AI Can’t Call You Back – with Jennifer Kaplan
What if sustainable growth isn’t about becoming the biggest player in the market? Agencies triple in size and lose their soul. They chase national footprints and abandon the…
Read moreIn today's hyper-accelerated communications world, keeping up means juggling reputation, brand building, crisis management, storytelling, and more while adapting to new technologies like generative AI. The Trending Communicator, hosted by Dan Nestle, is your guide through this chaotic landscape. This podcast dives into the challenges of PR, communications, and marketing today, with experts sharing real stories and strategies for overcoming those challenges and more. It's the perfect resource for professionals looking to innovate, take risks, and stay ahead. Join us to make sense of today’s…
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In today's hyper-accelerated communications world, keeping up means juggling reputation, brand building, crisis management, storytelling, and more while adapting to new technologies like generative AI. The Trending Communicator, hosted by Dan Nestle, is your guide through this chaotic landscape. This podcast dives into the challenges of PR, communications, and marketing today, with experts sharing real stories and strategies for overcoming those challenges and more. It's the perfect resource for professionals…
What if sustainable growth isn’t about becoming the biggest player in the market? Agencies triple in size and lose their soul. They chase national footprints and abandon the…
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Does PR have Stockholm syndrome? We’re held captive by every disruption that promises to kill us—internet, social media, now AI—and what do we do? Fall in love with…
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Authority-building has entered a new era—visibility hinges on context and credibility, and your expertise must be discoverable not just to humans but to machines. In this episode of…
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**NotebookLM HAS TAKEN OVER THE TRENDING COMMUNICATOR. AGAIN.** Generative AI is shaking up the world of communications—and the debate is on. In this special takeover episode of The…
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Companies love to talk about AI transformation. They’ve created policies, distributed tools, checked boxes. But behind closed doors, overwhelmed employees are phoning it in with AI slop, leaders…
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Companies keep approaching AI the way they approached every other tech rollout: install it, train on it, expect immediate returns. But AI isn’t software. It’s imperfect by design,…
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You can’t communicate your way out of a values problem. Yet every day, communications leaders are expected to do precisely that. In this episode of The Trending Communicator,…
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Your customers are changing because of AI. But so are you—whether you realize it or not. Host Dan Nestle welcomes back Mark Schaefer, whose new book How AI…
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You can be the smartest person in the room, but if no one knows you or your point of view, you don’t have authority. This “authority gap” is…
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What happens when the communications function stops being about messaging and starts being about business transformation? When your stakeholders include 10,000 employees, 94,000 students, 350,000 alumni, plus investors,…
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