For writers, words are our product. When writer’s block strikes, it’s like the factory shutting down. It’s especially bad news for freelance writers, because when the words don’t come, the checks don’t come either. So just like factories, we can’t afford a work – or a word – stoppage. As a result, people use lots […]
Research This: Del.icio.us and Google News Alerts
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 […]
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 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 […]