Writing, marketing and technology
I am working on a number of website projects right now. My mission is to banish ‘lorem ipsum’ by working text into page designs before development starts. (To find out why, read my article: Want a good website, on time? Prioritise content) I wanted to find a tool that would let me create page mockups [...]
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Dropbox is a better way to share files between different users and different computers. It beats FTP for large files and email for pretty much any attachments. I use to exchange videos, graphics and presentations with clients and my subcontractors. Once everyone is set up on DropBox, it’s like having a file server folder that [...]
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This guest post is by Jan Felt. He is a blogger obsessed with marketing communication and career development. Read more of his work on his blog: CyberFootprint. Two pages to go. The deadline looms. You are sitting at your computer, replying to morning e-mails. After a couple of words, Twitter starts buzzing. So, you reply [...]
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Mind mapping is an effective tool for brainstorming. I regularly use a mind map on large piece of paper to think through the structure of a large piece of writing. The problem with paper-based mind maps is that once written they are hard to modify. It would be nice to be able to rearrange the [...]
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With many thanks to Peter McArthur, I now have a web-based version of the meditation timer I talked about earlier this week. Why is this good? It’s free. It’s available online anywhere you have access to the web. Further experimentation has shown it to be a very good way of resetting your concentration back onto [...]
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I’m experimenting with a meditation timer on my iPhone as way to help me concentrate on writing. (I’m using SUZU Meditate.) So far, it’s working really well. Here’s how it works. You can set the program to ring a bell at the end of a set period – say 40 minutes – and a bell [...]
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I think this would help me concentrate and not get irritated with my clients. Source. Hat tip: The Closet Entrepreneur. In a similar vein, my wife bought me a little sign at the San Francisco Zen Center last week. It reads: “Don’t just do something, sit there.” I have hung it up on my lamp [...]
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I use Firefox 3 as my main browser and Foxmarks is an essential add-on. I use bookmarks to store reference websites for my work and the bookmarks toolbar It does several things for me: Backs up my bookmarks securely online. Synchronises bookmarks between my desktop PCs, my Mac and my two laptops. Synchronises saved passwords [...]
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After a three month wait, I received my new laptop – an HP 2510p. As I’ve mentioned before, HP doesn’t go in for sexy product names but it does, surprisingly, produce sexy products. (Full disclosure: Hewlett-Packard is a client but I bought this with my own money on its own merits.) I had been writing [...]
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The StupidFilter Project plans to create a filter that will do for idiotic online content what spam filters do for junk mail. You can’t download it yet and I wonder whether it is a bit of a spoof. We’ll see. But I like their chutzpah, whether it is a fake or not. Here’s an excerpt [...]
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Matthew Stibbe is CEO of Articulate Marketing and Turbine, the easy, online way to deal with office paperwork. He edits Golf Hotel Whiskey and writes the Forbes Aviator column.
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