by Cathy Miller | Jul 11, 2012
Businesses go to great lengths to protect their best secrets from competitors. Non-compete agreements threaten Proprietary information is omitted Business writing is full of deleted text What if you shared those secrets? Would disaster occur? Would your...
by Cathy Miller | Jun 27, 2012
If you had the opportunity for a five-year, estimated $60 million contract, would you go for it? Is that a rhetorical question? This is a sad tale of how bad business communication lost the potential sale. The Money’s in the Details Imagine my surprise when I...
by Cathy Miller | Jun 26, 2012
Once again, Facebook has made a change you probably don’t know about – unless you picked it up from the blogosphere. Do you think the people that run Facebook are bored? Are the new multi-millionaires looking for things to do? Facebook changed your default...
by Cathy Miller | Jun 25, 2012
We love to slam bad business writing. It’s bad, boring, and barely read all over It’s annoying, pretentious and useless Admit it. We all use business jargon – even the pro writers. Don’t think so? Look at some of the jargon that made the...
by Cathy Miller | Jun 20, 2012
The online world has gotten some seasoning. A recent Pew Research Center study reports that for the first time, half of adults ages 65 and older are online. Okay, maybe they’re not shoving their grandkids aside to hit the internet. But, Pew states their...
