On the overuse of exclamation points
Elmore Leonard advises, "You are allowed no more than two or three per 100,000 words of prose." For business email, even less.
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Elmore Leonard advises, "You are allowed no more than two or three per 100,000 words of prose." For business email, even less.
Just because we use Macs at Sterling doesn't mean people can't sniff out our packets (so to speak) on the road. Here are some best practices for using hotspots safely.
Fake software product wins 16 awards. "I should be delighted at this recognition of the quality of my software, except that the ’software’ doesn’t even run. This is hardly surprising when you consider that it is just a text file with the words “this program does nothing at all” repeated a few times and then renamed as an .exe."
Professionals pushing 40 and older are joining the college crowd on the social hub.
Today, Facebook's main professional value is "building social capital" among business contacts, says co-founder and vice-president of product engineering, Dustin Moskovitz. He's referring to the informal banter, such as through status updates and games with industry friends on the site, that can grease the wheels for interaction when work needs to get done.
And...
What's more, Facebook's world of pokes, spanks, and party photos can't hold a candle to LinkedIn's more professional milieu for executives who want to make connections, says Reid Hoffman, LinkedIn's co-founder, chairman, and president. "Many of the bloggers don't really understand the use case for LinkedIn," he says.
Still...
Hoffman admits that people are "piling on and taking a look around" Facebook. "If you're going to recruit college students, heck, I'd go to Facebook," he says. Given the flock of older professionals joining the Facebook crowd, before long it won't just be headhunters who have business to do there.
What group of professionals other than those in information technology calls its customers "users?" Drug dealers, for one. The Wall Street Journal takes to task those miscreants who pollute the ether with meaningless buzzwords. The paper's bloggers and commenters also hate "end-to-end," "scalable,' "agile," "space," "seamless" and many others — leaving writers with few banalities left to fluff up releases. A few brave souls defend "user," "ping" and "end-to-end" among others when employed in the proper circumstances. Blogs entries and news stories are generating more conversations about this.
