Destroy Role Models: Why Female Characters Don’t Need to Be ‘Good’
Female Characters = Role Models?? NO THANKS If I never hear the term ‘good role models’ applied to female characters ever again, it won’t be a moment too soon! When was the last time you heard a male character described as a good role model? Yeah, exactly —…
https://bang2write.com/2025/05/destroy-role-models-why-female-characters-dont-need-to-be-good.html
Journalists Damon Kiesow & Jeff Jarvis write about community and audience, echoing key distinctions between peer and traditional conferences
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2024/02/community-audience
#journalism #community #audience #media #meetings #eventprofs
I thought about how amateur pianist may get an #audience to play to. There’s a wonderful website https://airportpianos.org/ where one can find a publicly available piano. More so, all your listeners will pay dearly for the tickets.
With that said, i will be performing on Saturday, 7am local time at Boston Logan International Airport. Mark your calendars! See attached picture for seating map.
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Tim Legler Breaks Down Lakers Game 4 Loss To Timberwolves | 4/28/25 https://www.rawchili.com/4225606/ #AT&T #Audience #Baseball #basketball #college #DanPatrick #Danettes #DIRECTV #DpShow #Football #fritzy #HotTake #ManCave #mancave #mclovin #MinnesotaTimberwolves #MinnesotaTimberwolves #MLB #NBA #ncaa #NFL #PaulPabst #paulie #perloff #SetonO'connor #sports #SuperBowl #TheDanPatrickShow #ToddFritz
https://www.lovenba.com/1576677/ Tim Legler Breaks Down Lakers Game 4 Loss To Timberwolves | 4/28/25 #AT&T #Audience #Baseball #Basketball #college #DanPatrick #Danettes #DIRECTV #DpShow #Football #fritzy #HotTake #LosAngelesLakers #ManCave #mancave #mclovin #MLB #NBA #ncaa #NFL #PacificDivision #PaulPabst #paulie #perloff #SetonO'connor #Sports #SuperBowl #TheDanPatrickShow #ToddFritz #WesternConference
10 Brutal Writing Lessons You’ll Wish You Learned Sooner (I’m Not Kidding)
10 Brutal Writing Lessons I’m not a fan of the term ‘brutal honesty’. This is because too often, the person being honest is paying more heed to the brutality than the honesty. Yuk. No thanks! That said, sometimes we all need a hardcore reality…
https://bang2write.com/2025/04/10-brutal-writing-lessons-youll-wish-you-learned-sooner-im-not-kidding.html
"Know your #audience. Be patient but never give up. As an example, twenty-five years ago I wrote a #story about a frightful old lady who lived in the middle of a swamp. I sent the story to over 30 #publishers during those 25 years, and I received eight rejection letters; the other publishers did not bother to reply..."
#Read our #interview with #writer Thom Schilling in issue 16:
#writerslife #writingcommunity #readingcommunity #bookstadon #writersofmastodon
https://onceuponacrocodile.wordpress.com/interviews/interview-thom-schilling/
Be your own #Audience for your work-in-progress. Use morning pages or a #WasteBook to chronicle your efforts. Blog about it if you like. Nothing clarifies the mind like putting your failure out there for all the internet to see. (p. 103)
🚀 #May is packed with amazing opportunities to #engage your #audience with meaningful #content. From Mother's Day 💖 to #StarWarsDay 🌌, there are plenty of chances to connect, inspire, and have fun! 📅 Here are some key dates to keep in mind 👇
BREAKING: Ipsos news rankings for March are out today, and Guardian Australia is the 4th most read news site in Australia. That’s our record-equalling highest ever position. Thanks so much to the 8.7 MILLION Australians who read Guardian Australia in March!
That’s 1.2m more Australians than in February, and the highest audience month on record for Guardian Australia since Ipsos Iris launched in January 2023. Nobody has left or entered the Top10. GdnAus has overtaken 7News and Daily Mail, but the ranking order is otherwise identical. ABC News stays No1 with 13.3m readers, newscomau 2nd with 12.4m and Nine 3rd with 10.9m
Outside of the Top10, Courier-Mail had a very big month with Cyclone Alfred coverage to rise from 19th to 13th in the rankings. The West Australian and Daily Telegraph return to the Top20, while The Nightly drops out. A very big month of news with every listing in the Top20 (other than BBC) seeing month-on-month growth.
For context, GdnAus and SMH are pretty much constantly jockeying for No6 & 7 rankings. This is a ‘record-equalling’ highest ever ranking for GdnAus because we were ranked 4th (under Nielsen rankings) in March 2020.
