Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Top Misc Content on Internet

Top Misc Content on Internet

How to Find a Tampa Criminal Attorney

Posted: 07 Mar 2010 09:00 PM PST

A Tampa criminal attorney can help you when you face criminal charges. There are many ways that can be done in finding the best lawyer in town, from a friend's recommendation to a referral from a local bar association.

Individual Retirement Accounts and Taxes

Posted: 07 Mar 2010 09:00 PM PST

Individual retirement accounts are actually one of the more common and more popular retirement arrangement choices that most taxpayers opt for.

What Are Capital Assets?

Posted: 07 Mar 2010 09:00 PM PST

Capital assets can be described as any property that is owned by the person paying taxes for it, however, not all properties owned by that taxpayer is necessarily considered a capital asset.

Tax Deductions for Small Businesses

Posted: 07 Mar 2010 09:00 PM PST

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is offering a number of tax deductions for small business owners.

What Can You Deduct For Home Business?

Posted: 07 Mar 2010 09:00 PM PST

The office or work space that you have at home should be used primarily for your business only if you would like to claim it as a tax deduction.

What Exactly is a Put Option?

Posted: 07 Mar 2010 09:00 PM PST

Both call and put options are often misunderstood due to their complexities. Here's a look at what exactly is a put option.

What Is a Call Option and How Does It Work

Posted: 07 Mar 2010 09:00 PM PST

Options and directives are one of the most misunderstood financial instruments. Here's a look at what is a call option and how it works.

Home Improvements - Can You Do it Alone or Hire a Professional

Posted: 07 Mar 2010 09:00 PM PST

Home improvement can be done in so many ways. It will all depend on the complexity of the job that you want. This article will help you determine if you need to hire a pro or you can just getaway with it alone.

Wealthy Affiliate Review - An Affiliate Marketer's Dream Come True

Posted: 07 Mar 2010 09:00 PM PST

Does the Wealthy Affiliate University really help individuals - newbies, Intermediates and veterans - achieve greater financial success, regardless of the level of knowledge they have about making money online?

A Career As A Sports Nutritionist

Posted: 07 Mar 2010 09:00 PM PST

Working as a Sports Nutritionist can be a rewarding, challenging career. They help guide and track their athletes' dietary intakes to maximize performance.

Executive Job Search Tips from Recruiters

Posted: 07 Mar 2010 09:00 PM PST

Recruiters can have the inside knowledge on how to help executives land the job they want. Read below to find out more.

Creating the Position of Your Dreams

Posted: 07 Mar 2010 09:00 PM PST

Although most people are in jobs they don't like, it is possible to find the perfect match. Here are some tips.

What is The Best Type of Project Management Training? PMP, PRINCE2 or APM

Posted: 07 Mar 2010 09:00 PM PST

Guidance on what is the best project management training, PMP, PRINCE2, APM. Using some simple questions decide what is best for you.

Wealthy Affiliate Review - Little-Known Secrets on One of the Top Internet Affiliate Programs Today

Posted: 07 Mar 2010 09:00 PM PST

There are little-known secrets that the Wealthy Affiliate program has, which most people fail to notice, and few are able to take advantage of, build a successful affiliate marketing career, and earn consistent passive income online.

Best Tips of Home Buying Negotiation

Posted: 07 Mar 2010 09:00 PM PST

In home buying, negotiation process is very vital in all parties involved. As a wise buyer, it will be an advantage on your part if you know the factors that can possibly influence the seller to lower the price of the property.

PR pros should write for search engines | Article | Homepage articles

Posted: 10 Mar 2010 06:12 PM PST

Test Your Writing Quality With These 8 Readability Web Tools

Posted: 10 Mar 2010 01:58 PM PST

#words #writing #web #content How readable is your website http://to.ly/1mpT

Don't 'click here': writing meaningful link text (Dey Alexander Consulting)

Posted: 10 Mar 2010 01:12 PM PST

Excellent summary of why 'click here' is not useful as link text.

The tool is not the content : I Should Be Writing

Posted: 10 Mar 2010 11:31 AM PST

Ten rules for writing fiction | Books | guardian.co.uk

Posted: 10 Mar 2010 06:06 AM PST

Word Content : Content is King.

Posted: 10 Mar 2010 05:05 AM PST

A Common Sense Content Strategy - Articles - MIX Online

Posted: 10 Mar 2010 04:58 AM PST

Blogging Lessons from The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

Posted: 10 Mar 2010 05:00 AM PST

image from movie poster

A 40 year-old unsolved murder mystery. Strange cryptic codes in a bible. Sweden, sandwiches, and many, many cigarettes. The badass-est female protagonist since . . . forever. And an author who has, posthumously, caused quite a ruckus in the book world and in the minds of conspiracy theorists everywhere.

Yes, I’m talking about The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. If you haven’t heard of it, the rest of us are inviting you to come out from under your rock. Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy (The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played With Fire and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest) is topping bestseller lists as we speak and the theatrical release of Dragon Tattoo hits the U.S. next week.

I had the good fortune of screening an advanced copy and, of course, my mind went blog, blog, blog. Because that’s what blog obsessed people like us do. So here are the blogging lessons I learned from this tattooed ‘girl’ . . .

Gasoline feeds a fire, but first there has to be a spark

At one point in the movie, a man lies under a car. Having just flown off the side of the road, both he and the car are demolished, gasoline is spilling out everywhere . . . and he waits, watching, trapped. Finally there’s a spark . . . and then fire, total combustion.

So often we have all of the ingredients, right? The design is just right, the writing is perfection, the research says that there’s a need for the content . . . but then, nothing.

