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Developing Web Content through Play

Narrative Design Labs are creative labs where as a business person, you are challenged to look at your business (and yourself) in a new way. Today, we are actors in a new business environment. We need to find a new way to look at our work and how we express who we are and what we offer. This post (hopefully) will spark your creativity and give you a fresh outlook for work. Continue reading

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Words of Inspiration 4

TweetI’m continuing to encourage you all to pick a word for focus per month. I have been basing this little exercise on the 11 Words of Inspiration from a Box of Crayons video that I saw at the beginning of … Continue reading

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11 Words of Inspiration for 2011 – Part 3

TweetI found February as a hard month in which to be inspired.  My lackluster inspiration sort of leaked over into March too.  But now, as we near April, inspiration comes a little more easily these days – it’s lighter longer; … Continue reading

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A Piece of the Convincing Puzzle

I wrote this post in response to Mark Evan’s piece on The Dangers of Social Media Ignorance. I had just finished reading the Li & Bernoff book Groundswell – a great book about social technologies and how these technologies are changing customer and business behaviours. Groundswell demonstrates how businesses can use these new social technologies to engage with their customers, refine products and services and address complaints and negative pr before it gets out of hand. Continue reading

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11 Words of Inspiration – Part 2

Last month, I asked friends to choose a word from the fun video by Box of Crayons (11 Words of Inspiration for 2011). This month, I’m asking you to choose yet another word that you believe will describe your month of March. Continue reading

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11 Words of Inspiration – Courtesy of Box of Crayons

Box of Crayons released a great video at the beginning of 2011 – 11 Words of Inspiration. Enjoy the video. Watch the words… which one fits for you? Then tell me. Continue reading

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Search, Google Instant, Web Content & Web Writing

TweetGoogle will be introducing a new feature to searching to those with Google accounts over the next several days. It’s called Google Instant. The main feature of Google Instant is that your search results will begin to appear as you … Continue reading

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Social Media and Social Activism

One inspired girl – a big dash of social media, social activism, motivation, traditional media and what do you get? One of many, many success stories of how social media and the Internet can make a difference in the world. My daughter’s story is just one of many. Imagine the impact if each person who learned about Tom’s One Day Without Shoes spread the word to their friends and contacts. Continue reading

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Difficult Conversations

Tweet Can you remember a difficult conversation that you had recently? What made the conversation difficult? Were you happy with the outcome? How about the person that you had the difficult conversation with – were they satisfied with the conversation? … Continue reading

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Turbo Charge Your Writing – 7 Tips for Web or Print

How many times have you read something on the web or in print and you’ve had to go back and read it again? Sometimes two or three times? No, it’s not your shortened attention span. Sometimes the text is just badly written.

Other times, reading some text is pure pleasure. You grasp the point easily. No going back and reading the text again. Do you want to know why? The writer has used some simple techniques to make your reading experience article. Read on to learn techniques to make your writing stronger, clearer and more focused.
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