https://www.fogolf.com/945563/why-hasnt-aaron-rodgers-signed-with-a-team-yet-4-21-25/ Why Hasn’t Aaron Rodgers Signed With A Team Yet? | 4/21/25 #att #Audience #baseball #basketball #college #DanPatrick #Danettes #DIRECTV #DpShow #football #fritzy #HotTake #ManCave #mancave #mclovin #mlb #nba #ncaa #nfl #PatrickRodgers #PaulPabst #paulie #perloff #PGAOfficialWorldGolfRanking #PGARanking #SetonO'connor #sports #SuperBowl #TheDanPatrickShow #ToddFritz
Listen to "Content That Converts: A Step by Guide to Mastering Audience Engagement (AE) for SEO Success | Part Three" by Content That Converts: Guide to Mastering Audience Engagement (AE) for SEO Success. https://creators.spotify.com/pod/show/momenul-ahmad/episodes/Content-That-Converts-A-Step-by-Guide-to-Mastering-Audience-Engagement-AE-for-SEO-Success--Part-Three-e31oe6n
#content #audience #audienceengagement #research #contentmarketing #seosiri #momenulahmad
4 Ways The Hunger Games Books & Movies Subvert Expectations Sensitively
All About The Hunger Games I’m a huge fan of The Hunger Games. If you’ve read the 2023 update of my Thriller Screenplays book, you’ll know the first book and movie is a case study there. As an example of ‘The Hero’s Journey’ plotting…
https://bang2write.com/2025/04/4-ways-the-hunger-games-books-movies-subvert-expectations.html
#audience #books #boxoffice #casestudy #characterrolefunctions
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Understanding Behavioral Segmentation Variables for Targeted Marketing
Dive into the key #Behavioralsegmentationvariables that drive successful #marketing #strategies Learn how actions, preferences, and habits shape customer targeting. Read more at AdSpyder. https://adspyder.io/behavioral-segmentation-of-customers/
#customersegmentiation #segmentation #audience #customerbehavior
Generative AI and the Anxieties of Academic Writing
I’ve been a blogger for as long as I’ve been an academic writer, even if I’ve been a writer for longer than I’ve been a blogger. After two decades of regular blogging, on a succession of strange and deeply personal spaces before launching my current blog in 2010, it was difficult for me to untangle the relationship between blogging and writing. I’d written on many occasions about the role of blogging in my enjoyment of writing, suggesting that it provided a forum in which ideas could be worked out in a public relationship to a slightly nebulous audience (Carrigan 2019). If I return to the end of my part-time PhD I can see that I understood this relationship in terms of a freedom from constraint, reflecting in Carrigan (2014) that “Blogging was a release from the all the structure pressures corroding the creative impulse” which “helped me make my peace with the jumping through hoops that a modern academic career unavoidably entails”. The fact that “I can write whatever the hell I want here” helped me “feel better about subjugating what I want to write to instrumental considerations elsewhere”.
In other words, it helped me find a particular way of trying together my internal and external motivations. It provided a forum for craft writing, passionate writing motivated purely by my own interests, as opposed to the extrinsically motivated writing which I imagined defined the priorities of the working academic. It left me with a stark opposition between what I wanted to do and what I had to do, treating the former as a palliative which made the latter more bearable. Ten years later at a mid-career stage, this compromise no longer seems tenable to me and I find it strange that it ever did. It suggests to me a difficulty in reconciling oppositions, as if something could be done entirely for my own reasons or entirely to please others but the two clusters of motivations could never meet.
This tension between writing for ourselves and writing for others sits at the heart of many academic anxieties. It’s also precisely the space where generative AI now intervenes, promising to smooth over the difficulties and frictions that define our relationship with writing. Are you present when you are writing? Or are you somewhere else? Are you feeling an energy to the words as you are writing them? Or are you watching the clock, literally or figuratively, waiting to meet your target or for the time you’ve carved out to elapse? These questions about presence and engagement become even more pressing when AI tools offer to take over the aspects of writing we find most challenging. The parts where we struggle, where we feel most distant from our words, are exactly where the temptation to outsource becomes strongest.
I’ve drawn attention throughout this book to the audience we are addressing (or failing to) through our writing. For many academic writers, this sense of audience can be overwhelming as a vector of expectation. How will I please them? What if they don’t like what I’ve written? What if I’m not taken seriously? These expectations are filtered through real encounters from the notorious reviewer two, through to encouraging supervisor or the dismissive colleague at a seminar. These encounters might be mediated or predicated upon inaction, such as the paper which goes determinedly uncited by others, even as the view count slowly ratchets up on the journal’s page. However they are often defined by an anticipatory anxiety in which these experiences mutate into a diffuse sense of what our professional community expects from us and what we feel we are able (or unable) to deliver to them through our writing. Even the functional writing which fills our days has an audience implicit within it. It’s not just that our emails, reports and forms will have readers, rather we are trying to influence or bring about an effect in them through what and how we write (Jones 2022: 9).
Often these intentions are so familiar and mundane that they operate beneath the surface, only becoming apparent to us when when we realise our email has been misconstrued or our form rejected for what is perceived as some mistake. But this doesn’t diminish the role of the audience, as much as it shows how these dynamics can be folded into the functional routines of the bureaucracies within which we work. If you see machine writing as a means to an end, you’re unlikely to enter into this dynamic. Instead you will approach this software as a way of producing something as quickly as possible, whether that’s a section of a document to ‘fill in the blanks’ or a complete text. As the philosopher Gillian Rose (1995) once described writing: “that mix of discipline and miracle, which leaves you in control, even when what appears on the page has emerged from regions beyond your control”. If we use conversational agents purely to expand our control, to enact our aspiration in ever more effective ways, we imperil our access to those ‘regions beyond our control’ from which inspiration emerges.
Tired of attendees making statements during question time? Here's how to handle a meeting question that isn't actually a question.
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2019/01/handling-questions
#meetings #EventDesign #audience #questions #rambling #NotAQuestion #eventprofs
Chute de 25% du taux de pénétration pour la SSR en Suisse
Sunny Deol Embraces OTT Debut to Expand Audience and Break Creative Barriers.
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https://blazetrends.com/sunny-deol-embraces-ott-debut-to-expand-audience-and-break-creative-barriers/?fsp_sid=12711
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