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Kala, a Reader, from Sprint/Nextel Cares

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Thank you, Kala

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This morning, Kala left a comment to the post I wrote July 11 about Sprint/Nextel.

Hello. I read your blog and am very eager to assist you. I work for Sprint Nextel and would love the opportunity to resolve this matter for you. Please e-mail me with your contact information.

I sent her the emails I had received since I’d made that post public, and within minutes I had a phone call from her.

What a charming lady! She’s not only charming, she’s also in a position to change things. Kala fixed my problem in a few seconds and acknowledged that the system was broken.

How refreshing! I’ve met a telco representative who listens and she makes good things happen for customers. Her name is Kala.

Sprint/Nextel has no idea of her value to their brand.

Thank you, Kala, for your help. Thank you, too, for being a reader.

Smiles,
Liz

Bad Boys of Business: That’s Not “Real” Work

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It’s a Bad Boys Convention

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Look who came riding in behind the Bad Boys of Writing. It’s the Bad Boys of Business. They’re just as seductive as their counterparts, and like their writing friends, they do damage. Get these con guys in your head and they can blow your productivity.

Meet their point man, Bad Boy 1: That’s Not Real Work. You’re wasting time.

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Net Neutrality 7-13-2006

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Net Neutrality Links

I’m adding this link to the Net Neutrality Page.

Jon Stewart Lampoons Sen. Stevens’ Net Nonsense

Jon Stewart teed off on Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Ted Stevens’ instantly infamous speech about Net Neutrality, in which the 85-year-old in charge of regulating Internet commerce betrayed a stunning ignorance of Net fundamentals.

–ME “Liz” Strauss

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Sebastian Prooth Interviews Dennis Madalone

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Seb Prooth with Stunt Man Turned Song Writer

Our own Seb Prooth has a great interview at his blog with Dennis Madalone. Dennis gave up his career as stunt man and one of Hollywood’s best known stunt coordinators, walking away from television credits with Star Trek and Without a Trace, to become the known as “the artist with most downloaded music video on the Internet.” I’ll let Seb tell you the rest. Click the title to get there.

Seb Prooth America, We Stand As One

He’s even got the YouTube video.

Good going Seb!

–ME “Liz” Strauss

Taken Over by Pirates

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Successful Blog Was Take Over by Pirates

Last Nights’ Open Comments Night get together in at sea found that our ship was taken over by pirates and we ended up living off grog, and weevils, supplemented by a few oranges and limes to keep us all from getting scurvy. Unfortunately a virulent strain of the infamous link leak virus. Link Leak Virus is a special strain of the indie virus with blogtipping mutations that occur in threes.
Cool links were shared.

Tonight was also HART’S BIRTHDAY AND HE CELEBRATED WITH US!

Pirates in Attendance

Many Pirates were in attendance and it was decided that we would start a Successful Blog University. That was between the Pirate talk and Pirate jokes. [Read more…]

Bad Boys of Writing: Just Write and It Will Be Spectacular

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Meet the Bad Boys of Writing

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Everyone knows them and hangs out with them. They are the bad boys of writing. Handsome and seductive fellows, they have weaseled their way into our thinking. They’re conmen really — conmen in the true sense of the word — they play a confidence came.

The bad boys take advantage of us because we wrote so much in school. They mess with our heads because we learned to write on cue. We confused the act of writing with the art and craft of writing. We don’t do that with wearing shoes, or living in a house or driving, but we do that with books and writing. So the bad boys of writing have a field day.

It’s time we showed the bad boys that we can beat them at their game.

Meet Bad Boy 1: Just write and it will be spectacular!

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