Paul Gillin

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Five Tips to Make Your Writing Sparkle

Paul Gillin

If you can send your readers scurrying to Google to look up “bonobo,&# you’ve won. This gut-wrenching 8,700-word feature story in the Washington Post won the Pulitzer Prize in 2009. It’s rather as if someone went to the zoo and spritzed the bonobos with Dollar Store perfume.&#. Remove Unnecessary Words. Is It a Crime?

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How Twitter Amplifies a Customer Attack

Paul Gillin

A 2009 study by Sysomos reported that 85% of Twitter users post less than one update per day, 21% have never posted anything and only 5% of Twitter users produce 75% of the content [3]. 3] Alex Cheng and Mark Evans, “An In-Depth Look Inside the Twitter World,” Sysomos Resource Library, June, 2009, [link] (accessed July 21, 2012). [4]

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