Comments on: Friday smorgasbord: 4 how-to's

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 17:42:59 +0000

I cannot say enough how much I love the Visual Thesaurus. I stumbled across it while taking an advanced expository writing class. The free trial got me through for a while, but I decided I would need it for other classes and writing too.

Thanks for sharing so much information.

Mark

By: Ryan

Ryan — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 04:19:58 +0000

Hi Penelope,

Thanks for the kind words about dotherightthing. The site was also featured in the NY Times, following the post from Mike A on TechCrunch, and I have been doing lots of interviewing lately… yet have to apologize to the world for getting buried in grant applications and fund-related activities for the past couple weeks.

Thanks for the support and sharing our vision that one day dotherightthing will become influential enough to change the ways companies act, in order to be recognized for doing the right thing (I am most excited by the opportunity to reveal the noteworthy companies that do tremendous things to benefit society, which receive little or no recognition today, although the negative stuff will be interesting and likely popular as well). Just wait until we are tracking 5, 10, 50, 100, 200, 1000 companies in real time… and we have plenty up our sleeve to get things interesting. We're just getting started.

All my best,
Ryan
[dotherightthing.com/users/ryan](http://dotherightthing.com/users/ryan)

By: Adam

Adam — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 18:46:52 +0000

In concurrence with Stever's thoughts, I also find it to be a pet peeve when a signature takes half a page and includes everything just short of a SS# and blood type. Maybe it is a coincidence (at least in my observations of internal email), but it seems these very same folks with the long and possibly boastful signatures are the ones that are unqualified for the position they are in and thus trying hard to convince themselves and others of who they are. How often have you asked yourself, "How did this one become a VP?" and come to realize it is somebody who’s simply well connected? The converse also holds true as well because those who are competent and confident in their role generally keep their signatures extremely brief if any at all. Anyway, I’ve noticed this coincidence at all levels of the career ladder.

P, thanks for the light-hearted article on a Friday. Have a good weekend!

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This is a very funny comment, Adam. Thanks.

Also, you make me want to study signatures to see if I your theory holds true for my contacts.

–Penelope

By: Noel Jensen

Noel Jensen — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 17:42:23 +0000

Ouch! I know that most business people hate the Comic Sans font. Anyway, I have hearing that for years. (I used it for a group paper when I was working on my MBA and was torn up by my compatriots. However, I don't think that it affected our grade.)

By: Stever

Stever — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 17:37:14 +0000

I always hate when people have the 7 line signatures that get posted on reply also. Even worse is when these people only work with people internal to their organization!

By: omstrategy

omstrategy — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 17:12:59 +0000

hi, Penelope, how are you?

Thanks for those - I particularly enjoyed the fonts article.

I just wanted to post a minor correction: While wikihow uses software that was created for wikipedia, the two aren't directly related.

Have a great weekend,

daniel