Valcine Brown, a self-published author, writes on examiner.com:

When shopping for an editor, it is more important to find an editor with whom you can work well as opposed to shopping merely by price. The saying, “People do business with people who they like, know and trust,” comes to mind. As a writer, one should be searching for someone that they feel will help them maintain the character of their work and not intend to put their own voice across the project. An editor’s purpose is to polish the work. ...

Read more.

        

There's been lots of cybertalk about whether users will stick with Twitter in light of stats that show 3 out of 5 who start tweeting drop it by the next month. Fact is, there's always going to be a turnover.

Twitter, designed to serve our microblogging urges, is still very new. There are new apps designed to facilitate tweeting and we can now limit searches to the tweeting universe. Perhaps more importantly, that type of writing forces folks to write tight and bright. It's easier to write more rather than less. You can write in twists and turns, and drag on without any end. Twitter challenges users on that front.

Along comes the next question, posed by Chris Crum on WebProNews: What's Twitter mean to you in only one word? For Crum, it's what interests you most, whether it's news, entertainment or how many times Johnny visits his bud down the street.

"If twitter accounts are like blogs, then Twitter is like its own Blogosphere (or microblogosphere) combined with a feed reader. You select the ones you want to follow, just as if you were selecting what blogs to subscribe to," writes Crum. "To me, this is what Twitter is about. That’s not all it’s about, but that’s how I get the most use out of it. ... I read Twitter a lot more than I write on Twitter, but that’s still using it."

For some, Twitter represents a refreshing way of job networking (e.g., http://twitter.com/jobangels) and for others it's a useful social media tool to push the latest news to a wide and diverse audience. Microblogging doesn't make folks to read through long blog posts, but gives them that option -- upfront -- whether to check it out.

Crum's piece is available at http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2009/05/01/what-is-twitter-about-in-one-word.

        

My Definition of Effective Leadership

Is a leader defined by a person’s title?  Is a professional required to have ten or fifteen years of experience with multiple promotions in order to be viewed as a leader?  Does a leader always have a higher rank?  The answer to these questions is not a simple yes or no. <snip>

Read the article by Xenia Szul on the Leadership Systems' blog.

        

Web resume service, anyone? WSJ likes VisualCV.com. And here's why: http://www.wsj.com/article/SB124104735838170781.html

        

Fewer consider TV and A/C a necessity in new Pew poll. Summary at
http://snipurl.com/grumj

Does that mean more time to read and write?

        

If you're job hunting, browse over to Twitter.com, sign up for free and start getting job leads @JobAngels.

        

Laid off and now what? http://tinyurl.com/co4gya

        

"In just a few minutes, you can create a public profile that represents you and that appears when people search for your name on Google." -  Brian Stoler, a Google software engineer.

Read the CW article.

        

Twitter is all over the place these days. Even Oprah Winfrey has signed on to the Web's latest hot social media tool. If you're like me, and enjoy staying on top of the latest trends, there's Yahoo's Sideline. It allows you to monitor Twitter's public timeline and track trends that are popping up among the Tweeps (short for Twitter folk).
 
And, if you're itching to get in on a particular topic, you can quickly scan what's being "said" in Twitter's universe and jump on the bandwagon.

Check out this neat app at http://sideline.yahoo.com/.

        

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