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40 Free and Cheap Stock Photo Sites to Punch Up Your Blog Posts
Friday, February 29th, 2008It’s a common rule of thumb that using images as part of your blog posts helps draw attention to them and illustrate what you’re saying. Finding and creating these pictures can be difficult if you aren’t a photographer but there are plenty of places on the Internet where people are sharing their own photos for [...]
Posted in Business | No Comments »>Second Life as a design outlet
Wednesday, February 27th, 2008A number of graphic designers have successfully converted their expertise into Second Life businesses. Everything made in Second Life relies on textures… pictures made in an image program like Photoshop… to not only make it look like what the creator wants it to be but to give it depth and reality. So an orb [...]
Posted in Business, Design | No Comments »>Research on the Web
Wednesday, February 20th, 2008The Internet is a decent place to do research these days. The idea that “everything is online” is still not true but it becomes more so every day. The problem for everyone is that much of this information costs a lot of money to access for large institutions much less small organizations. Help is often [...]
Posted in Business | 1 Comment »>Looking the Part (Whatever that is)
Tuesday, August 7th, 2007It is a fact of the human condition that we are judged on our appearance. We rely on our eyes a great deal in life so the first impression when meeting a new person can be critical in how we view them.
In casual situations, this doesn’t matter much but in business it can make or [...]
Buying local is good for your business too.
Wednesday, July 18th, 2007Recently I was running errands and noticed a sign for a new local restaurant along the way. Always looking for something to ward off the chain food blahs, I stopped on my way home.
It was nice inside, obviously a new family-run place, busy with what looked like a mix of people dropping in like myself [...]
