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Writers Write
Welcome to #SocialMediaMonday at Writers Write. We try to post an article about blogging and social media every Monday.
This week, we want to share this useful infographic from Copyblogger about business blogging trends. We believe that blogging regularly with a plan is important.
Are you following these trends?
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Dean Wesley Smith (blog)
The word "talent" has been used for a very long time to destroy writers.
I have always believed that the word is the worst myth of them all in publishing, so here goes a chapter that I'm sure will be annoying to some people. Especially to those of you who think you are talented.
Okay, first to my trusty and well-worn Oxford American Dictionary for a standard definition.
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Nonprofit With Balls
All of us are highly intelligent, charming, and attractive people (#OxfordCommaForever!) Still, we are not immune to making errors in our speech and writing. Errors such as "I was literally on fire during that evaluation presentation." Or saying things like, "Between you and I, our equity plan sucks." (Both are wrong.) Now, as someone for whom English is a second language, I make mistakes all the time.
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Quartz
"I just wanted a story with a nice guy."
In late 2012, author H. M. Ward had an experimental manuscript collecting proverbial dust on her computer. It starred a woman named Sidney and a man named Peter — an impossible nice-guy combo of handsome, strong, smart, patient, and, oh, super wealthy.
Ward had been writing since 2010 and had been down the traditional publishing route before, finding an agent and shopping her work around.
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Grower Talks
I absolutely love applied research and consider it to be where the rubber meets the road. Dr. Bridget Behe and the Michigan State University Horticulture Department are some of the best when it comes to applied consumer research, and one of their latest studies is quite interesting. Using eye-tracking technology, the researchers sent consumers into a retail setting with higher-priced plants having signage that indicated they were grown using environmentally friendly irrigation practices along with lower-priced plants having no signage.
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NewsRewired.com
The Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism recently released three reports on trends in news consumption, and research associate Nic Newman says the principal takeaway is that journalism is "a much more complicated world" than it used to be.
What's clear is that the consumption of news via a mobile phone in the UK is rapidly becoming the primary means for consumers to access this type of content.
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The Washington Post
If you fear you're doing irreparable damage to your body because your white-collar job keeps you sitting at your desk from 9 to 5, or you regularly spend entire weekends sprawled out on your couch binge-watching Netflix, there's some good news just out from sports medicine researchers.
According to a study published in the Lancet, all is not lost. You may be able to make up for your increased risk of death due to a sedentary lifestyle by engaging in enough physical activity.
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Grower Talks
Most of us are aware of All-American Selection Trial Gardens, which are located across the nation and have been trialing annual plants since 1932. But you may not know that there's a network of 37 public and private trial gardens across North America that enter growth, flowering and pest data into The National Plant Trials Database, which you can access to select the best species and cultivars for your area!
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American Nurseryman
Did you know: that you can avoid all those nasty mosquito-repelling chemicals by crushing and rubbing Callicarpa americana (beautyberry) leaves on your skin? Well, believe it. Scientists at the USDA-ARS lab housed at the National Center for Natural Products Research at the University of Mississippi (whew, that's a mouthful) have confirmed that the century-old folk cure embraced by residents of Mississippi's hill country really works.
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The large, pure white flowers, are accented by chartreuse, held high above the foliage. A pretty blue appears on the back of alternating petals, showing off with a nodding effect at twilight, very novel for anemones, an excellent choice for partial shade, and non invasive planting. Blooms very long period, cold hardy.
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Greenhouse Grower
Aphids are major insect pests of many greenhouse-grown horticultural crops, including ornamentals and vegetables. In general, aphids tend to select certain plants and even cultivars over others. Why is that? The primary reason may be attributed to the nutritional quality or nutrient content of plants.
For example, chrysanthemum (Dendranthema x grandiflorum) cultivars may vary in their susceptibility to aphids, such as the green peach aphid (Myzus persicae), primarily due to the nutritional quality of specific cultivars.
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Green Profit
I started in this industry 13 years ago, and if you would have told me that in 2016 I'd be researching topics surrounding marijuana, I would have thought you were crazy. Like, what are you smoking? But, alas, I find myself doing that very thing and it seems the winds of change have blown quickly through our industry. One thing that surprises me is how quickly medicinal and recreational marijuana has become the norm in some states.
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The Verge
By nearly any measure, Facebook has had a remarkable year. More than 1.65 billion people use the service every month, making it the world's largest social network by a considerable margin. Its advertising business has grown significantly faster than analyst expectations, powered by sophisticated targeting capabilities that rivals struggle to match. And in April, CEO Mark Zuckerberg laid out an ambitious 10-year vision.
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Anne R. Allen (blog)
Eight years ago when I began a second career as an indie author after many years in traditional publishing as well as television, my middle grade book, Impossible Charlie, was the only new book in its category.
Total book visibility!
By the time 2016 rolled around, things changed with the avalanche of indie books being published. Most books and authors are now inundated under hundreds of thousands of other books and authors.
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