British Prime Minister Tony Blair announced today that he will step down from his post at some point within the next year. As well as sending the British press into a spin, Blair’s speech reminded me how important it is to resign with dignity. No matter what your job is, if there comes a time [...]

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Need more visitors to your site, but don’t know where to start? SEOMoz website has come up with a list of 21 tips that will help you do just that.  Here’s a summary of some of the less obvious ones which I found useful. Write Title Tags with Two Audiences in Mind First and foremost, [...]

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If you’re keen on simplistic minimalist weblog design, you might want to check out Plaintxt.org, a website dedicated to, well yes, minimalist WordPress themes. Although Scott’s designs might not be as fancy or colourful as some of the myriad themes out on le internet, they’re extremely light and fast-loading. What’s more, they’re also pretty easy [...]

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Although I attend many meetings a week and write stacks of notes I’d be exaggerating if I said I got a lot out of them. The notes, that is, not the meetings! I am, however, not the only one it seems. Talking to a bunch of teachers at a planning meeting the other I noticed [...]

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Reliable information is crucial to making a good decision. Learn how to separate the truth from the lies, and you will go a long way in protecting yourself from fraud, or being taken for a ride. Wikihow has a great post about how to tell if someone is lying, and here some of the key [...]

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Never check your email first or last thing each day, reckons LifeDev, because it slows you down and affects the way you work. I can see how useful adopting this tip would actually be because I tend to suffer from stacks of email each day! I also, like many people who work with a computer, [...]

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Eric Giguere has some excellent advice for getting relevant AdSense ads that particularly relevant to bloggers. He includes two examples that show how just one word can result in different ads being rendered. Sometimes all it takes is one word or phrase to trigger different ads. Although Eric’s suggestion that you should change the URL [...]

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Jason Unger provides some useful tips on how to maximise the moment every blogger dreams of: the day your story makes it to the Digg front page or is Slashdotted and your inundated with site traffic. Make your RSS feed autodiscoverable Include related content in your posting. Be online. Make sure your site is sociable. [...]

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There is no secret in the fact that bloggers, have ideas. It is also no secret, especially for those of us who blog, that these ideas typically come to mind at the worst possible times. Personally, I know there are times when I would get a fabulous idea for an article and have no where [...]

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You would be surprised at how often just asking a question can lead to exactly what you are looking for, be it something simple like how to fix a problem, to if you can get a raise. Life Hacker has an article up with tips and tricks on asking questions. You might think something as [...]

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To improve the way you communicate, take two minutes to write more effective e-mail subject lines. The Problem Too many people fall into the trap of writing vague e-mail subject titles like “Hello”, “Hi” or even forget to bother with a title at all. The trouble is that junk mail tends to look pretty much [...]

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The great thing about the internet is that you can get your message across by using visuals or audio, or a mix of both. Nowadays, almost all businesses and individuals with an internet presence have their own podcast. While podcasting seems as simple as recording sound onto a computer, there are some things you can [...]

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E-mail spammers are probably cursed on a daily basis, and it’s no surprise why. They waste valuable hours, disk space, and money each day. There’s little that the law can do nowadays to prevent spammers, but there are some steps you can take to make sure that your inbox stays spam-free. Don’t use your primary [...]

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Every leader is faced with the responsibility of motivating a group of people, especially when there’s an important task at hand. While some factors are hard to control and some people refuse to be motivated, there are some things that you can do to motivate others to achieve their personal goals, as well as the [...]

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LifeHacker has a great new article up called “How to deal with Internet Meanies” where they give some tips on dealing with the anger in an e-mail or other personal attack you might get as a public figure. It is slanted to the online world, but I believe the tips translate well into letters, phone [...]

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