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No Reply At All

October 4, 2010

One more small thing that annoys me… people who put out an email asking me a question (like why I’m not using their network/ service) and then use a noreply@whatever.com as an email address. Do you see the problem with this? Have you experienced this yourself? Doesn’t this feel like an irritating sales call you’d be happy [...]

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Email Bankruptcy

July 7, 2010

Amanda at BloggerBuster declared email bankruptcy in May this year. She is trying to bring her site back to life after taking a break for several months. It is a chore to catch up and revamp and find out what you didn’t keep up with while you were ignoring your blog awhile. She decided not [...]

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Add a Blog Review to your Email Signature

May 28, 2010

Another reason to get someone to give your blog a fabulous review: promotion of your blog in your email or web forum signature. Email signatures are very underused. Even my own just has the bare essentials with links to this site and thatgrrl.ca which is part landing page and part shop of curiousities for me. [...]

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No More Newsletters, Please!

May 20, 2010

I’ve been trying to clean newsletters out of my email inbox. There are far more than I can ever even want to read. I don’t want to try reading any of them at this point. The sad thing is that a few of them I used to read all the time and would still enjoy [...]

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May Day Phishing

May 1, 2010

Kind of appropriate to write about phishing on May 1st, May Day to Pagans and a distress call from aircrafts and ships. My Mother was tricked into giving her email password out to a phishing scam at Yahoo. They had sent her several emails claiming to be Yahoo. When they sent one which said “final [...]

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The Long and Short of It

January 17, 2010

Try a One Sentence story. I met a dwarf on the longest day of the year but only had a short friendship before I lost his email address.

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Short, Clever and all Too Very True

November 26, 2009

In the first two years of our children’s lives we teach them how to walk and talk. For the next 16 years we tell them to “Sit down and shut up”. I love irony when it’s clever. This came from an email someone had sent my Mother yesterday. As a writing exercise take some time [...]

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Bring Back the Ezines?

August 14, 2009

Should ezines make a comeback? Although an ezine can use content management systems (blog software) it is the format and style which make them different. An ezine is an online magazine. They don’t need to be published daily, they don’t need to be the work of just one person and they can have various sections [...]

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Mad Barking Dogs on Blogs

July 4, 2009

It’s almost like some people don’t want you to comment on their blog or site at all. When they ask you to register, that’s a big red flag waving at me right away. You want me to hand over my email address before I even know if I like your site? I just wanted to [...]

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Generic Salutations

May 13, 2009

“Guys, come check this out…” Some people dislike that kind of generic greeting; some people (like my Mother) are offended by it actually. After all, roughly half the population of the planet are not guys. It’s also a very casual way to address someone, unless you know them quite well. There aren’t a lot of [...]

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Don’t Start in a Weak Moment

January 21, 2009

Don’t start your day with one of your weaknesses. Whatever your time wasting addiction happens to be, put it on the back burner. Don’t fall into the trap of playing a little online game or nine while you wait for the coffee to brew. Don’t just check a little email while your hair dries from [...]

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What Goes With Carrot and Creamcheese?

March 11, 2008

You’re on Planet Carrot. They worship the carrot and it is their main industry and export. The people are even orange skinned and haired. You’re having a hard time feeling as dedicated to the carrot feeling as they are. In order to prove your worthiness you are told to come up with a recipe for [...]

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Make it a Chain Letter Day

February 5, 2008

For some reason you’ve been dared to write a viral email, one of those chain letters. What do you write? How serious do you make it or do you make it fun and upbeat, or sarcastic rather than truly evil?

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I’m So Tired…

November 24, 2007

I’m so tired…. If I fell into a vat of quicksand I’d be ok with it as long as it’s warm quicksand. If I fall down I know I’m not getting back up and I don’t care. The sensible, left side of my brain has been asleep six hours already. I’m sure I’m only dreaming [...]

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You Need a PIM

November 20, 2006

Do you remember that woman you emailed about writing that article? You know, the one you met on that website the other night. Remember, she had that really cool email address, you were sure it would be easy to remember, it’s on the tip of your pen… if only you had kept track of that [...]

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Handling Fanmail

July 10, 2006

I started reading “Guerrilla Marketing for Writers”. One thing that struck me as was this: “You can show your involvement with your fans by being cordial when you contact them, by being helpful to them, and by asking about them.” Almost no one does that any more in the great big, fast, condensed world of [...]

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The Email Subject Line

July 3, 2006

Lovely, luscious readers, tonight I have two, count them, two great, sensational, momentous ideas for you! Can you tell I’m kind of enthusiastic tonight? !! Too much coffee I fear. But it was GOOD coffee! Anyway, idea number one. Next time you need to write a short bio for yourself pick up a magazine. Have [...]

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