Archive for August 2006
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Networking without Walls or Boundaries
August 31st, 2006 |Making Online and Offline Connections looks at how the virtual world changed how we connect to others. In it, I state that the online world made it possible for me to become a full-time freelancer. It got me thinking how I met people in this virtual world. I met a few through blogs, especially in earlier [...]
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Making Online and Offline Connections
August 31st, 2006 |David Strom talks about online networking and living in a virtual world. I feel the same way he does. In fact, I met all of my clients through online resources and networking. I just got my first local client, but she found me online and we have no plans to meet face-to-face (f2f). Thank goodness for [...]
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Backup Lessons Learned
August 30th, 2006 |Back online at my main PC. Still shaky from the whole experience. What we had to do (Paul is my hero) is repair Windows. In doing so (thanks to Scotty), we learned that Netscape and Firefox hijacked some of the DLL files. Why is this happening? We also learned that SyncToy and Carbonite don’t like each [...]
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Backup Test Time
August 29th, 2006 |Looks like the hard drive died. I don’t know what happened as when I got on the computer, the login screen appeared in low-resolution. After fiddling with it and watching the PC freeze — I had no choice but to turn it off. What’s really annoying is that my network hard drive was off for the [...]
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Businesses and Customer Feedback
August 28th, 2006 |Starbucks originally served whole milk and didn’t offer other milk options until after receiving customer feedback rather than making the decision without customer influence due to dietary trends. Paul of Idea Sandbox patronized a local coffee shop that serves only whole milk and won’t change. But that local coffee shop doesn’t have the disadvantage of having [...]
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Dictionary.com Redesign
August 25th, 2006 |I like the new look over at Dictionary.com. It loads faster and works smoothly. One complaint — click the Thesaurus tab. Now is that ugly mustard yellow or what? It bothers my eyes. I like the blue and green under the Dictionary and Reference tabs just fine. And an added bonus: no tables! Usually I try, “define: [...]
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KFC New Famous Bowls
August 25th, 2006 |This Is Broken looks at KFC’s ad for its “NEW! KFC famous bowls.” The submitter correctly points out that you can’t be “new” and “famous” at the same time. One reader says games can become famous before they ever hit the market. True. Look at Nintendo’s Brain Age and Big Brain Academy. My mom was [...]
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Plagiarism Problems
August 24th, 2006 |Let’s be careful out there!(TM) takes a creative approach in encouraging readers to avoid plagiarizing — almost the whole article, or letter, uses content from resources and attributes every single one. How can people think of stealing another person’s work even before the Internet? I suppose they thought they’d never get caught, but it isn’t [...]
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You Can’t Please Everyone
August 23rd, 2006 |Marcia Yudkin’s The Marketing Minute newsletter refers to a story The New Yorker’s cartoon editor Robert Mankoff told in his book, The Naked Cartoonist: A New Way to Enhance Your Creativity. Robert Mankoff, cartoon once set out to find a cartoon that nearly everyone who had any sense of humor would find funny. He sent what he [...]
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About Pages
August 22nd, 2006 |Your About Page Is a Robot caught my attention especially since I’ve been reviewing over 100 sites in a specific industry. Some don’t have About pages, some had them — but they were not helpful, and a select few succeeded. The About page also gives your company a human touch. What your About page should contain [...]
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