Archive for April, 2008

Common Sense Email

Common Sense Email
by Bob Osgoodby
Now there is no law that says you have to follow these rules, but if you are in business on the Web, you should definitely pay attention.
Rule #1 - Turn off your CAPS LOCK - Some people seem to feel that if they write their […]

How To Take Care Of Weeds

(NC)-Their names may be cute and slightly amusing - chickweed, creeping charlie, dandelion, crabgrass - but weeds can be a major annoyance. Left untreated, they spread quickly, fighting the grass for food, light and space. Many of them, like crabgrass, have stems that lie close to the […]

Child Safety Seat Ratings - Are You Using Them Correctly To Help You Protect Your Child?

What Are Child Safety Seat Ratings
The U.S. Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is responsible for child safety seat ratings. The purpose of the ratings is two fold:

To help consumers make educated decisions when buying safety seats for children.
To help manufacturers be aware of those aspects of their product which should […]

Inkjet Printers: A Brief Overview

Inkjet printers are an affordable and satisfactory option for printing documents and other images from computers. They were originally placed on the market in the late 1980’s and have improved greatly in production and cost since then. Today, high quality inkjet printers are available for as low as $70.00. The reason for the low cost […]

Personal Leadership: One Key to Growing Any Organization

What did Winston Churchill, Lee Iacocca and Bill Gates have in common? Certainly they were great personal leaders who knew what they wanted and how to get it.
However, they didn’t succeed because they had great personal leadership qualities. They succeeded because they understood the importance of hiring managers who also possessed personal leadership skills.
These […]

Much Ado About Oprah’s Book Club

In Amazon’s Significant Seven interview with Jim Frey, the controversial author of the Oprah Book Club selection, “A Million Little Pieces,” he was asked: “If you could have one superpower what would it be?” Since Mr. Frey has been the focus of media attention lately, could anyone familiar with this issue guess as […]

MIDLIFE IS A CROSSROADSNOT A CRISIS-Part Two

MIDLIFE IS A CROSSROADSNOT A CRISISPart two© Manganielloall rights reserved 2003
In last month’s Part one of this article we learned that midlife is not a crisis; it’s a crossroads of the soul. One road leads to what I call the “not-such-a-good-life” and the other to The Good Life.
The road to the Good Life requires […]

How Your New Years Eve Bash can Grow Your Career

How Your New Years Eve Bash can Grow Your Career.
You can have some real fun with this. Enjoy.
The New Years Eve party is a once-a-year terrific opportunity to
open new doors into your future, your sales career and income,
your business, and that of your entire family.
This is the one time of the year, the greatest single […]

Summer Slim Down Secrets - How To Get Your Best Summer Body Ever

For many people, New Years Resolutions have long since been forgotten as we happily went through the cold months in our many layers of clothes. If you were motivated and focused enough to stick with your New Year’s resolution to get into shape this year - congratulations!! As the rest of you start […]

Sustaining Tension in Fiction

Take a cue from the popularity of exposees and tabloids: the best way for readers to escape the problems and concerns of their own lives is to delve into the messy dramas surrounding others. This sort of fixation is not unique to modern culture, either. The ancient Greek tragedians believed that the more suffering they […]