Recent Posts Tagged With 'humour'

• 10 tips for talking to GOM*: Tip Five

  Posted on Tuesday January 5th, 2010 at 13:43 in communication, affiliate marketing, work from home, Marketing, humour, Strategy, customer service, Network Marketing, tools, pr, business communication, value

  Watch out! There’s a Grumpy Old Man about! Ok, so we have looked at four tips so far; what else could you possibly need to know about us old curmudgeons that would make prising the dollars out of our wallets a bit easier for you? [tips one, two, ...

• A picture saying ‘Sorry’

  Posted on Monday January 4th, 2010 at 01:58 in communication, humour, customer service, Management, pr, business communication, picture, sorry, clippings, nonverbal communication, gaffe, unintended

  There are quite a few ways that one can ‘read’ the text in this photo, only one of which I’m sure was the intended communication. It’s good that your staff show initiative, but ensure that someone not caught up in the emotion of the moment ...

• 10 tips for talking to GOM*: Tip Four

  Posted on Thursday December 31st, 2009 at 13:18 in health, communication, Marketing, humour, Strategy, customer service, tools, pr, business communication, ethics, clippings, grumpy

  Watch out! There’s a Grumpy Old Man about! Somehow I got sidetracked from going past three tips on how to talk to old curmudgeons like me (you can find tips one, two and three in my November 2009 archives). But I am determined to finish this ...

• 10 tips for talking to GOM: Tip Three

  Posted on Thursday November 5th, 2009 at 23:48 in humor, communication, Marketing, humour, Rant, customer service, tools, conversation, pr, business communication, ethics, clippings

  Watch out! There's a Grumpy Old Man about! I blogged about this earlier, but at the request of a couple of emailers, here’s the third of 10 ‘clues’ you need to ‘get’ if you want to engage meaningfully with curmu...

• 10 tips for talking to GOM: Tip Two

  Posted on Wednesday November 4th, 2009 at 23:22 in humor, communication, Marketing, humour, Rant, customer service, tools, conversation, pr, business communication, ethics, grumpy old man

  Watch out! There's a Grumpy Old Man about! I blogged about this earlier, but at the request of a couple of emailers, here’s the second of 10 ‘clues’ you need to ‘get’ if you want to engage meaningfully with curm...

• 10 tips for talking to GOM: Tip One

  Posted on Tuesday November 3rd, 2009 at 23:20 in humor, communication, Marketing, humour, Rant, customer service, conversation, pr, business communication, ethics, grumpy old man, converse

  Watch out! There's a Grumpy Old Man about! I blogged about this earlier, but at the request of a couple of emailers, here’s the first of 10 ‘clues’ you need to ‘get’ if you want to engage meaningfully with curmu...

• Skribe is Famous » Windows7

  Posted on Sunday October 25th, 2009 at 05:19 in Marketing, humour, Microsoft, pr, business communication, adelaide, clippings, adelaide hills, windows7, skribe, business ultimate

  My mate Skribe is famous – watch the video below for the microsecond (at 15 seconds into the vid) that his name pops up in a tweet. As he says, Blink and you’ll miss the tweet sent to me. BTW Microsoft, send me a copy of ultimate please. Just c...

• I know what they mean but is it legal?

  Posted on Friday August 21st, 2009 at 02:02 in Marketing, humour, image, words, confusion, sign, clippings, signage, nonverbal communication

  I saw this writing on one of the blacked out windows of a prominent Adelaide auctioneer and had to laugh. I’ve tried selling my stepkids on eBay but there are apparently laws against it…...

• Thought for the day : watch your spellink

  Posted on Thursday August 13th, 2009 at 22:07 in communication, Marketing, humour, tools, grammar, business communication, lifehack, Housekeeping, mistake, spelling, proof read, proof check

  What, indeed, IS a shoe car?...

• Thought for the day: Always proof read

  Posted on Tuesday August 11th, 2009 at 07:56 in humour, tools

  Always proof read carefully so you don’t any words out....

• From the ‘Time to buy a lottery ticket’ Department - Man versus Shark

  Posted on Saturday May 9th, 2009 at 20:16 in humour

  Man falls into ocean after trying to swat shark. News reaches your humble correspondent that swatting a shark can be dangerous to your psychological health but good news if you are looking for reasons to purchase a lottery ticket… A fisherman...

• Question: Is there such a thing as…

  Posted on Wednesday April 8th, 2009 at 20:34 in woman, women, humour, miscellaneous, feminine, elegant, graceful, yummy mummy, ruby's cafe, yummy grandmummy

  We all know about “yummy mummies”, but can you have a “yummy grandmummy?”...

• Twitter to blame for collapse of 1st world economy

  Posted on Thursday March 26th, 2009 at 19:26 in humor, humour, Economy, joke, twitter, gdp, dow jones, april fool, micro-blogging, social media mafia, omar ha

  Policy experts predict a Twitter moratorium may be declared for Summer 2009 as part of an effort to stimulate economic production and reverse GDP declines...

• Twitter case study: part deux

  Posted on Wednesday March 4th, 2009 at 17:57 in Marketing, humour, pr, road trip, oregon, roadtrip, twitter, coos bay, microblogging, allan jenkins, micro-blogging, coosbay

  Perhaps Allan and I might stay for TWO cups of tea, then…...

• Ahhh… memories! THE best recruitment vid ever

  Posted on Tuesday March 3rd, 2009 at 19:03 in Marketing, fun, happy, humour, youth, tools, pr, joy, Videoblog, recruit, clippings, harvey danger

  Such exuberance, such energy, such humour. Wonderful. Thanks @sarahthomas...

• Be a Social Media Guru in a mere 24 hours!

  Posted on Tuesday February 17th, 2009 at 10:27 in humor, Marketing, humour, Secrets, social media, ethics, expert, guru, chris brogan, doug firebaugh

  Courtesy of a tweet from Chris Brogan comes a truly amazing story from Doug Firebaugh on how to be a social media ‘expert’ in a mere 24 hours!...

• Something smells fishy to me…

  Posted on Monday February 16th, 2009 at 18:01 in google, humour, search engine ranking, seo secrets, tuna casserole, glenn murray, @divinewrite

  Even after years of running this blog, my post on tuna casserole is STILL figuring high in my ‘most visited pages’ list...

• Beware people who miss their flights

  Posted on Sunday February 15th, 2009 at 20:38 in humour, customer service, pr, lifehack, nonverbal communication

  No matter what you do, when you do it, someone will take a video of it with their cell phone....

• Twitter is a lot older than we thought

  Posted on Sunday February 15th, 2009 at 20:20 in humor, humour, tools, parody, twitter, richard, pastiche, warbbler

  Twitter has a much longer heritage, arising as it has from earlier centuries of micro-literature, gossip and scurrilous scandal...

• The client brief – and why suicide is an option!

  Posted on Thursday January 8th, 2009 at 00:37 in humor, communication, video, humour, Videoblog, brief, clients, nonverbal communication, shel holtz

  A brilliant video courtesy of Shel Holtz on what happens when a simple communication project for a client gets additional ‘suggestions’ from others in the client corporation. Superb! null - Watch more free videos As Shel says, watch it and try ...