By Simon Stuchlik on how Verblio changed life for his family. Every person’s life contains a number of key moments–points in time that decide how the rest of your life will play out. Some of them are obvious milestones: your first kiss, graduating college, getting married. However, others are subtler. they influence your future while…
The optional use of the Oxford comma is often the subject of fierce debate, with many a friendship between dedicated grammarians left in shambles. Well, we’re putting ourselves out there and taking a stance: Verblio (formerly BlogMutt) loves the Oxford comma.
We’ve all felt it: the chagrin of discovering a typo in an important email, immediately after hitting “send”. It’s an awful feeling that we can easily spare ourselves if we proofread. So why don’t we proofread better? Because proofreading is slow work and we’re busy people—which was true even in the 17th century. Think of the poor…
The demands on today’s businesses have changed drastically. As a small business owner, especially, you no longer assume a single role within the company. Instead, you have to wear many hats, and that means adapting your skills to meet the constantly shifting needs of your business. As content becomes an increasingly important part of your marketing…
Even if you’re a punctilious writer who prides himself on never splitting an infinitive or ending a sentence with a preposition, chances are that you have grammar questions sometimes. We’ve all struggled to keep our homonyms, homophones, and homographs straight. Even experienced writers sometimes stop to think about “affect” vs. “effect”, or where a colon should be placed. Despite…
