Relay Station Blog

  I recently attended a Washington dinner about peace building and constructive dialogue. The organizations involved do great work in using dialoguing to bridge divides in many fields and the keynote was about using these methods to bring people together ...

Access to broadband internet is vital for economic innovation and growth, therefore ensuring the highest levels of competition and access are key to the future of the economy. Recently several high profile studies have examined the state of broadband competition ...

Last week before the Boston drama had played out, a friend’s post on Facebook piqued my interest. She described the logistics that the Boston marathon bombers would have to have taken into account and then commented, “Hate to say it, ...

Two years ago I wrote about how Facebook was taking over the world. And back in August, I hedged and wrote that G+ will beat ‘em. A recent development suggests that Google may be strategically leveraging its search dominance to make ...

A funny thing happened on the way to last year’s elections. Using sophisticated online techniques that wedded advanced social media with emotional email marketing, huge amounts of money were raised.   The success of those campaigns caused many nonprofit executives and ...

No matter what type of organization you work for, social media can play an important role in moving prospects down the sales funnel toward the goal of closing a deal.  Whether that’s purchasing a product or service, signing up for membership ...

It’s back! Charles Schwab’s entertaining financial video series returned recently after a five month hiatus. It still features the deadpan humor of host Mike Cianfrocca, is shorter in length—a minute rather than 90 seconds—and is called Tweet of the Week ...

I caught up with the Financial Planning Association’s Erica Spencer last weekend at a conference in Denver. Erica is the FPA’s web services manager and social media guru. Spencer had more advice for companies and associations that had started a ...

Does your company still have a newsroom where your press releases grow old and die? There’s a better way. Turn it into a news blog. If you are a publicly-traded company, you have an obligation to issue material news that ...

The squeeze began in late-August. Alarm is spreading. The communications manager at my congregation, who is also the administrator of its Facebook page, sent me an email this week. She was dismayed that the number of people seeing their Facebook ...