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Six Things You Need To Know About Body Language | Media and Presentation Training. In our media training workshops, our clients are usually shocked to learn how much they communicate with their body language – and how little they know about what their bodies are saying. They often joke that they wouldn’t want to play poker against me, since I’d be able to easily read whether or not they’re bluffing. I assure them that if that were true, I’d have retired by age 30 and would be relaxing on my private island hideaway by now.

Still, it’s true that being able to monitor your own body language – and read the body language of others – offers you great advantages as a communicator. In this blog post, I’ll discuss six things you need to know about body language. If I could read his face, I'd have retired by now. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Have the best of the blog delivered to your inbox twice per month! Mr. Media Training. JimRomenesko.com - Jim Romenesko journalism website. Pitching Notes. 1000s Of Journalists Now Use Facebook Subscribe, And That’s Bad For Twitter. 4 months after it launched its Twitter-style asymmetrical Subscribe feature, Facebook and its Journalist Program Manager Vadim Lavrusik’s efforts to weaken Twitter’s stranglehold on breaking news are paying off.

The company just announced that thousands of journalists now use Subscribe, including 50 reporters from The New York Times and 90 from the Washington Post. If Facebook can get your favorite journalists publishing through Subscribe, you’ll have less need for Twitter. Next I hear it’s setting its sights on getting celebrities and entertainment tastemakers onboard. Additionally, Facebook released some best practices for how journalists can maximize the engagement (Likes, comments, and shares) on their posts.

Though very late to the game, Facebook has been deeply incentivizing use of its asymmetrical Subscribe feature. An informal opt-in poll of 25 journalists using Subscribe found they grew their Subscriber count by 320% in November 2011.