Sherrilynne Starkie

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Good manners cost nothing

Sherrilynne Starkie

Each of these fellows left a comment correcting my English within seconds of my posting a Facebook update. Emboldened by the remoteness of online communications, certain individuals are tempted to comment in ways they never would if the recipient was sitting beside them in the same room. Internet Troll? Photo credit: eirikso).

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Win a ticket to IABC 2012 Canada Business Summit preconference workshop

Sherrilynne Starkie

Just leave a comment below saying which of the above workshops you’d like to attend and why. If you can’t take a full three days to attend the conference, you may wish to hone your skills and build your network with one of these engaging workshops: • Job search & career planning. • Communicating inside enterprise 2.0:

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nBA Pulse: a new social analytics tool

Sherrilynne Starkie

of interviews I’ve sat in on over the years, but this time I got to ask the questions. I listened to the presentation, asked some tough (nosy even) questions and gave some feedback on the product demonstration. I think I played the part well.

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Is blogging still relevant in 2019?

Sherrilynne Starkie

In reading the comments, I remember the support from the community and it helped me decide to carry on. No client has ever commented, although one did once mention it in passing. The blog post below was first published on July 12, 2006, about six months into my blogging journey. I’m not so sure that we’ve achieved this.

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Deleting your Facebook status

Sherrilynne Starkie

This is the question I recently posed on Facebook using the questions tool. Taking down a negative comment or changing the meaning or nature of a status update might not. How To Add Blue Text In Facebook Status Updates, Comments and Messages (tricks7.wordpress.com). So fixing a typo is usually going to be ok.

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PRs compared to Mao, Pol Pot and Stalin

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The reader comments on Page’s story are more telling: “Second hand car sales men and women are “swell people”, according to second hand car sales men and women. Politicians “only interested in doing the right thing”, reports politician,” wrote one commenter. an associate professor of advertising at the University of Texas at Austin.

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And the IABC Canada conference workshop winner is…

Sherrilynne Starkie

And the winner is… Mike Reynolds who left this comment: “Survival. Last week this blog ran a competition to give a reader a chance to win a free ticket to an IABC 2012 Canada Business Summit preconference workshop. Always something I’m looking for.” A Survival Guide to the New Social Workspace. .