…Stacy Quarty! You are the winner of the Amazon e-gift card. Send me a note with your preferred email (just click on the link to the left there) and I’ll send your Amazon card today! Here’s how we decided – I went to Random.org and typed in numbers 1 through 10 as values (I’d posted…
What I Finally Get About Twitter
Update on the Great Social Networking Experiment I get it, okay? I finally understand that Twitter, like any other social networking tool, works as well as you make it work. It takes a little time to get your rhythm, but it does work. Here’s what I’ve learned about Twitter: Twitter in small doses. My first…
Three Years and Counting
Three years ago today, I posted my first blog entry and wondered “If I write it, will they come?” They did. At first in trickles, but three years later the Words on the Page blog is a thriving little community of commenters, online chums and offline friends who keep coming back for more. I’m honored,…
Giving Good Phone
Last week I had a call that was expected to take 20 minutes. An hour and a half and several failed attempts to interrupt the talker later, I made excuses and hung up. It was gawd-awful. Worse, the caller was offended when I halted the one-sided conversation. Devon came to my rescue beeping in on…
Start Cheap, Stay Cheap
This is probably not what you want to hear during a shaky economy, but lowering your rates is going to backfire. I was skimming back through my blog posts when I came across this one from 2006. At the time, I’d just had a client whom I’d worked for at a cut rate recommend me…
A Pain That Gets You Right There
I’ve probably mentioned before having a desk chair that had me craving Fridays at 5. What I didn’t tell you is the husband bought me a new one for Christmas – a top-of-the-line Big Girl Chair, with more adjustable settings than Craftmatic could dream up. Happily, I loaded my old chair into my car and…
Technology That Ticks You Off
Perhaps I shouldn’t write when I’m upset, but that I’m upset in the first place is bad, especially since I should be writing instead of being upset. Did I lose you? Stick with me – it gets better. I bought a digital recorder a while back – an Olympus VN-4100PC. Since my old recorder died…
Discrimination and You
Thanks for all the great discussion around the WAHM post last week. I was glad to get such great feedback, and very happy Katharine brought up discrimination issues based on something an HR rep once said to me. She made an excellent point, too. What that HR rep said bordered on discrimination, if not crossed…
Things That Make You Go “Huh?”
This is a totally off-topic post, so pardon the break in our usual writerly discussions. Just some things I’ve been wondering about. Feel free to add your own! Why is it you have to have a Google account to be part of Blogger, but you can’t use your GMail address as a logon? Every time…
When to Let Go
There was a situation recently involving one of my clients and one of their customers. (Facts have been altered to protect those involved, including me.) The customer was considered a difficult sort and the client was scrambling to make her happy. From her first contact with them, she’d laid down the ground rules, which appeared…