Archive for April, 2007



How to Write an Article

Saturday 28 April 2007 @ 9:04 am

Article Writing is the one major form of marketing and promotion that guarantees your reliability. It is the perfect strategy for representing to your target audience that you’re the expert in your field. Article writing and marketing requires that you wr…

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What’s Your Communication Quotient? Workplace Communication — Your Key to Success!

Saturday 28 April 2007 @ 9:04 am

Forget GQ! These days it’s your CQ that matters…your Communication Quotient. Degrees and awards are fine, your bilingualism and knowledge of the latest programming languages are nice, but how good a communicator are you? In English? With co-workers and …

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Evil Genius

Saturday 28 April 2007 @ 9:04 am

ExcerptThe following is an excerpt from the book Evil Genius by Catherine JinksPublished by Harcourt Children’s Books; May 2007;$17.00US; 978-0-15-205988-1Copyright © 2007 Catherine JinksOneCadel Piggott was just seven years old when he f…

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Benefits of Article and Press Release Marketing By: Eye Logic Media

Saturday 28 April 2007 @ 9:04 am

Benefits of Article and Press Release Marketing By: Eye Logic Media Benefits of Article and Press Release Marketing in the World Wide Web, advertising is synonymous with more expenses for the business enterprise. TV spots, print ads, promotional ca…

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How to create a speech in less than 10 mins

Saturday 28 April 2007 @ 9:04 am

Most of us don’t really have the luxury of creating speeches weeks in advance. And even if we do, we tend to leave it till the very last minute. I’m definitely guilty of that. This entry talks about how you can create a speech in less than 10 mins tha…

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News writing – how to write a sports report in 4 steps

Saturday 28 April 2007 @ 9:04 am

News writing style is just as important for sports reporting as it is for general news, business stories or any other journalistic work.The advantage of sports writing is that you are allowed a little it more leeway in your choice of words. In crime o…

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4 Tips For Writers - Where To Find Ideas Posted By : Donovan Baldwin

Saturday 28 April 2007 @ 9:04 am

Creativity is not as hard as some people think. Here are a few tips to help get your creativity juices flowing.

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A Conversational Tone is Appreciated in “How To …” Books Posted By : Michael Mould

Saturday 28 April 2007 @ 9:04 am

Everyone that buys a “How To…” book expects the book to tell them how to do whatever the subject matter is, but the book will be better received and more popular if it is written in a conversational tone rather than just a bunch of do this and don’t do that lists.

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New Technical Writer: Avoiding the Interview-Writing Disconnect

Saturday 28 April 2007 @ 9:04 am

OVERVIEWLost or garbled information is a terrible waste. Especially if it’s the information you gathered from an interview and must now write into your User Document. Here’s how to prevent that waste.THE SITUATIONYou had an interview with a …

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Writing Good Poetry - Five Peas With Punch Please

Saturday 28 April 2007 @ 9:04 am

Today, if you are desirous of becoming a better poet, please allow me to feed you five peas comprised of good digestible necessities for writing good poetry.These five little peas are for you to digest and make them a part of your very life. They a…

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A Powerful Yet Simple Strategy To Increase The Sales Of Your Book Ten-fold! Posted By : Glenn Dietzel -

Saturday 28 April 2007 @ 9:04 am

As a successful author interested in building a business off your book, you must understand the difference between features and benefits. Features are tangible and benefits are intangible. Features describe what a product is or has based on physical/tangible characteristics. On the other hand, benefits are feeling oriented. Remember that the reason that people come to the Internet is because they have wants and desires and want to be satisfied. This is the *sole* reas…

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Finding Great Topics to Write About Posted By : Steven E

Saturday 28 April 2007 @ 9:04 am

It seems it would be a snap to write a short article of five hundred to a thousand words. After all, youre knowledgeable in many subjects, youre intelligent and youre a talented writer who enjoys writing. So why do you face that dreaded writers block when you sit down at the keyboard?

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What Is A Good Romance Novel? Posted By : Samantha Kay

Saturday 28 April 2007 @ 9:04 am

The real purpose of a romance novel is to provide an escape for the reader from their reality. The person can temporarily ignore their responsibilities and transport themselves into the novel, pretending to be the damsel in distress. They read through the trials and tribulations in book relating to them and anxiously wait for their Prince Charming to come and rescue them. And, to take them away from all their troubles and woos to the place where they will live happily ever after.

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What’s Your Unfair Advantage in Speaking?

