Angela Lammers featured in latest issue of Focus North
Cetera Services Managing Partner Angela Lammers is featured as the Associations North “Spotlight: Member in Motion” in the May-June 2020 edition of Focus North magazine.
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Dirk Lammers featured on national baseball podcast
Cetera Services Partner and Chief Communications Officer Dirk Lammers appeared on national baseball expert Mark Simon’s influential Sports Info Solutions Baseball Podcast to chat about no-hitters and the role of defense, umpires and other things.
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It’s all about timing
I was working in the Sioux Falls bureau of Associated Press on May 24, 2006, when I took an early-afternoon call from an editor in our Washington, D.C. bureau. “We’re running a national story about school bus pollution,” the editor said, “and we need a photo of a school bus.”
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Caution key to organizational styling
Recently, I was gifted with the presence of one of my nieces and my nephew for an overnight visit to my home in Sioux Falls. It was a last-minute request from my brother on a night when the children had no school and I had no shortage of project work.
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Get ahead of crisis management
The term “crisis management” carries a reactive aura, but companies and organizations that best respond to unexpected emergencies are ones that anticipate some form of the unexpected.
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Decline in number of journalists adds responsibility to PR industry
The other day, as I was researching some 1920s Newspapers.com clippings for an upcoming book I’m writing, I decided to take a break and dig up some of the first stories I penned for daily newspapers in the early 1990s.
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Stop creating content; start crafting stories
I’m not a fan of the term “content.” It’s cold and sterile and seemingly sucks the life out of any collection of words and sentences. Let’s drop the phrase “creating content” and replace it with “crafting stories.”
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Answer the ‘Why?’ before building website
if you can’t definitively and specifically answer the question of “Why?” you need a website, then it’s probably to take a step back and think about strategy.
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Design charette an eye-opening approach to accomplishment
Charettes are engaging sessions in which all participants in a project work together to create a vision and collaborate on a path forward. They’re the most humane, beautiful, inspiring communication opportunities I’ve had occasion to witness.
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Welcoming Dirk Lammers to the team
It’s a time of anniversary reflection for me in so many ways. This week, I celebrate another year of marriage to my husband. In one more week, I celebrate my second full year in business. And now, at the start of year three, my partner in life has become my partner in business.
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