How do you keep up with blogging?
When IABC/Toronto asked to interview me the other day for a newsletter article about blogging, my first thought was that it was because I don’t do a very good job of it. To my surprise, that wasn’t the case, so I shared some thoughts about blogging and how...New words charm and annoy
The English language is definitely a living, growing thing. Oxford Dictionaries Online shows us proof every quarter, as they add new words made popular enough to warrant an entry. Here are some of the ones in the most recent release that I quite like or at least found...
More flattering, garbled spam
Oh, if only those spammers would just apply their endless energy to good! But no, they are spending time posting spam. At least it is often flattering and cheery, if many times incoherent: This is definitely the thing I’ve been looking for! Wonderful and...
Find prospects by connecting, not selling
“A miserable, soul-sucking experience.” That’s how speaker Steve Slaunwhite described cold calling at a meeting of IABC/Toronto’s Professional Independent Communicators. Sure, calling up complete strangers can be successful, eventually. But this “sales-getting”...
Here’s your challenge for National Punctuation Day
National Punctuation Day is fast approaching; do you have your assignment yet? What, you haven’t been eagerly awaiting Sept. 24? That is the day when Jeff Rubin reminds us that “a semicolon is not a surgical procedure,” and urges us to freely toss...
Tweeting once or twice isn’t enough
Last night, I enjoyed dinner at a local restaurant. Great food, excellent value, attentive service and an elegant setting. There were TWO of us in the restaurant. Four, if you count the waiter and the chef. I was tempted out on a Tuesday night because the restaurant...
Transfixed by doors & gates & paths
Beautiful gardens are part of the charm of Royal Roads University in Victoria, BC. While I was there, I found myself enchanted as much by the various doors and gates throughout the gardens as by the colourful peacocks that roam the grounds. If you want to get all...
Keep calm and get over the post-whatever blues
As a society, we’re not very good at transition. Women who take maternity leave from a busy job outside the home practically get whiplash switching from the day job to the dead stop, career-wise, that is the all-consuming day-and-night job of motherhood....