Monthly Archives: June 2007

Reader Survey: Your Thoughts On Improving This Site Please

Reader Survey: Your Thoughts On Improving This Site Please

“I don’t know – can you help me?” Ever since I started this site, I’ve always wondered which parts of it site appealed most to you – my readers.  What I’d like to do is focus my writing on the sections which you like best to give you the best experience possible. I’ve used a whole range…

Top 10 Tools to Improve Your Writing (Part 2)

Top 10 Tools to Improve Your Writing (Part 2)

“Easy reading is damn hard writing” ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne, Author In Part 1 of this series, we covered some cool tools for improving writing. Here are 5 more great resources that should also help out. 6. Reduce Management Speak with Bull Fighter Originally produced by Deloitte Consulting but now distributed as freeware, Bullfighter works with…

Top 10 Tools to Improve Your Writing (Part 1)

Top 10 Tools to Improve Your Writing (Part 1)

“The natural state of all writing is mediocrity.” – Ira Glass Always looking to learn something new, I’m constantly striving to find new ways to take my writing to the next level. Here is a set of 10 tools which should help any budding writer improve. 1. Improve Readability with MS-Word The Flesch-Kincaid tests are…

5 Steps to Effective RSS Management

5 Steps to Effective RSS Management

8,210 That’s how many RSS feeds the most prolific subscriber on Share My OPML has. Even tech experts Chris Pirillo and Robert Scoble subscribe to more than 600 feeds themselves to stay on top of the fast moving tech industry. (I subscribe to ‘only’ 200 feeds). With that many feeds in hand, it’s easy to…