A couple weeks ago I wrote about looking to see what grade level you’re speaking at.
Here’s another neat tip for seeing your speech from another perspective: put it into a tag cloud:
Go to the website, paste your text into the text box, click “Visualize!”, and see your words in tag cloud format.
TagCrowd is just one of many sites offering this service for free. Go to Google and type “free tag cloud generator.”
"CYA" (cover your ass) is a great phrase for office life, but sometimes it has connotations of selfishness, like you're saying someone just wants to protect himself, he doesn't really care about the group or the company. Example: "That email was mostly CYA. He just...
I know a lot of you are working from home this week. It probably involves a lot of videoconferencing, which might feel a little strange, since it's probably a bit unfamiliar. I do a lot of videoconferencing, so here are three tips that might help. 1. Humans like...
---------- Forwarded message --------- From: matt@krauseenglish.com Date: XYZ Subject: CXO Letter sample To: xyz@xyz.com A favorite word that I've run across an unusual number of times in my readings this week is "slog." This word can be a noun or a verb, and using it...