I cannot believe it is the end of January already and time for Mailbag Monday here at Communication FUNdamentals. This month we found MANY questions and comments in our mailbag--mostly feedback on all the changes we have had here at Art of Eloquence.com and the newsletter. Say What You Mean Convention 1. Several of you asked how to register for the event and enter the drawings. The sign up form is now on the home page. This not only enters you in the six live drawings but allows you to receive What's New at Art of Eloquence, our monthly newsletter with freebies, special offers and info JUST for our subscribers. 2. A few of you emailed asking about the events...
It's time for your Friday Giggle! Communication FUNdamentals is proud to present this week's Friday Funny: So many of you send me Friday Funny material from "real life" and I thank you. I've had newsletter subscribers send in some funny things their kidlings have said, blog readers send in pictures of street signs that should have been better thought out and this week's Friday Funny comes from my dad! Thanks Dad! This was in a story on the AP Wire: "The young Nigerian man was due in federal court Friday afternoon for his arraignment on charges that he failed to detonate a chemical-laden explosive on the Detroit-bound Northwest Airlines flight." Let me get this straight. He is charged with failing...
Art of Eloquence Has Had a Facelift! I know what you're thinking! I promised to do this two years ago, but try as I might, I was unable to find the time to redesign the site with all the other events and projects I had going. December 31st was my final podcast and I immediately got to work and it's like Art of Eloquence bought a new hat! See? We're still our old purple selves but we've got a totally new feel and I am happy to say it is MUCH easier to navigate and find what you are looking for! First, the home page is completely redesigned to reflect the fact that Art of Eloquence no longer has just...
English is a crazy language that wound up with wounds of wisdom. Does it sound right to you that our houses don’t have mouses? Why can we oversee what we cannot overlook? It seems something is not “in wack”, but fat chance trying to work it out-or would that be a slim one? If we slow down for just a minute, we will clearly see that we cannot slow up-or keep up with the strange rules which cause a wise man not to be a wise guy. It also doesn’t follow that we talk about gooses which are really geese, but never about mooses which are definitely not meese. If I had my way, everything would be spelled “foneticly” and...
What a contest! For the past two months, Art of Eloquence had a contest going that got really interesting, especially toward the end. The idea was to help us get the word out about Art of Eloquence by posting links to our website. The winner of the $350 prize package was the one who posted the most links, but we were also giving away other prizes by picking 10 other entries at random. When we first started, I thought we would have hundreds of people entering once with several entering a few times. I expected our winner to have posted about 5-7 links in the two months allotted and I figured the motivation to post the most links would come...
