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  1. Blog Du Jour

     Copywriters, Click Here
    Wed Jan 30 00:00:00 EST 2008

    Check out these blogs, as one of them breathlessly urges, for "cutting-edge copywriting tips, tricks and tested techniques to get you higher response, more sales and increased profits!" Yes!

    World Copywriting Blog

    The Copywriter Underground

    Copywriting Blog

    The Copywriter's Crucible

  2. Dog Eared

     And the Winner Is?
    Tue Jan 29 00:00:00 EST 2008

    The National Book Critics Circle announced its nominations for its prestigious annual awards earlier this month. Categories include fiction, nonfiction, biography, autobiography, poetry and criticism. Winners are announced on March 6th -- so hurry up and read everything before the results! Here are the fiction finalists:

    Sacred Games by Vikram Chandra

    The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz

    In the Country of Men by Hisham Matar

    The Gravedigger's Daughter by Joyce Carol Oates

    The Shadow Catcher by Marianne Wiggins

  3. VT Tip o' the Week

     Settings Panel : Shortcuts
    premium content - available only to Visual Thesaurus subcribers Mon Jan 28 00:00:00 EST 2008
    The Shortcuts panel show all of the keyboard shortcuts that are available in the Visual Thesaurus. To perform the action listed, press the combination of keys displayed in the left column of the list. Most keyboard shortcuts are disabled when the settings panel is open. Close the settings panel to try the shortcuts.

  4. Candlepower

     What Writing Style for Your Marketing Piece?
    Mon Jan 28 00:00:00 EST 2008
    Read a thriller novel and the style is fast-paced and loaded with action. Cozy up with a romance and you're spellbound by a budding relationship that struggles to grow and blossom. Review an academic paper and you expect to find an intelligent argument based on solid research and analytical thinking. Every writing genre has its own style, and marketing writing is no different.

  5. Contest

     The Visual Thesaurus Crossword Puzzle: January Edition!
    Fri Jan 25 00:00:00 EST 2008
    Ready for this month's puzzle? Our wintery theme for January is "Let it Snow." Have fun and good luck!

  6. Blog Excerpts

     Advertising Slogan Generator
    Thu Jan 24 00:00:00 EST 2008
    Need we say more? Check out this site and enter the words you want to sloganize. Click the button and this website will spit one out, as if by magic!

  7. Candlepower

     How Words Become Names (Part Three)
    Wed Jan 23 00:00:00 EST 2008
    In Part One and Part Two of this series I shared six tools that professional name developers use to turn words into business and product names. In this final installment I'll describe three more-advanced strategies. Don't worry: you don't need special training to use them. Just be aware that implementing them successfully is often trickier than you might think.

  8. Blog Du Jour

     All Bard, All the Time
    Wed Jan 23 00:00:00 EST 2008

    "O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?" On the World Wide Web, that's wherefore! Teaching Shakespeare, studying Shakespeare or just interested in the Bard's classics? Check out these websites:

    Shakespeare Online

    Everything Shakespeare

    The Hamlet Site

    Shakespeare and Food

  9. Dog Eared

     2008 Newberry Winners
    Tue Jan 22 00:00:00 EST 2008

    Since 1922, a division of the American Library Association awards the Newberry Medal each year to the top American literature for children. The 2008 winner and honor books were announced earlier this month. They are... drum roll, please...

    Winner
    Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village by Laura Amy Schlitz

    Honor Books
    Elijah Of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis

    The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmid

    Feathers by Jacqueline Woodson

  10. VT Tip o' the Week

     Many Relationship Types
    premium content - available only to Visual Thesaurus subcribers Mon Jan 21 00:00:00 EST 2008

    The Visual Thesaurus can show more than just synonyms. It also reveals the relationships between meanings. Connections between meanings are displayed as dashed lines. You can roll over these lines to view the nature of relationship between two meanings. For instance, when you roll over the line connecting "a writing implement with a point from which ink flows" to "an implement that is used to write," you learn that a pen is a type of writing implement.

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