It’s not surprising that the man who ran an unprecedented Internet campaign, a man who lives on his Blackberry would kick things up a notch when it came to the White House’s online presence. As soon as Barack Obama was inaugurated as the country’s 44th president earlier today, his IT staff flipped the switch on […]
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God bless America
Tuning out today to tune into the inauguration of Barack H. Obama as 44th president of the United States of America. Follow the action on Twitter. I’ll be there at @michellerafter
Room to write
The first time I worked as a freelance writer I shared an apartment with a roommate and had my office in my bedroom. Between working and sleeping I probably spent 18 hours a day in that 12 x 12 room. A few years and several full-time jobs later I once again found myself temporarily working […]
Twitter true confession: I was wrong
Pass the crow. Five months ago I couldn’t be bothered with Twitter. Now I’m here to say: I get it. Last fall I started hearing more writers talk about using Twitter for work, so in December I signed up. It’s easy: you pick a user name and password, write a brief description of yourself, upload […]
You can still be a reporter, just not in a newsroom
Attention journalists. The newspaper reporting and editing jobs you’ve been laid off from aren’t coming back anytime soon, at least not in the form you left them. You probably already know that. So what’s next? You could go to law school, switch to PR or dig up dirt on public companies for a corporate investigator. But if […]
Sex sells, and other blogging lessons learned
Made you look. In the blogging world, a catchy title will make people click through to read your post. That’s just one lesson I learned since starting this blog a year ago. I still consider myself an advanced beginner, but I’ve picked up enough over the past 12 months to want to share. Here’s what […]