……..and being a part of bringing profiles of wonderful people with businesses great and small to the right public – I wanted to answer something else, reflexively to the question almost all North Americans pose: “What do you do?”
Add a dash of stats to spice up titles, opening statements and copy. Which description has the power to inspire me to join its statistical camp? Will I do the work? Buy the product? Join the group? Give up or take up the activity to become one of the……(you decide for yourself)
Summer Solstice of June 21, 2010 and Vancouver, Canada is grateful for all the moments of sun that came out. Full expression of energy and light didn’t happen till the afternoon, but then we had more space on the clock today to let it come out and shine in it’s own time. Our sentences, however, … Read more
Conversations come in different forms, don’t they?
To answer your questions on who the smiling and international face of Vancouver is in our ‘place holder’ picture for the May Post on the Express Lane Blog, let me just say this: She is one of the wonderful new friends I have met in the course of working with professional people seeking cross cultural … Read more
A testimonial came to me this week in email. Soon, hard copy evidence of my contribution as a business communication instructor for new entrepreneurs of all ages at this university will arrive. I believe commendation or consolation received in ‘real’ copy still rocks the soul. Don’t you? The business writing seminar facilitation contract – essentially … Read more
Article marketing in this communication strategy laden world is a hot way to put across expert advice and key messages, especially online. It occupies a critical page of notes in my courses on business writing and image elevation through effective communication.
Technology’s unprecedented quality of transmission at super speed and high resolution does not replace the human need for quality communication. Illuminated, with the release of Avatar 3D on one kind of screen, is human longing, love and a sense of higher purpose. What else is communicated about our world in the pings and bytes? Some … Read more
It’s been happening now – the out loud talking for an afternoon, an evening, and an abnormally early start (again) in the morning. Talking out my presentation in my Professional Image and Business Writing seminar, is normal when it is preparation. No. The murmuring and gesticulation as I go about the daily routine of my … Read more
Communication at every level, cultural, linguistic, personal, regional and international has never been so important on our ever shrinking planet, where all we do and decide affects everyone – near and far. Communication is speeding up. It is adjusting. It is both more inclusive now than ever, and demanding. No one language can dominate. Those … Read more