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As a native speaker of English, I’m often impressed by how much influence our language has throughout the world, especially in business and technology. Other times I’m not so much impressed as emba…

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Following my continual interest in other languages (but having mastered none), Larry Kunz offers a cool story about his own experiences dealing with another language other than English during his travels. His language interpretation skills for Swedish are obviously better than my attempts to understand any Gaelic/Irish! 

Read this article to see what I mean. 

 

Have you had an experience like this? Include your comments below. 

–techcommgeekmom

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An expert on public speaking explains how online technology changes the way we communicate.

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Kudso to Yvonne Wade Sanchez for finding this and originally posted this in Facebook. 

 

As a (slowly) emerging presenter, I think this article presents several points that can definitely help in being engaged with your audience–whether one or many. The thing that struck me, though, was that these are things I think I’ve learned the hard way because of my Asperger’s Syndrome. Many who are high-functioning autistic learn how to communicate in exactly this way–learning to take turns, listen, etc. They can’t read the visual cues anyway (which makes working through the internet a lot easier for us since we are used to it anyway), so these are all steps that we have to learn over time to use in order to effectively communicate with the outside world. Think about that for a moment. 

 

Take a read…

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In this super post you’ll find dimensions for Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Pinterest and more.

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Canva is a company that puts out a great designing app, and they include in your subscription to using the app a "design school" and great articles about design work.  This is a really good article/infographic that talks about social media multimedia design, and has some great tips. Check it out! 

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How do you position a content team for success? The right leader, teams with competency and curiosity, and defined roles.

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Scott Abel posted this on LinkedIn, and it’s a great article by Colleen Jones of Content Science. While I am a one-person content machine for TechCommGeekMom, I have been part of content teams for other companies, and I think the results that Colleen’s team got–especially with the last point made in the article–are completely on point based on my own experiences.  There are some good insights here worth taking into consideration. 

 

Do you agree with the outcomes of Content Science’s assessment? Include your own perspective below. 

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The AOL co-founder reflects on the company’s first 30 years and what’s to come.

Source: www.washingtonpost.com

Thanks to Tina Howe for posting this article on LinkedIn. I admit, I was an avid user of AOL at one time, becoming a subscriber in the early-to-mid-1990s. Although he does not like me saying this, I actually initially met my husband on AOL, and we both stayed subscribers for a little while after we got married. AOL was revolutionary in many ways, making online services accessible and focused on content, if you think about it. They wanted to be the one-stop for all your needs, and for a while, they were! I know we all hated getting those many installation disks in the mail, magazines, and almost everywhere to the point that the CDs and disks were used as drink coasters.  But this article, written by another one of those Steves who helped to revolutionize how we use the Internet–Steve Case, who helped start AOL, is a great look at where we’ve been, and where we are going. 

 

What do you think? Do you agree with Steve Case’s assessment going forward? I think he’s on the right track for the most part. Comment below as to what you think. 

–techcommgeekmom

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