David Murray
@TheMurr
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David Murray is founder of the Professional Speechwriters Association and the Executive Communication Council. He is author of AN EFFORT TO UNDERSTAND.
Chicago
Joined March 2008
EVEN IF THEY'RE RIGHT, it doesn't sound good coming from them. https://t.co/yAIDgrIHzA "Captains of Industry Convene to Tell Us Our Kids Should Probably Skip College and Go Into the Trades." Today, on Writing Boots.
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READ THE NEWS TODAY? Higher-ed leadership communicators cannot do this alone. https://t.co/KnxeVttiYA Come. Join your colleagues to help one another through the most fraught time in any of our careers.
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THERE ARE WHOLE CORPORATE COMMUNICATION TEAMS without one strong writer. Is that a symptom of a problem, or the cause? https://t.co/2Gb0qDBU5I "Communication Teams Need Their Writers Back." Today, on Writing Boots.
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IF 'ELITES' WANT TO CLOSE THE CULTURAL DIVIDE, we should stop buying "fast passes" at amusement parks, and $400 tickets to see Taylor Swift. https://t.co/jBDKbNS7sb "Trump Is President Because People Can't Afford to Take Their Kids to Disney Anymore." Today, on Writing Boots.
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CUBS - PADRES, IN THE PLAYOFFS? Sends a chill down my inner child's spine. Yours too? https://t.co/BXUTKPHbDC "MeTube: Exorcizing Childhood Sadness ... by Re-Watching a Baseball Game From 1984?" Today, on Writing Boots.
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Was happy to see my Chicago Cubs make the playoffs, but like many longtime Cub fans, shuddered when I saw who they were playing in the first round, starting ...
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IT'S NOT THAT IT WASN'T "VITAL." It's that it wasn't a "speech." https://t.co/xpaD7l0aD3 "Why Vital Speeches Won't Print President Trump's UNGA Speech." Today, at Pro Rhetoric.
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DESPERATELY SEEKING EMPLOYMENT. My first post-college cover letters, spring of 1992. https://t.co/a49k0Xafa1 Do you remember yours?
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NEXT MONTH, communicators for the leaders of institutions around the world will gather to contend together, with political division, social confusion and technological disruption. Not you? https://t.co/jWkEnHnhhw Seats are dwindling. Register today. (PSA members get 25% off)
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AN EFFORT TO CHANGE THE SUBJECT. https://t.co/fTrBpRJeRO "Seriously, Maybe Let's Just Talk About Something Else. (But What?)" Today, on Writing Boots.
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FIVE YEARSS AGO I PUBLISHED A CONVERSATION with a conservative friend, about free speech. It was painful to read then, and I think it's more painful now. You? https://t.co/mgnZrxOvf4 "After the Worm Has Turned," today on Writing Boots.
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PREGIARIZED! An observation I've made about modern speaking coaching turns out to be more than 200 years old, and I'm not happy about it. https://t.co/NQfMgHvspb "Pregiarism! Two 19th-Century Gasbags Co-Opt My Dueling Oratorical Theories, in Arrears." Today, on Writing Boots.
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MERCHANTS, PLEASE STOP TREATING ME LIKE I'M "ALWAYS RIGHT." It's cowardly on your part ... and it's going to get me killed someday. https://t.co/XaMT5qadSL "The Customer Is Usually a Jamoke." Today, on Writing Boots.
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CEOs THINK THEY GOT WHERE THEY ARE because they have good attitudes. I learned better than that from my first job in Chicago, selling stuffed animals door to door. https://t.co/tT0S0yES1o "Impossible Bullshit That CEOs Somehow Form Their Lips to Say." Today, on Writing Boots.
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Well, I guess it's Corporate Claptrap Week here at Writing Boots. Yesterday here, we published the story of a corporate writer who quit his job 20 year ...
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EMERGENCY MEETING. Higher-ed leadership communications will gather with some of the field's leading lights--to take stock, share ideas and work together to face higher ed's challenges. https://t.co/KnxeVttiYA Convened by the Higher Education Leadership Communication Council.
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CHUCKED CORPORATE COMMUNICATION A LONG TIME AGO. He's still so happy about it, he wrote a book to celebrate. https://t.co/9W98Q4zfUc "Just Books and People: The Man Who Took the Corporate Out of Communication." Today, on Writing Boots.
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REGISTRATION DEADLINE IS FRIDAY for this career-crucial webinar. PSA members get 25% off. https://t.co/qdhWeaS9xN
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ANNE CAPRARA WRITES SPEECHES FOR ILLINOIS GOVERNOR J.D. PRITZKER. Anne will be part of a PSA World Conference keynote conversation titled, "The Speechwriters Strike Back (and Write Back)." https://t.co/jWkEnHnhhw Join us, October 28-30, in D.C. #speechwriter
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"MORE IMPORTANT than your liking and admiring all the things I like in Chicago, you’re going to like me." https://t.co/8Tx9Bn5yzb "An Open Letter to American Patriots Who Think They Hate Chicago (Part Three of Three)." Today, on Writing Boots.
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CLAIRE CRAANEN IS SPEECHWRITER TO NATO SECRETARY GENERAL MARK RUTTE. She'll be with us in D.C. at the PSA World Conference, Oct. 28-30. In accepting the 2025 Cicero Speechwriting Awards Grand Award, Claire will speak on speechwriters' role now. https://t.co/jWkEnHnhhw Join us.
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"MY LOVE FOR CHICAGO is just about the most patriotic feeling I have. For me, loving Chicago is the same as loving America." https://t.co/3cNB8razHJ "An Open Letter to American Patriots Who Think They Hate Chicago (Part Two of Three)." Today, at Writing Boots.
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