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The Anthology Editor – a rising player
As writers struggle for a spot in the literary limelight, as traditional magazines and publishing houses discard box loads of submissions, and as supply outstrips demand at increasingly higher rates, there is a niche player ascending like a Phoenix, one … Continue reading
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Tagged anthology, author, contributor, editor, niche, publisher, publishing
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Travel is Education
Someone told me that with Google Earth, Wikipedia and other instant information tools readily at our fingertips these days, there was no longer a need to travel to foreign places to get a sense of culture, language, food, geography and … Continue reading
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Tagged Cape Town, cities, Costa Rica, countries, education, France, Google, Metz, Nicaragua, novel, South Africa, Strasbourg, tourism, travel, Wikipedia
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Big Hairy Audacious Dreaming
When the white smoke billowed in St. Peter’s Square, concluding one of the oldest spectator sports (until the next conclave), and when the humble man dressed in plain white raised only one hand to the masses on what was the … Continue reading
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Tagged Assisi, Audacious, Big, Catholic, Christian, Church, francis, Hairy, non-believer, Square, St. Peter's
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Declining Corporate Skills – part 2
I blogged on this subject recently, but thought it worth revisiting as new material keeps coming up. I spoke to a twenty-something the other day, who worked in a call centre of one of our large communications companies. I was … Continue reading
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Tagged AHT, Cartoon, concentration camps, corporate, Dilbert, Employees, employers, skills
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Go to the People? Tom, are you kidding?
I recently read an article by respected journalist and author Thomas L Friedman in which he advocates that the incoming Secretary of State break all the rules of diplomacy, leverage social networks and go direct to the people of foreign … Continue reading
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Tagged america, civilized, democratic, diplomacy, flat, friedman, out-of-the-box, secretary, state, thomas, west, wild, world
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Trying to imagine life without social media
I tried to recall life without social media. Wasn’t it just a few years ago when I walked around without a portable device strapped to my waist, a device willing to announce my every grunt, burp and fart to the … Continue reading
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Tagged always on, behaviour, Blackberry, cities, device, Facebook, going back, Klout, Life, like, politician, social media, Twitter
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Declining Social Skills in the Corporate World
I’m guessing it was around 2008, when the financial meltdown crushed many corporations that a subtle shift in social skills exhibited in the workplace began to take place. When the survivors were tasked with “doing more with less,” to an … Continue reading
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Tagged corporate, e-mail, fairy, financial, meetings, phone, skill, social
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Dating Game for Wannabe Skilled Immigrants
When I read the recent headline in our national newspaper announcing that Canada was opening a website where prospective employers and skilled foreign workers could date each other, one side of me was heartened and the other side petrified. I … Continue reading
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Tagged business, Canada, Canadian, dating, foreign, government, immigrant, re-training, representative, sales, site, skilled, skills, training, worker
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Year-end Miscellany
This will possibly be my one and only post for December. I have been in a pensive mood of late, observing the world as writers normally do, trying to understand its subtext: another mass shooting down south, a man-made fiscal … Continue reading
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Tagged 2013, Christmas, family, fiscal cliff, technology, writers, year
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Lessons on Social Media From Two Guys on the Subway
I overheard these two guys, Jim and Sam, talking on the subway. Jim: You’ve been on this social media kick for some time now. Is it working for you? Sam: Sure is, man. I’d be resenting talking to you right … Continue reading
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Tagged diatribe, Facebook, Jim, like, media, plagiarist, Sam, social, subway, tree-hugger, Twitter
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