Anyone who’s been following this site for a while knows I occasionally like to re-tool some of my older articles, hopefully to make them more useful. I’ve done it again to one of the first pieces of writing I put up here:
The biggest change is there are now two main sections. One talking about being more fun, and another on how to avoid being less fun.
August 20th, 2008
Put a new article up:
Advice On Making Plans With People
August 18th, 2008
This is the first in what will be an ongoing series of posts. I’ll add new ones when I have a spare moment.
As far as I know, there aren’t many sites out there devoted totally to interpersonal skills. However, there are quite a few blogs that occasionally write about socializing, but mostly focus on a range of other personal development topics. Compared to other categories like productivity or finding your life’s purpose, social skills don’t get a ton of attention. One of these sites may only have a handful of articles on getting along with people in two years worth of archives.
What they do write though can be quite good. Each one of these posts will gather together the people skills articles from one of these sites.
The first site I’ll do is The Simple Dollar. It’s mainly about finances and paying off debt and whatnot, but when using StumbleUpon one day I came across a helpful article on it about creating a social network. I was impressed and went through the archives and found several more. Here they are:
Building a Powerful Social Network in Your Immediate Area
Investing in Yourself: Socializing and Networking
Seven Ways To Overcome Social Awkwardness That You Can Practice Anytime
Nine Social Skills To Practice - Even For The Socially Unskilled Like Myself
I didn’t list them here, but it also has a few entries relating to relationships and finances (i.e., what to do if your friends are more loose with their money than you).
August 1st, 2008
It’s been a while. Finally got a new crop of links to share:
Gayathri Moosad presents The Assertiveness - The ultimate people skill.
Tejvan Pettinger presents 10 Tips for Effective Conversation.
Mike King presents Better Communication: Listening for Improvement.
Ralph Jean-Paul presents How to Assert Yourself Effectively.
James Feudo presents Communication Success: The Cure for Over Communicating.
David B. Bohl presents 5 Signs You’re a Pleaser and What to Do About It.
Chris Edgar presents Are You Shaking Hands “The Right Way”?.
And that’s that. If you want to submit any of your own articles, you can do so here.
July 18th, 2008
New article:
Benefits Of Improving Your Social Skills, Even If You Don’t Care About Them
July 10th, 2008
New article is up:
Being Too Negative Can Hinder Your Social Success
May 19th, 2008
Here we go again:
Abnormaldiversity presents Different Types of Social Skills
Ivy and Amanda Preston present Social Skills: How Important Are They?
Purpose Power Coaching presents Assumption-Free Conversation
Sharp Brain Blog presents Social Connections for Cognitive Fitness
Daily Remedy presents Being Approachable
Between Us Girls presents Communication Skills: How to Speak and Be Heard
Potential 2 Success presents Be THE Presence In Any Room
Brad Bollenbach presents How To Get A Life
Tell It Like It Is presents Understanding Assertiveness: Getting The Respect You Deserve
That’s it for now. The next edition will be out when I’ve got another batch of good entries piled up in my inbox. You can apply here.
April 21st, 2008
New article is up:
When People Don’t Notice You’ve ChangedÂ
April 20th, 2008
Added a new article (after being away from the site last month):
March 30th, 2008
As I said at the beginning of year, I’ll still put up new editions of the Social Skills Carnival, just on a more random schedule. Here’s the latest one:
Adrian presents You Are a Social Actor Playing a Social Role
Lori Jewett presents Women Connecting/Relationships
Change Your Tree presents Newsflash: You Teach Others How To Treat You
A Journey of Dreams presents 12 Things You Can Do to Stop Being Self-Centered
Eve Turner presents Growing Conversation Skills
Clearly Envision presents Five actions you can take to gain the respect of others
Justin Duval presents The Essence of “US”
Be a Good Human presents How to make people think you care about them
That’s it. The next edition will be out whenever, probably in a month or two. Just submit your articles here and I’ll put up the ninth carnival at a good time.
February 27th, 2008
