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Are you experiencing domestic violence? Are you finding yourself in a dangerous situation? Is someone threatening you and you are trying to send a silent signal for help? Asking for help is not always easy. It's even more difficult if you need to do it in a secret way, so that you can alert a… Continue reading #SignalForHelp and other Distress Signals
I am actually old enough to remember the times when people used to express their concerns about e-mails supplanting the writing of letters, and the lost art of letter writing. Then, it seems, everybody started to chat and whats-up-and-what-not, so the idea of a carefully crafted e-mail might almost sound like a piece of nostalgia.… Continue reading E-Mail Etiquette – not only for Writers
...are being presented to us by the people from Refinery29. Not that I would go so far to claim they will, you know, change your life... but they are surely handy to have.
...on #purpose Oder auf Deutsch: "Beginne jeden Tag, als wäre es Absicht!"
Have you ever been in the situation to introduce two people to each other via e-mail? Yes? Well, the people over at Quartz suggest that we are... ..."probably doing e-mail introductions wrong" Or - as The Atlantic puts it on Facebook: You might not even be aware of it, "...but you're being a jerk." Are… Continue reading “Ummh… may I introduce…?” (E-Mail Etiquette)
An old issue of one of my fave writing-related newsletters of http://www.worldwidefreelance.com has directed me to a peculiar little article: Author opens one-book shop to sell his own work To me, it's a curious piece of information and - possibly - inspiration. I mean, one never knows where the next inspiring idea might come from,… Continue reading A One-Book Shop… !
Zuerst einmal freue ich mich darüber, dass mich die Optimal Banking Akademie, die u.a. das Info-Portal Amerikakonto.com betreibt, vor Kurzem in ihr Redaktionsteam aufgenommen hat! In dem Zusammenhang kommt hier ein kleiner Teaser für meinen ersten dort veröffentlichten Artikel. Hier geht es darum, wie Kundengelder bei US-amerikanischen Banken für den Zweifelsfall abgesichert sind, und ob/inwieweit… Continue reading Das Einlagensicherungssystem in den USA
Have you ever tried to send money from a German bank account to an American one? Let me tell you: It can be a pain in the a... no... neck, no... wallet! As someone who has been hopping between two continents for several years, I have had that experience several times. I also experienced that… Continue reading How to get paid when you do Business internationally
When it comes to the finer points of social media and how to use it best for the promotion of one's business... well, it can be a real jungle out there. For example, I have been thinking for the longest time that pinterest and instagram was not something I might actively participate in, since I… Continue reading Image-based Social Media: What is the Difference between Pinterest and Instagram?
Darren Rowse from Chris Guillebeau on Vimeo.
...to get on that stage and receive one of those little bald golden guys and string some grateful words together... For your convenience: a template for your next Oscars Acceptance Speech!! Hah! I am right now in the process of ticking one point off my bucket list: Watching the Academy Awards while actually being in… Continue reading In case you should ever be required to THANK THE ACADEMY…
Sigh. Zoella & Co. Quote: "By churning out ghostwritten stories and slapping a famous face on them, publishers are doing a disservice to the industry, authors and readers." ...an interesting article by Kathryn Lindsay, and a topic that is probably not without controversy... I daresay it is written in xoJane's column "Unpopular Opinion" for a… Continue reading About Authors and Internet-Stars…
Yes, even the great ones had to do the occasional editing: "...as Dickens Edits Dickens"
...at least according to the Huffington Post. Methinks, they do have some nice ideas. I, personally, would not mind the complete text of one my fave books on a t-shirt...
I used to edit YouTube videos (especially during the Tube's pre-Google era and mainly about darling Jeremy Brett). Every now and then I would get a notification about problems regarding the copyright of the music I used for the background... Nowadays the copyright question is once more of special interest to me, though this time… Continue reading TedTalk: “How YouTube thinks about copyright” (German and other subtitles available/bei Bedarf mit deutschen Untertiteln)
I did not perceive myself as beautiful... ...until I saw my reflection in the mirror of your eyes. ~~~
Click to enlarge. (Found this at one of my Facebook friends, who found it elsewhere... someone on Tumblr... who found it... wherever...)
aBook. Have just descovered this blog... and I am SUCH a fan!
...im Schaufenster der Ratinger Altstadtbuchhandlung. (I found this in the window of one of our local bookstores...;))
susa(nne) wagner 