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Tag: Business Communications

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Don’t think of a purple giraffe (and what else not to say)

31 Jan 20154 Jul 2016
A company I admire allowed an employee to blog, "You probably don't want to come to our conference, but here's why I think you should." Really? I don't want to…
Business Communications…

5 Love Lessons to Use In Your Business Videos

14 Feb 2013
Happy Valentine's! Enjoy this fun advice from Lynn Ruby of Ruby Marketing, from Greater Phoenix SCORE. 5 Love Lessons to Use In Your Business Videos. Related articles Lesson 1: You…
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The Worst Birthday Card Ever

8 Sep 201213 Oct 2012
I'm excited to be turning 50 soon, and my friends are celebrating early--even Aetna. They sent a card: "Happy Birthday!" it says, with fourteen lighted candles. It says "aetna" in…
Business…

How to Succeed in American Business

11 Jul 2011
Teaching in a multicultural environment often includes overtly explaining American business culture and helping students practice that language. For starters, there's the direct eye contact, the body language, the smiling,…
Books…

A Newsletter Worth Reading

7 Jul 2011
One e-mail newsletter I actually read is BK Communiqué from Berrett-Koehler Publishers. They publish engaging nonfiction, and their newsletters not only promote their own releases, they usually include interesting publishing…
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Friday Flick: Real Beauty

24 Jun 201125 Jun 2011
Even if you've seen this classic commercial, it's a great reminder that what we see in certain environments bears no resemblance to reality. It's also a reminder that some revisions…
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Time Out

29 Apr 20115 May 2011
My computer has requested a break. It did break. Bad news: my three years of Apple Care have recently expired, and it's a defective logic board. "Sounds expensive," I say. "Very," says…
Business…

Handwritten E-mail

25 Apr 201123 Apr 2011
Handwritten E-mail--what a lovely idea! Pilot, maker of traditional pens, is working on it. It isn't perfected yet--this is still beta testing--but they have a beautiful goal. I suggest you watch…
Business…

HBR on Hiring Humanities Majors

6 Apr 20116 Apr 2011
Second Road's Tony Golsby-Smith writes for a Harvard Business Review guest blog, "People trained in the humanities who study Shakespeare's poetry, or Cezanne's paintings, say, have learned to play with…
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A Word about Copyright

2 Apr 201122 Apr 2011
My composer son believes in copyright karma. In high school, while pirated music surrounded him, he could have played his iTunes around the clock for two weeks straight without duplicating a track,…
Blogging…

Warning to Fellow Bloggers

31 Mar 201131 Mar 2011
A word to the wise: whatever you blog about, never stray into that dangerous topic territory known as Ice Cream. If you blog about Ice Cream, the purveyors of Ice…
Business…

Friday Flick: Covey on the Talking Stick

4 Mar 20117 Mar 2011
Could we pass the talking stick around the world? Here's Stephen R. Covey introducing the idea. And remember that writing allows you to speak without interruption--and without others unwittingly changing…

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