Communication FUNdamentals

If you weren’t already aware, Art of Eloquence has a fan page over on Facebook.  We’ve been having such a fun time over there that I thought I’d share it with everyone so you could come on over and join us for some upcoming Art of Eloquence Communication FUN.  Aside from all the fun links, videos, funny pictures and sayings posted weekly, here are two reasons you’ll want to join us…

1. Communication BINGO starts Sept. 1st!

I have a list of 75 communication terms posted on a secret link on the Art of Eloquence website just for our Facebook fan page members.  Choose 25 of the terms, email them in to me before Sept. 1st and play along to win one of 8 prizes!  Each of the first 8 winners will get a free Art of Eloquence product!

The idea is to watch for the terms I call out each day and cross them off your list.  Each day I’ll not only post a term or two from the list, but a fun link, picture, joke or saying that goes along with it.  When all of your terms are called off, email me to claim BINGO!  After each win is verified with my email copy sent in, I’ll award each of the first 8 to call BINGO with a free Art of Eloquence eProduct!

If you aren’t yet a member of the Art of Eloquence Facebook page, come on over and “Like” us!  Then click our Events tab to find more details about our upcoming Communication BINGO!

2. Free copy of my very first JoJoisms eBook!

If you weren’t an Art of Eloquence newsletter subscriber last week, you probably didn’t get a free copy of my very first JoJoisms eBook, the very first in the eSeries!  Not to worry, because if you are a member of our Facebook fan page when we reach 1000 members, you’ll have another chance!   We have somewhere around 950 members.  When we reach 1000, I’m going to make a link available for ALL Art of Eloquence Facebook fan page members to claim their own free copy of my very first illustrated JoJoisms eBook with my insightful and humorous quotes on communication!

Don’t let us start without YOU!

If you “Like” us, I think you’ll really like us!

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I have a new series of illustrated eBooks coming out soon.  JoJoisms are my funny, insightful sayings about life.  The first in the series will be on communication.  Who’d a thunk it, right?  Inside will be things like, JoJoism#45, “God didn’t make cookie-cutter people so there is no one-size-fits-all way to communicate with them.”

It’ll be out this week and you can get it for free if…

1) you are one of our newsletter subscribers.

What’s New at Art of Eloquence is our newsletter featuring an exclusive monthly article and Ask JoJo featuring answers to YOUR communication questions.  It also shares exclusive offers and free gifts just for our subscribers.  Tomorrow;s newsletter will allow every subscriber to download JoJoisms that reveal life’s truths about communication fundamentals!

If you are already a subscriber, you need do nothing but open your newsletter and click the download link.   If you are not a subscriber, now is the time!  Click here to subscribe to What’s New at Art of Eloquence today!

2) you are a Facebook Fan when we reach 1000 members.

We currently have over 930 members of the Art of Eloquence Facebook fan page.  When we reach 1000, I’ll make a download link available to all members!  Our Facebook page members have all kinds of fun that we cannot work via our newsletter.  I post funny pictures, quotes and sayings that help illustrate various communication skills.  However, the next several months will be even more exciting.

September 1st will kick off our Communication Bingo contest.  I’ll be posting a few communication terms per day M-F along with some fun links, pictures, scriptures and quotes that illustrate their importance.  If you are one of the members who signed up to play (chosen 25 of our 75 communication terms) and you are one of the first 8 to call bingo (meaning I have called out all 25 of your terms), you will win a free gift from Art of Eloquence and 8 points toward our Birthday Bash Grand Prize!

If you are already an Art of Eloquence Facebook fan page member, go into the group and find the post with the details of the game and the 75 words.  Then pick 25 of them and send them in to me before Sept. 1st.  If you are not yet a member there, click here to “like” (join) our page and check out the link to enter!

3) you are a For the Love of Purple.com Contest winner.

I have a fun blog for purple lovers called FortheLoveofPurple.com.  Today and Wednesday I’m celebrating the one year anniversary of the blog by having a contest.  Today I’m asking readers to name the purple things they have in their home that start with the letters A-M.   You can see the details of that contest here. You’ll notice that the cover of JoJoisms is purple (as are most of the Art of Eloquence communication studies!).

