DAKrólak sur Twitter : "RT @SBastiaensens Online hndbk on #socialmedia 4 #researchers & supervisors: free download via. Innovate-open-university-social-media-handbook-vitae-2012. Language and Writing. Mapping the Demographics of American English with. « previous post | next post » [This is a guest post by David Bamman.] It took me a while to really make sense of Twitter. For the longest time, it was (to me) the stomping ground of 14-year-olds and Ashton Kutcher, each issuing a minute-by-minute feed of their lives. Around the time Twitter arrived, however, I had just had a breakthrough on YouTube's enormous popularity – it was only after watching a dozen different videos of the Super Mario Brothers theme song performed a dozen different ways that I finally got it: I may not care about cats playing the keyboard or wedding parties dancing down the aisle, but somebody does, and without a distribution system for people to broadcast whatever their hearts felt like, I never would have had my life improved by that kid with the beatboxing flute or the one with the double guitar.
So I waited for a similar breakthrough with Twitter. To say Twitter is colloquial is putting it lightly. Inducing language demographics Geography Age and gender Permalink. Why is Business Writing So Awful? What's bad, boring, and barely read all over?
Business writing. If you could taste words, most corporate websites, brochures, and sales materials would remind you of stale, soggy rice cakes: nearly calorie free, devoid of nutrition, and completely unsatisfying. One of my favorite phrases in the business world is full-service solutions provider. A quick search on Google finds at least 47,000 companies using that one. That's full-service generic. Who writes this stuff? Media Relations 101 for Your Startup. First off, you do not need a PR firm.
The retainer is usually not worth it, especially for a young, growing startup because your product is still drastically changing and because your conversion rates are probably very low. As a startup that is looking to innovate in your industry, it usually does not make any sense for you to allow someone else to communicate your vision. PR firms do not always get it. Even with stellar communication skills, only you and your core team really understand the message and the vision. Danny Wong is the co-founder and lead evangelist of Blank Label, a provider of custom dress shirts. If you are a first-timer at PR, start small so you do not burn any important bridges (but be aware that every bridge counts). Here are some pieces of advice that will get you featured more often. Speak Their Language and be Concise As in all communications practices, you want to make sure that your audience can understand what you are saying without thinking too much.
9/11 link to rise in male foetal death rate, study sa. The stress caused by the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center may have led to an increase in miscarriages of male foetuses, US researchers say.
A study in BMC Public Health found 12% more male babies were lost in September 2001 after the 20th week of pregnancy than in a "normal" September. Data says fewer boys were born in all states three to four months after 9/11. The review by the University of California, Irvine, is said to support the theory of "communal bereavement". This is defined as acute mental distress related to a major national event, like 9/11, even if there is no direct connection to those who died or were involved in these events.
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Sam Falk/New York Times Co. /Getty Images Image credit: Michael Sorkin, an architect and critic, and Sharon Zukin, an urban sociologist, have each written what they describe as books about contemporary New York City—but that’s putting things far too broadly. Zukin’s Naked City does make forays into the white-hot center of hipness, Brooklyn’s Williamsburg, and to rapidly gentrifying Harlem. Philip Zimbardo shows how people become monsters ... or heroes. In Village Restaurants, the Spirit of Old New York. Your Book as a Database (Part 2) Against The Machine: Being Human In The Age of The Electronic Mo.
The author makes the most of 182 pages through sociological critique of internet culture through his noted ability to debate and offer critical thought.
I received a free copy of this book from a Search Engine Strategies expo during his presentation there a year ago, so I figured to give this small book a big whirl of a review. Siegel challenges claims from many well known Internet boosters that the Internet fosters free choice & debate. Instead, he says, there has been an assimilation of culture that hampers debate and encourages only a superficial treatment of choice and originality. The results have been obscured by marketplace values, Siegel writes: “The internet’s assimilation to a familiar economic idiom is why its more disturbing and destructive side has been obscured…”
Your Book as a Database: A Primer.