Book Review: Become a Better Writer Any book that contains the following paragraph pretty much has my vote: “Like electricity, paragraphs are often taken for granted until they’re absent.” In...
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So I spent this morning at the Social Media & PR Summit hosted by AMC Conferences at the Southern Sun OR Tambo, and spoke about writing for social media. More…
So there I was… Ignoring my pressing web copy deadline and fiddling about on Twitter. (Which is, I’ve realised, the exact opposite of minding your own business.) When I stumbled across…
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