Breaking News Time is REALLY When I Don’t Care About What You Had For Breakfast

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Last Sunday, I was heading to Florida to attend the Wiley annual sales meeting.  The flight was, blissfully, uneventful, and I was happy to land in Tampa, despite the late hour.  While I was waiting at baggage claim, a push …

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Twitter etiquette – Twittiquette?

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Hello citizens of the Interwebs… Miss Manners is calling! I’m genuinely interested in what people think about the following… Does Twitter etiquette dictate that you must acknowledge follows? …with a DM? …with an auto-DM? …at all? Nothing annoys me like the …

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Netiquette or just plain common sense?

Here’s a hint – if you’ve recently set up an email group list, it MIGHT be a good idea to email the people on your list and ask them to verify that they are getting your messages.  You MIGHT have …

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Here we go again…Ipso Facto Plaxo!

That may sound like an incantation from “Wicked”, but no, sadly, it isn’t.  It’s yet another site to for me to practice my social network skills on.  I had signed up for Plaxo a while back when it was simply …

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Giving thanks

I was thumbing through a bunch of books in an airport bookstore the other day at the end of a business trip and I came across a book called, Thank You Power: Making the Science of Gratitude Work for You …

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Gotta dash?

Apparently, many of us won’t.  The Oxford English Dictionary has eliminated 16,000 hyphens from the new version of the Short OED (which is 2 volumes, killing the idea of truth in advertising).  According to this article, in the SOED, Bumble-bee …

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Big Brother or Caring Mother?

In my experiments in social networking, I have noticed that a lot of kids from my little town are on Facebook and Myspace.  For instance, I found the Facebook page for a high school girl who interned in my daughter’s elementary school class …

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