How Social Media Delivers a False Sense of Security

Remember the good old days when you felt red-faced over a misrouted email? Today, the lack of security on what we post through social media can have a much more devastating effect. Under attack from a barrage of criticism over its privacy settings, Facebook announced a change in its privacy policies. A favorite saying of [...]

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Stand Out in a Crowd

With a name like Cathy Miller, it’s tough to stand out in a crowd of writers. Thanks to Carson Brackney who posted this fun way for me to give you a quick visual on my business life. If you want to create your own search stories, start here.

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How to Create a Community With Creativity

Creative Copy Challenge (CCC) is a shining example of the all the good things about social media communities. The brainchild of Shane Arthur, CCC underscores the theme of this blog – Keep it simple, clear & uniquely yours. Shane took a simple idea, created a clear set of instructions and the result is truly unique. [...]

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Is the Report of Email Death an Exaggeration?

Google “the death of email” and you receive approximately 44,700 results. Granted, some of those death notices deal more specifically with email marketing, but you get the idea. Fans of social media and instant messaging have predicted the death of email for some time now. So is email dying? It depends on what report you [...]

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Can Health Reform Deliver a CLASS Act?

It’s Health Care Tuesday over at my health care blog, Simply stated health care. The health reform law contained the not very publicized, Community Living Assistance Services and Supports Act (CLASS Act). It provides for a voluntary, national program for long-term care insurance. With our aging population, long-term care affects many of us. Read about [...]

 

Is it Medical Ghostwriting or Fraud?

A recent post at my health care blog reviewed a study on medical ghostwriting. As a ghostwriter myself, albeit, not a medical ghostwriter, there were several disturbing parts to this story. Snapshot of Story The subject of my post was an article published in PLoS Medicine that reviewed the medical ghostwriting policies of the top 50 academic medical [...]

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3 of the Biggest Copyright Misconceptions in Business Blogs

New business blogs start every day. You may think you understand copyright issues, but do you really? It’s a lot more complicated than you might think. I thought I understood it – hey, I went to college. I understand plagiarism. However, there is much more to copyright infringements than copying and pasting someone else’s writing [...]

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Is Medical Ghostwriting Harmful?

It’s Health Care Tuesday over at my health care blog, Simply stated health care. It discusses something I did not know a lot about – medical ghostwriting for academic medical centers. Medical ghostwriting refers to the hiring of writers, sponsored by pharmaceutical companies, to write articles under the byline of academic researchers. The authors of [...]

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Is Unique Business Writing an Oxymoron?

A recent online article in Inc., Why is Business Writing So Awful? received plenty of notice in the social media world. The author, Jason Fried, takes issue with the overworked, descriptive words used in business writing. Some of his examples may be on your Top 10 Worst list – value-added, full service solution. Business writing can certainly fall into [...]

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Business Emails Are Not Dead

So Don’t Let Bad Emails Kill Your Message Many predicted the death of business emails with the onset of social media. Not only has that not happened, but business emails have taken on new marketing strategy for social media users. That’s according to the View from the Social Inbox 2010, a report recently released by [...]

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