Boo to this "online reputation manager"

Same deal as the previous post about The Washington Post…same exact mistake. Xxx.com is a reputation management company that is dedicated to using proven strategies to improve their clients’ reputation. They have recently launched their new website on...

Kudos to The Washington Post

I was just reading the first couple of sentences in a Washington Post article by Ben Terris. The first sentence looked like this: For half a century, the out-of-power party has used their response to the State of the Union address to capitalize on the dregs of...

Is "Done better than perfect"?

Is “done” really better than “perfect”? I was at a conference for professional speakers last weekend. The presenter was an accomplished speaker with serious chops. The kind of man who you really admire, someone who is a real role model. For speakers, at any rate, he’s...

Open to suggestions!

Hi everyone! I was looking at this famous speaker’s website, and on the page about his speaking, there’s a typo. It’s the all-to-common mistake, using everyday for every day. I’ve talked about this before, but I’m continuing to see so...

Helloooo, NSA!

Well, what a hot diggity thrill it is to have an article published in Speaker magazine. (Fellow grammar geeks, that’s a lowercase “m” in “magazine”: It’s Speaker magazine, not Speaker Magazine, according to the magazine cover.) My...

What editors read.

As it happens, most all of my pleasure reading has to do with the research I’m doing, am going to do, or want to do, so, not surprisingly, these titles are practical while being fun and challenging, if you know what I mean. Here’s what is on my bedside...