A while back I had a strange customer service experience when ordering my cell phone. The entire incident was hilarious with lots of communication faux pas and I'm sure I'll be sharing that at another time. Sometime soon Carla and I will be having a Grace Talk Soup show on cultural and regional differences on communication. This little tidbit is a great warm up for that show. The customer service department for Best Buy.com was apparently in India where they have extensive training in various aspects of the English language in order to converse with customers here in America. However, some cultural or regional differences or perhaps American customs and expressions in communication were apparently not addressed. After a quite...
I've been hosting Grace Talk Soup for over two years now and the listenership and popularity have been steadily growing...until NOW! In the last few months since my dear friend, Carla Ives, has taken the co-pilot's seat, Grace Talk Soup's popularity has soared! Last month we had the most number of downloads and live participants in the ENTIRE HISTORY of Grace Talk Soup! In the first three days of this month (May 09), the show had more downloads than it did for several of it's entire months prior to Carla joining me! We even have a Grace Talk Soup fan club over on Facebook that has over 400 members! We have had a weekly contest on the show asking listeners...
Foot in Mouth Man's latest MISadventure is up and ready for your reading pleasure and Friday giggles! This month FIMM illustrates what frustration can be caused by not paying attention. Our UnHero finds himself in the park with a mom who is desperate to find her daughter only to enlist the help of FIMM who is less than helpful! Check out his latest miscommunication lesson here. While you are visiting his page, you can check out some of FIMM's past misadventures and view his video. Bring the kiddos! After all, FIMM sticks his foot in his mouth for your amusement and confusement and to illustrate how NOT to communicate effectively. Have you got a FIMM Faux Pas in your past? ...
Say What You Mean: Defending the Faith Online Classes are new over at Art of Eloquence University! There are so many questions and misconceptions the world has about the Lord and the Christian faith! We are going through the study one week at a time and then starting over again. This means that you can join the class at any time and take the class over and over as often as you like. "But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear:" 1Peter 3:15 Are you comfortable with questions like these? If not, you...
Methuselah is on Technological Life Support and it's only a matter of time now. He was fairly old when we adopted him into our family, but these days Methuselah's had some serious electronic health issues. Methuselah’s e-Schizophrenic with Hypertronic Tendencies. To put it in layman’s terms: My computer hamster was overcome by CDrom fumes, fell off his e-Wheel and hit his head on the RAM! Methuselah is what I call my aging computer who is on his last electrode. I'm afraid the Techno Alzheimer's has progressed to the point where he can no longer function in his current capacity. What I mean to say is that I can no longer function in MY capacity! It is with great elation that...
