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Avoid Being an Analog Communicator in a Digital World
Analog television is no more! Stations are now digital broadcasters. If you have an analog television you can no longer receive programming without a digital converter box, changing your television, or ordering a paid programming service. Most of you reading this are of an age where you probably had no analog television to begin with! Yet, you understand that you cannot communicate on a digital channel with an analog signal.
M-A-Y
Maybe I will, and maybe I won't. Maybe I do, and maybe I don't. If I'm to take action, I'll have to decide; Commit to a choice to which I must abide.rn~ Sylvia Henderson So I shouldn't quit my day job and become a poet laureate? I introduce to you, "may". It's an interesting word in the context of ideas. I did some research and found out the following trivia about the word may. may [mey] auxiliary verb, present singular 1st, 2nd, and 3rd person; present plural 1. (used to express possibility): It may rain. 2. (used to express opportunity or permission): You may enter.r
Social Networks Enhance Interpersonal Communications
Oh my, can there be heresy in the words in the title? A Nielsen Wire study notes statistics that illustrate the rise of social media use in recent years. We inherently know that social media use rises each year (from the turn of the 21st century, forward). Every media imaginable reports our use of social media and social networking practices. A Nielsen Wire study report included actual statistics and graphs on the “social media phenomenon” for us visual information processors.
Keeping Your Job During A Recession
I struggle to write about keeping your job during a recession as it almost suggests that during the recession there are special strategies to keep your job. I personally believe excellent work ethics helps you keep your job during the economic downturn. Those very strategies will also help you ...
Down the Up Staircase: Go Against Groupthink
Down the Up Staircase: Go Against Groupthinkrn(With acknowledgement to Bel Kaufman, author of “Up the Down Staircase”)
Well-Intentioned Messages: It’s For Your Own Good!
“You want to start your own business? That´s terribly risky.” “You want to go where? But that´s so far.” “You want a new what? Now, that´s not very practical.” “You want to leave a ‘good job’ for that idea? How will you take care of your family?” Any of this sound familiar?
Building a Relationship with your Audience
Build a Relationship with Your Audience. And Deliver a Successful Presentation. With public speaking, success is determined by your audience, not by you. That means you need to engage your audience - to build a relationship with them - often in less than an hour. You need to focus on ...
FINE-C Your Day, for Success
-----o----- "One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words."n– Johann Wolfgang von Goethen-----o----- When you get up in the morning, what do you do to start your day? You prepare yourself ...
Think twice before you're nice.
n A few months back I had a disturbing dream. In my dream a woman with stringy blonde hair rang my bell. She asked if she could come in. I didn't want to open the door. But I felt guilty about my reaction. So I let her in. She pulled out a hand gun and shot me. I woke with a start and a racing ...
You No Longer Have A Label, But You Do Have A Ticket
When I first dropped out of my lawyer life, I sometimes walked downtown on weekdays like some wayward ghost haunting a former territory. I’d stare at the office high-rises with fountains gushing in plazas and geometric murals in cool lobbies. Then I’d gaze in the windows of trendy boutiques ...