Jul 19, 2013 | Critical thinking
Last weekend I attended "The Amazing Meeting" (TAM), organized by the James Randi Educational Foundation. Nowhere else will you meet people from so many different professions and occupations, who all share a common goal: To promote critical thinking in response to...
Jul 6, 2013 | Marketing, podcast
Audio podcasts are easy to create and are a great way to build your platform as an expert. You don't need any special equipment. An audio podcast is simply an audio recording that is made available online via mass distribution, via "feeds." Options for recording your...
Jun 23, 2013 | Productivity, Research, Web content
Last March Google announced that they would discontinue Google Reader as of July 1. Bad news for the millions of users (including me). But good news for Google Reader's competitors. The GR shutdown announcement has prompted other RSS content aggregators to improve and...
May 26, 2013 | Business matters, Marketing, Research, searching
Until a few months ago Google Alerts was a great way to be notified of news and websites containing whatever keywords you specify - such as your name or topics you are following. But in past months, Google alerts started faltering. It missed obvious mentions, as...
May 11, 2013 | Business matters, Self-care
I just returned from a 10-day vacation in Europe sans laptop and sans roaming data plan. Regretfully I wasn't brave enough to go completely "unplugged." Using my smartphone I did glance at email via hotel wifi in the evenings. But the rest of the time was spent in the...
