What Is Strategic Communications?
We asked NATO. (Actually, we stumbled across this searching our own name.) But to our delight and surprise we found some extremely good...
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Michael Donovan
- Mar 30, 2022
- 3 min
Facilitating Board Strategy Workshops That Won't Bore The Board
Donovan has facilitated many successful strategy workshops for Boards of Directors and Senior Executives. Here are eight ways to keep...
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Michael Donovan
- Mar 17, 2022
- 3 min
How We Made It - Alberta Fire Chiefs Association
Part of an ongoing series that gives a glimpse of behind-the-scenes production for projects past and present. Attraction and retention...
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Michael Donovan
- Mar 11, 2022
- 4 min
How We Made It - Athabasca University
Part of an ongoing series that gives a glimpse of behind-the-scenes production for projects past and present. One thing I'm very proud...
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Michael Donovan
- Mar 10, 2022
- 2 min
5 Things A Three-year-old Can Teach You About Branding
Children are delightful - they are also smarter than the average adult who makes life so complicated. Here are five things a...
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Michael Donovan
- Mar 6, 2022
- 3 min
How We Made It - EPL
Building important community brands has been a cornerstone of our work. Donovan's work to rebrand the Edmonton Public Library was...
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Michael Donovan
- Mar 4, 2022
- 3 min
How We Made It - This Is DDC
Part of an ongoing series that gives a glimpse of behind-the-scenes production for projects past and present. We were excited to get the...
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Michael Donovan
- Mar 1, 2022
- 1 min
4 Tips For Building More Engaging Brand Stories
Engaging consumers with your brand stories is bread and butter for any marketer. But, like any story, you won't just get away with a...
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Michael Donovan
- Feb 28, 2022
- 2 min
Is Brand Storytelling Better If It Comes From Your Company Or Consumers?
Ample research confirms that brand storytelling is the most powerful strategy for brand building. But is that brand story better if it...
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Michael Donovan
- Feb 27, 2022
- 4 min
How To Create Your Strategic Brand Position - Part 2
EXECUTION In Part 1 of Creating Your Strategic Brand Position, the summary findings and recommendations of the brand research phase will...
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Michael Donovan
- Feb 22, 2022
- 2 min
How To Create Your Strategic Brand Position: Part 1
Branding is a multi-phased approach, beginning with all-important research and stakeholder engagement. Over a 20-year period of...
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Michael Donovan
- Feb 18, 2022
- 3 min
Your Social Media Strategy In A Post-Pandemic World
With more people than ever looking to shop for products online, social media in a post-pandemic world offers new opportunities to...
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Michael Donovan
- Feb 17, 2022
- 2 min
How We Made It - Toku Systems
We're often asked how we make effective creative. Here's a recent example of a product brand and video we made for Toku Systems globally,...
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Michael Donovan
- Feb 17, 2022
- 4 min
Social Media Branding - Better Ways To Improve Engagement And Audience Growth
When social media first came on the scene, and for many years after, continuing to today, many marketers thought, and still think, that...
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Michael Donovan
- Feb 13, 2022
- 5 min
How To Position Your Company For Greater Market Success
Over 20 years of building brands and brand strategies, we have successfully positioned companies and organizations for greater market...
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Michael Donovan
- Feb 11, 2022
- 2 min
How Listening Might Change Your Life - Again
I don't know what it was anymore to hear music for the first time. I'm sure it was deeply exciting and psychedelic and awakening in a way...
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Michael Donovan
- Feb 2, 2022
- 4 min
Storytelling Is The Only Way To Build A Better Business
It shouldn't come as a surprise that when it comes to communicating your business, your products, your services, or your financial needs,...
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Michael Donovan
- Jan 29, 2022
- 2 min
Place Branding Strategies – You Really Need To Include Your Citizens, Too
In a recent article from DeepDyve, Bi-directional Place Branding, the authors make a great yet often overlooked point: Place branding...
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Michael Donovan
- Jan 26, 2022
- 3 min
The Best Brand Guides Give Voice To More Strategic, Engaging And Resonant Communications
A brand guide is more than a roadmap of micro technical uses. It's also, most importantly, a key strategic toolkit for articulating your...
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Michael Donovan
- Jan 25, 2022
- 7 min
The ‘Silver Bullet’ To Quicker & Better Sales–It’s Loaded Into Your Symbols, Signs & Stories
As old fashioned as it is, I think there is still a very common, working misunderstanding of brands as mere marks of identity. Those of...
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Michael Donovan
- Apr 15, 2022
- 3 min
What Is Strategic Communications?
We asked NATO. (Actually, we stumbled across this searching our own name.) But to our delight and surprise we found some extremely good...
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Michael Donovan
- Apr 1, 2022
- 2 min
KemPound's Success Formula - Lowest Prices, Fastest DLV, Focus On Seniors & Marginalized Patients
Profiles of today's local/global innovators and industry leaders. KemPound Compounding and Repackaging Pharmacy is unique among other...
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Michael Donovan
- Mar 30, 2022
- 3 min
Facilitating Board Strategy Workshops That Won't Bore The Board
Donovan has facilitated many successful strategy workshops for Boards of Directors and Senior Executives. Here are eight ways to keep...
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Michael Donovan
- Mar 25, 2022
- 2 min
Tam Tekle: Inventor Of The Use Of Microwaves In Composite Manufacturing Keeps Reinventing Industries
Series: Business leaders whose influence change entire industries. Tamrat Tekle – President & CEO, Natural Fibre Technologies (NFT) A...
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Michael Donovan
- Mar 23, 2022
- 3 min
Profile: Natural Fibre Technologies Set To Trigger A 20-Billion-Dollar Global Hemp Industry
Profiles of today's local/global industry innovators and leaders. Natural Fibre Technologies (NFT) Natural Fibre Technologies has...
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Michael Donovan
- Mar 20, 2022
- 3 min
How To Write A Blog Post In 15 Minutes Or Less
Writing doesn't have to be hard if you practice a few simple tricks to get things flowing. Now, if you're terrible at typing, you might...
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Michael Donovan
- Mar 19, 2022
- 3 min
The Best Way To Collaborate With Teams And Clients
Ideas are fragile things - and so are people. If you want to get the best out of your teams and your clients in collaboration, there are...
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Michael Donovan
- Mar 17, 2022
- 3 min
How We Made It - Alberta Fire Chiefs Association
Part of an ongoing series that gives a glimpse of behind-the-scenes production for projects past and present. Attraction and retention...
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Michael Donovan
- Mar 14, 2022
- 5 min
5 Important Things To Know About SEO For Beginners
SEO is an important factor for any company competing for attention online today. Creating a strong Search Engine Optimization (SEO)...
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Michael Donovan
- Mar 11, 2022
- 4 min
How We Made It - Athabasca University
Part of an ongoing series that gives a glimpse of behind-the-scenes production for projects past and present. One thing I'm very proud...
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