TONE AND HABIT tag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-1743134 2009-01-20T07:20:25-08:00 Pointed information about the art and science of communicating. TypePad ToneAndHabithttp://feedburner.google.com 'Miracle' is a modern parable tag:typepad.com,2003:post-61644542 2009-01-20T07:20:25-08:00 2009-01-20T07:20:25-08:00 John Fleming When US Airways Flight 1549 belly-flopped in the Hudson River, you had to be moved by the story, even watching for the 10th time on CNN. Everyone lived. It was good news, and this is one of those years when...<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ToneAndHabit?a=OWk0YqNI8tg:OIBlk16J3-A:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ToneAndHabit?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> </div> What you need, and why you need it now tag:typepad.com,2003:post-60867510 2009-01-04T19:01:21-08:00 2009-01-04T19:01:21-08:00 John Fleming If there is a book for communications professionals to read in 2009, and read again and again, it is Peggy Noonan’s Patriotic Grace: What It Is and Why We Need It Now . “Being able to persuade, to explain, to...<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ToneAndHabit?a=c3upQoxLayg:iJmWKLWBvyc:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ToneAndHabit?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> </div> Will you buy my mongolian cow sour yogurt, comrade? tag:typepad.com,2003:post-59941974 2008-07-20T18:15:00-07:00 2008-07-20T18:15:00-07:00 John Fleming If, like me, you'd be fascinated by an examination of "how advertising appropriates a dominant anti-consumerist political ideology to promote consumption within China’s social and political transition,” then by all means click this link to Science Daily. A couple of...<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ToneAndHabit?a=uBJueCIk0f8:B5F0SkMzwHE:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ToneAndHabit?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> </div> Golf, confidence and coping tag:typepad.com,2003:post-59941860 2008-07-13T17:37:00-07:00 2008-07-13T17:37:00-07:00 John Fleming These are not hypothetical questions, on the golf course or in life: How do you cope with stress, and how does confidence affect your perception of the world? (Also not irrelevant questions today. I saved a brutal day at Seminole...<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ToneAndHabit?a=UNzRLkEvAlY:p1oOSm0Wpko:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ToneAndHabit?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> </div>