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Links: 2008-04-18
April 18th, 2008 |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 […]
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Book Review: The Thing About Life Is That One Day You’ll Be Dead
March 18th, 2008 |The Thing About Life Is That One Day You’ll Be Dead contains a mixture of an autobiography and facts about the body’s growing and aging. The stories told and the given facts both humor and depress readers. Rather than linearly cover author David Shields’ life from childhood to adulthood sprinkled with quotes and stories about […]
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Links: 2008-03-14
March 14th, 2008 |Random Number Service: Lots of number tools, too. Revived and all-new Success Magazine lists the 25 must-read books for achievers (first lists top 5 and this lists books 6 - 25) Received a copy of the magazine and picked up useful tidbits. 25 reasons why […]
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Book Review: Sell Your Book on Amazon
February 13th, 2008 |Despite a way too long subtitle and “salesy” claims, Sell Your Book on Amazon surprises. Its format simplifies finding the sections of interest - couple that with the ratings from five stars indicating “a must do” item to one star meaning “Don’t waste your time.” Authors who publish their books using a print-on-demand (POD) service […]
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Links: 2008-02-01
February 1st, 2008 |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, […]
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Links: 2008-01-18
January 18th, 2008 |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 […]
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Links: 2008-01-11
January 11th, 2008 |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 […]
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70+ PowerPoint and Presentation Resources and Great Examples
January 10th, 2008 |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 […]
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The Success Effect Book Review
January 7th, 2008 |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 […]
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Blog Naming
January 3rd, 2008 |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 […]
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