Category: sabbatical

Home Work. My Opinion.

February 2, 2011

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As an adult, and some might argue that point, I’ve been able to avoid getting shackled to a desk for most of my professional career. I’ve had some stints where I was doing onsite work – TJX, Brookstone, COMDEX and Fidelity come to mind – but I’ve primarily been able […]
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Boston Social Media Scene This Week

February 23, 2009

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I’ve been buried in writing projects for a bunch of clients. I’ve also been drumming up new business for corporate clients who are drinking the social-media Kool-Aid. But today I’ve got a couple minutes to share my schedule with you. Here’s my week in a nutshell – add to it […]
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Cleaning up the links.

November 28, 2008

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Attention span. Mine’s short, but I refuse to refer to it as an ADD or ADHD situation as I believe those are mythical conditions created by a lazy physician and parent base. We’ll explore that opinion in another column…if I have enough where-with-all to remember. My contention today is that […]
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Complete. 50,008 words and counting.

November 26, 2008

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I’ve completed the Nanowrimo challenge and written my 50K words in the month of November. Now it’s on to editing and smoothing out the manuscript. I can’t put into words – maybe because I’ve used so many in the past three weeks – how great this feels and how energizing […]
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NaNoWriMo. Really!

October 17, 2008

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At my office away from the office (Panera), I tried to see how easy it would be to write 2000 words on a cohesive topic. The exercise was part of the NaNoWriMo event coming up in less than 15 days. That’s right, National Novel-writing Month is November. Part of my […]
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Everyone thinks they can write. An ongoing battle to educate the masses.

September 24, 2008

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I’m already rolling on a major rant about individuals who can’t write or understand the value of good writing. I was tempted to just let all my mistakes lie unfixed in this column so readers would see the abhorrent disaster bad writing inflicts on the senses. But I won’t do […]
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