Category: Business

  • Research Public Domain

    Here is helpful documentation with many useful links for researching public domain and copyright law. I would like to find a public domain project to breathe new life into this year. I love the idea of the detective work required to find the perfect project.

    Public Domain Day 2023 | Duke University School of Law

    Public Domain Day 2023 | Duke University School of Law
  • Email Newsletter Examples – Go WordPress

    Like with other creative endeavors, your newsletter creation skills expand when you read newsletters in the first place. But, since so much of the action happens in emails, it’s easy to miss out on examples that could inspire your own newsletter.

    24 Awesome Email Newsletter Examples (And What Makes Them Great) – Go WordPress

    Looking at setting up my next newsletter and thinking of ideas. The above-referenced post is great for the brainstorming stage. I also recommend Aweber for email newsletters. Not every small business owner can afford to invest in email marketing right away. But they still need to be able to connect with their customers and prospects. That is why AWeber is now available to everyone. Start for free and quickly grow your business ⏤ no time restrictions, no credit card required. Create your free account today via my affiliate link.

  • URL Redirects for Bloggers

    The first URL is the one the user clicked, typed in, or otherwise requested. The second is the new destination URL. 

    The Ultimate Guide to Redirects: URL Redirections Explained

    I’m getting ready for a blog redesign and did a little research about redirects today. I wanted to share the link because I think this will be one I return to again and again.

  • Companies Are Not Your Friend

    Great points in this post I’m sharing about unrequited love, limiting your choices, disposable products, and shrinkflation.

    I find being shepherded along the pathways they want you to go particularly telling. That was my reason for leaving Facebook for the first time well over a decade ago. I must tell you though that pushing against doesn’t feel like a win either and I don’t like that the speed with which I have tried and left various platforms has only increased.

    There is an aspect of isolation to address because often it feels like I’m walking in a world with zombified others who participate more with their tech than with the people right next to them. Not to mention the phenomenon of being left out of the loop. But I stand on principle.

    As always I recognize expansion and contraction on repeat. I feel jubilation and wonder with most tech advances in my lifetime as I enjoy the increase in efficiency and knowledge followed shortly by the joy in rediscovering and embracing again a simpler way of doing things for various reasons that become apparent.

    The returning desire for an in-person real-connection community is the natural counterbalance to too much being out there in the social media not-really-real space. I’m shocked at how long it takes to become more apparent to most other people though I do believe we all are getting better at it and quickly. The key is to recognize when change is calling and go willingly and don’t dottle once the necessity is recognized.