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Behind The Scenes Exhibition Tour with Naomi Potter & Doug Haslam
Overview Join Director Naomi Potter & Head Preparator Doug Haslam for a behind the scenes tour of our current exhibitions. In this behind-the-scenes tour, guests will learn about the work that goes into curating and installing our Spring/Summer 2026 exhibitions: ᐃᔨ – Eyes – Shirley Moorhouse and Zadie Xa with Benito Mayor Vallejo | Moonlit Confessions Across Deep Sea Echoes: Your Ancestors Are Whales, and Earth Remembers Everything.
Why healthcare trades are KING in our industry
What do healthcare trades and most (if not all) consumer media have in common? They both cover health one way or another. Healthcare trades offer a more robust insight into the industry as a whole and can be an invaluable tool for strategic planning, a networking icebreaker, or a quick way to impress a client. While the overall readership numbers may be lower for a healthcare trade in comparison to a top-tier news source, trades target a more specific audience, potential business prospects.
Election Day Thread
by Doug Haslam | Mar 16, 2021 | Newton | It’s finally here– the Special Election for Wards 1 and 2 Councilors-at-Large. Did you vote early or by mail? Are you voting in person today? Please let us know what your experience is today; do the polls seem crowded (or not)? Are there are a lot of sign-holders out, and for whom? What number vote was your ballot (if you care to notice)?
Fundamentals for Professional Communicators: A Series
Photo Credit: Kymberly Janisch I have decided, with encouragement by Very Smart People, to lay down my fundamentals for professional communicators. After <redacted> years in the industry, I find it helpful to myself- and I hope others will find it helpful also- to create a summary of my vision of a career in the field. The first part of this exercise is to define those elements, compiled based on my experience. The next is to go into detail on each of those elements.
The Real Solution for the Oxford Comma (and Revisiting Owning Your Stuff)
There is no argument more fun on the Internet than a grammar argument. People dig in their heels, refuse to budge, and in the end none of it matters. As if to compound the meaninglessness, most professional writers, at any given moment, are one client or new job away from having to publish under a style guide that offends their sensibilities. I was already thinking about finally tackling this when my friend Ann Handley wrote a nice post about why we love arguing about this stuff.
Social Media Top 5: Pokemon Go Stages of Good Grief
I originally posted this on DougHaslam.com when I could have been out catching Pokemon instead. Now I'm behind. The 5 Stages of Pokemon Go This is hardly the first or last Pokemon Go blog post out there, but I can guarantee you it’s the only one I have read. I found it a bit hard to ignore. I also find it easy to mock- but that would be too easy.
Social Media Top 5: Humorless vs Unfunny: Who Wins? Plus, Schools Get Smart & More Brand Bullies
When Parody Run Amok and Lack of Disclosure Clasp Sweaty Palms and Jump off the Bridge of Propriety I just thought that was a cool sentence, but I found this story to force into a clash two things I hold dear- the hilarious denuding of social media pundit egoism, and the need for disclosure in all forms of publishing, from newspapers to individual Tweets. What happened?
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