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Fast Company
Hunter Thurman |
How A Popular Two-Letter Word Is Undermining Your Credibility Just like a speaking coach will tell you not to fill empty space with "um," you should avoid framing your answer as a rehearsed pitch by starting with "so."   |
HBS Working Knowledge
March 24, 2014
Michael Blanding |
The Surprising Link Between Language and Corporate Responsibility Research by Christopher Marquis shows that a company's degree of social responsibility is affected by a surprising factor -- the language it uses to communicate. |
Fast Company
Rebecca Greenfield |
Vocabulary.com Launches A Positively Addictive App For Aspiring Wordsmiths The app works a lot like many smartphone games: complete a task, get points. But, instead of answering trivia questions or connecting dots, players define words. |
Fast Company
April 2014
Tara Moore |
How We Name Our Personal Bots Names should entice us into the future, but not scare us away. |
Information Today
March 13, 2014 |
EBSCO Will Bring Rosetta Stone to Libraries EBSCO Information Services agreed to distribute the Rosetta Stone, Inc. language-learning software to academic and public libraries in the U.S. and Canada. |
Fast Company
Rebecca Greenfield |
Siri, Cortana, And Why Our Smartphone Assistants Have Such Weird Names Tech companies like Apple, Google, and Microsoft are making calculated bets that intelligent personal assistants are the future. |
Fast Company
Chris Gayomali |
This Twitter Account Will Translate Your Tweets During The Olympics -- For Free A special promotion is being rolled out by One Hour Translation, which plans to offer near-instantaneous translation services over Twitter -- for free to during the 2014 Winter Olympics. |
HBS Working Knowledge
January 20, 2014
Kim Girard |
Language Wars Divide Global Companies An increasing number of global firms adopt a primary language for business operations -- usually English. The problem: The practice can surface dormant hostilities around culture and geography, reports Tsedal Neeley. |
Chemistry World
August 13, 2013
Philip Ball |
Making science personal The American Institute of Physics, American Chemical Society and American Medical Association all recommend the active voice and use of pronouns, although they accept the passive voice for methods sections. |
CRM
July 24, 2013 |
Oracle Adds Support for More Languages to Its Social Listening Product Their new Social Engagement & Monitoring solution now supports simplified Chinese, Spanish, and Portuguese. |
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