Yesterday, I got the question “why do you blog?” of course I had around a million answers to respond with. Then I realized that the reason the person asked was not to find out why I blogged but to see if there was any reason to why he should blog.
This got me thinking about what [...]
10 Reasons To Why Students Should Blog
Posted By Annelie Näs on February 1st, 2010
Yesterday, I got the question “why do you blog?” of course I had around a million answers to respond with. Then I realized that the reason the person asked was not to find out why I blogged but to see if there was any reason to why he should blog.
This got me thinking about what [...]
Write the most important thing first – in any kind of email
Posted By Annelie Näs on January 29th, 2010
I recently registered a new domain name, but for this one I tried another provider than the one I have for my other domains. I happy with my current provider, but as I didn’t want a web hotel this time, I had to try something new. Anyway, the whole registration was kind of made in [...]
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This week’s challenge: do a spell and grammar check for your LinkedIn profile.
Posted By Annelie Näs on January 27th, 2010
I’m the expert at missing a letter here or there when I type, especially when the missed or wrong letter only give me another word and thus are not caught by the automatic spell checker. However, I believe that in blog posts for example, people tend to forgive misspelled words easier than on a resume.
Lately [...]
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Preconceptions: Chocolate Pralines in a Red Tinfoil Wrapper!
Posted By Annelie Näs on January 24th, 2010
As you might know, Belgium is famous for their wonderful Chocolate. So moving here I made it a habit to try new kind of chocolate; dark, milk, white, expensive, cheap, pralines and other kinds. Though it was not until recently I found out that I had preconceptions about chocolate and their wrappings.
As a Christmas gift [...]
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Try McAfee for Free: Benefits of the Partnership between McAfee & Facebook
Posted By Annelie Näs on January 19th, 2010
From time to time, I help people fix various problems with their computers. Many of them use Norton Antivirus which at least used to slow your computer down. Therefore I recommended people to switch to another Antivirus software. Now it was a long time since I used Norton, so I do not know if this [...]
Encourage Conversations On Your Blog With Comments Subscriptions
Most bloggers agree that is more fun to write when you get comments and reactions to what they have to say. Because of this, there are lots of different reaction possibilities on most blogs such as; thumbs up, share on Facebook or Twitter, give points to the post or write a regular comment.
While comments themselves are [...]