Archive for the ‘Communicating’ Category

Junk Email of the Day — Mister Softee Edition

Monday, April 19: I know what has hap­pened to your sex­ual life. This cruel dis­as­ter is called im­po­tence. Um, I think the Chinese, Haitians and Chileans would dis­agree with what you con­sider a ‘dis­as­ter’. Bonus email! Sexual im­po­tence in men is one of the most poorly ex­plored med­ical im­pair­ments. Yes, there are only three med­ica­tions for this on […]

My name is Bonnie and I am a Blogcrastinator

Life some­times throws you curve balls, but lately I feel like I’m a bat­ter in a base­ball game from hell. Work and vol­un­teer com­mit­ments, not to men­tion lousy February and Smarch weather, have made me feel ex­hausted, lethar­gic and crummy all over. Let’s face it — we all go through ruts. Well, this one is hap­pily com­ing to an end. Spring […]

You took the words right out of my mouth

Last month, I wrote a press re­lease for a fundraiser a friend of mine is or­ga­niz­ing, which will take place on January 19. As the date of the event nears, we’ve been try­ing to get the word out through me­dia pitches, so­cial net­work­ing sites and word-of-mouth mar­ket­ing. Any ex­po­sure or me­dia at­ten­tion is more than wel­come. Today, a free­lance journalist […]

If you can’t say any­thing nice…then just shut up

Earlier this week, my friend Catherine posted a Tweet about her mother’s new web­site. It was a ges­ture from a lov­ing and proud daugh­ter — this was her mother’s first foray into so­cial net­work­ing and Catherine wanted to give the web­site a lit­tle ex­po­sure. The re­sponses from Catherine’s fol­low­ers on Twitter and Facebook were wel­com­ing, kind and gra­cious. I re­mem­ber how […]

Is that a sand­wich in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?

When I was in university, I took a few feminist-driven courses. In one of the classes, we were shown a pre­sen­ta­tion on sex­ism and misog­yny in ad­ver­tis­ing. Open up any fash­ion mag­a­zine, we were told, and re­ally LOOK at each im­age. Why is that women naked and sur­rounded by fully clothed, men­ac­ing men? Why is that model on her knees? […]

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