So…there are three ways to get a free copy of JoJoisms.  I suggest to you try all three!

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8 FUN Ways to Win! 18+ Prizes!

Contest Runs: August 1st-October 31st, 2010

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2. FIMM (Foot in Mouth Man) Scavenger Hunt on the Art of Eloquence website. Each person who finds all 8 (the one on the BB page doesn’t count) of the Birthday Bash FIMMs and emails me with the locations will win 8 points toward the grand prize!

For the rest of the details, check out our Birthday Bash Page!

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Many of you may remember that last year my editor and dear friend, Carla Ives, and I were co hosting a weekly podcast on TalkShoe.  Well, Carla had some family issues that required her attention so she had to leave the show and most of her online presence for a while.  Well, you can’t keep a brilliant woman down!  She’s back with a new venture to add to her repertoire!  It’s called The Reluctant Wahm.com and it is brand spankin’ new!

The site is only a few days old and it already has some wonderful articles for work at home moms who are either reluctant to have to work from home (are more used to or prefer working in a corporate environment) or , if it weren’t for the economy, would rather not have to work at all.  It’s a fabulous resource for all work at home moms and homeschooling moms who are working a bit to help dh with the family budget.  Carla is a wealth of information and she has a huge heart to help others.

Well, this morning I was indeed humbled and blessed to find a glowing post on her site about my work and Art of Eloquence.  I just colored my hair today so I don’t know which is more red, my hair or my face!  Though she is a tough and nitpicky editor, she is very generous with her praise and I am truly honored by her words.

Please visit her site and leave a comment welcoming her back to the internet after such a long absence and so many difficult situations in her life, some of which she is still contending with.

Thank you my dear, sweet friend!

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We’re celebrating FIMM’s 150th episode this month. I starting writing for Foot in Mouth Man on April 19, 2006.  At first he was over on my blog each week, but eventually after his popularity grew, we gave him his own page on Art of Eloquence.com where he has his monthly episodes, his FIMM Speaks audio and his own You Tube video!

Check out FIMMology 101: The FIMMportant, FIMMtastic and FUNbelievable Study  of the Humorous Sins of Our Mouths!  It has thirty nine pages and over 30 lessons packed with hilariously, creative Foot in Mouth Man episodes teaching various communication skills!  This is NOT your traditional communication study!

* eBook available immediately as a download
* Over 30 fun-filled, creative lessons
* Adorably illustrated
* Links to even more FIMM Fun
* PERFECT for shy communicators!
* FUN lessons you can share with children of various ages
* Can be used as a homeschool study by teaching one lesson per week and using discussion to explore its implications!
* Have students rewrite each FIMM Faux Pas the way it should have been handled or share it orally!
* Perfect for adults who need a giggle break!
* Makes a great gift too!

Check out FIMMology 101 and celebrate FIMM’s 150th episode today with your very own copy.  Don’t let anyone you know be a FIMMpersonator.  Get your copy of FIMMology 101 today!

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The last few weeks we have been blessed to find several websites and other internet sources citing links for Art of Eloquence.  I am grateful to all who have asked me to contribute articles to their publications.  I have to say that it is still a rather odd experience to see my name on someone’s website.  Even after almost 8 years, I find myself saying, “Hey, that’s me!”  lol

A humble thank you to all of the publications that have re posted my articles and published some nice reviews of Art of Eloquence in the last few weeks!  I also want to thank those of you who have retweeted my articles, blogposts and sayings on Twitter as well as those who have posted Facebook notes with our links!  Thanks for spreading the word about Art of Eloquence!  We appreciate the opportunity to let others know about the ways in which we can help people overcome social anxiety and learn to speak up and speak out effectively in order to accomplish their own missions the Lord has for their lives.

Some of the places we were featured are great resources we thought you’d want to know about.  I am posting their links here so you all could take advantage of all they have to offer.  Some are brand new and I highly recommend you check them out!

