Disclaimer: I did research for Debbie Weil for this book. Yes, there’s a flood of books on business blogging hitting the market, but each one is different. Debbie Weil’s The Corporate Blogging Book is written for the corporate-minded person who isn’t sure about the blog thing especially in a business setting. The book tells it … Read more
With a site redesign comes a lot of URL changes. I do what I can to avoid link rot, but it couldn’t be helped with this redesign. The feed URL also got changed and the redirect had a typo. Mucho thanks to Eric for bringing this serious oversight to my attention. So those of you … Read more
Paul has been saying that it would be a bad move for J.K. Rowling to kill Harry Potter in the last book. While it could make for an exciting and depressing ending, the publisher would lose out on potential sales as future readers won’t want to bother reading a whole series knowing the main character … Read more
Congratulations to my dear friend, Shirley Kaiser, on the release of her book, Deliver First Class Web Sites: 101 Essential Checklists. You can get a feel for the book by checking out The Ultimate Testing Checklist and The Ultimate SEO Checklist. I’m eagerly waiting for my copy to arrive and I’ll, of course, let you … Read more
The Diva Marketing Blog commented that the newest issue of Advertising Age sounded too familiar and it wasn’t just one article. It turns out the whole magazine appeared in its email newsletter and discussed in blogs. This is a challenge for businesses that diversify their marketing efforts as readers prefer to receive information in various … Read more
If you spend your book reading time on non-fiction like me, here’s an opportunity to read a short fiction that provides a nice summer read and an history lesson. I probably spent about two to three hours reading the book. See’s story explores the culture and lives of the people living in 19th-century rural China. … Read more
Uh… what do I blog about today. Um… I’m thinking. Thank goodness there’s no sound in this blog so you don’t have to hear “uh” and “um.” People do notice when a speaker uses those crutch sounds to cover up the silence or collecting your thoughts. Even my daughter who was about 9 or 10 … Read more
I started collecting pennies when I was in grade school. The Scholastic Book Fair arrived at my school where I found a three-fold penny folder. I have it in the house somewhere in a safe place. The folder resembles the one in the picture, except it’s brown and goes further back — maybe 1900? The … Read more
Once I got out of automated mode, I woke up and realized that I often use Paste Special with unformatted text when working in MS Word. It became a habit like CTRL+V, CTRL+X, and CTRL+C. To do Paste Special without formatting, I clicked CTRL+V to paste, selected the Paste Special icon (smart tag) and selected … Read more
Ack! I started off the day with 2500 email messages! 2450 of it spam. Someone used meryl.net to send spam. The sender name had all kinds of first and last names, so my inbox (the catch-all for meryl.net. A catch-all email address gets all emails that have been misspelled or don’t exist.) got all the … Read more