Communication Essays

Best Practices for Communication

Systematic personal communication to improve public discourse and community relations. Strategies to develop oral communication, grow democracy, build trust, establish top-class community relations, and sustain fundraising. Includes ground-breaking study of some of the most successful universities in the world. In selected commentaries written from 1979 to 2010, Rodney Miller details issues and priorities to: 1. Develop effective oral communication. 2. Challenge propaganda, to sustain democracy. 3. Build trust in a corporation, government, or nonprofit. 4. Initiate strategies for effective community service. 5. Establish top-class external relations. 6. Jump-start best practices for world-class fundraising. 7. Sustain funding success in the best or worst economic times. Collecting papers also shared at conferences or seminars of The Royal Society of Queensland, Corporate Communication International, Queensland University of Technology, The University of New England-Armidale, and The Council for Advancement and Support of Education, and in publications of State University of New York Press. A digest of insights and ways to strengthen public communication!