Best Practices for CommunicationA digest of insights and ways to strengthen public communication. Seven provocative essays that share thoughts to put communication understandings into practice. Whether to enable public communication that strengthens democracy or an organization's interaction with the community, Rodney Miller explores why and how to seek understanding, relationship, and action through systematic, effective communication. In selected commentaries written through three decades from 1979 to 2010, Miller details issues and priorities to:? Develop effective oral communication.? Challenge propaganda, to sustain democracy.? Build trust in corporate, government, and nonprofit organizations.? Initiate strategies for effective community service of an organization.? Establish top-class external relations to advance an organization.? Jump-start best practices for world-class fundraising.? Sustain funding success in the best or worst economic times.Collecting papers and monographs also shared at conferences or seminars of The Royal Society of Queensland, Corporate Communication International, Queensland University of Technology, The University of New England-Armidale, and The Council for Advancement and Support of Education, and in publications of the State University of New York Press.