by Sue Horner | Jan 6, 2022 | The Red Jacket Diaries blog
As Word Nerd Day approaches (January 9), what better time to take a look at the words that defined 2021? Just as in 2020, one subject drove us in record numbers to Google and online dictionaries and dominated our lives this past year – that pesky pandemic. This time,...
by Sue Horner | Dec 13, 2021 | The Red Jacket Diaries blog
A lot of information flashes by in the 575,000 tweets that flood Twitter every minute. And yes, there’s anger and fake news aplenty. But you’ll also find helpful hints, smart advice, late-breaking news and hello – adorable dog thoughts and kittens and hedgehogs and...
by Sue Horner | Nov 1, 2021 | The Red Jacket Diaries blog
Merriam-Webster added a staggering 455 new words to the dictionary in October. Some aren’t exactly new (hasn’t dad bod been a thing for a while?), but are newly welcomed to the inner sanctum of the dictionary world. Many did not relate exactly to the pandemic, either,...
by Sue Horner | Oct 9, 2021 | The Red Jacket Diaries blog
The latest “What happens on the internet every minute” is out courtesy of Domo.com, and oh my, we are online a lot. (Click on the image to get a better view of it.) Every minute, enough people are watching YouTube videos to add up to more than 694,000 hours. Every...
by Sue Horner | Oct 1, 2021 | The Red Jacket Diaries blog
The idea of love locks is charming. They are small padlocks, often with names or initials etched into them, attached to a bridge, railing or fence as a symbol of love. Awww. While they may lift lovers’ spirits, though, love locks can drag structures down. In 2015,...
by Sue Horner | Sep 17, 2021 | The Red Jacket Diaries blog
When I heard that three COVID-19 vaccines were getting new names, and when I saw the names, I thought it was a joke. But no, apparently it’s true. Health Canada has “authorized brand name changes” for the vaccines formerly known as Pfizer, Moderna and...
by Sue Horner | Sep 9, 2021 | The Red Jacket Diaries blog
So much of what we see online seems pretty random. That’s because the lifespan of content posted on social media is mostly fleeting: On Snapchat, you might have 10 seconds, although Stories last about 24 hours. Tweets might be visible to your followers for an...
by Sue Horner | Sep 2, 2021 | The Red Jacket Diaries blog
Roughly this time last year, I was lamenting the overuse of words like cadence that have turned them into jargon or buzzwords. It’s still everywhere, as in this recent example: “Prime Your Revenue Engine with a Prospecting Cadence.” It’s also been a big year for...
by Sue Horner | Aug 6, 2021 | The Red Jacket Diaries blog
Oh, hello! (Gets up and dusts herself off.) You may have noticed that I’ve fallen off the weekly blogging bandwagon. I’ll blame work, and summer, and maybe a lack of blog mojo. Instead of an original post, here are some of the smart, helpful, and sometimes...
by Sue Horner | Jun 13, 2021 | The Red Jacket Diaries blog
They weren’t hugged, even though some were as young as three. They weren’t comforted at being separated from their families. They weren’t fed properly or protected from abuse. And at a former residential school in Kamloops, B.C., 215 Indigenous children were buried in...
