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Over at Talk Normal headquarters I note almost every visitor goes to the page that promises them free mugs, so at the end of the week I need to explain how the process works in a bit more detail. If you’re thinking: can I have one of Tim’s Talk Normal mugs? the answer is of course you can.…
But you can’t have one yet. Not until you have earned it! Here is the scenario: one day in the future I’m going to wake up and realise that I can’t think of a thing to write. Maybe I’ll post a bogus lament for the passing of the golden era of research or start criticising erroneous use of the hyphen, stuff that I know little about and care about even less. When that happens you have my permission to take me out to a patch of wasteland and beat me with spiked club.
To avoid this type of physical harm I’m going to need your help. If you tip me off for a story or give me ideas or request things you want to see, I will occasionally pop a mug in the post in return. It’s community thing.
Or maybe you might decide to write something on your blog about Talk Normal like There’s a new blog in town and it’s one I think we should all be reading and make the time I put into this experiment worthwhile.
Or you’re going to help me prepare podcasts and videos for the site.
But you might have plenty of mugs already and don’t like helping other people; if so, these mugs might be more your speed.
Tim Phillips
Writer, journalist, communications trainer and blogger, occasionally to be seen in Research Magazine, always at his blog Talk Normal.Tim Phillips writes about
abuse of statistics,
Airline food,
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citizen journalism,
communities,
conferences,
CSR,
ethics,
free stuff,
happiness,
issues,
jargon,
marketing,
media,
MPs,
mugs,
national statistics,
news,
pretentious foreign menus,
pseudo science,
public speaking,
technology,
thought leadership,
translation,
weasel words
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