"In this Business English Pod episode we’re going to look at making a verbal progress report during a meeting.

"Even though plenty of consumers have discarded SMS in favor of WhatsApp and now Snapchat, Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project reports that texting is fast becoming the way consumers want to communicate.

"In recent years Facebook has been mocked for copying key aspects of Twitter: hashtags, @ tagging, lists and more.

"This is the second in a two-part Business English Pod series on motivating your team.

"In this lesson, we’ll look at some ways to motivate your team.

"When you introduce a new person by email, you can spark great new relationships if you share more than name and contact information.

"This is the second in a two-part Business English Podcast lesson on resolving conflict, in which we’ve been focusing on solving everyday disagreements in the office.

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"People do not always get along, so dealing with conflict is part of any job.

"This is it.

Recently Gmail began dividing its incoming email into 3 inboxes - primary, social (Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest), and promotional (newsletters, retail offers, etc.

"It's the Internet of the Ephemeral—the side of the Internet that gives us Snapchat and Confide and other apps that owe their popularity not just to the fact that they are not Facebook, but also to the fact that they trade, specifically, on their impermanence.

According to Naomi Garnice (photo, left) of the Daily Muse, "Considering that email is the primary form of communication in most offices, we don't always choose our written words as wisely as we should.

"Forget distinguishing the salad fork from the dinner fork.

"Understandably, for many students, email is a venue of freedom and distance from academic considerations.

"This second part of a two-part Business English Podcast series on running and participating in a problem-solving meeting.

"One of the most common reasons for holding a meeting is to solve a problem.

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"Knowledge seldom takes the place of experience.

"In this intermediate Business English Pod lesson, we look at ways to give and ask for opinions.

Shel Israel (photo, left) shares his 12 tips.

"If you're like most professionals, you probably write dozens of emails a day but barely think about the subject line.

"This is the first in a three-part Business English Pod series that explores the use of many different language techniques in the context of a merger.

"As a non-native speaker of English, you might often find yourself in situations like this: You’re sitting in a meeting or a teleconference, and some of the participants are native English speakers.