As we revise Communicating Nutrition: The Authoritative Guide and create the 2nd edition, we are incorporating best practices for using artificial intelligence. The first edition never mentioned AI. Not once. The second edition has more than 70 mentions of AI, detailing how to use it responsibly, ethically, and for its maximum potential. This post will share 10 strategies for maximizing your use of AI excerpted from the current first draft of the 2nd edition of the book.

This post describes how to effectively use prompt engineering to provide high-quality directions to AI so it will generate high-quality output.

Leverage E.E.A.T. to build your online credibility. E.E.A.T. stands for four essential traits to strive for and clearly demonstrate in your communication: experience, expertise, authoritativeness, and trustworthiness.

This post shares the RAISE Framework for strategic messaging. RAISE stands for Research, Analytics, Insights, Social Listening, and Engage.

In this post, we will explore why making meals a digital-free zone is important and how that can be a great first step in implementing a digital detox. Being screen-free enables you to be a mindful eater and an engaged eating companion. You will reap the benefits of greater meal satisfaction, improved communication, and stronger relationships.

In last week’s post, we discussed the negative consequences of this digital dependence. In this post, we will introduce the solution: A digital detox. I was recently introduced to this concept by a book with that title: Digital Detox, by Molly DeFrank. It was written for parents to detox their families and children and regain control over technology.

Technology – including smartphones, tablets, computers, and other types of screens – has many benefits. It can be used for learning, entertainment, communication, and more. But it comes with potential drawbacks. Did you know that many features of digital devices are designed to enhance dopamine release in the brain? Dopamine is a neurotransmitter that connects pleasure to behavior, motivating you to repeat actions that you find enjoyable or beneficial.

Writing is hard work, and the struggle to produce quality content within your word count and before the deadline is real! When writing struggles get you down, look to some good old writing humor, not only to laugh but possibly even to remind you of some essential writing skills. Here is some of my favorite writing humor… Enjoy!

The second edition of Communicating Nutrition: The Authoritative Guide will feature something prominently that is completely absent from the first edition? What is it? It’s AI, or Artificial Intelligence. Our goal is to highlight the benefits of AI as well as the potential dangers. We will provide useful suggestions for using it responsibly and ethically.

For communication to be successful, it must be audience-focused. For communication to be audience-focused, it requires a needs assessment.

Employ the Message Evaluation Checklist to ensure success. Checklists prompt us to look at both obvious and less obvious characteristics. This checklist from Chapter 10 is indispensable for creating audience-focused messages.

Most people fail at communication because they fail to hit the target. Many people fail to even have a target. The target is the specific audience for a message. Creating audience-focused communication is the key to success.

For an audience to attend to, engage with, and act upon a message, they must trust the communicator. Strong audience connections build and strengthen trust. When communicating about science, those audience connections matter. Now more than ever.

Designing and delivering messages that successfully reach audiences and have the desired impact follows a proven strategy. This strategy has three primary focus areas and includes 10 steps.

In honor of our nation’s birthday, I decided to reshare my top blog post, published in 2020 and titled: Communication Can Unite Us. Searching through my posts, I was curious which of my other posts were most popular. Find out what they were.

A compelling communicator is genuine and authentic, demonstrating perspective and empathy, enthusiasm, and a positive attitude.

What is an essential quality of a successful communicator? Without credibility, a message or a communicator will not be trusted. Professionalism and integrity build credibility. Communicators who exhibit these qualities will be highly respected and will have greater influence and impact.

Effective communication is essential for excellence in nutrition practice because everything nutrition professionals do involves communication.

As nutrition professionals, we communicate information, thoughts, or ideas related to food and nutrition. Therefore, we must define what nutrition communication means. The goals for nutrition communication may seem to be the same as the overall goals for nutrition practice. This is because nutrition cannot be practiced effectively without communication. Communication is the essence of nutrition practice.

Working as a team to write a book has many advantages over writing alone including expertise, shared workload, professional connections, and improved marketing.