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Pat Heffernan

Pat Heffernan — marketing strategist, writer, and founder of Marketing Partners in Burlington, Vermont — writes about strategy, words, and communication to create change.

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Message Framing & Your Brain: Why repetition and focus matter

If you are seeking positive change, you know your language choice matters. Your nightmare is to inadvertently use a word that triggers a frame in...

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How to Create a Fantastic Infographic for Your Nonprofit

You’ve read the statistics about the power of visuals (especially infographics). You know visual content is more likely to have an impact, to be...

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Your Favorite Changemaker Stories: Top 10 Blog Posts 2016

Which Change Conversations blog posts were most popular in calendar year 2016? The numbers tell us what readers liked, and shared, and commented on,...

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Crisis Communication Priorities and Protocols

Crisis communication is not something I really want our clients to gain experience with. But no matter what your industry or sector, you have at...

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21 Inspiring Quotes from Changemakers

Much as we love the warm, natural tones of the stone wall framing Marketing Partners’ open office, its greatest value is as a daily reminder of the...

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Are You Marketing for Good Effectively?

It is easy to feel conflicted when you're marketing for good. Many nonprofits and public agencies feel the tension. On one hand, you know your...

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Change Convos monthly top picks: 5 links we loved May 2016

With the trees in full leaf on the hillsides, lush and green are the signs of May in Vermont. Abundance is an apt term for the fodder published last...

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Change Convos monthly top picks: 5 links we loved in April

April showers found us seeking a higher proportion of fresh, new and fun links than our usual mix of substantive fodder for serious thinkers and...

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Change Convos monthly top picks: 5 links we loved in March

Spring has been doggedly stubborn about arriving this year. The rollercoaster weather finds us swapping winter coats for garden rakes within a...

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Why Your Content Strategy Desperately Needs Serendipity

It is every marketer or writer’s nightmare. After years of carefully planned and executed content strategy, your recipe for creating content is...

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Change Convos monthly top picks: 5 links we loved in February

It’s just about sugaring season — the annual Vermont ritual when the sweet sap of Sugar Maples warms and runs out of the taps, a time for learning...

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Change Convos monthly top picks: 5 links we loved in January

This is a little bit of a cheat because our five favorite posts for change makers and communicators were actually published over a six-week period...

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