The best Harvard Business review article I've ever seen?
Side-by-side test of a 'good' strategy visualisation slide vs a 'bad' one of the same strategy. Both still pretty basic design most people could pull off in G-Slides.
By João Cotter Salvado and Freek Vermeulen. via @firetail.bsky.social

In another case of "actually quite good comms by EU leadership?!"

This disinformation 'factcheck' post is:
✅ Lighthearted
✅ References the lie without repeating it
✅ Ascribes motivation to the liars to help innoculate Vs future disinformation
✅ Squeezes in proactive message

Politics of arms-races aside, I am unequivocably in favour of EU figures using original and (you've got to hand it to VDL) baddass heavy-metal language.

Is "steel porcupine" literally Freudian? Can't find any other reference. @freudmuseumlondon.bsky.social

www.freud.org.uk/collections/...

151 years ago John Stuart Mill had a response to "natural = better" that works equally well for conservative anti-gender, survival-of-the-fittest arguments as it does for your in-laws' opinions on groceries & medicines.

Great shout by @amandaruggeri.bsky.social www.bbc.com/future/artic...

Social media firms' advertising strategy in the EU:

🇳🇱 In the Netherlands (ban on phones in school just started nationwide) Instagram's ad emphasises "strongest, in-built protection for teenage accounts"

🇪🇺 In the Brussels bubble's favourite newsletter, TikTok (despite imminent US ban) very similar

Its become unfashionable/naive to say it, but democracy is still the 'least worst' way of protecting a revolution.

A very timely study from @kbclarke.bsky.social @annemeng.bsky.social @jackpaine.bsky.social analyses 84 times a regime has been overthrown since 1900...

osf.io/preprints/os...

...but the most effective by far at converting in-principle support into supportive action (at least in a limited digital test with UK audiences) was a "Reclaim and replace" framing, riffing off of Take Back Control.

...some dabbled in 'national energy independence'-type arguments...

...or pointing out that renewable energy (or at least the parts that work) were already publicly owned (or at least funded) anyway...

...or to emphasise the inevitability/viability of the public ownership option...

...some making the comparative case that the benefits of public ownership can be felt in being faster, fairer, greener, and cheaper than the private sector...

...and among advocates there was a mix-and-match of metaphors, some for a public sector that was 'unshackled by profit'...

...which found that there were several powerful (but often unintentional) metaphors being used in the debate about whether renewable energy should be 'driven' by the public or private sector. The vehicle/travel metaphor was sometimes comically frequent (12 uses in one US Cabinet Member's interview!)

Iceland's snap election is Saturday. Predictably parties are trying an anti "vók" (woke) gambit, but LGBTI group @samtokin78.bsky.social has quickly gathered feminists and also mainstream children's rights groups like UNICEF & Save the Children in a joint statement: "We will not let this pass"...