I’m late to using Web 2.0 Internet research tools, but they’re just so danged good I can’t not share. Two of my latest discoveries are especially good for research, Del.icio.us and Google News Alerts. Delicious is a social bookmarking site that lets you tag and store Web pages on their site. You can share pages […]
Social networking story on IncTechnology.com
Social networks are slowly oozing inside companies, which are rolling them out to better connect with employees and former employees. You can read more about the trend in OurSpace: Creating An In-House Network, a new story I wrote for IncTechnology.com. Inc., the magazine for entrepreneurs and small business, started IncTechnology in 2007 to cover technology […]
Happy New Year
Here’s to the New Year! Watch this space for links to my stories online, links to great resources for writers and freelancers, and much more.
How Writers Can Use LinkedIn, Part II
Here are some more ways that writers can use LinkedIn, the business social networking site. To change who you are. You can change how you want to present yourself to the world by changing your LinkedIn profile. Do you want to depict yourself as a veteran writer? Change agent? Accomplished editorial manager? It’s kind of […]
How Writers Can Use LinkedIn, Part I
I joined LinkedIn, the business social networking site, in September when I started working again. I’ve been a regular ever since. I posted some thoughts about how writers can use LinkedIn on Freelance Success, a freelance writers Web site, and people found them so helpful, I’m sharing them here. Here’s how writers can use LinkedIn: […]
HTML
I taught myself HTML in 1995 for one of my first freelance pieces. I learned enough of the basics to to create a simple Web site, but never really progressed beyond that. Flash forward a dozen years. Has it really been a dozen years? Services like WordPress, TypePad and Blogger make creating Web pages so […]