The Call for Papers is open for the 2010 Symposium for the Marketing of Higher Education. If you’ve attended in the past, you know what a fabulous conference this is. Over the years, we’ve participated as both attendees and presenters and have gotten a lot out of both experiences. This year, the conference will be held in always-sunny San Diego, so that’s extra incentive to attend!
If you have a session idea, please share it. For information on proposal submisisons, go to: call for proposals. This is the first year the Symposium is accepting video submissions (how cool is that?), so give it a whirl if you can. Nothing fancy, just you talking for 2 to 3 minutes about your session idea. The Call for Papers closes on April 9th, so please get your submission in soon.
I’m pleased to announce that I’m a member of the conference steering committee, so if you have any questions, don’t hesitate to reach out.
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Posted by Jenny Brower on March 24, 2010 at 10:52 am
Filed under: Conferences, Events & Presentations
It absolutely drives me insane when people utilize the word utilize when the teeny-tiny itty-bitty word use is just fine.
I stumbled across this post when I googled “don’t use big words when little words are fine”:
Apparently this little gem was handwritten in an old Bible.
DON’T USE BIG WORDS
In promulgating your esoteric cogitation’s or articulating your superficial and sentimentalities and amicable philosophical or psychological observations, beware of platitudinous panderosity.
Let your conversational communications possess a clarified conciseness, a compact comprehensibiliness coalescent consistency and a concatenated cogency. Eschew all conglomerations of flatulent garrulity, jejune babblement and asinine affectations. Let your extemporaneous descantings and unpremeditated expatiation’s have intelligibility and veracious vivacity without rodomontade or thrasonical bombast.
Sedulously avoid all polysyllable profundity, pompous prolixity, psittaceous vivacity, ventriloquial verbosity and magniloquent rapidity. Shun double entendres, previnient jacosity and pestifereous profanity, observant or apparent.
In other words, talk plainly, briefly, naturally, sensibly,truthfully, purely, keep from slang, don’t put on airs, say what you mean, mean what you say and DON’T USE BIG WORDS.
Remember, The great artist is the simplifier.
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Posted by Donna Bowling on March 4, 2010 at 3:31 pm
Filed under: Ramblings
Tags: big words, marketing, writing