1. Homeschooling the Easy Way eMagazine: Cindy Rushton’s new online magazine for homeschoolers has some wonderful articles.  I’m going to be one of her regular contributors.  Check it out!  You can subscribe to her RSS feed and get these updates.  Here’s what Cindy shares about her new eMagazine:

“Years ago we began our Homeschooling The Easy Way Magazine.  It has always been a magazine filled with encouragement, inspiration, and practical (very DOABLE) tips for making homeschooling easy. Now, it is produced as an online eMagazine that is free for all subscribers.

Our purpose is to encourage a return back to God’s design for the godly home and homeschool! Each issue includes articles that encourage homeschooling with a lifestyle of real learning that returns to the OLD PATHS that have worked for centuries. Topics range from hearing God in your homeschool to balancing all of the many demands that the busy homeschool mom faces day-to-day to teaching lessons in a simple, EASY way to VERY practical ideas that are sure to make homeschooling in your home EASY too! You won’t want to miss a single issue!”

2. Time for Tea eMagazine: is another fabulous resource for women by Cindy Rushton where I will be a regular contributor.  Here’s what Time for Tea is all about:

“Time for Tea eMagazine began as a simple newsletter to Cindy’s friends. It grew into a world-wide magazine that was published in print for 8 years. For the past eight years, it has been published as a free weekly ezine online-our ministry to minister to YOUR heart! Now, you can receive it digitally–either online at our website OR you can purchase our reprint books at a discount–if you are a TFT eMagazine subscriber (and that is FREE–stick with me and I will tell you how to join). You won’t want to miss even one issue!

Time for Tea features articles written for the purpose of ministering to YOUR heart! Articles range from topics covering developing a closer walk with the Heavenly Father to ministering to the heart of your husband to discipling our children with a Godly heritage to ideas for homemaking from the heart to getting and staying organized to ideas for developing the impact of YOUR Home Ministry to great encouragement for home businesses to wisdom that can truly encourage you to become a vessel that God can use!”

3. SONbeams: has wonderful homeschool curricula for PreK through early elementary.  They have a great blog where they have posted a review of Art of Eloquence products for that age group.  I highly encourage those of you with young children to check out their site and blog!  Great resources for moms even if you don’t homeschool!

4. Christians in Social Media Facebook Page: was kind enough to highlight me and my work and ask others to visit Art of Eloquence.  Christians in Social Media is a brand new Facebook page devoted to helping Christians who are online figure out this thing called Social Media.  Run by a wonderful Christian leader, LaTara Ham Ying, this is a great place to be. Check it out!

Also a big thank you to those of you who have written in to share your excitement about our upcoming release, Say What You Mean: Overcoming Social Anxiety.  We really appreciate your comments and feedback!  Here are some of the comments we have been getting about this study:

“Dear JoJo,
Thank you for writing OVERCOMING SOCIAL ANXIETY.  The night before you announced this book I had prayed for God to help me find something to help me help my son feel better about his social interactions.  When I showed him this announcement, he also thought it would be good to try. ” -Anne G.

“Thank you for your work on these valuable products!  The benefits are bound to immeasurable to many.  In Him, Laurie S.”

If you have posted about Art of Eloquence on your blog, site or on Twitter or Facebook, please let us know, especially if you have a wonderful resource our readers might want to know about!  We’d love to hightlight YOU too!

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After a few years, an addition and subtraction of a co host and a change in the programming, last December was the final edition of my weekly internet radio show, The Communication Comedy Network.  The show was sooo much fun both for me and for my audience.  I had so many people email in that they were sorry I had to shut it down because it made them laugh and it made them think more about the communication skills they need on a daily basis.

The CCN was my opportunity to fulfill my now famous Facebook quote: “All my life I wanted to be a stand up comedian, but I’m getting older now so I’m doing it sitting down. -JoJo Tabares”  What could be more fun?  I got to put on a new persona and be goofy with a fun accent while talking about things that really matter to me.  The only challenge was the time it took to plan and execute a one hour weekly show and the fact that I was tied down to a time slot that my audience expected me to keep.

