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Danielle M. Villegas‘s insight:

A fantastic article by "Word Up!" author, Marcia Riefer Johnston. Having met her husband, I can easily imagine him snuggling up in the recliner, ready to read, and after only a few pages, tossing the book over his shoulder in digust. Marcia makes a good point, however, about redundanices. There are quite a few that are commonly used in speech (caught myself almost saying one there!) that she outlines as being…not such a good idea in writing. Read it now!

–techcommgeekmom

Danielle M. Villegas‘s insight:

Colum McAndrew (aka @robocolumn) has some interesting findings regarding his own Twitter account. I’ve also had similar result with my WordPress account, too.  Someone said to me recently that my stats might be due to spammers, but I’d like to live in a state of denial that my hits are mostly spammers. Even so, Colum’s results are interesting, and this is worth a read. Twitter has been known to change the world, so who’s to say that Colum’s Twitter feed isn’t changing the world, too? 🙂

–techcommgeekmom

Danielle M. Villegas‘s insight:

Excellent article by my friend, Sharon Burton (@sharonburton). I suspect I know who the speaker is that she is referring to, and I would venture to guess, like Sharon, that the speaker was limited in her time to mention what Sharon covers in this article.  In short, I agree that both taxonomies and folksonomies need to be considered when writing content. It’s not an easy task–I admit that I don’t keep both of them in mind necessarily when I write, but I can definitely see how it’s important to utilize both in documentation, especially when writing on a global level. 

–techcommgeekmom

Danielle M. Villegas‘s insight:

I think I missed this the first time it was out. This is a great article by those forward thinkers at Float Mobile Learning. Chad Udell (who, yes, wrote the book–or one of the books out there–on mobile learning) makes some excellent points there. 

–techcommgeekmom

Danielle M. Villegas‘s insight:

This is a fascinating article behind the artist who created some of the most used and iconic fonts used today.  A must-read for anyone who is interested in user interface design, typography, or just thinks the use of different fonts is cool!

–techcommgeekmom