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Jot Once, Remember Anywhere: The Best Tools For Universal Note-Taking

You've got a system for your documents and files, but what about your quickly scribbled-down ideas? We review the modern tools of universal capture.READ»

Marketing Emergency: Nobody's Making Content Worth Reading



There are better things to do with time and money than produce content no one will read or see. "Content marketing" is king, but not if you create the wrong content, or bad content. 

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The Pen Is Mightier Than The Phone: A Case For Writing Things Out

Paper, with your handwriting on it, makes the best idea space, to-do list, and performance anxiety reliever. Here's why.READ»

Google's Author Markup Support Makes It Easier To Find A Writer's Works

Google just revealed it's supporting authorship markup HTML tags. This may sound like a small tweak, but it's great stuff if you're a writer who wants to track your work online--and it may even help protect an article's IP. READ»

The Mongoliad App: Neal Stephenson's Novel of the Future?

This may, possibly, be one future of the novel: as an app. And who better to push the limits of writing than Neal Stephenson, an author whose novels have already explored weird and unusual corners of sci-fi, including intelligent ...READ»

Survey Reveals Bloggers Think They're Journos, Journos Don't do Real Time

The writing is on the wall for the future of journalism, with new research scoring the words more deeply into the plasterwork: 52% of bloggers surveyed by PRNewswire refer to themselves as journalists. The Web and e-publishing is only ...READ»

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Writing a University Essay

During my secondary school years, the only essays I wrote were simple book reviews and other informal forms of essays, with only a few researches on sample essays and the likes every now and then. In short, I was not very skillful at ...READ»

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Three Ways to Use Story-Based Marketing

We’re using story-based marketing more and more with our clients, to fantastic results. Here are three ways to take marketing tools you probably already use and, with the right team behind you, transform them to story-based ...READ»

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Why “You Can’t Rush the Process” Is the Biggest Cop-Out in the Creative World

The road to producing truly meaningful creative work is fraught with obstacles, some of which may feel like they’re out of your control. What if the money runs out, for example? Or the inspiration runs dry? What if the team isn’t ...READ»

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Hanging a Picture Frame Around Your Life

When I started working with Annie Hart and Katie Gutierrez Painter on my book, I really had no idea where it was headed, or how it would all come together.  In fact, like so many of my own clients, I often felt lost throughout ...READ»

HarperCollins Tries to Create, Cash in on, Generation of Teenage Novelists

HarperCollins has just officially launched its new www.inkpop.com Web site--an "interactive writing platform for teens." The online site has one simple aim: to get teenagers writing content, and get it published in a social-networky ...READ»

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Copywriting for Search Engine Optimization Media

Amid the plentiful amount of web pages that are continuously increasing, a particular type of writing for the web, referred to as search engine optimization, has come into existence. When the techniques of search engine optimization ...READ»

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Big in 2010: Our Corporate Identity Program

One of my goals for this year is to work with more businesses to develop and refine their corporate identities. Just as we’re launching authors, we love helping companies launch their brands.Any conversation about corporate identity ...READ»

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A Destination Website: www.roundtablecompanies.com

After nine months, the website for Round Table Companies (www.roundtablecompanies.com) is up and running! While we’re still pending another two months or so of building out the portfolio sections, it’s in good shape and ready to ...READ»

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Guest Blogger Katie Gutierrez: Corey’s Story Adventure: From the Writer’s Perspective, Part 4

Today’s call with Corey and Annie was a bit different for me. Usually, I’m hearing Corey’s stories for the first time, at least for the most part. I’m able to listen objectively, with no preconceptions, like a reader opening a ...READ»

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When Does Your Company Need to Re-Brand?

The necessity for re-branding usually arises when the status quo is disrupted—hopefully, in a good way. If your company’s core values, target customer base, and/or product and service range have changed, for example, it might be ...READ»

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Why You Should Find the Courage to Fuse Art and Business

In the last few years, I’ve had the pleasure of interacting with hundreds of very creative, very brilliant people who find such joy in pursuing their art. But many of these same people find it difficult or impossible to see their ...READ»

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Setting Goals in 2010

There’s something about being on the cusp of a new year that really inspires dreaming big—which is what we, as a company, are all about! I see 2010 as holding so much potential for our clients. There will be even greater ...READ»

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Thankfulness

As we close up 2009, I want to offer a post expressing my appreciation for all the people who support what we, as a company do.First, our clients. Because our clients are trailblazers, they have to trust in our guidance and ...READ»