September 18, 2008

Episode 53: Mignon Fogarty aka “Grammar Girl”

In this episode of Horsepower we talk with podcaster and New York Times Best Selling Author, Mignon Fogarty. Mignon created the Quick and Dirty Tips Podcast network with her Grammar Girl Podcast and has risen to the top of the iTunes podcast directory. If you’ve searched for podcasts, you’ve no doubt seen her cheery cartoon icon gracing the list of most popular podcasts.

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Grammar Girl, the podcast, is quick and straightforward, giving you a memorable lesson on English usage and grammar. Each podcast is a few minutes long and deals with one issue. Though some topics are big and annoyingly ambiguous, Mignon keeps it simple by focusing on easy to remember rules and examples from common speech.

I met up with Mignon at Java Jungle in downtown Reno, Nevada. We all have special places where we work well and environments that inspire us, and Mignon does a lot of writing from the funky little coffee shop on the Truckee River.

One thing we are always concerned with as a messaging and marketing company is communication, readability and being able to get a point across. Mignon is all too familiar with the issues that social media and technology create for writing. While deemphasizing voice communication and relying on email, text messages, social media, migroblogging and whatever may come next, we have not only increased the amount of writing we do on a daily basis, but we have created multiple new protocols, paradigms and lexicons to go with them. Add on top of that the need to be concerned with how your writing will be indexed by search engines and you complicate the issue even more.

So while you’re driving to work in the morning plug in the iPod and catch up on your grammar with the Grammar Girl and think about all the writing, reading and listening you do.

Thanks for your time Mignon! It was great to meet you and interview another New York Times Best Selling Author (NYTBSA). If you’re in Reno, even if you’re not a NYTBSA, come see us; we’d love to chat about business, technology and communication.

-Mike

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