Listen to me on the latest Wake Up Late with Dougie Show – Apr 28, 2015 with Dougie Almeida, Jon Levine, & Minda

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Welcome to
the Wake Up Late with Dougie Show
. 
Join Dougie & today’s co-hosts, Jon Levine & Minda, as they
spend the morning discussing; Dougie’s trip to New York & Minnesota, The
challenges of communicating, the earthquake in Nepal & the riots in
Baltimore.

Straight
From the Headlines:
“TV Ratings: Bruce Jenner Interview Nabs 16.9
Million Viewers” &

“Chipotle goes GMO-free in first for U.S. fast-food sector”

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Coming Up Short #12

Coming Up Short with Jon Levine and Eric Rosenblum

Eric is in the Big Apple which means Jon is in the studio with a very special guest co-host, Jacky Beren. Jacky and Jon are joined this week by our in-studio guest, Tim Hanlon and we discuss with Tim his start in comedy and subsequent rise to working comic over the course of the last five years. 
Tim also shares his thoughts and advice on how to succeed in the comedy world, keys to being comfortable on stage and the importance of setting and achieving goals. 
Tim, Jacky and Jon also give a quick shout out to our Standup Spotlight of the week, Travis Allen, the oldest looking young comedian in the scene. 
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Listen to me on the latest Wake Up Late with Dougie Show – Apr 21,2015 with Dougie Almeida, Jon Levine, & Minda

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Welcome to
the Wake Up Late with Dougie Show
. 
Join Dougie & today’s co-hosts, Jon Levine & Minda.  Listen in as they discuss such things as;
Mondays should be optional, Game of Thrones, Jon is determined to find boudoir
photos of Dougie taken with one of his ex-girlfriends, The agony of getting hit
in the nuts, Dougie has Jon & Minda compete to come up with a joke from a
recent news topic, & Dougie admits to wearing certain funny clothes in the
80s

Straight
From the Headlines:
  “There’s
Apparently A Japanese Game Show Where Contestants Get Hand jobs While Singing
Karaoke”, “Woman in online relationship beats man with bat at first meeting”,
“Weird Bright Spots on Dwarf Planet Ceres Still a Mystery in New Maps”,
“Police, Officials Resign After Small Missouri Town Elects First Black Female
Mayor”, & “Astronomers have found ‘the largest structure ever identified by
humanity’ and it’s a giant hole”

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Coming Up Short #11

Coming Up Short with Jon Levine and Eric Rosenblum

Eric and Jon are sans guest this week, so they get down to the nitty-gritty and talk about all kinds of cool stuff. From Kevin Smith’s recent show at the Improv, Eric’s upcoming trip to New York, Jon’s Tuesday night gig at a gay bar and Eric’s plan to woo hot audience members with his wily charms. 

Our Standup Spotlight this week is a good friend of the show, Dennis Howe.  

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Proper Email Technique

emailI know this might sound kind of dumb or even come off as condescending, but I feel I need to drop a little knowledge on proper email technique when it comes to ‘To’, ‘CC’, and ‘BCC’. I find that these are rarely used properly and thought I might try to do my part to change that.

Obviously, the simplest email is 1:1. Jon emails Bill. Bill’s name goes in the ‘To’ field. Done.

I think were it gets a bit confusing is when there’re multiple recipients and how those recipients relate to the message. So, for example, if I want to say something to Bill, Susan, and Claire, I would put all of their names in the ‘To’ field. I would also address the email to all of them, e.g, “Dear Bill, Susan and Claire” or “Hi all”.  I would not put one name in the ‘To’ field and the other’s in the ‘CC’ field while speaking to all of them.

If I want to say something to Bill, but I want to make Susan and Claire aware of what I’m telling him, then I’d put Bill’s name in the ‘To’ field and Susan and Claire in the ‘CC’ field. The message would be addressed only to Bill. In this instance, I’m not speaking to Susan and Claire, just letting them listen in on the conversation with Bill’s knowledge.

If I want to say something to Bill and let Claire and Susan listen in on the conversation without Bill’s knowledge, then I’d put Bill in the ‘To’ field and Susan and Claire in the ‘BCC’ field. This would let them see the email I send to Bill, but without him knowing.

And in case you’re wondering, and not old like me, CC stands for Carbon Copy, which is how things used to be duplicated back in the day. There would literally be a sheet of carbon in between two pieces of paper and when you wrote on the top sheet, it would make a ‘carbon copy’ on the bottom sheet. Some written forms still use this method, but it’s rare. BCC stands for Blind Carbon Copy, with the blind referring to the recipient’s lack of knowledge about the other people seeing the copy.

I hope this helps!