From the monthly archives:

December 2009

Does Your Document have Internal Integrity?

December 31, 2009

I go through an interesting writing exercise regularly: I take magazine articles and write abstracts of them for newsletter clients.
The challenge involves taking an article, one that normally ranges from 1,000 to 3,000 words, and condensing it into a few hundred words. The central point of the article should be now be apparent, and [...]

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How to Manage Email Lists

December 31, 2009

If you run an online business or an online marketing company, email list management software is one of the essentials. So let’s explore how to buy and which features to look at in an email list management software.
 
First of all there are two forms of email list management software; desktop and web based. This can [...]

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Ways to Brush Up on Your Grammar

December 31, 2009

Studying in school is not enough when it comes to learning grammar and language for that matter. After all, those technical terms on verbs, nouns, pronouns and conjunctions can be pretty confusing when you take them all in. Not to mention all those rules on verbs. When do you exactly put an S and an [...]

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Ways That You Can Brush Up on Your Grammar

December 31, 2009

Grammar has never become more important to people than now. Because of the Internet revolution, more and more people are coming out with personal blogs and websites. And on these sites, they write their thoughts, feelings and opinions. The rise of these blogs have made people writers and more importantly readers, a practice that people [...]

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NovaMind 5 Mind Map layout system (French)

December 30, 2009

cliffordhall posted a video
NovaMind 5 Mind Map layout system (French) – NM5TopicLayoutFR.flv
http://www.novamind.com This video shows the drawbacks of the layout systems from other Mind Mapping software, and how NovaMind addresses these issues. (French version)

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Using Visual Mind Mapping to Decide on a College Major

December 30, 2009

Questions such as “What do I want to do?” and “How do I make the right choice?” inevitably arise. In making such an important decision, college students will likely find it helpful to organize their thoughts surrounding this choice. It is with this organization that Visual Mind Maps can prove incredibly beneficial; with Mind Maps, [...]

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The Current State of Grammar

December 30, 2009

Rules change. And the rules of grammar are not impervious to these changes. In fact, the language is constantly changing that some of the rules that were being enforced before are no longer applicable today. There are also words now that have been added to dictionaries that are not used before the same way that [...]

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Writing A Winning Best Man Speech Example

December 29, 2009

Yes, it is a great honor to be a best man; however, not everyone is willing to do it. If asked to be one, don’t be worried. It’s so simple; all you’ll need is a best man speech example.
A best man speech example is very commonly used by those who require some help in [...]

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Practical Reasons Why Proper Grammar Should Be Observed

December 29, 2009

Many people are wondering why many others are very particular about grammar and usage. During this age when the Internet is proliferating, many online users are assuming that it is enough for any message to be understood, especially the written pieces. This could be true in the case of instant messaging exchanges and communication. In [...]

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6 Wedding Speech Etiquette

December 27, 2009

According to tradition, there are only three wedding speeches. Because of their long tradition, each of these has wedding speech etiquette, which although are not written in stone, are best observed.
Foul language – Many speakers opt to emphasize their speech with profane language. Although these may seem acceptable for some people, there are those [...]

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