Today I got a nice email from Scott Meyer, President & CEO of About.com. The headline read "Great post on 5 years with About", and was thanking me for the post I wrote earlier this week to commemorate my 5th anniversary as an About.com Guide, 5 Things I”ve Learned in 5 Years at About.com. It [...]

Great quote from Tom Hanks on Oprah:
I found that I will not be able to overtake the world and bend it to my will unless I have a MySpace page.

Here’’s Tom Hanks” MySpace page.
Of course, leave it to Julia Roberts to express the naivete of the general public upon finding out Tom has a MySpace [...]

I saw a lot of cool new tools for blogging this past week at BlogWorld. One of the ones that really impressed me was Windows Live Writer from Microsoft, which apparently just came out of beta.
If you were at the show and you blinked, you missed it. The Microsoft guys were in an understated [...]

 
A constant complaint we hear around the office is that emails we receive (and sometimes send) are poorly written or unclear.  According to “How to Write a Perfect Email”, when writing an email that warrants a reply, there are four key components to get a quick and valid response:
 
1. Brevity- Keep it short.
2. Context- How [...]