First, let’s address the elephant in the room. You’re probably anxious to see who won my $200 solopreneur prize pack giveaway. As you may recall, the prize package includes Adwords credit, a domain registration, and some other goodies. I used a number generator to select the winner at random and…
Congratulations goes out to Jon Strocel! You are the winner. Please use the contact form to send me your mailing address and I’ll ship it out right away. Thanks again to everyone who entered.
Next, it’s time to acknowledge some of the people who make the Beyond the Rhetoric community what it is. These are the top thinkers who left the most comments over the course of August 2010. Without their active participation in the discussions, this blog might feel like I’m screaming into a vacuum (and that can’t be good). The top five commentators are linked below, as well as blog posts from their respective sites.
Ray Ebersole has been very busy with the beginning of the school year and understandably hasn’t had the time to update his blog lately. That doesn’t mean that you can’t keep up with what’s doing. That’s why you should follow him on Twitter and, well, read his comments on Beyond the Rhetoric too. 🙂
D3so is very interested in the world of Internet marketing, so you’ll learn that his blog has a lot to do with that realm. Recently, he discusses how you can create a squeeze page in just minutes. The guys at Unique Blog Designs have a lot to do with this ease of use, but it’s up to you to capitalize on it.
Betshopboy is a pretty big fan of soccer (which everyone else in the world calls football), so it’s not at all surprising that he wants to meet Wayne Rooney. He’s been invited to participate in the Tiger Beer regional online influencer challenge and part of the prize is traveling to England to meet the Manchester United striker.
Ekaterina has a blog for the women of Vancouver, addressing many of the issues that may surround their lives. For instance, she recently discussed how it is very possible to care too much and how you can go about overcoming this “self-insecurity.”
AOA, who I think is named Chang Guohua based on the domain name, looks like a professional translator. The website is completely in Chinese and I am nowhere near fluent in the written language. I can’t read the title or the content, but the URL leads me to believe that the most recent post is about English verbs and conjunctions. Am I right?
Thanks for the shout! I wanted my blog to be somewhat universal but it seems it’s drifting toward the MMO niche 😛
Congrats to Jon for winning!
Michael, thank you for Google Adwords credit.
Thanks Michael! Much appreciated!
Thanks for the shout out!
Going to England to watch a live Premier League football game is defintiely one of the things I want to do before I die.
Yes, exactly. It’s about a simple-looking sentence taken from a press release. Two of my company’s top English-to-Chinese translators botched up its translation. So I examined it in my post. In English language learning, Chinese people (Chinese Chinese, actually) sometimes have difficulties understanding that certain English verbs mean that the actions they refer to have already been DONE. For example, (in the case of the sentence), if you served a second term of presidency, you completed serving it.
You’re right, Michael. I’m a professional translator. I also run a translation firm out of Beijing. My company serves industry-leading companies and organizations, including Porsche, nVidia, Amway, U.N.’s International Labor Organizations, China’s ministry-level State Administration for Industry and Commerce, to drop only a few names.
Actually, I also have an English blog at http://changguohua.com/e.
Keep going, Michael. I like your blog a lot and have already taken to checking it regularly!
Right on. If your company ever needs a pair of “Western eyes” (even though they’re ethnically Chinese eyes) to take a look at the translations, feel free to contact me. 🙂
The biggest problem is you won’t like the idea of spending in Canada what you earn in China. On a relative basis, Chinese Yuan is too cheap.
Thanks for the link Michael….Another busy week, but it is slowing down as the students and teachers settle in.