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This is an excellent article that I found on LinkedIn this morning. I agree with the main points of this article. While I am not without fault on occasion myself, I do find that effective communications skills are quickly slipping away professionally, and this need to be readdressed in professional education. Having worked customer service/client services, where communication is key to ensure a happy customer, and now being in technical communication, I see this issue clearly. This idea of clear communication is essential, as the author of this article correctly points out, as information is exchanged more freely and openly due to internet mobility. It disappoints me enough that I find simple grammatical mistakes and even wrong data in online articles from various news sources. I was looking at an online magazine today from the UK where people were clearly mislabeled in photos, incorrect relationships were listed (in the case of the article I was reading, it was that Princess Margaret was married to George VI. No! George VI was her father!), and common grammatical mistakes that should have never been there in the first place. As I watch television show–especially the reality shows–it is often obvious to the audience what an issue is, and yet the players in a situation can’t articulate the issue effectively to resolve the problem.
As professionals of any kind, clear, articulate communication is key, and I’m glad to see that more professionals are starting to realize that as a world society, we need help and we need to correct this now!
–techcommgeekmom
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