Happy 4th to Americans and Happy belated Canada Day.
Email going around with this. “At 5 minutes and 6 seconds after 4 a.m.,on the 8th of July, this year, the time and date will be:
04:05:06am on 07-08-09
“This will not happen again until the year 3009.” You can say the same for the ones [...]
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I started writing a post about Twitter this morning. Then I realized, the post would work for one of my clients and moved it there. My clients come first, which makes it harder to produce high quality blog entries for my own blog.
And I am not about to abandon this place after [...]
Easy on the Hooptedoodle: How to be invisible when writing a book. You know… show instead of tell. [Link: The Blood-Red Pencil]
Exposing Some Myths About Blogging Pay Rates
7 Ways to Rediscover Your Dreams
Book Marketing 2.0: 5 ways you can use Web 2.0 tools to promote your book
Namechk: See if a user name is available across [...]
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I love participating in Twitter chats. These bring together intelligent individuals with a common interest yet each one adds something unique to the conversation. I’ve already covered how to join Twitter chats. This post looks at the process of participating in the chat.
#journchat set many of the standards that other chats have [...]
Social Media and “The Flight Attendant Effect”: Excellent analogy that makes great sense. [Link: Scott Blitstein
Five Levels Of Social Media Responses [Link: Dawn Foster]
Children’s book writing month at Tumblemoose: Lots of advice, articles, videos and guests.
Tweeting for profits: How retailers and other businesses are taking advantage of Twitter.
And for fun because we’re allowed…
Darth McVader: This [...]
Read the rest of "Links: Juneteenth 2009 Edition" ...This guest post is from Ben Johnson of Logoinn, a custom logo design service provider based in UK.
Your logo is the proverbial “calling card” for your business. The appearance, style and design of your business logo will be responsible for the all-important first impression to a potential customer or client.
Understanding the importance of [...]
Yesterday was my 20th wedding anniversary. Wow. Two decades of marriage. I’m very lucky to have Paul as a partner in life, parenting and silliness. Yes, I’m up for many more! I just hope he can handle me!
What books do people proselytize about?
10 steps to get your e-mail inbox to zero every day [Link: Aliza [...]
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I had surgery last week (doing fine, thank you), so I prepared ahead of time not knowing how much time I would miss work and blogging. I had no desire or energy to work for three days. By the fourth day, I could do a little work. Yesterday (one week after the [...]
More fun reads than biz reads as I recover from surgery and can barely handle the heavy-duty thinking.
10 Golden Lessons from Steve Jobs [Link: Pamela Poole]
Series of articles on how people use a computer with different disabilities (look to the right for more) [Link: Laura Carlson]
Test My Brain
RunPee: OK, admit it. You find yourself needing [...]
Christina Katz is the author of Get Known Before The Book Deal, Use Your Personal Strengths to Grow an Author Platform. She started her platform “for fun” seven years ago and ended up on “Good Morning America.” Christina teaches e-courses on platform development and writing nonfiction for publication. Her students are published in national magazines [...]
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