In Persuasive: 40 Lessons in Communicating for the Common Good (opens in a new tab), Marrianne McMullen draws useful lessons from her career in government, nonprofits and journalism, closing each of the 40 chapters with a lesson. The following three articles are excerpts prepared for Apolitical.


Communicating with parents of pre-school students (opens in a new tab)

In this excerpt, Marrianne describes a unique outreach campaign to reach parents of preschoolers in a public school system.

Persuasion and Obamacare (opens in a new tab)

This second excerpt looks at The Persuasion Matrix, a unique tool introduced in the book and used to increase enrollment in healthcare.

Unaccompanied children in San Antonio (opens in a new tab)

The final excerpt describes communications challenges when managing an unprecedented number of unaccompanied children who came into the US in 2012 and 2014.


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