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Share Imagine you could not speak – how would you communicate? I thought about this question today as I learned of the death of film critic Roger Ebert. Film critic duo Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert. Source: Cinemablend.com Ebert publicly battled cancer in his thyroid and salivary glands, the treatment of which left him unable to speak. [...] April 4th, 2013 | Tags: cbs news, communication, communications, critic, ebert, entertainment, film, film critic, roger ebert, Vanguard Communications, words | Categories: Communications Heroes
One comment | Share: Share AP Photo/Jim Cole It’s been a long time since C. Everett Koop — who passed away today at 96 — served as U.S. Surgeon General. And yet, his legacy and plain-spoken candor still impact our lives today. While Koop was Surgeon General during the Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush administrations, he knew his legislative [...] February 25th, 2013 | Tags: AIDS, C. Everett Koop, Communication Heroes, smoking cessation, Surgeon General, tobacco prevention | Categories: Communications Heroes, Social Issues, Social Marketing
Leave a comment | Share: Share Last month, we asked Vanguard staff about books that made them want to be a better communicator. Then, we asked our InSites readers to help us narrow our list to a Top 5. Image from Microsoft Office Clip Art Check out those special few who made the cut, books that inspire us to do our [...] September 6th, 2012 | Tags: books, change, chip heath, communication, communicators, community, community: the structure of belonging, dan heath, jeff haden, jonathan gottschall, made to stick, malcolm gladwell, nine beliefs of remarkably successful, peter block, Policy Communications, reading, reading list, social change, stories, storytelling, the storytelling animal, The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human, the tipping point, Vanguard Communications, writing | Categories: Communications Heroes
One comment | Share: Share Yesterday, America lost a great science communicator in Sally Ride, who died at the age of 61 after a 17-month battle with pancreatic cancer. Ride was the first American woman to fly in space, but her accomplishments on Earth — touring the nation motivating young women to pursue the sciences — may be her legacy. After her space [...] July 24th, 2012 | Tags: communicator, In memoriam, NASA, persausive storytelling, Sally Ride, Sally Ride Science, science | Categories: Communications Heroes
Leave a comment | Share: Share Photo courtesy of Franklin Garcia Though it may not seem to be the case, any great communicator has to be a great listener as well, and there is no doubt that Saul Solorzano was just that. I met Saul more than 20 years ago when I was just learning to speak Spanish. Though [...] August 22nd, 2011 | Tags: advocacy, CARECEN, civil rights, communications, cultural competency, multicultural, Saul Solorzano | Categories: Communications Heroes, Social Issues
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