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businessbullpen:

Tired of looking up the same words in the AP Stylebook and the Yahoo! Style Guide, I recently put together a mini dictionary of technical terms. This not only has saved me some time, it’s helped me to establish a house style for Business Bullpen (although more commonly found in publishing houses, I highly recommend one of these bad boys to any company or organization that takes their written communications seriously).

I also learned a few things in the process, like, okay, did you know it’s not “upper-left-hand navigation” or “right-hand column”? It’s just “upper-left navigation” or “right column”—no hands! (I’m definitely guilty of this one.)

• add-on (n., adj.), add on (v.)
• backup (n., adj.), back up (v.)
• CD-R
• cell phone
• clickthrough (adj.), click through (v.)
• crowdsource (adj.), crowdsourcing (v.)
• data (takes singular verb)
• decision making (n.), decision-making (adj.)
• do’s and don’ts
• email (not e-mail)
• file name (not filename)
• Google (not okay to use as a verb)
• high speed (n.), high-speed (adj.)
• homepage
• how-to (adj., n.), how-tos
• IM (n., adj., v.), IMs, IM’ed, IM’ing
• instant message (n.), instant-message (adj., v.)
• intranet (lowercase)
• ISP, ISPs
• Internet
• keyword, key word (n.)

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