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SPAM SPAM

SPAM can be annoying but it can also be a communication lesson and even a source of humor.   So the other day I wrote a blogpost about SPAM and, of course, it's getting SPAMMED!  lol A Recycled Funny from your friends at Art of Eloquence.com

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CCN: The Communication Comedy Network Premiere!

"All my life I wanted to be a stand up comedian, but I'm getting older now so I'm going to do it sitting down!" JoJo Tabares The Communication Comedy Network is new to internet radio this week!  CCN is Real Communication Issues delivered in a really funny way.  Side effects include: unexplained laughing, seeing the positive side of life and communication excellence! The Communication Comedy Network airs 8am PST (11am EST) to 9am PST (12pm EST) each Thursday and features various "shows" that use creativity to illustrate and teach communication skills.  Each week has 2-3 "shows" hosted by various people all of whom are played by the very playful JoJo Tabares of Art of Eloquence.com. "Shows" include: The 12 1/2...

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Humor: A Powerful Communication Tool

Humor: A Powerful Communication Tool? By JoJo Tabares In the olde days of kings who ruled with absolute power, only the court jester could safely tell the King the truth, mediated through humor.  Anyone else who attempted to tell the Emperor he had no clothes was in danger of losing his head! Humor is a valuable and effective tool for communicating just about anything because humor breaks down barriers.  Carefully disguised as fun, humor can smuggle new ideas into people's hearts. Humor has been shown to be an essential component of learning for young and old alike!  In order to teach, you must have your audience’s attention.  If a tree falls in the forest and nobody is around to hear...

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Humor in Communication

Since tomorrow's Grace Talk Soup podcast is about humor and we do a segment that is a parody of I Love Lucy (I Love Language) I thought I'd post this clip from one of the Lucy shows where Lucy tries to communicate with her mother in law. It can be pretty funny to communicate when you don't speak the same language.  I know because my MIL is from Mexico!  She does understand English fairly well and I understand Spanish a bit but neither of us speaks the other's language.  This makes for some pretty funny miscommunication and we play a little charades as well!

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