Archive for June 2007
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Criticizing Book Reviewers
June 29th, 2007 |Denny Hatch criticizes book reviewers proclaiming they reveal too much information. Whether you agree or not, I follow these rules in writing book reviews: Honest: I try to provide an overview of the reading experience including the content without the marketing speak you find on the back of the book or inside the cover. In reading [...]
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Answering Weaknesses Questions
June 28th, 2007 |Job interviews. Client interviews. Reporter interviews. The inevitable “What are your weak areas?” comes up. You’re not expected to be perfect. Yes, it’s true — no matter what your family tells you (my oldest won’t believe me when I tell her that I don’t expect her to be perfect). Joyce Lain Kennedy, career expert, shared [...]
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Gemsweeper PC Game Review
June 28th, 2007 |After playing a few rounds of Gemsweeper, I realized the game resembles Sudoku. You don’t fill in numbers, but you apply a similar strategy in trying to find the hidden gems and uncover the blanks. Paul, my significant other, said upon watching me play, “Hey, Minesweeeper look-alike!” Minesweeper wasn’t my game. I preferred Solitaire over Minesweeper [...]
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Business Plan or Die
June 27th, 2007 |A few years ago, I started working on a business plan. I even sought a SCORE counselor. But nothing materialized with the business plan. I’m not looking to grow, add employees or any of that. I simply want to do what I enjoy and work with clients that I can support. I do. I’m lucky that [...]
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Death By PowerPoint Book Review
June 27th, 2007 |The book begins with absorbing insight into the life of the drones and queen bees. The queen bee sits all day while her slaves service her and feed her royal jelly that no one else can have. Who knew the world of bees could be fascinating and resemble the corporate world? Death By PowerPoint takes a [...]
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Usable Content Management Systems
June 26th, 2007 |A large nonprofit organization uses Kintera.com to ensure all of its Web sites contain the same look and feel while providing volunteers and employees an easy way to update the Web pages. Unfortunately, Kintera isn’t easy to use. It also has a ghost in its word processor. In trying to fix a bulleted list, the [...]
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Mystery of Shark Island PC Game Review
June 26th, 2007 |For the most part, Mystery of Shark Island is a hidden objects game, but it takes a different approach. Most hidden objects games use still photos. This one takes you to the beach where waves sweep in the objects you need to find. The start of the game wasn’t impressive. Hunt, find, click. Hunt, find, click. [...]
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How To Brainstorm Domain Names
June 25th, 2007 |On occasion, I get an assignment from a specific client that includes brainstorming company names as well as finding potential matching domain names. Lifehack has a nice article on How To Brainstorm Domain Names. When I brainstorm names that need domain names, here are things I keep in mind: Avoid words where the end of one [...]
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Chocolatier PC Game Review
June 25th, 2007 |Thank goodness this doesn’t come with smells like the upcoming My Name Is Earl smell-o-vision episode then it would be impossible to play without craving chocolate. You may want to play Chocolatier on a full stomach with the graphics clearly showing every delicious ingredient in the 60 different kinds of bars, squares, infusions and truffles. The [...]
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Ten Most Hated Words on the Internet
June 22nd, 2007 |OK, if this poll by British pollsters of YouGov is accurate — then prepare to cringe. The ten most hated words on the Internet — based on a poll of 2,091 adults — reports the following words making the list: folksonomy blogosphere blog netiquette blook webinar vlog social networking cookie wiki Folksonomy earns its rightful place on the top. Can’t tell you how much work it [...]
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