On May 7, 2010

What Amazon and iPad Teach us About Strategy

I love it: now when I buy a kindle book from amazon.com, I can have it on my iPhone, my iPad, my Mac laptop, my Windows laptop, my Mac Desktop, or my Windows desktop.

Kindle on iPadThis makes me feel like I…


On May 7, 2010

Beyond Motivation: Getting to What Really Drives You

image of carrot dangled as motivation

What drives you to write?

To earn some green-backs and keep the wolves from the door? To earn praise? Create a community?

Or maybe you’re convinced your story will help someone else? Or that you can help…


On May 7, 2010

How do you categorize stock images?

I purchased some stock images for a project I'm working on and wondered how to categorize them? Should be listed as a contractor, supplies, office expense, cost of goods sold, misc, or what? Does anyone have any suggestions on what…


On May 7, 2010

Improve Your Sluggish Netbook with ReadyBoost

If you feel stymied by your netbook -- especially when starting applications or multitasking -- then you might be able to use the ReadyBoost feature in Windows 7 to eke out a little better performance without investing much money.