Happy (Almost) New Year!
Newsletter #103
This Week:
What Should We Celebrate?
ICYMI: For Your Resolution Consideration
Just for Laughs
Before We Go…
1. Holiday Content Planning
As we look ahead to 2026, many organizations are starting to sketch out their content plans for the year. This is the moment to zoom out, month by month, and flag the can’t-miss moments worth recognizing on your channels.
One content area that can trip teams up: holidays. How do you decide what to recognize?
2. ICYMI: In Five Minutes, It’s Possible
Are you still making your New Years Resolutions? Here’s one to consider: don’t let perfect be the enemy of good. Here’s a post from a few weeks ago, but it felt right to highlight it again as we look forward to 2026.
“We are good at imagining every potential obstacle. We inflate complexity. We wait for an ideal block of time that rarely arrives. Then we quietly postpone the whole thing. Not because the task is impossible. But because our projection of it has become unrealistic.
The result is familiar to most of us. Important emails sit unsent. Hard conversations linger. Drafts stay trapped in folders. Interesting ideas go unshared. Connections wait for a ‘better time.’ We tell ourselves we need an hour. Or an afternoon. Or a clean calendar. What we often need is five minutes.”
3. Spotted
Do you have an idea for a new national celebration day to tie into your mission?
4. Before We Go…
“According to Pew Research, just over half of TikTok users (52%) use the app for news…14% of all U.S. adults follow at least five accounts connected to a journalist, newsroom, or pundits.”
It’s no secret that AI will have an effect on most professions in some way. A study conducted by Microsoft found that communications professionals will be particularly vulnerable.
From Media Minefield: Top 3 crisis communication situations of 2025
Here’s what we can learn from some of the biggest crisis communications moments of the year.
PRovoke Media: The CCO in 2025
A new Korn Ferry's survey, focused on communications leaders at Fortune 500 companies, found bigger budgets, higher salaries, and a broader remit for CCOs.
Help a colleague or two (or 10) start 2026 off right — send them The EO Report.