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- May 13, 2015
- 2 min
The Space Bar: A Fountain of Youth for Anyone Who Types
Still hitting the space bar twice after each sentence when you type? Well, it's time to emerge from the Dark Ages of document production and put an end to that nasty little habit... unless you are still typing on a typewriter. Blasphemy? Not quite. Increasingly, publications of all sorts are using only one space after a period, exclamation point or question mark. Also recommending one space after end punctuation are heavy hitters like the AP Stylebook and The Chicago Manual o
- May 11, 2015
- 1 min
Expand Your Creative Capacity in Any Job
"Creative" is simply the first word that comes to mind when I am asked to describe myself. It's part of my identity. As a writer I sometimes can't sleep because my creative mind is racing with new ideas. That creativity can be related to a new blog post idea for a client or myself, a new website function, a publicity opportunity, or developing a creative new way of tackling a challenge. But what about those "non-creative types" like engineers and scientists? Can creativity co
- May 6, 2015
- 3 min
RFPs: 4 Tips to Stop Losing
You've prepared an in-depth proposal for a prospect and you're ready to submit it ahead of deadline provided in the RFP. Within a blink of an eye, you threw in your boilerplate "executive summary" language, added an updated history of your firm, replaced the prospect name throughout your standard proposal template, and added in pages of detailed descriptions of your service process and all the other awards and stuff you want them to know about you and your organization. After
