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Comment on Personal assistants for college students? Bad idea by Genna Jean

Genna Jean — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 03:32:42 +0000

hahah sounds like this guy either watched the movie Van Wilder one too many times, or grew up with a nanny, butler, personal chef and driver. Now he has to share a room, do laundry and feed himself with people who have done things like that their whole life?! Bah that is so below him, how will he survive? I wonder if he also hired someone to find him friends as well…hmm.

Comment on You know you are working too hard when… by Victor Gilmore

Victor Gilmore — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:54:20 +0000

…when all you can do is blog with Lester. Here’s a T-Shirt slogan for you…

Front: “Science flies us to the moon”
Back: “Religion flies us into buildings”

This was seen recently at an annual “Pig Roast” in Gatlinburg, TN.

Hey, Lester…I sure hope you are doing well. Mavis and I were talking and our conversation brought us to your blog.
Thirty years ago if anyone of us had used the term “blog” we’d have been referring to how we felt the morning after a DII District Suite party.

Victor

Comment on You know you are working too hard when… by Mavis

Mavis — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:49:18 +0000

Or when you call an old friend and read another friend’s blog together for kicks! Your humor ALWAYS makes me laugh out loud, Lester!

Comment on You know you are working too hard when… by Les Potter

Les Potter — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:32:40 +0000

Yeah!!! I am not alone! Thank you for commenting, Amanda. I appreciate it.

Truth is, I love stupid humor like this.

Les

Lester R. Potter Visiting Instructor Department of Mass Communication & Communication Studies Towson University 410-704-3235 Website Blog More With Les Twitter: http://twitter.com/LesPotter

Comment on You know you are working too hard when… by Amanda

Amanda — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:27:48 +0000

If it makes you feel any better, when I read the t-shirt slogan I let out a snort of laughter so loud that my colleagues looked to see if I was okay.

Thanks for the laugh.

Comment on Studying online conversation in the Twitter generation by Twitter and conversation analysis – who’s here? | just write click

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 04:27:29 +0000

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Comment on “Resourceful”, one of the highest adjectives of praise by Students out of touch with resourcefulness? – Textifying

Students out of touch with resourcefulness? – Textifying — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 05:01:59 +0000

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Comment on Where’s the curiosity among today’s students? by Jenny

Jenny — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 17:08:19 +0000

I have a poster of “The Outsiders” (I teach film) and students always comment on how many famous actors were in that movie as youths. Actually, I get tired of students bringing it up–it seems like more of a distraction than anything. It does draw them in to all of the other elements in my office, like a tiny framed still from “Metropolis” or cards and notes from previous students. Maybe with today’s sheltered youth you kind have to begin with the familiar.

Comment on Communicating mergers and acquisitions by Kabir

Kabir — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 09:34:36 +0000

Hi All,
Interesting to note the plethora of perspectives from leaders like you…
I might want to digress slightly and come to a specific situation now. I work for an organisation A which will be sold to B very soon. Though as a communicator, I’m working very closely with the senior management and doing a series of activitivies; I require to run an internal campaign (preferably using poster medium) to sort of acquiant employees with the ‘change’.

Could you propose some themes? The mesaging needs to be subtle, and certainly not on the face.

Any idea/suggestion will be much appreciated.

Cheers,
Kabir

Comment on Should teachers communicate with students via social networks like Facebook and MySpace? by jo

jo — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 15:10:15 +0000

Just a question about appropriate. I have a 15 yr old daughter in a high school band. They had a volunteer (31yrs old) working with the drummers in the band and my daughter come in contact with this guy. She is a trumpet player so there should have been no reason for her to be in contact with this guy. Seeing that he was associated with the school she accepted him as a friend (unknown to me at the time). I scan through her face book from time and I noticed that she had a message from this guy at 12:30 a.m.. Would you think that was appropriate?