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I hae added new material to the Communication web pages What's New: Success Tips Leadership Communication Articles PowerPoint Tips: Create invisible buttons Words of the Heart Book Review Portable Writing: The Secret to Living Your Dreams with 25 Projects to Fund Your Freedom communication, leadership, Writing

Music therapy develops communication

" ... Music therapists take advantage of the ways mind and body are stimulated when people listen to and make music to hone motor and brain functions, said Al Bumanis, spokesman for the American Music Therapy Association..." Read the whole article ... music therapy, communication

Multicultural Anthology

The Multicultural Writers Association of Australia is seeking submissions in prose (up to 5,000 words) and verse (up to 50 lines) for a national anthology. The anthology, with the proposed title 'Culture Is...' aims to share experiences of living in Australia.Submissions should be sent to:

The Secretary

Multicultural Writers Association of Australia

P O Box 192

Kent Town

SA 5071

Verse contributions can also be submitted via email: vbalnaves@hotmail.com

Further information is available from the Association's secretary, Vanessa Balnaves, at the above email or by phone, 0413 127 211.

From AustLit

Amnesty rebukes search engines

Human-rights group says filtered results hurt Chinese users Technology giants Yahoo, Google and Microsoft need to establish a stronger stance on human rights by revealing more details about how they're filtering information and cooperating with the government in China, Amnesty International said Thursday. Read on ... censorship

Kibble and Dobbie Awards for Women Writers Announced

From Austlit

Brenda Walker's The Wing of Night is the winner of the 2006 Nita B. Kibble Award.

The annual prize is awarded to a woman writer of 'a published book of fiction or nonfiction classifiable as "life writing".'

The Dobbie Award, a similar prize but for a first published book, went to Carrie Tiffany for Everyman's Rules for Scientific Living.

Walker was especially delighted with her win 'because it is a prize about women's connections, and my book is all about how rural women connected with each other when the men were away at war, and how the connections forced by the war led to unlikely alliances.' (Australian, 11 May 2006)

Judging panel chair Elizabeth Webby noted that 2006 was the first time in the Kibble's twelve-year history that all finalists were works of fiction. 'There have been several articles recently about the decline of literary fiction so it was a pleasure to see it was a particularly strong year for fiction.' (Sydney Morning Herald, 11 May 2006)

The other finalists were Heather Rose's The Butterfly Man and Kate Grenville's The Secret River

women writers, Australian literature

Website update

I have just updated the Communication web pages at Pivotal Points.

The new Success Tips are in Public Speaking and Communication.

The new articles are Practicing Servant-Leadership

and

What You Can Accomplish in 6 Minutes.

communication, public speaking, leadership, meetings