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Employability Skills

January 25, 2010

I’m going to a three hour long work­shop called ‘Iden­tify Your Employ­a­bil­ity Skills.’ this after­noon. I’ve been on the diet plan of not eat­ing until later in the day for the last month. But, I am going to treat myself to a break­fast at McDon­alds in between catch­ing buses out to the work­shop. I don’t […]

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Web Content Strategy

March 19, 2009

Is this a new career for web writ­ers?
New­fan­gled Web Fac­tory has an arti­cle about con­tent strat­egy and a bet­ter descrip­tion than the one I came up with myself.

What is a Con­tent Strat­egy? Put sim­ply, con­tent strat­egy involves iden­ti­fy­ing the type of con­tent that will best enable you to com­mu­ni­cate your posi­tion­ing and achieve your online […]

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Writing Amidst Chaos

March 6, 2009

It’s funny how many other things you can be doing while writ­ing a post for your blog. Peo­ple read­ing the post will imag­ine you calmly typ­ing, maybe noth­ing more chal­leng­ing than a cof­fee cup to dis­tract you.
The real­ity is quite dif­fer­ent. The phone rings. There is a kid telling you “The party is ready” when there […]

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Spring Forth and Unclutter Yourself from Paper Pile Ups

January 15, 2009

It takes no real effort to build up a paper clut­ter. I’m famous, infa­mous really, for it. Once it gets built up get­ting rid of that clut­ter is dif­fi­cult. You can read about orga­ni­za­tion and buy a nice pen catcher from the Dol­lar Store but… you’re left with hav­ing to actu­ally sort through all your […]

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When Dust Bunnies Attack Your Computer!

January 5, 2009

It’s a reg­u­lar kind of morn­ing, you’ve made your cof­fee and you sit in front of the com­puter. You’ll prob­a­bly check email first or just check email before you get ready for work. But, when you turn it on… you get a mas­sive disk error and the only sounds in the room are your own […]

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Spy On Yourself

December 27, 2008

We all pro­cras­ti­nate about some­thing. Even those peo­ple who always seem so excep­tion­ally orga­nized and on top of every­thing have some­thing they are putting off. What­ever your rea­son for pro­cras­ti­nat­ing (time, energy, lack of inspi­ra­tion or just not want­ing to do it) the one thing we all know is that it has to get done […]

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Take this Job and .…

February 3, 2008

How do you make your­self go into work on a day you really don’t want to? What do you do to trick your­self into not miss­ing a day? If you work from home, writ­ing or another busi­ness, how do you dis­ci­pline your­self to stick­ing to a work rou­tine?
I’m try­ing to just not think about it […]

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Packaging a Presentation

June 4, 2007

What’s in your pack­age?
Do you have:

busi­ness cards
sta­tionery
brochure
media kit
web­site
pro­fes­sional clothes
and
an office?

Plus, of course, your work itself. All orga­nized in clips, arti­cles, or the books them­selves (depend­ing on which medium you use).
Do you have a pack­age?
Of course, we all have a pack­age to present to the world. But, have you done much with yours? Have you put effort into making […]

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Publishable and Practical

March 26, 2007

You’ve got the great­est idea! It’s sure to be a bil­lion dol­lar block­buster, rival­ing Stephen King and that other writer whose name you can’t quite remem­ber though it’s on the tip of your tongue.
But, is your idea a good one, really? Some of our ideas seem really super charged at the time, when we have […]

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Don’t Stress About It

March 12, 2007

What brings you stress? Kids, your job(s), spouse, par­ents, dead­lines, or any of a hun­dred other things. For me, peo­ple give me the most stress. Also, one that will seem odd, my name. You will think it odd that I’d stress out over my name but I do. I gave up my maiden name when […]

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Start Networking

December 18, 2006

Have you really worked on net­work­ing? Really got­ten seri­ous about your con­tacts and your contact’s con­tacts? Who do they know that you don’t know, yet.
Think of the six degrees of sep­a­ra­tion the­ory. It’s not who you know right now that counts but who you could get to know through your cousin Pat’s hair dresser. You might […]

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PIM">You Need a PIM

November 20, 2006

Do you remem­ber that woman you emailed about writ­ing that arti­cle? You know, the one you met on that web­site the other night. Remem­ber, she had that really cool email address, you were sure it would be easy to remem­ber, it’s on the tip of your pen… if only you had kept track of that […]

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More Deadlines

November 13, 2006

Dead­lines sound like a fisherman’s term for a bad day.
How do you han­dle dead­lines? Are you a pro­cras­ti­na­tor, like me? Some­times I do get started early, with all the pas­sion and enthu­si­asm for the topic I’m under­tak­ing. But, I get too caught up in the research and the ideas. The actual arti­cle doesn’t start tak­ing shape […]

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Setting up a Home Office on the Cheap

November 6, 2006

Not every­one can decide to free­lance write and then go out and buy up a storm. Likely those are very few and far between. So, for most of us we are look­ing for ways to cut cor­ners with­out leav­ing out some­thing or mak­ing our­selves feel we are sec­ond rate.
First, con­sider what you really need ver­sus what […]

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Decluttering

August 21, 2006

Clut­ter! There, I said it! Are you cring­ing just think­ing about it? I do. You see, I am a clut­ter bug.
Sit­ting in front of my com­puter I am sur­rounded on nearly all sides with a clut­ter of my own mak­ing. It’s 90 per cent paper, biodegrad­able even­tu­ally, if I let it sit in the same spot […]

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