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January 21, 2010
Uneducated clod, or missed opportunity?
Sitting in the hot muggy class room I was getting over last night’s wild dorm party, and wondering when I was going to see that girl again. Where did she say she lived?
Then the words, that have haunted me ever since, came out of an old and rumpled instructor’s mouth.
“In [...]
January 6, 2010
The mass of instant information that is the Internet and Mass Media could free each and everyone of us to become more informed and knowledgeable. Then we could all come together as a new smarter, kinder society and deal with all of our problems in wise and wonderful ways.
But that’s not exactly what’s happening is [...]
November 13, 2009
From a suggestion from Prentiss, I have installed a plugin for the wordpress that will automatically change a link to a uploaded mp3 file into a player…..Say what now?
If you have a audio file and it is in the format of mp3 (the suffix is .mp3 instead of .wav or .doc or .xls or .pdf, [...]
November 10, 2009
Lately, just trying to keep up with the giant in-rush of new writers, and styles they bring to the Internet, has been quite a chore. Thousands of journalists are out of a job and are facing a dim future where the kind of hard hitting and communicative writing they excelled at is, no longer enough [...]
November 4, 2009
Have you been wondering how not to make marketing blunders when it comes to your website and [...]
October 14, 2009
What are your customers saying about your products or services? Are you sharing your customer testimonials with your future customers and [...]
October 10, 2009
TWEEDY: THE WORST SOLUTION FOR THE BLIND
October 10, 2009
Rapid Weaver: A Site Without Stress
September 5, 2009
Happiness on Facebook
by David Leonhardt
Have you seen this Facebook app to support the positive psychology exercise “Three Good Things”? Participants in this exercise record Three Good Things, and the reasons why they happen, every day. There are some other versions of this exercise out there (including an iPhone app and one on happier.com), but this is [...]
September 4, 2009
Look who follows NoFollow links!
by David Leonhardt
Earlier this year, I speculated on how the search engines treat NoFollow links. For those who might be a little green, NoFollow links are not totally ignored by the search engines. For those who really, really green, NoFollow links are believed to be totally ignored by the search engines [...]
August 30, 2009
Snowleopard: The Truth Revealed
by Jorge Paez
August 28, 2009
Posted by TimKellis in: Accountability, Advice, Books, Communications, Family, General Topics, Inspiration & Motivation, Internet Advice, Interview, Lifestyle, Marriage, Men's Issues, Mental Health, Motivation, Non-Fiction, Philosophical Genres, Relationships, Self-Help, Social Issues, The Media, The Pundit's Corner, The Writer's Corner
Tim Kellis, author of "Equality: The Quest for the Happy Marriage"
I’m half way through my two month blog tour on relationships. The stops have generally been both interactive and productive. I’ve particularly like the stops where the topics were questions related to relationships.
I wanted to share one in particular, at the Long Relationships blog. [...]
August 24, 2009
Where are the Parents?
by Lloyd Lofthouse
There is nothing to envy about many American families. They are in worse shape than the economy.
My wife is Chinese. She lived in China the first twenty-eight years of her life. She is now an American citizen. In China and other Asian countries, family is important.
If you study Confucian [...]
August 18, 2009
Book signings. Absolutely love them. Not the tepid white wine of some vintage in the plastic glass with the runny cheese on a paper plate. Nope. It’s when I get to meet the real reason I [...]
July 22, 2009
Email book marketing is found to be one of the best strategies when it comes to effective and low cost book marketing. Due to the fact, it is the most practical and has the best reputation in generating targeted traffic to [...]
July 16, 2009
Have you screamed, “I need traffic to my website!”? With over 500 million Google searches taking place daily: How do you get traffic to your [...]
July 13, 2009
The Kindle DX, Part 2
By Jack Rochester
The last post concerned the introduction of the Kindle DX, intended for the college textbook market. We’ve had a number of responses, including one from a publisher’s sales manager who informed us that Pearson Education has jumped on the bandwagon with the Kindle. More on this next week.
