Train your kids how to study at home. Start with thirty-minutes of uninterrupted study time and lengthen the hours eventually. You’re not just teaching them to study per se, but you’re basically helping them develop focus and concentration. Here are some tips to help you make the home a more conducive place to do their [...]

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Let’s see… Your deadline for that essay is tomorrow but you still can’t get a word out of you. You’re suffering from a writing deficiency beginner writers have. Some people think writing is easy and trivial. But that’s cheap talk. An articulate person can have all year to write a bestseller and still end up [...]

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That when you die, everyone in your family will know every single, private, and dirty secret you kept your whole life. I keep a personal blog where I do put down a lot of personal information. But there are times when the pangs of paranoia about what could happen with the information you post online [...]

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The job market today has changed a lot. It’s not a game of just handing out a shortened life history and tidbits of personal information anymore. Almost everyone has the same thing to say – graduated from some school, worked in some place. That was probably the time when veneer was cool and Vanilla Ice [...]

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For many businesses, e-mail proves to be one of the most convenient ways to communicate. While it might lack the more personal approach of face-to-face conversation or a phone call, no one can deny its efficiency and speed to convey messages. However, I still observe a lot of people who tend to stray into the [...]

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What was the last thing you’ve written? If your work is not related to communications, the bulk of your scribbling must be limited to signing checks and reports. Rediscover the fun of creative writing and treat it as a hobby. Writing can also help you unwind, get all of those stressful thoughts out.

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Let’s face it, a lot of people in the world have not even used a computer. However, for those places where computers are king, this issue may just be relevant Amit of Digital Inspiration points out that handwritten documents are an endangered species.

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Seems like I’m making up for not getting to post that many tech tips for the past week and pardon me if I’ve been focusing on Word 2007. Doing all of these academic writing had me staring at Word 2007 for a good number of hours lately. Long enough for me to see some of [...]

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My business communications class is now moving on to letter writing after a month or so of discussing organization, context and culture. Our latest lesson was developing the main thought in their writing. For me, the best way you can support any of your claims is through cold facts. However, you just have to be [...]

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I’m teaching a group of potential job hunters and one thing that concerns them in our topic of resume-writing is that space labeled “work experience.” Since all of them are still college kids, they aren’t quite sure how to fill this up, especially when they’ve observed that some job postings often have that item “experience [...]

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And Google continues to deliver. Google Docs and Spreadsheets just got a spiffy new look and I’m loving it. The once lame documents list is now sporting an Explorer-type folders and documents allowing you to see how your documents are organized. Folders have replaced your tags. For some reason, it brings familiarity back to management. [...]

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Love letters = cheesy. Okay, so love letters isn’t exactly Web 2.0. I actually know of only a handful of guys (or girls) who’d go out of their way to write their beloved a tender note. Doing an informal survey of my female friends, they do assure me that a tender love note once in [...]

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David, over at Blogging Pro, posted this interesting bit for probloggers (like myself) who need to catch up and meet that post quota. It actually features this bit from Bloggers 4 Hire and these important tips.

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I remember this article on Network World some time ago – Telecommute. Kill a career? Three months as a problogger, I start to reflect about it. Prior to this blogging gig, I was building a career as a marketing manager for an IT firm and I also served as a web content consultant. Now I’m [...]

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It doesn’t matter if you’ve written the great American novel or just want to publish a coffee table book filled with pictures of your cats, you can easily, and affordably self publish your book thanks to the wonders of POD printing. What is POD mean? Print. On. Demand. POD printing is actually making its way [...]

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