Six Common Talking Mistakes

As much as we are taught to network in the business world, I find that people often make crucial errors when learning how to “work a room.”

Here are six of the most common ones:

1. Blabbermouthing. Talking too much. Going on and on without giving another person a turn. If you’re the one who hogs the talking platform you will soon frustrate others and they tune out the blabbermouth. If you are a blabbermouth who is wringing out the patience of other’s you will be labeled as such. Don’t be fooled. Just because your job requires you to speak for a living that everyone wants to hear your opinion on every subject. Professors, clergy, professional speakers who are all paid for a living pay special attention.

Are You Misusing These Words in Your LNC Writing?

I believe that educators have a difficult job enough without the incessant use of texting and tweeting shorthand invading their student’s writing. Recently a repost on NBC television did a study about how the average seventh grader uses several “texting language” rules in the papers they turn into their teachers. Things like “u” replaces the intended word “you”, also “2” instead of the word “two”. They also said the problem is not related to children alone, it is a problem with adults who will use texting shorthand in their emails as well as professional writing.

Personally, I know that often times I have caught myself using lower case “i” in an email instead of a capitol letter “I”. So let’s take a look at some of the words that Brian Clark, Founder of CopyBlogger identified as commonly misused words in his post: The Inigo Montoya Guide to 27 Commonly Misused Words He says that “some [words] are common mistakes that can cost you when trying to keep a reader’s attention. Others are more obscure and just interesting to know.

One Way to Solve Social Media Overload for Legal Nurse Consultants

For many entrepreneurs the social media playground has become just one more place of information overload — from RSS readers to Email to social networks, we’ve all got enormous amounts of data coming in at any given time, oftentimes from many different websites that demand your “immediate” attention. Several free and paid services have emerged in the last few years to try and tackle this problem.