Netiquette 101: Don’t Plagiarize

Look, we know there is nothing new under the sun. We’re not nearly as original as we think we are, sitting in our offices, living rooms, or airport lobbies while firing off wisdom nuggets for our blogs.

How many times have I posted a brilliant blog post, only to then go to catch up on three days worth of RSS blog feeds and find that someone else just posted about the same topic? It happens to all of us… heck, many of us are reading one another’s stuff regularly, so it’s bound to happen… we have each others’ words imprinted on our collective subconscious! Sometimes we do it on purpose in order to build off of an idea.

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