This week’s articles
One of the company’s I write for on a daily basis is Demand Media Studios, creating content for eHow.com and Local.com. These are a few of the titles I wrote this week. How to Crochet a Grip for a...
View ArticleShifting my Paradigm: Reporting to Business Writing
My career focus changed this year from being strictly a staff newspaper writer to being a freelancer writer. After more than four years in the news business, future prospects in that direction did not...
View ArticleBlogging Variety is the Spice of Work
Finding the perfect job for me meant trying to find the right mixture of independence, variety, stability and routine. Perhaps these seem contradictory, but having a little of each has made my work...
View ArticleTips to Create Effective Press Releases Through Better Writing
Catching a journalist’s attention is tough enough, but don’t catch them with a great hook if there is nothing for them to work with afterward. Once a reader is willing to give your topic a chance, the...
View ArticleUnderstanding Word Clouds Using Top 10 Songs from 1981 and 2012
Word clouds seem complex, but the explanation is simple: it’s a visual representation of the words in a given body of text. So if you used the word “business” the most number of times, “business” would...
View ArticleHelp Find the Focus of Your Content With Word Clouds
Last post, I talked about what word clouds are and how they can be used to find the most common words in a given body of text. Check that post out if you want the long version. Word clouds don’t just...
View Article6 Tips for Doing Social Media for Businesses Better
Getting your business on Facebook, Twitter and other social media websites is practically mandatory, but what do you do when you have your accounts set up? If you’re struggling to fill the content...
View ArticleMerging Your Google+ Business and Google+ Local Pages
Many Google+ Local pages can now be merged with Google+ business pages. Google started rolling this out in early August, and an employee of Google wrote in the forums that the result will be that “Your...
View ArticleProfessional Email Etiquette — How to Communicate Better and Faster
The Art of Office Email Emails are so quick and simple to send that they’re easy to take for granted. That’s why they can be a major source of miscommunication. How many emails do you receive a day...
View ArticlePinterest Announces Rich Pins
Pinterest publicly announced the launch of rich pins this morning that through the clever use of metatags will automatically pull more information about what people are pinning in 3 categories:...
View ArticleYour Product is Not Revolutionary
When I create content, I focus on writing in meaningful ways about the benefits of my client’s products or services. I avoid the empty buzz words that are less likely to trigger a response from your...
View Article‘Sharpening the Saw’
Rereading a book years later allows you to not only reanalyze its content from a new perspective, but you also witness a former version of yourself. I’ve been revisiting books in my library as of late,...
View ArticleHumboldt Cannabis News & Politics Updates
I’ve collaborated with consultant Dani Burkhart on a few projects, and one of them has been getting industry-focused content published on her Emerald Heritage Farms website regarding political...
View ArticleArticles from Winter-Spring 2017
An eco-printed cannabis leaf on a silk scarf from Autumns collection. I’ve had the opportunity to be featured in The Emerald Magazine, Emerald Heritage Farms and other publications in recent months....
View ArticleArticles from May-September 2017
Bringing Humboldt’s farming mindset to a broader audience has been the focus of an ongoing series I started earlier this year in collaboration with Kevin Jodrey, an internationally recognized...
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