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Book Talking To Promote Your Collection: Five Shrewd Ways To Entice People To Check Out More Books

Super Library Marketing

An ARC is a version of a book that is made available before the official publication date. The panelists then talked about the various ARCs during the session, naming them by title and author and discussing the most intriguing things about each book. It’s because the panelists were book-talking. Books are your brand.

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How to prevent ideas from getting lost in translation

GCN

A new book aims to help experts communicate more clearly, so their ideas can have real-world impacts. Policy researchers and government administrators often seem like they’re speaking different languages.

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How Shall We Communicate Risk in an Era of ‘Manufactured Reality’?

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

The French sociologist Emile Durkheim rescued it from obscurity and used it in his 1893 book De la division du travail social (translated as The Division of Labour in Society ). We might further tie these concepts into the model of information dissemination propounded by Herman and Chomsky in their book Manufacturing Consent.

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THE ACADEMIC-GOVERNMENT COMMUNICATIONS GAP

Barrett & Greene

North Carolina has set up formal ways for government departments to communicate their research needs to universities across the state. 2. Advice also focuses on Initiating communications at the beginning of a research project, not when it’s finished. Communications don’t have to go to the Cabinet Secretary or the Commissioner.

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Author Talks: Charles Duhigg on how the best communicators ‘click’

McKinsey Public & Social Sector Insights

How can you make your conversations count? A Pulitzer Prize-winning writer reveals what “supercommunicators” do differently.

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CFP: How to Work with Academic Faculty: Partnerships, Collaborations, and Services in the Academic Library (ACRL Book Proposal)

A Library Writer's Blog

The book will focus on case studies that support collegiality and collaboration. Chapters should include planning for change and effective communication with faculty; some questions for inspiration might consist of: Have you ever experienced telling your faculty about discontinuing services due to budgetary restrictions?

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Could AI interpret and decode animal communication?

Open Access Government - Technology News

Machine learning tools could provide transformative insights into animal communication, using AI models to decode and track conversation There is no Rosetta Stone for translating animal communication signals, their meaning must be deciphered through careful observation and experimentation.