Twitter among words of the year for ’09
A Christmas visit with family reminded me that although the online world is all over Twitter, much of the non PR or communications world has little use for it. The nephews and nieces were all about newer social media or video games, while some of the aunts and uncles...More random misspellings
While celebrating Christmas with family in a small Ontario town this past weekend, I ran across countless examples of misspelled signs, inappropriate use of apostrophes in what should have been plurals, random capitalization of Important Words and other affronts to...In praise of home offices and no commute; life is good
It was still dark as I drove my husband to a 7 a.m. doctor’s appointment. Traffic was building on the highway, but at least it was moving. In another half an hour, cars would probably be keeping no better than a snail’s pace. It suddenly occurred to me...
Why you need balance (don’t shatter the glass ball)
Today would have been a travel day, in what seems like a lifetime ago. I’d have my bag packed, a batch of shortbread made, and would be (probably frantically) doing some last-minute work in the morning before heading to the airport for a Thursday-to-Sunday...How do you support a friend who has cancer?
I lost another friend last week, this time to inflammatory breast cancer. It’s a particularly nasty form that often comes on suddenly, acting similar to mastitis (also an inflammation, usually related to breastfeeding), and spreads quickly. Her oncologist had...
Twitter tips for newbies
At a hands-on event sponsored by an association called Halton-Peel Communications Association, I joined fellow members Donna Papacosta, Rob Clark and Joan Vinall-Cox in talking about social media. We demonstrated how to use LinkedIn, blogs, audio and video, and...You should volunteer. Do you?
At a networking event given by IABC/Toronto’s Professional Independent Communicators (PIC), I shared why I volunteer, as did my colleagues Leslie Hetherington, Donna Papacosta, Barb Sawyers and Lee Weisser. PIC supports more than 100 independent communicators,...An imperfect world: Word stumbles seen in the wild
Time for a reminder to be careful out there! Take a look at some of the recent errors spotted in our imperfect published world (because, of course, I am perfect and never make any myself)*: …the pictures of the bloggers…don’t wreak of the standard...