I sat in on an interesting webinar thrown by the 60-second marketer. The presenter gave these anologies for our favorite social media marketing sites. Facebook is like a pub, an informal place where people get together, hoist a beer and shoot the breeze. LinkedIn is like a Tradeshow – very business-like, watch your language, dress [...]
October 2009
It’s almost on us again: National Novel Writing Month – – do you have what it takes to join NaNoWriMo, the fun “seat-of-your-pants” approach to novel writing? Here’s the deal, per the NaNoWriMo site: Participants begin writing November 1. The goal is to write a 175-page (50,000-word) novel by midnight, November 30.
MSNBC had an interesting article on the use of less-than-perfect grammar for Web copywriting. The trick, the article says is "balancing proper grammar with a conversational tone." Since consumers need to relate to your message, write in the same conversational tone you’d use if you were hanging out at Starbucks with your ideal customer. What [...]
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