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Slate
In 2008, I published a short piece in Cabinet magazine on the fate of writer Thomas Browne's skull, stolen from his coffin 158 years after his death. It caught the attention of an editor at a small press called Unbridled Books, Fred Ramey, who contacted me and asked if I would develop it into what became my first book. He particularly praised the final line of the Cabinet piece, saying that line showed him I was a strong writer. I didn’t have the courage to tell him that the line in question had not been written by me but added by my editor.
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The Chronicle of Higher Education
April 16 is the 50th anniversary of the publication of a little book that is loved and admired throughout American academe. Celebrations, readings and toasts are being held, and a commemorative edition has been released.
I won't be celebrating.
The Elements of Style does not deserve the enormous esteem in which it is held by American college graduates. Its advice ranges from limp platitudes to inconsistent nonsense.
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Literary Hub
"I love how you don't care what anyone thinks about you — even your husband!" a young woman, calling herself a fan, wrote to me after I'd published an essay in the New York Times.
I laughed out loud. Not only has my husband read and edited just about everything I've ever published (he has been my first and best reader on everything since I was an alt-weekly intern in Texas, 16 years ago), but also I care about what everyone thinks.
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Harvard Business Review
The ability to focus is an important driver of excellence. Focused techniques such as to-do lists, timetables and calendar reminders all help people to stay on task. Few would argue with that, and even if they did, there is evidence to support the idea that resisting distraction and staying present have benefits: practicing mindfulness for 10 minutes a day, for example, can enhance leadership effectiveness by helping you become more able to regulate your emotions and make sense of past experiences.
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Harvard Business Review
To be successful, a company needs to provide something customers want. It must be able to do so for less than they're willing to pay. And there must be some reason why competitors can't just copy it when it succeeds. In management terms, it needs a value proposition, a business model and a strategy.
Snap is doing well on the first two. It has a product that lots of people like, and there's at least the prospect of Snap eventually becoming very profitable, its first earnings report notwithstanding.
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Adweek
The business value of social media insights has been proven time and time again. They can tell you why ride-sharing-application users are switching from Uber to Lyft. They can also predict consumers' holiday shopping habits and what the hottest tech gift will be. And social media insights can give you valuable feedback from customers when they really love or really hate your product — like Chick-fil-A discovered when it changed its barbecue sauce.
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Columbia Journalism Review
The number of live videos posted to The New York Times' main Facebook page has consistently surpassed regular videos in the 12 months since Facebook began paying select media partners to use its nascent streaming platform — yet viewing figures for Facebook Live lag far behind.
The Times is one of about 140 media companies and celebrities the platform giant enticed to produce content for Facebook Live through deals totaling a reported $50 million last year.
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Greenhouse Grower
Opinions about the new administration's approach to immigration reform varies widely among Greenhouse Grower's Top 100 Growers. Many say they are "very concerned" about the potential impact on agriculture's guestworker programs. Others say the entire guestworker program needs to be overhauled to be simpler and easier to use for growers, and hope that this will be part of the reform efforts. And some seem to be generally in favor of the current methods.
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American Nurseryman
American Rose Trials for Sustainability is a new U.S. landscape and garden rose trialing program introducing its first winning roses — seven in all — for 2018.
A.R.T.S. began in January 2012, and was prompted by the disbanding of the All-America Rose Selection program, an industry-managed U.S. rose trialing program that began in 1938. Unfortunately, multiple member rose producers went out of business during the recent recession and that, in part, contributed to AARS's closure.
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Did you know money really can grow on trees? Learn how trees cut costs and save energy from arborists at Davey Tree. MORE
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Los Angeles Times
So it's nearly summer and you're itching to plant a garden, but your "estate" is little more than a balcony. Don't despair, vertical gardening can fit almost any pocket book or sunny nook.
Kelsey Forster, manager of the Long Beach Office of Sustainability's Civic Center Edible Garden, particularly loves growing beans on her little balcony, training the curly tendrils up a trellis or sturdy bits of hanging string.
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WAN-IFRA
While national titles and some big regional newspapers are showing positive trends and quite good numbers, it is clear that first movers tend to be market leaders and show good growth. However, many regional brands are still focused on transforming print subscribers to digital.
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Recode
Google is changing how it enforces it ads policies: It will now strike ads from individual web pages that violate its ads standards. That means Google will effectively be less frequently cutting ads off entire sites.
Entire sites may still be suspended on the AdSense platform for violations, and publishers can also still be suspended or disabled from using AdSense.
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GWA
GWA's biggest event of the year, the 2017 Annual Conference & Expo, is heading to Buffalo, New York, Aug. 4-7, and you're invited. This year's conference features a lineup of unforgettable events and experiences, including beautiful gardens, dynamic education sessions, industry all-stars, essential networking and so much more.
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GWA
In the April-May 2017 issue ...
- Sally Cunningham previews the #GWA2017 Post-Conference Tours
- Update GWA President Kirk Brown
- New and returning columns covering: Food with Patrick Ryan, Business with Angela Treadwell-Palmer, Photography with Rob Cardillo, Sustainability with Marcia Tate
- Preview of #GWA2017 Education Sessions
- GWA member profile on Melinda Myers & Debra Prinzing
- GWA Regional, Publishing and Industry News
- Plus much more!
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GWA
It was a small group — only six of us — that attended a GWA Connect meeting at the "Frida Kahlo: Art, Garden, Life" in Tucson, Arizona, exhibit on March 10. My time there was part of a working photographic tour of Phoenix and Tucson and other points in the Southwest. Since I am more of a photographer than a writer, I thought I'd give you my impressions through photography with a little commentary, translated by Ann McCormick, blog editor.
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GWA
Join Region V GWA members for two days of arbors, botanicals and more at two upcoming-and-coming Iowa institutions, The Brenton Arboretum and Greater Des Moines Botanical Garden. Events will also include a Connect Meeting and Trunk Show.
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GWA
Join Region I GWA members for tours of three stunning Harvard Yard gardens, Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University, Mary M.B. Wakefield Estate and Eleanor Bradley Estate & Gardens. Events will also include a Connect Meeting and Trunk Show.
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GWA
Join GWA in the greater Lancaster region as we spend the day visiting the Penn State Trial Gardens,
Lancaster Historical Society and Tanger Arboretum, culminating in a trunk show and
GWA Connect meeting.
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GWA
Join Region III GWA members for two days of touring Indiana's beautiful gardens, including Holliday Park Nature, Sky Garden and Common Ground at Eskenazi Hospital and the Indianapolis Museum of Art.
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