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Recap of Birthday Bash week

Today is the last day to enter our Birthday Bash Contests! It's also the last day also to get our Birthday Bash freebie, my 3rd Book of JoJoisms! Download our 3rd JoJoisms edition,  The 3rd Book of JoJoisms: Technology. Created especially for our Birthday Bash visitors and Includes: JoJoisms, Visual JoJoisms, several of JoJo’s articles and more! x Download your free copy of the 3rd Book of JoJoisms here!   Also, in case you missed the announcement:  All Art of Eloquence eBooks are only $10 for a limited time!  Check out all the titles. Browse by age or subject! ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ If you liked this post, read…Seven Reasons Why YOU Should Sign Up for the Art of Eloquence Newsletter!

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Are You Making the Right Impression?

We've been talking about what things you do or say communicate about you this week and I had a flash back to a series of commercials by Vistaprint that were along these lines.  Their tag line was, "Make the Right Impression." Here's The Wedding Planner ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ If you liked this post, read…Seven Reasons Why YOU Should Sign Up for the Art of Eloquence Newsletter!

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Tomorrow is Information Overload Day

For all of you who feel overwhelmed, here's your Friday giggle... x "Okay, Mildred. I guess I can have the report on your desk in ten minutes.  All I need to do is find the library references, incorporate today's news reports, search the internet for relevent resources, and our files to make sure we haven't done something like this in the past twenty years." ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ If you liked this post, read…Seven Reasons Why YOU Should Sign Up for the Art of Eloquence Newsletter!

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Yesterday was Noah Webster's Birthday

Noah Webster was born Oct 16, 1758 so I thought we'd celebrate words today.  Here is an article I wrote on words and how their meanings change over the years. ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ Over the years, the meanings of words do change and for many different reasons.  I thought it would be fun to take a look back at some of these words.  Enjoy! Some words have changed meanings for technological reasons. 1. A tweet used to be the sound a bird makes.  Now it’s a 140 character message you type on a social networking site where people share things from political news to what they had for dinner. 2. The word friend is now a verb.  Where I used to have...

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On this day in 1951, I Love Lucy Premiere

I've written about my love for the I Love Lucy show before.  It was one of the most incredibly creative shows, especially with the use of language. It was the first show I can remember where language played a vital role: accents, miscommunication, culture. Last month, I wrote an article for my newsletter subscribers detailing the lessons we can about poor communication from I Love Lucy.  But this week, on the anniversary of the very first I Love Lucy show, I'd like to highlight some of the fun and creative scenes that taught us about language and effective communication. Here's Lucy making fun of Ricky's English: Ricky tells Little Ricky a bedtime story.  Can you tell which one? ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ If...

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