Books
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Cook up a Style Guide
October 30th, 2007 |People ask whether to capitalize Internet, web, or net, and which of the following to use: e-mail vs. email, tradeshow vs. trade show, and web site vs. web site. No one likes an indefinite answer, but it’s up to you or your organization. To ensure consistency on such thorny words, most editors rely on a [...]
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Bullyproof Your Child for Life Book Review
October 24th, 2007 |Bullying today looks nothing like bullying 15 years ago. While many of the things we know about bullying from our childhood years remain true, bullies can now follow their victims 24/7 using the Internet and cell phones. Bullyproof Your Child for Life quotes the National Girl Scouts Research Institute and Harris Interactive report, which states [...]
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How Book Review
October 11th, 2007 |Don’t expect “how to” type of advice from Dov Seidman’s How. The “how to” doesn’t help you get ahead of competitors. You could lower prices, do things faster, and customize the product to the customer’s exact specifications. The competition can easily turn around and lower prices, do things faster, and customize more. It turns into [...]
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Rules for Renegades Book Review
October 8th, 2007 |Renegades usually don’t follow rules because that is what makes them renegades. Rules for Renegades aims to share Christine Comaford-Lynch’s experiences. She states that she started with no special advantages and that 10 life lessons — the rules — she shares will help readers gain confidence and self-esteem, build strong relationships, and become financially independent. The [...]
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The Hamster Revolution Book Review
September 19th, 2007 |Taking cue from The One Minute Manager, Zapp!, Fish! and Who Moved My Cheese?, The Hamster Revolution uses a parable to show how to better manage and organize e-mail and information. The hamster represents people endlessly running on the wheel of e-mail. Right away, I start using concepts from the 90-minute book. Considering I’m an [...]
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A Writer’s Coach: An Editor’s Guide to Words That Work Book Review
August 1st, 2007 |Books on writing often reiterate the same advice we learn over time, the reader sometimes lucks out in using a tidbit or two. Realistically, no one has time to study the advice and put it to practice. Thus, it’s not a bad thing for a book on writing to cover the things we’ve read before. [...]
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On Becoming Fearless Book Review
July 2nd, 2007 |As a mother of two young girls, Huffington wanted to provide a guide for female fearlessness. She does this by capturing her experiences in dealing with fear. Her first serious encounter occurs when her own mother shows the courage to stand up to German soldiers who threatened to kill everyone if they didn’t reveal where [...]
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Death By PowerPoint Book Review
June 27th, 2007 |The book begins with absorbing insight into the life of the drones and queen bees. The queen bee sits all day while her slaves service her and feed her royal jelly that no one else can have. Who knew the world of bees could be fascinating and resemble the corporate world? Death By PowerPoint takes a [...]
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The Perfect Thing Book Review
May 25th, 2007 |The iPod has that certain something that leads its users to adore it like nothing before. People want nothing but an iPod. No substitutes even when the non-iPod has more memory, comes in your favorite color and costs over $100 less than an iPod. So how did the iPod earn this special treatment and the [...]
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The Power of a Positive No Book Review
May 24th, 2007 |The book guides the reader through the three-part process to prepare, deliver and follow through in getting to a positive No. No doesn’t come easy especially when trying to please a client who asks to move up the delivery date. You’re afraid to say No because it means losing future business, respect and perhaps, your [...]
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