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Recommended Resources: For all those who love MUSIC... we have chosen our very favourite TED talks that relate to the enjoyment, demonstration, performances of various music. Bored of what you normally listen to? - this will fix that !! Totally different and very enlightening.  Let us know if you enjoy them :) https://www.ted.com/talks/cynthia_erivo_natural_woman_and_johnny_and_donna https://www.ted.com/talks/the_debut_of_the_british_paraorchestra https://www.ted.com/talks/camille_a_brown_new_second_line https://www.ted.com/talks/sauti_sol_the_rhythm_of_afrobeat ~~ Visit the Brummet's @:  http://BrummetMedia.ca ~~

13 Content Writing Tips To Improve Your Website Copy  * Written by Judy Karimi Mboroki - a content creating advisor at Kenyan based company: ArdentWriters.com   She is also a freelance writer with experience in website, article and blog content writing genres.  Good content for your website will earn you more shares, earn back links for your page and earn the trust of your visitors. We are in an age where capturing a reader's attention is challenging. People are spending fewer seconds on pages than they did before. To beat this, one must give visitors good content that can be optimized for the web and hold a reader's attention. These tips will help you give your content the attention it deserves. Before you get down to writing, who are you targeting with your content? What audience are you trying to reach? The primary audience is your clients while your secondary audience is anyone else who may need your services later. Make your content accessible and interesting. A...

Recommended Resources As many of you know I'm a big fan of TED.com talks... and made a deal with myself to complete all the lectures they had. Yes. All 410 or whatever pages ...and there's what, 48 lectures per page... something like that. I've never actually counted. Anyway, I've watched them all. The oldest, the latest. Took me a couple years as I watched/listened when I was doing dishes and scrubbing down the kitchen, dusting or folding laundry etc. Those chores that don't require one's mind. I even did yoga quite a few times choosing TED.com over music. Anyway, that was quite the feat for me, and I've been sharing all the ones that moved me the most, inspired me the most here on the blog whenever I could. There's a few left in my blog content files and today I'm sharing a few of them. I want to start with David Damberger - who worked with Engineers Without Borders and even founded the Calgary (AB, Canada) chapter of that organization, eventua...

The Changing Language Of Business * Written by Shirley Taylor Decades ago, our ancestors' speaking style matched their writing style. Just as it should. Over the decades, our speaking style has evolved. But what has happened to our writing? Every language evolves to reflect the current times and changing needs. In the early half of the 19th century, business communication was very formal, relationships were formed slowly, resulting in passive voice and over-politeness being the norm. In writing, people embellished their messages with flowery, bombastic words. Lengthy messages were filled with redundancies and verbosity. This was perfectly fine in those days. It was entirely normal for the times we were living in. In those days, the oral communication style matched the written communication style. Today, the language of business communication has changed. We are speaking to our colleagues, clients and stakeholders in a very warm, friendly, natural, relaxed, pe...