From the category archives:

Situation Communication

It happens to everyone. You’re in the elevator with three other people and you have no idea what you should do. Should you chat it up with the people around you? Should you look at people and smile? Or maybe you should pull out your smartphone and make that business call you’ve needed to make for the last three days. Regardless of the situation you’re in, there are certain rules that should be adhered to when it comes to communicating with people.

Successful communication dictates that a person should know these rules; it’s that simple. If, like many people, you don’t have a clue what to do when you walk into certain situations, then rest easy, you’re in the right place. This portion of our blog will cover different communications strategies for every situation. Do you want to know what people think about your lip piercing and sleeve tattoos? Maybe you need to decide whether or not that diamond ring your boyfriend gave you is a signal that he’s interested in a more committed relationship. If any of these things intrigue you, then read on because this is where you learn to communicate in any situation.

So you’re in a bar, you’ve been flirting with this cute blond for approximately 46 seconds, and by flirting I mean you’ve summed up all your courage to say “hi”, and by summed your courage I mean consumed 8 Jager Bombs.  Suddenly you get the tap on your shoulder, you turn around and there he [...]

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How to Tell Someone is Lying

by Dan on October 20, 2010

My favorite scene from the 1993 film True Romance is when Sicilian gangster Vincent Coccotti, played by none other than Christopher Walken, pays a little visit to Clifford Worley, played by the late great Dennis Hopper, looking for the whereabouts of Clarence Worley, played by Christian Slater.  The interrogation begins with Walken delivering one of [...]

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The joke goes, “How do you keep an Italian from speaking? You tie up his hands.” While Italians are indeed very expressive with their hands when they speak, most human beings can’t go through a single conversation with peppering it with plenty of hand gestures. People talking on the phone, will use [...]

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The expression goes, “It’s not what you say, but how you say it.”  And while this is very true, an even truer statement would be “It’s not what you say or how you say it, but what your body is doing.”  The words we speak convey only 7% of our intended message.  How we say [...]

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These days, most business communication is done by email. As such, workers are spending a large chunk of their day reading and writing emails. Though it is a universal and popular medium to use, that doesn’t necessarily mean it’s always being used right, and careless mistakes can lead to very serious consequences. Just like companies [...]

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How to Create a Good Time Capsule

by admin on March 17, 2010

Creating a time capsule is the ultimate scrapbook, it’s like having multiviewer technology displaying the important moments of your life that can then be shared with future generations. As the world presses forward with triumph and technology, the past slips away into oblivion unless we can capture the moment and preserve it forever.
Technology is doubling [...]

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Cloud computing is taking the tech world by storm. While the idea of cloud computing has existed as far back as the 1960s, it was only in recent years that Internet technology caught up with the underlying concepts. Basically, cloud computing is a means of putting all of a company’s documents and software in a [...]

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Funny Taxi Cab Confessions

by admin on March 15, 2010

Anything goes in the back of a taxi cab. As soon as the meter starts clicking, this is your designated space to call your own for better or for worse. The seasoned taxi driver has seen it all, with cab stories to rival the ranting of bartenders, hairdressers and even the psychiatric couch. The back [...]

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A Domain Name Generator Evaluation

by admin on March 8, 2010

Like beachfront property, it seems like all the good domain names have already been gobbled up by someone else. While some of us are creative and can come up with a snazzy domain name, others may need a bit of help. That’s where domain name generators come into play. A domain name generator is a [...]

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High-performance collaboration environments are critical to today’s complex, distributed projects. Managing one does not have to be difficult if the following advice is heeded. Firstly, try to minimize initial costs. Over-taxing your budget can kill your managing efforts from the get-go. Try not to spend thousands of dollars on an initial system with possibly unpredictable [...]

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