Email is the number one preferred method of communication these days, but is our email communication effective? What renders it ineffective? What could strengthen it and make it more persuasive? When would it be best to just pick up the phone? These are the issues I'm going to be covering in a new article series I'm writing exclusively for my newsletter subscribers over the next several months. If you are not currently receiving our newsletter, you can subscribe here. It started with this month's newsletter article and continued with a discussion I had with my dad last week, but I believe most of the misunderstandings now take place over the internet. Email, texting, social media and Yahoo groups are immensely...
I thought we'd have some fun with words today. Here are a list of sentences, each with a "miss steak" in them. Can you spot the errors? If you can, get your kids and let them have a go! 1. I except your challenge to compete in the race with one hand tied behind my back! 2. Your pleas for mercy had no effect on him. 3. What am I suppose to do about her? 4. He came towards me with a look of sadness. 5. The medicine didn't affect her sleep, but she did have several other side effects. 6. I could care less if he doesn't take me to the dance! 7. For all intensive purposes, I am...
Today is Day Four of the National Words Matter Week Contest! In addition to posting our blog link(s), today you have an additional way to enter and have fun with our contest! Today’s Extra Entry: Here is our extra entry rules for today, Thursday, March 4th: The key to effective communication is our vocabulary. The more descriptive our words are, the more effective we are at communicating our message. Here are a list of Plain Jane words that aren't very descriptive. What words could you use instead of the following that would be much more descriptive? Good, Bad, Nice, Loud, Fun, Big, Small Please email your list to jojo@artofeloquence.com and please put “WMW Contest” in the subject linke. Each descriptive...
Insects are little pests in our homes. They don't really belong there and they just annoy us as we have to deal with them either one at a time or, heaven forbid, in swarms! Unnecessary words are the same way in our communication. Ever talk to someone who takes the long way around a conversation? Someone who walks around the block a bit before he finally spits out what he wants to say? Ever in a hurry and need an answer to a question quickly but the person you happened to ask has swallowed a dictionary? Does it BUG you? LOL Sometimes we need a "Just the facts ma'am" moment, but we live in a "let me tell you all...
Extra!! Extra!! Breaking Word News!! This just in from the Rather Be Writing blog! Dr. Word Wielder has a special word lesson for you over on Rather Be Writing today! Dr. Word Wielder is the most articulate word teacher on the net. Here are Dr. Word Wielder's Quick Quiz Questions: "The quandary can be quelled by calculating the qualifying answers and inserting them into a post in your que of blog entries. Then the readers shall reappear here to respond with a link to the web address wherein you have posted your response to these questions. Return again and read the Exam Explanations and Answers which I shall record on this page in a day or so. 1. Hectic or...
