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It is not hard to become a good speller. All it takes is a little practice. Look at the words below. They may or may not be spelled correctly. Write down these words the way you think they are spelled, then check the second list below the Chinese character for the correct spellings.

If you don't get them all right the first time, return in a day or two and repeat the exercise until you do get them all right.

euphemism

debateable

indispensible

compatability

boisterous

perseverence

cemetary

flourescent

lemming

evangalism

INTERLUDE
This is the Chinese character for "Ai" which is "Love". The character's origins are in the Japanese and Korean languages, and the word is still pronounced similarly in each language.

euphemism

debatable

indispensable

compatibility

boisterous

perseverance

cemetery

fluorescent

lemming

evangelism

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Posted By: Chris Champion - Category: Spelling

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The exhausted blogger

June 5th 2009 05:58

My huge following of fans, and I'd like to thank both of you, constantly asks me to write more in the way of advice for people in small business.

I have always wanted to work for myself — to be answerable to no-one and reliant on nothing except my own skills and determination and will to wrestle with procrastination and win. It's been a lifelong dream and, showing an aptitude and canny understanding for business practices, I waited until 2009 and the world's greatest economic miasma to launch my company.

After four months, however, we here at Salient Point corporate blogging services have survived. Leaders of MBA courses at the world's elite universities ring regularly to learn our secrets, and the police watch constantly, convinced that anyone prospering in this business environment must have friends in the underworld.

They are all destined for disappointment, for my success is due to honest endeavour, and I have decided to reveal the secret for that success right here, exclusively to you.

I have found that the secret to business success is hard work. By hard work, I mean that, first, one must cut back drastically on the time spent playing Freecell and, second, one must write at least eight blog posts a day.

Do you find this figure shocking? Let me tell you that I do, and as fellow bloggers I'm sure you do too. I thought a blogging services consultancy would be like writing a few fun posts for Orble except people pay you for it. Instead, and this is the hard thing to grasp, running this business is more like a full-time job.

I need a holiday.

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Posted By: Chris Champion - Category: Blogging, Corporate blogs, Making money by blogging, Salient Point

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Blog writer wanted

June 3rd 2009 01:09

Candidates should be female, aged 29-39, and resident of Melbourne, Australia.

Salient Point, my corporate blogging services company, is negotiating with a cable television content provider to write a blog for a TV station. The station shows re-runs of favourite 1980s, 1990s and early 2000s series, including all the most popular ones (Friends, Will & Grace, Ally McBeal, Baywatch etc).

The blog will build readership in two ways. The first is through content around the theme of celebrities: news, reviews, historical anecdotes, polls, trivia etc. The second is through content which appeals directly to the TV station's dominant demographic — women in the 29-39 year-old age group.

We need someone to be the face and the heart of the blog, a woman from this age group with a passion for TV and an interest in celebrity news and issues.

She must also be a professional-level writer, preferably with a media or PR background. She must be confident dealing with client management, capable of generating unique and engaging content, and able to build and sustain readership loyalty.

Pay is A$55 per hour. The number of hours involved is not yet known, but will be a minimum of 2.5 hours a week and a maximum of 7.5 hours a week.

Please respond to Chris dot Champion at salientpoint dot com dot au.
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Posted By: Chris Champion - Category: Blogging, Salient Point

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Is blogging the future of everything?

May 28th 2009 08:10

A few weeks ago I wrote a post here entitled "Will blogging rule the world?" It evoked a lot of discussion, and I have found myself thinking about the question ever since. This opinion piece is the result, looking at changes that the digital age and, in particular, blogging, may bring to many things that we now take for granted. It is the first of a two-part series, with the second instalment to cover media, publishing and opinion leadership.

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Posted By: Chris Champion - Category: Blogging, Making money by blogging, Social media, Writing

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A word is born

May 27th 2009 23:05

Recruitment companies, like property agencies, have developed an industry vernacular and style. Or, to put it another way, they manage to mangle the language in their own ways.

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Posted By: Chris Champion - Category: Language

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Good job

April 17th 2009 22:46

Twitter is king. It is the font of all information. It is the bible of the social media age. It is the word, and we need no other word. Not unless it has more than 140 letters, in which case you'll have to look elsewhere.

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Posted By: Chris Champion - Category: Social media, Twitter

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Will blogging rule the world?

April 15th 2009 04:34

the future of journalism - big call! although maybe thats what people are crying out for, more conversational, interactive news . . . something that a telecaster in a box cant provide maybe thats what people are crying out for, more conversational, interactive news. something that a telecaster in a box cant provide

Morgan Bell wrote the above comment in response to a quote on an earlier Bloggercises post by Mary Jo Foley, the widely known and read author of the All About Microsoft blog. Foley said, "For me, the future of journalism is blogging

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Posted By: Chris Champion - Category: Blogging, Corporate blogs, Making money by blogging, Salient Point

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April 14th 2009 22:52

Blogging is the new poetry

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Posted By: Chris Champion - Category: Blogging

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PageRank update in progress

April 2nd 2009 22:30

The word around the Twittersphere, the world's best source of breaking news, is that Google is currently rolling out a PageRank update. Expect to meet raw euphoria or suicidal tendencies wherever you go in the next 24 hours.

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Posted By: Chris Champion - Category: Google PageRank

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