Category: Communication

Regardless of what kind of business you are operating, publicity is going to be the key to your successful business, products or services. Press releases are a one page story about your business or an event that is occurring or perhaps has occurred. Press released are generally submitted to a wide variety of media groups […]

It is not uncommon to develop friendly relationships with the people that you work with. After all, if you work a full-time office job, you probably see these people as much if not more than you see your own family on most days! However, you have to make sure that you don’t jeopardize your job […]

Regardless of where you are or what you do, chances are at some point or another you’ll have to speak in front of a group. It could be a small group of managers that you have to pitch your idea to, or it might be an auditorium full of classmates that you have to read […]

We’ve all seen television shows or read books where the hero has no trouble talking with the aliens. No matter how they speak, or what language they use, his “Universal Translator€ handles it with ease. But is this science fiction writer’s stock-in-trade something that could be real? After all, at one time the airplane, the […]

Do you get piles of junk mail in your mailbox every day? Do you wonder how you get all of that junk mail? You have never heard of most of those places that send you advertisements, so how did they find you? You don’t even have to order anything through the mail to get on […]

Sign Language, or technically,”American Sign Langauge”, or “ASL”, is a universally-used language all its own. It is most commonly thought to be used as an effective way to communicate with deaf people. While that is probably its primary use and purpose, think about the other ways that Sign Language is used to communicate in everyday […]

Few would argue that the most ideal way to learn a foreign language would be equal parts of total immersion and formal classroom instruction. Being forced to handle everyday tasks in the new language reinforces the classroom drills in a way that manufactured language tapes cannot. But spending a few years in China to grasp […]

Even if you thought that your poetry would never make it out of the box in the closet, chances are you may have at least one chance to read your poetry in public. Poetry contest winners are often asked to read their winning works at conventions or special readings. Coffeeshops and cultural art centers may […]

Thank you; two simple words and yet they can hold so much feeling when someone has offered us help, comfort, or love. Sometimes we struggle for a special way to show someone just how grateful we are. Thank you notes are nice but what do you do when the occasion seems to call for something […]

Have you ever been out and about and been stopped abruptly by someone needing driving directions? How about not knowing the whereabouts enough yourself to give adequate direction? Giving driving directions doesn’t really require you to be articulate and totally knowledgable all of the time about the towns that you may be traveling in. There […]