The experience held some useful lessons — both for us and, I hope,
for readers of this column.
Not exact matches
My recent
column on the importance
of establishing an ethos
of strong customer service that extends all the way from the CEO's office to the front lines touched a nerve
for some
readers.
But this Founding Father was also responsible
for first getting
readers hooked on one
of the most unsavoury, yet deliciously entertaining forms
of modern news: the gossip
column.
I've done this
for fundamentally the same reason that Spayd does in her
column — because an engaged, two - way relationship with
readers is one
of the few powerful tools that media entities have left.
For four years, Shel Horowitz's monthly Green And Profitable
column ran on three continents, illuminating
readers about profitable green business tactics (marketing and operations), profiling successful green companies, providing advice on issues from influencing government to saving tens
of thousands
of dollars.
A
reader of the «Catholic Sense»
column I write
for the Pittsburgh Catholic and a few other diocesan newspapers writes: I believe we Catholics could do much better at defending our faith.
As part
of our Bet Labs Mailbag
column, we ask
readers to submit sports betting system questions
for us to test with our Bet Labs software.
A
reader that day would have known only that the hometown Royals trailed first - place Cleveland by 19 games, though the more salient fact was that Kansas City was only one game back
of three teams in the loss
column in the race
for the wild - card playoff spot.
As regular
readers of this
column will know, this is one
of the easiest ways
for any player to increase their potential winnings.
After another weekend
of dismal football at Elland Road, watching a Leeds United team be outthought and outplayed
for the umpteenth time in recent memory, I thought my first
column for TIAT would be a simple lambasting
of the manager, something that previous
readers of my weekly outpourings in their previous incarnation on Clarke One Nil will have been quite used to.
Dear
Readers: The following column has been published many times, and a significant number of readers wrote to say it deserved to be run every Mother's Day: Dear Abby: My beloved mother passed away recently, so I called my minister and asked him for the wording of a prayer I could say for my
Readers: The following
column has been published many times, and a significant number
of readers wrote to say it deserved to be run every Mother's Day: Dear Abby: My beloved mother passed away recently, so I called my minister and asked him for the wording of a prayer I could say for my
readers wrote to say it deserved to be run every Mother's Day: Dear Abby: My beloved mother passed away recently, so I called my minister and asked him
for the wording
of a prayer I could say
for my mother.
An FYI to Houston
readers - I had a
column in the last issue (November 25, 2010)
of the Examiner newspapers making the case
for getting birthday treats out
of schools.
Scroll down the right - hand
column of any page on the site (
readers via RSS, you'll actually need to click through
for once)
for links to some old favorites, some new friends and a couple
of examples
of those man - if - only - people - had - listened moments.
Readers of Melissa Kite's Tamsin Lightwater
column for the Spectator - now, alas, defunct - will have noted that from time to time it gave a cameo role to David Davis.
This research, my knowledge
of and experience in career counseling, the questions from
readers in the Next Wave forums (especially the Ask Kathie forum that I moderated
for a couple
of years), my own personal history, and input and feedback from you will serve as my guide
for the type
of topics I will cover in this
column.
This month's
column is a «nutshell» version
of negotiation skills
for Tooling Up
readers, and it's a good topic
for technical professionals
of any stripe.
If you're an avid
reader of this
column (which you should be) you know that I always advocate
for thinking way outside
of the box to really wow your date.
We also have more on the horizon
for our LGTBQ
readers — don't miss the launch
of the new queer dating
column, written by Cosmo Christensen!
Yes, dear
readers, I must again apologize
for making you go so long between installments
of this
column.
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< And in our preparatory
column to last week's Issues on the Ether
column for our #EtherIssue live discussion, Bringing Tools
of the Trade to Self - Publishing, we askwed our
readers to talk with us about what tools entrepreneurial authors need most; to what degree those tools can be as much
of a burden as a help if they slow down writers with steep learning curves; how well the commercial world seems to be responding so far to the needs
of entrepreneurial authors; and what kind
of results they're seeing from their own experiences and experiments with new tools.
This month's Audio
column has something
for everyone: mystery lovers,
readers of inspiring memoirs and seekers
of exciting new voices in fiction.
She is the editor
of Voice in the Dark, a free monthly ezine featuring author interviews,
columns, articles, short fiction, and resources
for authors and
readers.
Can I use this ebook
reader for lots
of two or three
column artciles and tables with tiny letters.
A contributor to the Romance section
of Gale's What Do I Read Next, co-author
of Voice
of Youth Advocate's annual «Clueless: Adult Mysteries with Young Adult Appeal»
column, a reviewer
for Library Journal, and co-author
of The Mystery
Readers» Advisory: The Librarian's Clues to Murder and Mayhem (2001), Charles was named 2002 Librarian
of the Year by the Romance Writers
of America and names good chocolate and good books as two
of the world's great pleasures.
Miss Lonelyhearts starts innocently enough — a newspaper columnist is assigned to write an advice
column answering questions from the paper's
readers, «but as time passes he begins to break under the endless misery
of those who write in, begging him
for advice.»
For those who are missing EarlyWord «s daily book news coverage, there's a new resource in town, Library Journal «s «Book Pulse»
column by Neal Wyatt, with the goal to «help collection development and
readers» advisory librarians navigate the never - ending wave
of new books and book news.»
