Dianna Booher, communications expert and author of over 40 books shares her expertise in her latest book on E-Writing. She focuses on how to improve the quality of business and personal communications. Booher offers advice to fix where it hurts in electronic communication whether it is writing emails, responding to customer service inquiries, or writing … Read more
This was a most unusual book telling the story of a family of four on a quest for God, order, or something that makes sense. Eliza, the nine-year-old daughter is looking to achieve something extraordinary to catch her parents’ attention. Aaron, the nerdy, teen son is looking to get closer to God. Miriam, the mother … Read more
If you made it this far, the headline for this story has caught your attention. Hot headlines are a hit with readers because they stick out, grab attention and urge them to read the rest of the story. We’re all experiencing information overload and have made it a habit to skim pages. According to David … Read more
Was inspired by Little Blogger Boy, so I mangled “Let it Snow” since we don’t get snow in Texas at Christmas time. It comes at weird times like March. Apologies to Sammy Cahn and Jule Styne, the composers of the original. Let Us Blog Oh the weather outside is frightful But the monitor is so … Read more
Shame on me for not sharing this little secret with you much earlier. StickyMinds from STQE Publications is a resource for everything related to building better software. Here are tidbits from the latest issue: Reflections on “A Fable” is a follow up to last year’s “A Fable.” Parents will understand the similarities between getting a … Read more
Ever since intro of Wayback Machine made news everywhere… It feels like we’re experiencing a flashes from the past each day. Not only do we get a 50th anniversary celebration of “I Love Lucy,” but also we get Michael Jackson in a 30th anniversary TV deal. I still say the gloved one was at his … Read more
Didn’t feel like reporting on anything today and wanted to do something cheerful. Webreference reviewed usability pro Jakob Nielsen’s newest book, Homepage Usability: 50 Websites Deconstructed and I got it in my head to do a song on him. Here’s what popped up. Apologies to Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice for messing with their … Read more
Tuesday – 8:30 AM CST Richardson, TX Telecom office I walked past three rows of cubicles to talk to a manager about scheduling. She told me to wait a minute because she was listening to the radio. Confused and unable to hear the radio, I asked what was going on. Reading her lips, “Two planes … Read more
Try to do something creative and it blows up in your face. Update on June 14, 2010: This post is hilarious. It has gotten a lot of attention … I was going to delete it, but then I thought: You know what? Let’s give folks they want. I hope this helps! 35 Ideas to Do … Read more
HTML writers, new web designers, and intermediate web designers most likely have a library of books covering how to create web sites and making them interactive. Glaringly missing from most of these libraries, including my own, is a book on graphics and aesthetics. I admit I let Designing Web Graphics.3 sit on my shelf, along … Read more