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1. Good Conversation Starters Good conversation starters put people at ease immediately. That's how all good conversations start - when people feel comfortable and relaxed.To start a conversation like that is a skill - and you can learn it. Starting a conversation is often the m...
2. Gifts for Emily Dickinson Fans I admit to being a bit squeemish about Emily Dickinson gifts other than books of the poems or letters, which are my favorites. In preparing this lens, I enjoyed taking books about Dickinson which I haven't looked at for a while off their shelves...
3. Google vs. Yahoo -- Which SIDE Are You On? GOOGLE vs. YAHOO -- Which side are you on? I must confess that I am a die-hard fan of Google, despite the minor slap to Squidoo in the summer of 2007. I watched my lenses take a tremendous nose-dive in rankings, but it looks like we've kissed an...
4. Funny Conversation Starters Funny conversation starters can be a risky business, but they can also add interest and sparkle to your conversations. People like, listen to and trust people who make them laugh. Get your conversation off to a great start by making people laugh stra...
5. Putting Words in My Mouth(s) Surely you have heard the time-honored expression of "putting words in my mouth." Yes? Well, today we are going to have a little fun exercise with the caption me photographs. See how well you do with "putting words in my mouth(s)."...
6. pick-up lines Pick up Lines are nothing more than jokes to introduce yourself to a stranger, so take your time and have some fun. Just get the other person to laugh and have a nice conversation. This collection of memorable Pick-up Lines is a great reminder that...
7. Who is Howie Schwartz? When Dr. Mike Woo-Ming Lead Evolution) and Howie Schwartz (Lead Supreme3.0) started working on some Internet Marketing strategies together and became partners was when we first met Howie. Howie Schwartz is like no one whom we had ever met before. Hi...
8. Interesting Topics of Conversation Don't panic. You can be interesting. Interesting topics of conversation needn't be difficult to come think of. Think about this - what makes a topic interesting? Isn't it that people like to talk about it and that they have opinions on it? Once you realiz...
9. Changing Body Language? Looking Fake?!? If our body doesn't respond to what our mouth are telling, it would be hard to convince someone in our words. That's truth! But, is it really possible to change all the signs that our body is giving - fear, discomfort, boredom, defensiveness, etc. Do...
10. Icebreakers Whenever a group of people who are relative strangers are brought together for a class, meeting, or other function it can be helpful to plan an organized activity to break the ice and make it a more friendly and less intimidating atmosphere so the gr...
11. How To Make Small Talk When You Are Afraid To Talk I spent ten years teaching, training, and coaxing Japanese students to build their confidence in starting a conversation when they are afraid to talk. The teaching, the training, and the coaxing still continues. Which leads me to this lens. You're...
12. 8 More Reasons For You To Pick Skype At Work How do you get explosive productivity from VoIP? Strategic advantage? Delighted employees, partners and customers?   As the managing editor of Skype Journal, I'm asked this question all the time. As an online publication we work with people from...
13. Conversation-Fillers-That-Are-Annoying I want to make people aware of what they're saying and when they're saying it, with the thought in mind of how they're coming across to others. I know that when you are having a conversation with someone, you don't always know what you're going to sa...
14. Social Etiquette in Conversation Social etiquette in conversation isn't about being posh or speaking with a plum in your mouth. It's about simple good manners. What's most important is that you put the person you're talking to at ease and that they feel as though they had chance to...
15. Autism Symptoms Autism is a brain disorder that is frequently marked by the inability of a person to respond to social and physical cues like other members of society. The thinking pattern of an autistic person works in different ways from those without it, although...
16. Are You Ridiculously Charming? Well, of course you are! But who's going to know unless you tell people how ridiculously charming you really are? We've found just the way, by wearing Ridiculously Charming(tm) products and apparel. Nothing says you're ridiculously charming like R...
17. Questions to Start a Conversation Starting a conversation with someone you don't know well is a scary business. You probably stand and watch the room full of strangers, hoping desperately that someone will talk first - anyone but you. You don't know if you'll be ignored or what recep...
18. learn to speak a new language "The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet." - Lord Chesterfield There are so many good reasons for learning how to speak a foreign language: to better enjoy travel to investigate a possible new home to...
19. Life Interrupted -- Yours, Mine and Ours! Ladies and gentlemen, I don't want to sound like Henny Penny saying the 'sky is falling,' but have you not noticed that we have got issues these days? Can you not seriously say that you have experienced a Life Interrupted or you know of s...
20. Don't Bite Your Tongue Don't Bite Your Tongue, by Ruth Nemzoff, is a trailblazer for parents and their adult sons and daughters while we cope with the 21st century's shifting definitions of family. "Nemzoff focuses on the positive ways parents and adult children can add m...