How can you bring your enticing, well-prepared story to the attention of more prospective readers? Your author’s website is your storefront, and the world is full of story shoppers. At the same time, not all window shoppers become readers, and it takes more than just exposure and savvy pricing. Highly specialized markets require specific language […]
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Human-Computer Interaction: Building Successful Websites
Today’s Internet is an essential part of our modern world. Most people need Internet access every day in both their personal and professional lives. The Internet makes it possible to communicate with friends and colleagues, sell and buy goods, use banking services, and much more. When we talk about the Internet, we are talking about […]
Developmental Editing: Building Stories in Reverse to Go Forward
Top quality novel and book editing is done most efficiently when an editor understands and can generalize methods used by those who specialize in process development. Test-driven development, or “drafting” over and over, gained popularity among software developers and project managers as a means of building quality assurance before beginning to build any product. This […]
What You Can Do About Paying More
A while back, I blogged about many third-party vendor inefficiencies (also listed below) that cause clients to pay more for the same services obtained here. Yes, I sell my services both directly here and through a third-party vendor, obtaining the same compensation through either method. Occasionally for the first couple of weeks, clients like having […]
How Many Passwords Do You Use Each Week?
The number of passwords used through the average course of a single day can be mind-numbing. Enter into a discussion about biometrics, and everyone has an opinion. Will biometrics make life easier, or is it the sign of the devil as we enter the future era of a cashless society? The eternal controversy of ‘security […]
Crowdfunding Sources Bring Engineers Directly to Customers
Engineers are innovators: They are regularly designing something new, fixing things already built, or testing things and processes to ensure they work as expected. Complicated projects that engineers typically work on often require large capital investments, forcing engineers to work for investors and managers instead of directly for customers. Crowdfunding is changing all of this. […]
Science Fiction & Fantasy in Trusting the Bot
Twenty years ago, who would have thought that people would come to trust sensitive machines? Dating back further than Milgram’s 1960 experiments, the automation of large-group compliance has been studied and followed. Trust-building phenomena, although initially thought to develop out of delicate emotional processes, has been extensively researched and broken down into process components by […]
Rising Technology Market Connections
Technology is changing how we live and work while also creating the potential to make radical new market changes over the next five years. The fallout from current technologies will create new niches as people either embrace new technology or seek to escape it. One example is seen through increasing facial recognition technology. As more […]
Paying More at Upwork?
Do you want to save a significant amount of money for top-notch services? If you reviewed my excellent feedback through a third-party website with higher rates but had first found this website on your own, then you will want to contact me directly as a referred client to save time and money (click here to […]
Considering Your Competition
When you have time and effort carefully placed into your professional preparation, you may think that your business does not have much competition. You just do your best every day, work hard, and business comes in… While these traditional methods are still valid, following only older styles of business strategy no longer give businesses a […]