In the post-Christmas calm, I’m catching up on some reading — some new books I received as gifts, and blogs, naturally! I loved Chris Brogan‘s description of Twitter: “Twitter is the stupidest thing anyone could ever imagine inventing. If I said to you, ‘I’ve got an application that I want you to install that is [...]
Yearly Archives: 2007
Found: trait we call quirky
As things wind down for a Christmas break, I thought I’d share with you an interesting quirk that seems to strike people good-hearted enough to post “found” ads. It’s the need almost so many of them have to name the foundling. And in this, the festive season, they are choosing festive names. For example, my [...]
Oh, what a relief
Talk about down to the wire! Here it is, days until Christmas, and two projects that have been hanging over me for weeks — preventing me from sneaking out and getting my Christmas shopping done — are FINALLY done. One was a summary of a three-year project. I had interviews with about six people over [...]
Words, lovely words
BuzzCanuck notes the top 30 words and phrases of 2007, of course topped by the gamer term of joy, “w00t.” I was surprised by a few entries, though, that seem to me to have been around for an awfully long time. What are they doing being on a hot list for 2007? I’m talking about: [...]
Do you Google yourself?
A study announced yesterday reports that 47% of adult Internet users in the U.S. have Googled themselves. This shouldn’t be a surprise, when experts advise that this is one thing you MUST do, especially if you’re looking for a job. After all, you don’t want a prospective employer finding the top results of a search [...]
Almost the right word
Reading the latest Writing that Works newsletter published by Communications Concepts, I noticed an item about new words being included in the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary. The writer included an example, biffy, adding, “People say, ‘You bet your biffy,’ but the word isn’t in the Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary.” The word is in the Oxford Canadian [...]
Women ready for our close-up
I’ve been meaning to blog about a “power breakfast” I attended, which featured Joanne Thomas Yaccato of the Thomas Yaccato Group. She’s an expert at her job, which she jokes is “whacking marketing managers upside the head about the importance of women.” As she told the group of women at the breakfast, we control 80 [...]
Tripped up on day five
Well, that didn’t take long. Only day five and I already forgot to put something in the pocket of our Advent calendar! The origins of these calendars is religious, counting off the days to Advent, the holy season of the Christian church and the period of expectant preparation for the birth of Jesus. More commonly, [...]
Learning to share
Not having yet drunk the Twitter Kool-Aid, I’m always interested in reading about the experiences others have with this “microblogging platform.” From colleague Joan Patch came a link to an article about building your online profile by AdAge “editor at large” Matt Creamer. He says: “Success in social media, I quickly discovered, is being comfortable [...]
‘Tis the season
What is it with the need some people seem to have to add “season” onto perfectly acceptable solo words? “Tis not only the season to be jolly, but also to be throwing around wishes such as “Happy Holiday Season” (complete with Unnecessarily Capitalized Letters) and “have a safe and healthy winter season.” Really, you could [...]