Today, we [...]
July 12, 2009
Evolution of an E-book Author to Publisher by Rob Walker
Sure every author wishes to be discovered by Random House or another of the biggies of NYC but since my first publication in 1979 the pinnacle of publication has gotten thinner, higher, spikier, snarkier, and harder and harder to manage. In fact, since the early eighties, [...]
July 10, 2009
Posted by Author 101 in: Advice, Business, Business Management, Economic Crisis, Economics, Education, Finance, General Topics, Inspiration & Motivation, Internet Advice, Interview, Literature, Marketing, Motivation, Non-Fiction, Opinion, Publishing, Self-Help, Social Issues, Technology, The Economy, Uncategorized, Women's Perspective, Working Women
Do you plan to give up your job and start a new business of your [...]
July 9, 2009
So you want to start a home based business now what?
You have made the decision to become an entreprenuer and start a home based business but with so many different comensation plans, products, established companies and start up businesses the choice can become a daunting task.
If you have been searching you will hear over and [...]
July 5, 2009
Posted by Author 101 in: Advice, Attitude, Business, Business Management, Cap and Trade, Economic Crisis, Economics, Education, Finance, General Topics, Habit Change, Inspiration & Motivation, Internet Advice, Interview, Lifestyle, Literature, Marketing, Men's Issues, Motivation, Self-Help, Social Aspects, Social Issues, The Economy, Uncategorized, Website Instructions, Women's Perspective, Working Women
No, we won’t begin with “Do you have a master’s degree?” Although education does matter, higher education is not a requirement for starting or succeeding in a new business. In fact, according to a 1992 United States Census Bureau report, [...]
July 1, 2009
Almost everyone who has been marketing online knows that the lifeblood of book marketing and internet marketing is the traffic of a site. More visitors equal more [...]
June 26, 2009
Posted by Antonio de la Vega in: Attitude, Communications, Democracy, Governance, Habit Change, Internet Advice, Journalism, Latino & Hispanic, Marketing, Mexico, Opinion, Politics, Social Aspects, Social Issues, Sociology, The Media
En estos días muy próximos a las elecciones intermedias en México, los temas de discusión central han sido el voto nulo y el voto blanco. Al buscar en Google la combinación exacta “voto nulo” obtenemos 495 mil referencias. Con la combinación “voto blanco”, 363 mil [...]
June 24, 2009
Want a link to a throw-away domain?
by David Leonhardt
A while back, I wrote about why to ignore three-way link requests. Many of the reasons I listed had to do with the quality of the site linking back to you. But what if it’s a PR3 home page. Sounds like a juicy link to score, doesn’t [...]
May 20, 2009
Content is king. You can say that again. That is why writing articles is one of the most utilized Internet marketing medium today. Internet surfers just can’t get enough of information on various topics and subjects. Providing information through these articles is a surefire way to drive traffic to almost any [...]
May 14, 2009
SEO Strategies for Financial Websites
by David Leonhardt
Here are a few SEO tips specific to financial websites.
First, understand that people are very sensitive and possessive about their money. Your website has to ooze credibility if you want to convert traffic to customers. You probably know this already, but keep it in mind when you hire an [...]
May 13, 2009
The Bugs Bunny Guide to Linkbuilding
by David Leonhardt
Have you ever been hard at work, doing what you do, and suddenly got struck by the immortal question – “What would Bugs Bunny do?” Me too. All the time. Well, if you are doing link-building, you are in luck, because here is what Bugs Bunny would do:
“What’s [...]
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QUICK REVIEW: LOGIC EXPRESS
QUICK REVIEW: LOGIC EXPRESS
by Jorge Paez
Logic Express is the most advanced suite of software out there for music production and at the lowest cost. Another Apple product, the only downside is that it only works on Macintosh. It comprises at the basic, or express version, of just one piece, called Logic Express.
This is a more [...]