Jack Lail blogged about NPR’s Alex Jones interview yesterday. Jones is a member of a multi-generation family-owned newspaper company and director of the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. He recently wrote Losing the News: The Future of the News That Feeds Democracy [...]
My friend Bob just read the book 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to be Persuasive and after sharing with me some promotional ideas the book sparked for him, passed along a link to this blog post, which sums up the whole fascinating list. The book contains some persuasion techniques that you’ll recognize instantly – since they’ve probably been [...]
Creative Nerds has a great list of free programs for image editing, drawing, vector art, 3D modeling and animation. With all the drawing the kids and I have been doing lately, these programs fuel my desire for a graphics tablet. I’ve come to hate doing pencil sketches and then scanning…. so much lost in [...]
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Drawing pictures with the kids this morning – here’s mine. I guess reading the New Yorker’s summer fiction issue this week has got me imitating a certain style here… And no, I haven’t gotten any writing done yet this weekend.
“In times of stress, leaders tend to communicate less about more, when in fact they should be communicating more about less,” according to Deb Titus, from Dale Carnegie, who gave a Webinar at The Telegraph last week. Here are a few tidbits I jotted down during the session, all of which to me seem to [...]
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If you work in newspapers these days (or book publishing, for that matter!) you probably hear much about the Kindle. Will this device — that provides a non-eye-straining reading, instant wireless purchase of books from Amazon anywhere, anytime — save publishing and the future employment prospects of those us who make our living by the [...]
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A couple of Saturdays ago (well, maybe four or five now), I got it into my head to change my Twitter username. Or an idea that had been percolating for a few months about wanting to own my whole name on the service finally coalesced. Or something. In any case, I impulsively changed the name [...]
I spoke to about 60 folks at The Telegraph’s Help 101 event yesterday at Sky Meadow country club (part of the paper’s onlging Hard Times Reasons and Remedies project). My session was Web Marketing 101, and focused on low and no-cost (except time) ways small businesses could approach Web marketing (next we should do one [...]
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