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BookRix, an online community connecting more than 150,000 writers, readers and authors has just launched  a new collaborative application, SocialBook.  It allows writers anywhere in the world to collaborate in building an online e-book from either their Facebook, Twitter or BookRix profiles, simply with connecting their accounts and including a specified #hashtag. It can be  saved, stored, shared and even embedded like a YouTube video, with real-time updates and no limit on the number of co-authors.
The BookRix SocialBook gives Facebook, Twitter and BookRix users an easy way to collect posts, …

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I can only wish that someday I might be able to write as well as Stephen Fry. Alas, I don’t hold out much hope.  Here’s an excellent video animation based on Stephen’s podcast.  I agree with most of what Stephen says here. But still, I can’t forgive too many apostrophe crimes.   Thank you  @canuckflack for the heads up on this.

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You know, not a week goes by that I don’t hear from someone who’s interested in getting a start in PR and is wondering what it’s all about.  So I thought it might be helpful to create a seminar that will answer many of the questions I hear time and again.
It occurred to me that we might as well, at the same time, offer some help and pointers for people in business who are not PR specialists but find themselves involved in doing PR for their employer or their own …

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For the last week, inspired by Kyle Flaherty, I’ve endeavored to follow a ‘one app at a time’ policy. That means I have one application open on my desktop any one time.  The idea is to try to cut down the noise and be more productive.
So TweekDeck stayed open only when I was using it.  If I was writing, only Word remained on my desktop.
So one week later, how is the experiment going?
It was a lot harder to do than I expected.  In fact, I found it almost impossible not …

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I was not shocked to read the headline City drops apostrophes from signs.
It just made me sad to read that the city of Birmingham, Britain’s second city, has decided not use the possesive apostrophe on signs in the future.  They say this decision will cut costs and avoid confusion.
Why am I sad? Because I love the English language!  I love its quirky rules and exceptions to those rules.  I love that everything is  not spelled phonetically.  I love that there are several meanings to some words, and several spellings …

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Jeff Pulver is encouraging us to take part in Blogday 2008 and I figure why not?  It’s a great way for us all to check out different blogs and maybe learn a thing or two.  So here are my five blogs (non-PR)  to celebrate BlogDay.
1. Special Little People provides aromatherapy products for children. Blogger Janine Wood shares how she uses scents in her own life as a mother.  She has a nice writing style and reveals quite a bit about herself and her life.
2. I love reading Dan Santow’s blog …