Freelancing 101 tips

Freelancing 101 tips

“You can have it fast, you can have it good, you can have it cheap. Pick any two.” If these are words for independent communicators to live by – reflecting the value of what we do – why do so many of us buckle when a prospective client balks at the price we propose? A...

‘App’ makes Word of the Year

Those crazy word-nerds in the American Dialect Society have done it again, coming out with “app” as their Word of the Year for 2010.  As even your grandmother probably knows, app is short for software application, and has gained particular popularity in...

Man up? Be gone

Along with a fresh new year comes the latest list of Banished Words, as issued by Lake Superior State University. How epic is that? While you might wish many of these words to actually be banished forever, that’s just wishful thinking. The list for 2011 includes...
Live your life, part 2

Live your life, part 2

We interrupt the week’s frantic shopping, work and studies to bring you this important public message: Do not wait to live your life until you find the perfect man or woman. If the Sexiest Man Alive (so named by People magazine), Ryan Reynolds, and the Sexiest...
E-newsletters a great tool

E-newsletters a great tool

While Facebook and Twitter continue to get all the press, email newsletters just keep building their solid reputation. In fact, they are “the Internet’s best tool for supplementing a website,” according to web usability expert Jakob Nielsen:...