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Don’t lie unless you mean it
Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity. W. Clement Stone One of my pet...
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Please don’t
It seems that there’s a few things we do that we don’t realize annoy other people. So when I put the offer out on Twitter – to get a few “I wish my partner didn’t…” off the collective chests of New...
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Things a Twitter addict learned while on holiday
This holiday, I went on a social media fast. No Twitter. No Facebook. I wasn’t allowing myself to see anything remotely work-related. I was having a Proper Break. Sounded good in theory, but I didn’t...
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Top 40 hits that make me facepalm
It’s always amusing – and facepalmy – when a song with stupid lyrics makes it to the Top 40. What’s worse is when the lyrics are in equal parts stupid and disrespectful. It’s as if the lyricists don’t...
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Stop trying to be fancy on Social Media
I have a message for marketers, social media managers, advertising whiz-kids and anyone else who thinks social media needs to be flashy: Quiet in the cheap seats. There’s a rant coming, and it’s got...
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Do you make social media managers despair?
I’ve been talking to a lot of community managers of high-profile New Zealand companies, and there’s a trend to what they have been saying lately: They are getting worn out from trying to deal with...
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The worst Facebook updates of 2012
So many people and brands are now gaming for Facebook “engagement” that it’s ruining the platform for a lot of people. Luckily, not too many of my friends fall for this stuff, but plenty of people have...
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When good internet warriors go bad
By now you will have heard the terrible news about the shooting at the Connecticut primary school. Not everyone online treated it with the respect the situation deserved. Among those were a handful of...
View ArticleSinead O’Connor’s open letter to Miley Cyrus is amazing
I love this letter from 90s pop icon Sinead O’Connor to Miley Cyrus after Miley said she was inspired by O’Connor. It’s scathing and loving and beautiful. Real empowerment of yourself as a woman would...
View ArticleFive things that make me irrationally angry
There’s plenty of things out there to make you genuinely angry – poverty, child abuse, atom bombs – but what about first world anger? Here’s a list of the stuff that gets my knickers in a knot. 1....
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5 reasons why Meghan Trainor’s All About That Bass is not the female...
By now you will have heard Meghan Trainor’s catchy ditty All About That Bass. On the surface, the song seems to be about loving yourself, but a cursory glance over the lyrics and you’ll be having a...
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In which I attempt to buy togs
I have fat on my body. A lot of it. It’s pretty obvious when you look at me, and I’m not alone in this. Lots of us have fat on our bodies. Surprise! No, you would think it was a surprise given what I...
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I made a YouTube comment that drove guys wild
In April, I stumbled across a YouTube video of a woman who had strapped a gopro to her head, looking down her tank top at her breasts. She started to run, and it became really obvious that she was not...
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Things a Twitter addict learned while on holiday
This holiday, I went on a social media fast. No Twitter. No Facebook. I wasn’t allowing myself to see anything remotely work-related. I was having a Proper Break. Sounded good in theory, but I didn’t...
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