Business Strategy, Personal Development, Marketing
A growing trend in blogging as well as informational website production is the video blog post. It’s cousin, the video tutorial, has been around a little longer and with much better justification. When it comes to explaining things, sometimes it is much easier to show than to tell. For example, I can show someone in … Read more
I’ve mentioned before that I have a habit of not reading the manual or help files that come with most software. Generally, this isn’t really much of an issue for me since I have been working with computers at a high level for years. Unless the interface is very weird or unconventional (I’m looking at … Read more
Some analyst decided that he would take the sales figures for computers and then add the sales of iPads to the numbers for Apple, thereby concluding: Apple Is the Number 1 Computer Seller If You Count iPads I don’t even know what to do with this. The idea, I am well aware, is that iPads … Read more
As a professional freelance writer, I work from home most of the time. My home office has what many traditional offices have, a computer, phone, printer, Internet connection, and copy machine. (I do not have a fax machine since I’ve gone without a phone land line, but it doesn’t seem to come up very often.) … Read more
I never really put much effort into my Amazon Associates affiliate program. The truth is that most of what I write about in my freelance writing business doesn’t necessarily tie into a specific product that I can just link to in order to generate referral commissions. On the other hand, there are times when I review a book or … Read more
Usually, private industry has figured out how they are going to get around new government rules and safety programs before they ever come out. The credit card industry was already inventing new credit card fees and raising old fees and charges before the new credit card laws took effect. The same thing happens in almost … Read more
Yesterday, the personal finance blog Finance Gourmet speculated on how overvalued Facebook might be right now, and more specifically, if any of the company valuations being thrown around by financial analysts and private share exchanges are anything more than wild (optimistic) guesses. I had a different thought today as I went through my usual social … Read more
Although I am, among other things, a freelance technology writer today, I was once a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer, aka MCSE and a pretty high-level systems administrator. As such, computers have always been pretty easy for me. For most software, I don’t read the instruction manual or any of the program’s help files. If I … Read more
What was once a nuisance on only one of my computers and on only one of my browsers appears to be spreading to my other systems and web browsers. I’ve been getting an error about how a redirection will never complete on my Google Chrome browser on my main desktop PC for a couple of … Read more
Google has done everyone a big favor with its Google Chrome web browser. Like all other major web browsers, Chrome allows users to install extensions which allow for additional or customized functionality to be added to individual software installations. In this way, every user can get the features and functions that they need and want … Read more
If you are a fan of the Google WonderWheel tool, either for finding related searches that might better fit what you are looking for, or for checking to see if there are other keywords or search phrases that you should be including in content you publish to the web, you may have notices that the … Read more
Anyone know how to move one Posterous account to another? When I started using Posterous, I did what I always have to do for multiple blogs and websites which is to create multiple accounts with multiple logins to manage each one separately. Then, I realized that Posterous allows you to manage multiple Posterous blogs easily … Read more