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		<title>Thank Your Favorite English Teacher!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2011 16:19:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gail Tycer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I hope everyone reading today&#8217;s entry will take a moment to drop a note or call to thank your favorite English teacher. Without him or her none of us would be where we are today. So bless that English teacher for giving us the sound, solid basic writing skills that have helped us so very [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gailtycer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8673198&amp;post=159&amp;subd=gailtycer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 19:44:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gail Tycer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If I could give you an easy way to be more productive in your working life, would it be worth a try? Recently-published research from Stanford University (Ophir, Wagner and Nass) indicates that people who identified themselves as high multitaskers did not do as well at filtering irrelevant information, organizing memories, or switching from one [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gailtycer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8673198&amp;post=126&amp;subd=gailtycer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Advice for Bloggers &#8211; Rule #5: Be patient, but active.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 May 2010 02:57:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gail Tycer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week, we’re welcoming back blogger Marilyn Tycer. Marilyn is a graphic designer and blogger, and we’ve asked her to share some of her tips for bloggers. (Click for Rule #1, Rule #2, Rule #3 and Rule#4). Advice for Bloggers: Rule #5 Be patient, but be active. Runners do something called “active recovery”—after a long [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gailtycer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8673198&amp;post=122&amp;subd=gailtycer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Advice for Bloggers &#8211; Rule #4: Take it seriously.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Apr 2010 04:49:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gail Tycer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week, we’re welcoming back blogger Marilyn Tycer. Marilyn is a graphic designer and blogger, and we’ve asked her to share some of her tips for bloggers. (Click for Rule #1, Rule #2 and Rule #3). Advice for Bloggers: Rule #4 Take it seriously (but don’t let it take over your life). Blogging is a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gailtycer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8673198&amp;post=120&amp;subd=gailtycer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Advice for Bloggers &#8211; Rule #3: Be Original</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2010 04:26:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gail Tycer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week, we’re welcoming back blogger Marilyn Tycer. Marilyn is a graphic designer and blogger, and we’ve asked her to share some of her tips for bloggers. (Click for Rule #1 and Rule #2). Advice for Bloggers: Rule #3 Be original. [Image source] While we live in an era where everything seems to be up [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gailtycer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8673198&amp;post=118&amp;subd=gailtycer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Advice for Bloggers &#8211; Rule #2: Be a Team Player</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2010 05:21:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gail Tycer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week, we’re welcoming back blogger Marilyn Tycer. Marilyn is a graphic designer and blogger, and we’ve asked her to share some of her tips for bloggers. Advice for Bloggers: Rule #2 Be a team player. [Image source] The blogging world is not a one way street. Take advantage of all that blogs can offer [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gailtycer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8673198&amp;post=114&amp;subd=gailtycer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Blogger Tip #1: Make it readable</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Apr 2010 01:57:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gail Tycer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week, we&#8217;re welcoming blogger Marilyn Tycer. Marilyn is a graphic designer and blogger, and we&#8217;ve asked her to share some of her tips for bloggers. Tip #1: Make it readable. Now that you have a subject for your blog, and some ideas for posts, what comes next? Start typing! But it’s important to take [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gailtycer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8673198&amp;post=112&amp;subd=gailtycer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Good manners, good email</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Mar 2010 06:40:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gail Tycer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Consider the tone of your message.  Tone is the relationship the writer sets up with the reader.  Even though email is a friendly medium, it’s tough to make humor (especially humor clothed in sarcasm) or tongue-in-cheek comments work in email, and it’s best to avoid them.  Also avoid personal comments about others, or knee-jerk emotional [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gailtycer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8673198&amp;post=110&amp;subd=gailtycer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>And the subject is…</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 01:48:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“But if you don’t use a subject line, people will be so curious they’ll be sure to open it.”  Would you believe a lot of people have believed this old nonsense &#8211; much to their dismay?  The truth is that a bad, or absent subject line is far more likely to result in a trashed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gailtycer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8673198&amp;post=106&amp;subd=gailtycer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Avoid email disaster</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 02:52:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gail Tycer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The job of effective business mail is (1) to get read, (2) to get results, and (3) to avoid disaster &#8211; not necessarily in that order! Let&#8217;s begin with a few ideas for avoiding disaster&#8230; Many companies and organizations have developed their own specific email policies. First step: To avoid your own personal on-the-job disaster, learn, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gailtycer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8673198&amp;post=103&amp;subd=gailtycer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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