Small Business Administration Free Online Courses Language Is a Virus: Cures for writer’s block, poetry generator, character name generator, and many more cool tools for writers. 11 Irresistible Reasons to Write Everyday SOBCon08 recaps: Long list of entries related to SOBCon, event [...]
Lots of PR talk hitting the scene as of late as PR peeps and bloggers argue about PR spamming, blacklists, and doing PR pitches right. Just the messenger trying to collect them all in one spot. I do both sides of the PR biz… receiving-end and PR’ing end. Advice, Arguments, Debates, and Articles [...]
If your PR and marketing folks aren’t tracking your company, brand, and competition online, they need to get up to speed to better do their jobs. If you play all of the roles, tracking your company and brand isn’t as time consuming as it sounds. Remember alert services, blogs, and social network sites. Many of these [...]
Just had to share this grammar blooper from PC Magazine’s Mother’s Day article. Perhaps, the magazine wanted to emphasize Mom belongs to you in superlative terms. Of course, I wanted to know what gadgets they recommended for us geeky moms.
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The messages many sites send when they use gray text on a white background is, “We don’t want you to read our content,” “Our content isn’t worth your time,” and “We want you to struggle reading our content because we think black is boring.” #333333, #666666, #999999, and #cccccc (various shades of gray) are almost black, [...]
I rarely check out videos because chances are high that it won’t have captions or subtitles. But I bit on this Lenovo-produced video comparing its ThinkPad X300 to the MacBook Air [link: Dave Winer]. It presents a powerful visual message without using words. But not one to let commercials sway me without research, I wondered how [...]
10 Clever Ways to Wow Your Clients Are You Approaching Freelancing All Wrong? The Only 12 1/2 Writing Rules You’ll Ever Need poster. Should get this for my office. Actually have wall space. [Link: Deb Ng] Four Ways to Target Online Buyers [...]
Liz Strauss on creating a successful blog with community. Long transcript (we deafies thank you), but great conversation. You can download the PDF for reading a bit at a time. Fail frequently. Edison didn’t fail 1000 times, he found 1000 steps to creating the light bulb. Also, think [...]
Five Words You Can Cut: Blogged about this in the past… cut modifiers such as “really, very, much” is a good start. I use “just,” but more to add “conversation” to writing. If it’s an article or something formal, I omit it. [Link: John] 35 Essential Elements for [...]