While I am not saying that I can now commit to 3-4 hours a week to return to a weekly show, I am resurrecting the show in a new form.   I’m going to put on the personalities of Nancy Newsome, New Yorker and News Anchor for the 12 1/2 Minute News Hour; Bobbi Blogsalot, roving southern reporter on all things techie; and Professor Wordsmith, British Professor of Words in order to create 2-3 minute YouTube videos.  I will be creating a YouTube channel called The Communication Comedy Network where I’ll get to dress up as my favorite communication personalities who will entertain and educate on all things communication!

After securing a webcam and or video recorder, I’ll start working on the details for some of the videos.  Since these are for YOU, I thought I’d ask you for ideas.  What would you all like to see?  Be as creative as possible with the situations and any new characters I could become.

Nancy Newsome will be reporting on any news items illustrating either poor or excellent communication skills.

Bobbi Blogsalot will be reporting on communication in the blogosphere and any technological advances that either allow us to communicate better or hinder our abilities to communicate effectively.

Professor Wordsmith will be doing various segments on grammar, words, spelling and anything else having to do with words.

Got any other characters I could play?  Any funny situations I could work out on film?  Share them with me!

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Have you ever written an email you thought was clear only to have the recipient reply:  “What on earth are you talking about?”   Do you occasionally find that your email misspeaks?  Did you ever NOT say what you meant to say over email?  I think we all have had times like these, but with a few easily implemented tips, these can be fewer and farther between!

Join me in the next few months as I begin a new article series just for my newsletter subscribers on effective emailing!  These articles will eventually make their way into a book that will be offered for sale on the Art of Eloquence website.  However,  if you are one of our newsletter subscribers, you can get all this information for free beginning tomorrow morning in my very first What’s New at Art of Eloquence eNewsletter series of articles on effective emailing!

If you are not a subscriber yet, click here and, in addition, you will receive special offers and free gifts from time to time during the month.  Lastly, What’s New at Art of Eloquence subscribers are all entered into our Subscriber of the Month Drawing for a chance to win a gift certificate for $20 worth of Art of Eloquence products!  A new subscriber is chosen each month!

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I have a very special treat for my homeschool friends this week!  The authors of the brand new book, One By One: The Homeschool Group Leader’s Guide to Motivating Your Members, are joining me for a free seminar this Wednesday and YOU’RE INVITED!    Kristen and Denise have a great deal to share about topics all homeschool group and co op leaders share.

Ever wonder how to motivate your teens?  How to avoid burnout?  How to communicate in a way that gets positive results in your homeschool group or co op?  Well, the Wednesday at 3:30pm EST/12:30pm PST you will get all your answers and MORE!

Come join us! The live event is free!

When: Wednesday, March 10th
Time: 3:30pm EST/12:30pm PST
How to join via your computer: http://www.talkshoe.com/tc/19736
How to join via phone: (724) 444-7444 Call ID: 19736

SPECIAL NOTE: Do mark your calendars to attend the live seminar.  Space is limited and this session will NOT be available to the general public as an audio afterward!

Take advantage of the collective experience we have and learn how you can regroup and rejuvenate your homeschool group experience!

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Homeschool Group Leader Workshop
03/10/2010 12:30 pm PST/3:30pm EST

Join JoJo Tabares author of “Say What You Mean: The Language of Leadership” and her co-hosts Kristen Fagala and Denise Hyde authors of “One By One: A Homeschool Group Leader’s Guide to Motivating Your Members” as we discuss how homeschool group leaders can lead more effectively with less stress and get more participation!

• Why motivation is a huge part of successful leadership
• What leadership is . . . (relationship)
• Three burning questions every leader must ask
• Questions leaders have asked us: how to avoid burnout, how to get people to show up, how to get more volunteers
• Tips on motivating teens
• Why we need leadership skills
• What a leader isn’t
• 16 Biblical qualities of a leader
• Why a leader needs: effective communication skills

Mark your calendars for Wednesday, March 10th, at 3:30pm EST/12:30pm PST.  Here’s how to join in the call:

Listen via your computer: http://www.talkshoe.com/tc/19736
Or call in via phone: (724) 444-7444  Call ID: 19736

Or you can sign up for a free TalkShoe account so you can join the chatroom while you listen in!

Do mark your calendars to attend because space is limited and this session will NOT be available to the general public as an audio afterward!

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