Thinking Aloud
Monday, August 28, 2006 VOLUME 3 ISSUE 123  
CONTENTS
Eight Essential Writing Skills for Techies*
Beware the Career Woman
Ask Liz
An Ego to Challenge Rushmore
August WorldWIT Website Columns
Time of the Month - Milk Works by Liz Ryan
Ten Tips on How to Bridge the Generation Gap with Your Younger Boss by Roberta Chinsky Matuson
Aging Younger by Stephanie Tippie
Do Ask, Do Tell - Language Lessons by Liz Ryan
Tech Workplace - Why, How You Should Befriend a Technology Recruiter by Liz Ryan
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Eight Essential Writing Skills for Techies*
by Leslie O’Flahavan and Marilynne Rudick

Techies in today’s workplace need to be able to write. Today, being unwilling or unable to use current technology simply isn’t an option, nor is being unable to write clearly. Leslie O-Flahavan and Marilynne Rudick of E-Write offer tips for how techies and non-techies can learn to communicate with clear and concise written language.
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Beware the Career Woman

A recent opinion column in Forbes has women around the country, including WorldWIT members, up in arms. It urged men, "Don't Marry a Career Woman," for various reasons, citing that marriages in which women have careers are more likely to end in divorce. The story is now being printed with a counterargument from a woman; however, the damage may have already been done, as women who pursue careers are once again relegated to a stereotype of being anti-family. For another viewpoint, Salon.com's Rebecca Traister addresses the tone, sources, and Web response to the editorial. Let us know what you think! Write to info@worldwit.org with your response and take the Snapshot survey at right.
 

Ask Liz
How do I handle an unacknowledged introduction?

Dear Liz,
I have a question about networking introductions. I introduced two people that I know and they have since started a successful consulting practice together. Maybe it's petty of me, but I expected some acknowledgement or maybe a thank you for what has definitely been a worthwhile introduction. I see them, apart and together, every couple of weeks at networking functions, but not a word. How do I handle this or should I just let it go?
Thanks,
An Ego to Challenge Rushmore
Pinch Me...or Don't

If the following weren’t absolutely true, I’d swear that it had been fabricated as a marketing tie-in for The Devil Wears Prada: Good friends of mine both work for a small consultancy in our local area, headed up by a woman who apparently believes herself to be larger-than-life. Once, after confiding to certain staff members that she was contemplating minor plastic surgery in order to “update and refresh” her basic appearance, she confessed to a bit of ambivalence about proceeding. “After all”, she demurred, “I am an icon.”  As my friends tell the story, they both thought silently: “Sheez! You’d think she was contemplating redesigning Mount Rushmore or something!”
-Robin, NycWIT

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In celebration of National Breast Feeding at Work Week (September 4-8, 2006) WorldWIT is proud to announce our FREE teleseminar, Breast Feeding in the Boardroom, offering educational, organizational, and personal viewpoints on how to support nursing moms in the workplace. Teleseminar attendees will be entered into a drawing to win products from Ergobaby and National Breast Feeding at Work Week sponsors Mother of 7 and Babble Soft. To learn more about the teleseminar content, panelists, and to REGISTER and invite friends, visit http://tinyurl.com/e54zq
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Questions? Comments? Write to info@worldwit.org. To submit an article, a question for "Ask Liz" or a story for "Pinch Me...or Don't", send an e-mail to Anne Jennings.
 
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