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Monthly Archives: April 2013
None of This Is About You, Really
No amount of providing data or lists of features, capabilities or services is going to get you what your administrators and supervisors so desperately want: An appreciation from the audiences you serve of how vital and valuable their operations are.
Bond, Emotional Bond
Establishing the foundation for communications that engage first and convey valuable information second is one critical way we all reinforce the emotional components of UF’s strong brand. When you support the brand, the brand supports you.
All You Need
UF certainly doesn’t do everything right, but people do love us. And it makes all the difference in the world for our institution.
Emotional communications at a university? Are you mad?
We all make decisions informed by the information around us, but GUIDED by the feelings within us.
Big Picture Thinking Teaches Big Lessons
As UF speaks to the world, and UREL partners with many fellow communicators across campus, UREL’s responsibility is to be connected to and understand the “big picture” for UF — in a way that very few units on campus do.
UF Communicators’ Unique Opportunities
The key for now is to stop chasing after the attention of our audiences, and start building experiences that attract them to us.
A Perfect Storm of Influence
There probably hasn’t ever been an opportunity like this for communicators on this campus to prove their worth and move the needle.