Some years back I surveyed the
Web Words' readership and asked if I should write one article per issue or two? Most favored two articles, but one kind soul suggested that if it was too much for me on occasion, it would be OK to do an issue with just one article.
I usually sit out the weddings and graduations that frequent this time of year. But last month I went to a wedding in Toronto and a graduation in Atlanta. Both were wonderful events for two very lovely young people, but the travel plus the late start to the growing season has put both my garden and me way behind. So
I'm cashing in the permission slip to write just a single article.
In fact, I counsel my clients to limit their newsletters to one feature article and some smaller, useful info pieces like
Web Tips. But I usually write two articles because
Web Words has two different readerships--publishers (current or potential) of newsletters and other online communications and a more general audience.
I felt that if I wrote just one article this month, it needed to be useful to my entire readership. So
I have written about the universal rule of written communication. I figure it's a weighty enough topic to support its singularity. For more about the enigmatic graphic, click the photo.
For those who are curious, here's an update on my use of
online sources for travel last month. I reserved a hotel room in Rochester on
Hotwire. The place worked out fine for our purposes, but it was a little seedy. I don't think I would trust the blind reservation process to anything more important than a one-night stay.
The B&B in Niagara Falls was exactly as described by the reviewers on
Trip Advisor and the comments about activities were dead on, too. The weather was pretty awful, which no service, online or off, can do much about.
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