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Eight Simple Tips for Editing Your Own Work

Good tips!

If you’re working for a big magazine or publishing house, you’ll have an editor who goes through your work, checks for any clumsy or ambiguous phrasing, and fixes any typos – but if you’re working on your first novel, or publishing posts to a blog, you’re almost certainly going to be on your own.

via Write to Done.

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WHO | Rio Political Declaration on Social Determinants of Health

The Rio Political Declaration on Social Determinants of Health was adopted during the World Conference on Social Determinants of Health on 21 October 2011. The declaration expresses global political commitment for the implementation of a social determinants of health approach to reduce health inequities and to achieve other global priorities. It will help to build momentum within countries for the development of dedicated national action plans and strategies.

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A Three-Step Approach to Ensuring Resolution Success

Well my friends, don’t tell me I tried.

Resolutions are a yearly tradition; unfortunately, so is failing to keep them. In fact, 81 percent of resolution’s fail within two years. In this post, we’re going to walk through the basics of how to make a resolution that sticks, then apply those ideas, one by one, to five of the most common types of resolutions.

via Lifehacker.

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Wikipedia med en million donorer

Jeg er en av dem :-)

Wikipedia er tilgjengelig på 282 ulike språk. Til sammen har disse utgavene mer enn 20 millioner artikler. Den største versjonen er den engelskspråklige, med drøyt 3,8 millioner artikler. Bokmål- og riksmålutgaven nærmer seg 323 000 artikler, mens nynorskutgaven har nesten 76 000 artikler.

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Old services meet new media: a tweeting cabbie’s growing business

“Can you pick me up at my place in 15 minutes? Text me when you get here.” No, this isn’t a text message to a friend or a call to a car service—it’s a direct message sent through Twitter to a driver of a Chicago cab. Rashid Temuri, who goes by “Chicago Cabbie” online (@ChicagoCabbie on Twitter) has taken what would otherwise be considered a traditional taxi business and integrated it with social media in a way that is still exceedingly rare in the service industry. How much better can it be interacting your clients through Twitter, FourSquare, Facebook, or Google Latitude? Apparently a lot—Temuri is not only seeing success from his social media strategy, he’s building a loyal repeat customer base because of it.

via ars technica.

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