Saturday 28 April 2007 @ 9:04 am

In every business (especially start-ups), its survival is usually dependent on two factors: competitve advantage and point of differentiation. This principle is also extremely applicable to speakers. With so many speaking resources available (books, works…

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Apple Corporation: the iPod Advertisement

Saturday 28 April 2007 @ 9:04 am

Apple has advertised the iPod and iTunes brands in several very successful promoting campaigns. The first iPod advertisement, featuring the tagline “A thousand songs, in your pocket” was launched in November 2001. The ad can be viewed on Apple’s web s…

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All You Need To Know About Writing Articles

Saturday 28 April 2007 @ 9:04 am

Ask any internet marketer today what the best way to get targeted traffic to your website is and they will very likely mention article writing. But, that is not all. Well-written linked articles published in as many article sites as you can find will have…

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Master Presenters Use Stories to Add Impact and Drama Posted By : Ricky Nowak

Saturday 28 April 2007 @ 9:04 am

Using drama is an effective way of adding another dimension to your presentations. Those dimensions include timing, props, movement, voice work and interaction with the audience. It means trusting the silences between words and action and allowing an emotional connection to happen for you and the audience. This dramatic effect can be astounding as it gives an audience time to process, think, and respond.

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Father/daughter Relationships in the Poem “Daddy” by Sylvia Plath

Saturday 28 April 2007 @ 9:04 am

“Daddy” by Sylvia Plath is by right considered a magnificent poem about daughter’s relationship with a father. Also it can also be read as an allegory of female yielding and final revolt in a men’s world who have been responsible for all the …

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News writing tips – 4 ways to spin an angle

Saturday 28 April 2007 @ 9:04 am

News writing can appear to be a restrictive discipline in that you are limited to writing what other people do or say. However, within this scope there are plenty of ways in which you can tell your story.When learning how to write like a journalist, a…

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News writing training – 4 elements to start your own area news outlet

Saturday 28 April 2007 @ 8:04 am

News writing is a skill that anyone with a reasonable grasp of the language can master. The problem is; what do you do with that skill once to attain it?The obvious answer is to seek out professional news organizations to publish your work and pay you…

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What is Plagiarism?

Saturday 28 April 2007 @ 8:04 am

According to Wikipedia, plagiarism is “…the use of another person’s work… for personal advantage without proper acknowledgement of the original work with the intention of passing it off as your own.” Plagiarism is cheating, a fraud which is as …

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Are You A Writer Stuck For Ideas?

Saturday 28 April 2007 @ 8:04 am

From the cartloads of letters and emails I receive (in fact the postman blames me entirely for his recent hernia) one of the difficulties some writers have is getting an idea for a story or article. There is no need for this at all as ideas are abundant a…

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Public Speaking:Urm… uh…you know…hmm…oh yeah…pause (uh) fillers…

Saturday 28 April 2007 @ 8:04 am

Have you ever counted the number of “uh”, “urm”, “you know”, “hmm” or “now” littered in your speech? I did. Not pretty. I still remember the first time when someone counted for me. It was so bad that he stopped counting at 60. I wasn…

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Content Writing - A closer look!

Saturday 28 April 2007 @ 8:04 am

Writing is no longer pure aesthetics. In our technology driven world the written word has acquired an unprecedented relevance. Writing for web businesses is a specialized way of developing content. The concerns of Content designers include not only the re…

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My first days as lecturer at the Institute of Science & Technology

Saturday 28 April 2007 @ 8:04 am

Getting the appointment letter was a long and arduous process. I had been getting a lot as a deputy manager at Grameen Phone, a leading telecom services provider in Bangladesh. As a lecturer at the Institute of Science and Technology I knew I was not goin…

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Why a Writer Needs People Skills (and how to develop them)

Saturday 28 April 2007 @ 8:04 am

Writing is often perceived as a solitary process. While there is some truth to that perception, it is only half the picture. I think many people actually visualize writers as holed up in our little garrets, shut off from the world, waiting patiently for i…

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Writing A Novel On Your Lunch Hour Posted By : Corey Fayman -

Saturday 28 April 2007 @ 8:04 am

Okay, so I didnt really write a whole novel on my lunch hour. But I did develop a lot of the characters, locations and plot by taking a half-hour out of each workday to sketch some ideas. Youd be surprised with what you can get done in just thirty minutes a day.First, a little background. I had a job that was driving me crazy. Corporate priorities at the company I worked for changed on a weekly basis. Projects I managed got cancelled halfway through development, blew up…

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How Does An Article Directory Help Me As A Webmaster Or Blogger?

Saturday 28 April 2007 @ 8:04 am

An article directory can be an invaluable tool for many of us. We can all do massive amounts of research from home via the use of article directories. This can be helpful for anyone who is looking for small bits and pieces of information, as well as those…

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News writing basics – 2 ways to write hard-hitting articles

Saturday 28 April 2007 @ 8:04 am

News stories are articles that are time sensitive and tell readers what has happened in the world around them that might be of importance to them.While there are numerous categories of news stories, the two main forms that you find in news outlets ar…

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Writing For The Web - 2.0 Friendly

Saturday 28 April 2007 @ 8:04 am

Writing for the Web - 2.0 Friendly Copyright 2007 by Felton ThompkinsIn a recent article I asked the question, ….Will The Buzz Stop? If you did not read the article, the question was concerning the writing of articles for the web. Also…

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