If you have an RSS
reader, be sure to subscribe to the RSS feed at the bottom
of the left
column for automatic updates whenever I add something new.
I made a horrifyingly tragic mistake in last week's
column about e-book
readers that may cost thousands
of lives and at least a couple hundred bucks
for some
of you.
WAC (Web Accessibility Center) provides a great example
of using table row and
column headers to make table data more «readable»
for screen
reader software at http://wac.osu.edu/tutorials/section508/datatables.htm.
Anderson's regular
readers at Thought Catalog have read his Music
for Writers series
of columns, with interviews
of some
of the most talented, intelligent, and important composers and performers today on the contemporary classical scene.
Comments — Ann Miner's link to Seattle Channel interview by Nancy Pearl with Paul Collins that wandered into a Kindle discussion at about 22 minutes (iTunes podcast link); Craig Scarberry's recommendation
of the excellent Books on the Nightstand podcast; Jean Remple on OCTO covers (more on covers here and here); Ann Miner with a good idea
for Amazon; Marcy MacKenzie on a meetup with Bob Cope; an Amazon PR spokesman confirms the Facebook post stating that «a better way to organize your Kindle libraries» is coming; Jim Jones links to the Cushing Academy
of Canada - Sony
Reader style; Tom Lichty links to a charming coming -
of - Kindle - age
column by Margie Boulé in The Oregonian; Kevin Warner, a new Kindle owner from Down Under; Len Charnoff's tutorial video on Inkmesh; audio comments from Pastor Mark Pierce
of Church Requel and Bob Lee.
One real pet peeve
for me is how very many ebooks do something really stupid with tabular, columnar data: Many
of them (and many word processors and publication / layout programs) store tables and
columns as — bitmapped images, ruining any possibility
of using or enlarging the text beyond a certain point, killing it
for speech
readers, killing the «text» nature and searchable nature
of it too.
The only real negative I can find with the various zooming options is that there isn't a
column mode like with PocketBook's ereaders and the Sony
Readers, which both will go from the bottom left corner
of a page to the upper right
for the next
column, whereas the Icarus Excel just continues to page down, requiring one to manually use the stylus or the nav controller to pan to the top right
for the next
column.
For a seemingly obscure topic, my recent
column on Locked - In Retirement Accounts attracted a surprising number
of reader queries, some
of which we answer below.
Why designlovefest is a Top Home Decor Blog: The small - scale redesigns and inspiration found in the «Weekend at Home»
column are great
for readers who are looking to upgrade their decor without dedicating all
of their time to a project.
I've been a longtime
reader of your
columns (back to RealMoney) and have a lot
of respect
for your opinion as an investor and analyst, particularly your insights into insurance companies.
Jeremy M. Simon: In honor
of 100th
column, Jeremy M. Simon's 3 favorite credit scoring questions —
For my 100th
column addressing
reader questions on credit scores and reports, I've taken a look back at some
of emails that most surprised, challenged or amused me.
Your veterinarian will be your best advisor, but
for additional information,
readers of this
column are welcomed to request a copy
of the brochure, Feline Vaccines: Benefits and Risks, by sending a self - addressed stamped envelope to: Cornell Feline Health Center, Cornell University College
of Veterinary Medicine, Ithaca, New York 14853 - 6401.
When I received parrot behavior questions from
readers (to answer
for my national newspaper
column) Liz was one
of my go - to people.
Regular
readers of this
column will have noticed that,
for several years now, I have avoided writing about our industry's elephant in the room.
He writes «Speaking
of Credit,» a weekly
reader Q&A
column about credit scoring and rebuilding credit,
for CreditCards.com.
Her
column on games and fashion
for Paste Magazine is not only refreshingly unique in a discourse often obsessed with graphics and gameplay, Jackson also approaches her
readers — and her listeners on the Match 3 podcast — with a characteristic insight and charm that leave the rest
of us feeling like we're slacking off in our own critiques.
However, any integrity he may possess is
for me squandered by the patina
of condescension, the Word -
of - God certainty and strained patience towards the unenlightened
reader that his
columns often express, almost as if he dares his audience test his forbearance through disagreement.
That means something much more substantial than $ 4 a gallon
for gasoline (American
readers of this
column should realize that their «high» gas prices are amongst the lowest in the industrial world — we Canadians» too).
Letting our imagination run riot, the same factor
of 2 is arrived at via De Moivre's theorem exp (ix) = cos (x) + i sin (x) but that might be too complex
for this blog — when I wrote to Martin Gardner in the mid-1970s to complain that his Scientific American
column neglected complex numbers he wrote back to say they were a tad too complex
for his Scientific American
readers.)
For new
readers, please dig into the archives, which you can peruse by date and by topic in the left hand
column of this site.
[A summary
of some
of the recent peer - reviewed literature is provided at the end
of this
column for readers wanting to dig deeper.]
Many, if not most
of its blog post categories and range
of columns are consistent with my extended focus
of interest and I hope to be able to look to many Slaw contributors and
readers for articles and advice that will help ensure that Modern Legal Practice (the journal) continues to grow in influence and popularity.
Being the youngest sitter
of the victim Wade Andriashek, the people writting the
columns and
for the
readers... lets remeber that there is a little boy that has no parents, and why?