leading education law scholars have completed the inaugural issue of the Education Law & Policy Review (ELPR), a peer-reviewed law and policy journal providing scholarly reviews and commentary on national and international issues in law and policy in K-12 and Higher Education. ELA members have exclusive first access to the ELPR for 30 days through the ELA website, and thereafter the ELPR will be available in print through the Education Law Consortium and free online at www.educationlawconsortium.org


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Combine chicken and beef stocks in heavy small saucepan. Boil until liquid is reduced to 1 cup, about 15 minutes. Add Port and boil until liquid is reduced to 3/4 cup, about 15 minutes. Whisk in cranberry sauce and simmer until sauce thickens slightly, about 4 minutes. Whisk in 1 tablespoon butter. Season sauce with salt and pepper. Set aside.
Sprinkle venison with salt and pepper. Melt remaining 2 tablespoons butter in large nonstick skillet over high heat. Working in batches, add venison to skillet and cook to desired doneness, about 2 minutes per side for medium-rare.
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Originally written on Football Nation | Last updated 1/14/13
After missing the playoffs in 2011, Dallas Cowboys owner/GM made a couple of moves to beef up the defense by signing Kansas City Chiefs corner back Brandon Carr, and by moving up in the draft to take LSU corner back Morris Claiborne with the sixth overall pick. By moving up to get Claiborne the Cowboys had to give up the second round pick. Things did not turn out during the 2012 season the way Jones intended last April.With the Cowboys finishing the season with a disappointing 8-8 record and the draft coming up in April, here is how the rookies of the 2012 draft turned out for the Cowboys.
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CHICAGO - OCTOBER 04: Head coach Lovie Smith of the Chicago Bears call defensive plays as his team takes on the Detroit Lions on October 4, 2009 at Soldier Field in Chicago, Illinois. The Bears defeated the Lions 48-24. (Photo by Jonathan Daniel/Getty Images)
Former Chicago Bears head coach, Lovie Smith will interview for the Philadelphia Eagles head coaching position on Thursday. The Eagles search remains wide open as they look to replace Andy Reid. Combining Smith's time as defensive coordinator with the Rams and his time as Bears head coach, Smith's defenses finished ranked in the NFL's top…
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This weeks denim review is on a pair of Genetic Denim Shya Skinny Jeans in Torch. I haven't ever reviewed Genetic Denim before, but I do have a pair of their older jeans from about 3-4 years ago, and I did really like those. Back then, the brand was famous for having the DNA stitching up the side of the back pocket, but since then, they have toned it down quite a lot and it's really minimal now, but still maintains the essence of the brand. I always thought Genetic Denim was so creative, I love the fact that they play on the words genes and jeans and actually have XX stitching on the front of the women's jeans and XY on the guys, to symbolize the genetic make up of the male and female bodies. It's really unique and so inventive, I just love brands with a story behind them!