The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause. – Mark Twain
Sandra Grauschopf, the Contests Guide at about.com, led me to a good mozilla firefox extension…

"Is whispering nothing? Is leaning cheek to cheek? is meeting noses?" – Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale (I, ii, 284-285)Shara Karasic has an excellent guide to Twitter posted today at wor…

Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. – Alexander Graham Bell

Skype is Internet telephony software. The software is free to download and allows free tel…

Have you used an on-line survey to gather information? As one who believes in "writing with the reader in mind" the best way to achieve success is by asking: What is important to you? How …

Have you been in an airport lately?

I traveled out of Cleveland and into Phoenix over Thanksgiving and I was struck by the overload of electronics used by passengers in the airport. In the snack b…

My Dad, a longtime fan and owner of multiple Macs was reading the recent edition of MacWorld and found an article by Mathew Honan on the different Blog Platforms entitled The Smart Blogger's Gui…

I was reading Duct Tape Marketing, as I do regularly, and learned about bloglines new list of the top 1000 blogs. Duct Tape weighs in at #59 which is pretty darn good when you think the measurement …

Stephen Hopson at Adversity University has moved his blog to Word Press. I applaud his actions as it is a far more challenging experience than you might think. As someone who has moved 28 times, I k…

I'm reading Seth's latest post How to create a good enough website and just the title is enough to send me over the edge.

I struggle EVERY DAY to instill a "go above and beyond" att…

Google has another great tool and thanks to John Jantsch for turning me on to Google Custom Search.

Imagine a search engine that YOU DESIGN to only contain the sites, blogs and information that you…