California law against using cell phone while driving

What is the best communication skill?

Alex and I had a late dinner together at Pinecrest yesterday. He has been trying to get a job since he got a master's degree in Taxation at Golden Gate University this year, but has spent hard time as U.S. economy fell down. He started talking to me about the interview, and he said that all of the partners at accounting firms have great communication skills. He told me that they looked very confident and strong when they talked him about their firms.

Is it true that people who always speak confidently have good communication skills?

When I majored in Interpretation and Translation in undergrad, I learned SMCRE communication model. It consists of the sender, the message, the channel, and the receiver. To begin, a sender gives a receiver a message through a channel. Next, the receiver interprets the message, and then shows effect to the sender.

For effective communication result, the message should be perfectly delivered to a receiver. That means a sender always think of receiver's understanding while sending the message.

For instance, people mostly believe a politician has a good communication skill cause the profession is familiar with debate. If the politician stays his/her own communication style and talks to a child who attend a kindergarten, there is no doubt that the child understand nothing. What if the politician talks to a farmer or a doctor?

We always need to concern about the audience. A person with good communication skill knows how to be flexible in a different situation with different audience.

What is a blog?

According to Wikipedia, a blog is a type of website or a part of website which is usually maintained by individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of event, or other material such as graphics or video.

In terms of this definiton, let me compare The Huffington Post and The New York Times. I believe The Huffington Post is an aggregated blog. It consists of a lot of posts uploaded by people with various professions such as filmmakers, professors, news coordinators, etc. They post stories in their interest fields and share their opinions with readers.

However, The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal are the websites of those two newspaper companies. These two "websites" were not established for internet users, but for their online readers. They offer their readers another distribution platform. The main content on these two websites is mostly same as the one in print version. They are also managed by the companies, and most of the posts are news articles of fact-based reporting written by a reporters or editors. So, I would like to conclude that two websites are just web-pages of a newspaper company rather than blogs.

Opening this blog

This blog is dedicated to providing and discussing Public Relations that helps you improve your communication skill.

I encourage each of you visiting this blog to tell your personal story about communication and PR so that more people could share more information and knowledge. This interactive communication itself is the revolution that Web 2.o offers us.