19 Best Ads I Have Ever Seen: Wow. Impressive collection. [Link: Kottke] 100 Books Every Child Should Read: Grouped into three types: early years, middle years, and early teens. Mostly focused on British stuff. After all, it’s from a UK site. My third grader loved The Twits, [...]
Why You Should Outsource Content Creation: As a web content writer, I don’t write much about why companies should hire content writers since people will take my response as biased… but here’s input from someone else. [Link: Freelance Folder] List of Sites That Teach You How to Do [...]
The Best Kept Secret of Great Business Presentations: No PowerPoint templates allowed here. 100+ ways to organize your life. Step one: Read the article and pick one or two things to start with so you don’t feel overwhelmed. 70+ Lifehacks of 2007. I regularly visit [...]
It’s not PowerPoint’s fault that presentations have become boring and useless. After all, it just supplies the tools and it’s what we do with it that matters. Found this Hugh MacLeod PowerPuke cartoon that captures my thought perfectly. Sure, PowerPoint comes with templates. Again, people don’t customize the presentation for their audience’s needs. They just fill [...]
The Success Effect takes a different tack to many books with interviews by printing them in question and answer format. Such an approach doesn’t always succeed. However, Eckberg successfully culled great material from past interviews and put them together to create a conversational and educational resource. A chapter consists of an interview and interviews range from [...]
Ted Demopoulos and I had an interesting conversation about blog names back in 2006. He delves into the topic again with the following posts: My favorite blog name: His favorite is Escape from Cubicle Nation. He asks Seth Godin what he’d name his blog today if he were [...]
Design of Desire: On Thanksgiving, my daughter was talking to a family friend about her interest in psychology as a college major. We learned from one of the relatives that she knows a psychology who works at a major retailer who studies buying motivations. Fascinating! Best cell phone [...]
The following books that I read this year are my favorites — they didn’t necessarily come out this year. Fiction: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Cliche’, but it was a great book and I was happy with the way Rowling finished the series. It was nervewracking because we didn’t want her to be too predictable yet [...]
Six Brilliant Ways to Get More from Outlook… vanity link The title of this book is why editors are important [Thanks, Nick]. Anytime you need a writer or editor… drop me a line. Hey, had to take advantage of the opportunity. (I must’ve read this line [...]
The Freelancer’s Toolset: 100 Web Apps for Everything You Will Possibly Need MindMapPedia is a library of publicly available mind maps. BookSpoke is a social network for readers and writers. Brijit: Content with 100 words or less. Catalog your [...]