No traffic, no comments, no buzz. No combustion. What’s missing?

There has to be a spark.

Maybe it comes in the form of a new partnership, a referral, or an outside event (like a shortage of light bulbs) that makes your product (candles) suddenly burst into high demand.

Maybe you have a life-changing event that triggers your passion. Maybe you read a book that causes something to click in your brain or your heart.

And then, there’s no stopping the heat.

Nothing more, nothing less

Lisbeth Salander, the girl with the dragon tattoo, is a woman of few words, but they’re always the right ones. She communicates through her gestures, carefully chosen words and even her silences. To some people around her, this is maddening. But others totally get it and they pay incredibly close attention to her. They listen closely . . . and they also watch.

As a blogger, what you don't say can be as important as what you do say.

Do you find the positive in challenging situations, gleaning lessons and inspiring others? Or do you bitch and moan, spreading negativity?

Do you stick to your topic? Or is your blog scattered, full of everything under the sun?

Do you promote everything that could be remotely related to your blog? Or do you bow out of a big launch that, for one reason or another, isn't quite right for your readers?

What is the significance of what you leave on the blogging room floor?

Document everything

In the movie, as Blomkvist and Salander try to solve the mystery, they are aided again and again by the record-keeping of other characters, the police, the newspapers, and themselves.

It’s the last, ‘themselves,’ that holds the lesson.

Working to uncover this decades-old secret, the investigators look for the needle in the proverbial haystack. With so much unknown, their path to discovery lies in documenting every thought they have, literally pinning them to the wall for examination — and never, ever brushing aside even one moment of insight or possibility.

Ideas for blog content, joint venture partnerships, promotions, ebooks — and even tweets and Facebook updates — often shoot through our brains at a fast and furious pace.

Blogging fodder is everywhere. It’s in the conversation you have with the souvlaki guy outside your building every day at lunch, it’s in the color of the car that just drove by, it’s in the ad that you saw for hairplugs.

If you don’t grab these ideas as they fly by, they will keep flying. Trust me.

Write it all down. Nail it to the wall. Even the thoughts that seem impossible, unreachable, or just plain ridiculous.

The clue to your own success will lie in your own observations and insights. Don't lose them.

It's hard to be brilliant all by yourself

The story's protagonists bounce their ideas off one another — and often hear brilliance in their partner’s ramblings.

Blogging is about community. Who can you bounce ideas off? Who might hear your mumblings and, in turn, grab you by the shoulders and tell you that you’re actually onto something? Who can you help by being a sounding board?

You might have someone’s missing piece in your back pocket.

Like a tattoo, things are permanent on the internet

Lisbeth has many tattoos, including a dragon covering her entire back. Getting ink like that is a serious commitment. Yes, you can have laser surgery to get a tattoo removed, but from what I can tell, it never completely disappears. A scar is left behind. And I’m told the process is neither pleasant nor easy.

If we really want to get deep here, we can go so far as to say that your memory of the tattoo can never be removed.

Blogging is also a commitment. We commit our time, we commit our creativity, we commit our resources. And every time we hit ‘publish’ we commit to our ideas.

The internet is a pretty permanent place and it’s hard to ‘take it back’ once the words are out there. Yes, you can go to the trouble of having something uncached — but again, it isn’t pleasant or easy. People will remember your post, they may have even printed your words on paper. We’re time-stamped and cached, linked to and quoted, and even scraped.

Be as sure as you can be each and every time you share.

Don’t underestimate anyone

Played perfectly by Noomi Rapace, Lisbeth is mysterious, tattooed, and pierced. She’s also tiny, often mistaken for a skinny, 14 year-old boy and underestimated because of her small size.

But she’s able to fight off grown men — both physically and mentally — time and again. I believe the appropriate term here would be scrappy ass-kicker. And it works to her advantage. She has surprise on her side and she’s impressive, even to those who don’t particularly like her.

With a blogosphere more crowded than a Twilight premier (and some days with just as much screaming), it’s a phenomenal idea to stand out.

It’s the old case of man bites dog. What can you do, how can you say it, where can you share it so that it lands like a snowman in a cranberry bog? (That is: with a splash, much coolness, and bright by contrast.)

Lisbeth is also the underdog. To be honest, she’s the runt.

But a few people look beyond that (or don’t even see it at all) and take a chance on her. It helps her, of course, but it also helps them. They don’t see her size, her income, her appearance, her odd personality, her history. They see her skill, her brilliance, her dedication, her inherent goodness.

How many Top 10, 25, 50, 100 lists have you seen that tout the best bloggers, the best writers, the twitterati?

Sadly, many people get caught up in these lists and think that these people are the only ones to do business with or read, because they look good on paper. But we all start somewhere.

Chris Brogan just wrote that it took him 8 years to get 100 subscribers on his blog — and look at him now.

As bloggers we can only help each other and the quality of the blogosphere by discovering new talent, sharing what we know and giving people a chance.

No matter how small and skinny . . . no matter how many tattoos.

About the Author: Julie Roads invites you to join the Dragon Tattoo Blog HUNT — an internet wide scavenger hunt tied to the feature film launch of bestselling book The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.

You can win great prizes — free movie tickets, books, movie soundtrack, posters and more. To join the contest, start at the beginning of the HUNT by visiting www.dragontattoofilm.com/contest for full details and the first clue. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo is in theaters near you starting March 19th.

THE NEXT CLUE: Rachel Bilson & Christina Ricci are celebrity supporters of this national network that fights violence against women. Their strong volunteer program just goes to show that when kindness RAINNS, it pours.

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