Want to Create Effective & Compelling Content? Avoid These Pitfalls

In our previous blog, we talked about the five questions to ask to help ensure that your content serves your audience and your purposes. Now, we want to take a slightly more light-hearted look at some of the common content pitfalls and steps you can take to avoid them. Face it, no one ever enjoyed […]

Five Questions to Ensure Effective & Compelling Content

Content is king – the adage has never been truer than in 2025. But in the same vein, not all content is created equal and not all content is right for every audience. As AI encourages more and more ‘authors’ to churn out generic content, the need for creativity and focus has never been more […]

An Insider’s Perspective on the Federal Fiscal Year End

As I mentioned in a recent blog, timing is everything when making marketing decisions in the public sector. And in the public sector realm, time itself works a bit differently. While privatized businesses and organizations may operate and plan around a traditional 12-month calendar year (January to December), government agencies are held to a Fiscal […]

The Value of Guest Blogging

Blogging has become a content market staple for many businesses as it gives them an opportunity to share their direct expertise and perspective with an audience, while improving SEO. While writing for a company or personal site provides an obvious benefit, brand leaders should explore the idea of guest blogging. This is a type of […]

Content Marketing Best Practices: Capturing Our Clients’ Voices

In content marketing, it’s an important but little-discussed topic: When collaborating on an article with a client, how do we capture their voice? After all, when we work with a client, we usually work on more than just articles with them. We represent them across all public appearances, including interviews, podcasts, webinars and speaking engagements. […]

Better Understanding Visit Duration and Conversion Rate

More than nine out of 10 marketers and businesses see content as a valuable business asset with 56 percent of businesses planning to spend more on content creation in the immediate future, according to 2020 survey by Siege Media. The inherent value of creating content is well understood, but many organizations still struggle to fully […]

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Cybersecurity Conferences 2018 – It’s Black Hat and DEF CON Time

It’s summer time! Maybe you have fond memories of going to camp – or at least of watching summer camp movies. Who says the fun is just for kids? Amidst the “dog days” of August, thousands of otherwise sane adults descend on Las Vegas (average daytime temperature: 103 degrees) for two of the hottest cybersecurity […]

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Employee Feature Friday – Kathy Stershic

As a senior director of content at W2 Communications, Kathy Stershic brings more than two decades of experience working in IT research and communications. Kathy is known for her ability to bring focus and alignment to complex environments including working with many IT companies in various stages of growth, from industry giants like Cisco and […]

W2 Communications Wins Nine MarCom Awards for Content Development and Media Relations

At W2 Communications, we take pride in our commitment to clients as a one-stop, full-service agency. We offer far more than traditional PR; we are a communications consultancy. Because of this, our IT industry clients benefit from a wide range of services – PR, content, go-to-market and social media – to elevate the presence of […]