Playmaker’s Blog
TWITTER STRATEGY: Columnist Michael Gerson Uses Factors to Influence
March 17, 2021There’s no doubt that in the influence business the play is paramount. But what about the variables that influence the influence –what in the Playmaker Influence System is called Factors of Influence? Conservative columnist #MichaelGerson knows that message matters, but it might be how he packages, times and repeats his content that makes his tweets […]
EXCERPT FROM BEYOND POST-COMMUNICATION: Macnamara’s New Book Challenges and Provokes
January 20, 2021FEW SCHOLARS see their field as clearly as Jim Macnamara, the prolific professor of communication and public relations, and fewer still give balance and voice to what is contrary. I was glad then to be interviewed by Jim for his new book, Beyond Post-Communication: Challenging Disinformation, Deception, and Manipulation, and thankful for his even-handed treatment of our […]
200 TWEETS: Pompeo’s Plays Expose His Motives
January 16, 2021Outgoing U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is lately running plays…200 tweets worth. But what are they? And what’s behind them? Inspired by Jeffrey Lewis‘ dissection in Foreign Policy of the Secretary’s handiwork, Kings College grad Katherine Nichols took a look at the Secretary’s game through the lens of the Playmaker Taxonomy. Below is a summary of her analysis […]
PODCAST: Mapping and Decoding Information Warfare
January 13, 2021WHETHER AT HOME in the Capitol or abroad in the Kremlin, the plays we run are the strategies that shift positions and points of view. Please listen in to this important podcast, hosted by the Information Professionals Association, to learn how disinformation, misinformation and what I call spinformation can be mapped and decoded for collaborative and […]
ELECTION PLAY ACTION: Trump’s Plays to Stop the Vote, and How Biden Can Counter Him
November 4, 2020From my @playmakeralan, here’s a tweet-by-tweet boil-down of the game that Trump is playing NOW to @stopthevote…and how Biden can counter him TODAY. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. Post by Alan Kelly