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Put your pics to work: 4 Ways to spice up your site with photos
Since going premium, I’ve been exploring LinkedIn’s groups more—especially ones where I can get an inside view on the industries I write for and about. I’m not exactly in every group’s industry. But...
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No Impact Man, the movie
I just came back from a screening on No Impact Man. I read the book a while ago and loved it, and for once was not disappointed by a movie version. My big takeaway: no matter how low-impact or frugal …...
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The Marketing hack I used to break into travel writing
Daunted by the masthead? Trying to break into magazines produced by a multi-pub conglomerate? You could literally spend days researching yourself silly before you finally click “send” on your LOI or...
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Down the rabbit hole: urban farms, Cory Doctorow and language construction
Today was a wonderful restful day that included a four-mile walk around the lake and a long fall down what Maria Popova has called the “rabbit hole of discovery.” In no particular order, here are a few...
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A Light and stormy night
If the preponderance of stories opening with the line “it was a dark and stormy night” is any indication, this particular cocktail—traditionally made with ginger syrup and rum—should be a writer’s...
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Freestyle your hair with homemade beauty products
After watching the movie No Impact Man last week, I started thinking more about the waste that comes from cosmetics use. Sure, you can recycle all those bottles, but as many experts point out,...
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Is it nap time yet? Polyphasic sleeping for freelancers
Ani DiFranco once sang: “Nobody likes their job / Nobody got enough sleep.” Clearly she didn’t know many freelancers. We all love our jobs, all the time, right? OK, maybe not all the time. But we are...
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How to tell your brand story by doing nothing, lessons from Chimpanzee
Last week Maria and I decided to check out what Disneynature’s new film Chimpanzee might have to teach us about storytelling. Turns out, quite a bit. Led by director Alastair Fothergill, who also...
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The Amazing Content Strategy Generator You Didn’t Know You Needed
To know me is to know that I’m rarely short of ideas… Implementation is another thing entirely, especially when it comes to blog posts. That’s because it’s not just about writing anymore. It’s about...
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5 Ways Freelance Writers Can Use the iPhone 5
The world can finally exhale. At 1:13 EST today, months of speculation culminated in Tim Cook’s unveiling of the iPhone 5, the sixth incarnation of the world’s most popular smart phone, at San...
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