Archive for April, 2006
Publishing Reality Check
Stephen Morris, writer and publisher at the Public Press, gave a presentation last night at the Northshire Bookstore about book publishing. Having worked as both a writer and as a publisher, making every mistake in the book as he says, Stephen has really become quite an expert on the business.
If anything, Stephen gave many [...]
The Southshire Pepperpot
I will soon have a short story published in an anthology put together by the Southshire Roundtable called The Southshire Pepperpot. It will be available soon from Windstorm Creative for pre-orders.
The anthology is “an eclectic mix of prose and poetry full of whimsy, humor, reflection, wonder, along with a mouth-watering collection of recipes sure to [...]
More Free Software
After five days out of town in West Virginia for a little bit of hiking, we’re back home. In trying to catch up on my favorite blogs, I found a link at Jordon Cooper’s blog to a nice site full of links to open source software and other free downloads. Some of it is junk, [...]
Writing Exercise: Customized Banking
Writing Exercise: If you could make a bank that would hold anything but money, what kind of bank would it be? What would you put in it? Give yourself 15 minutes.
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Out of Town
We’ll be out of town for a few days. Pending on how much it rains and whether or not I can remember my passwords, I may not be blogging too much over the weekend. I’ll be back by Tuesday for sure.
Take It Personal Days
Employee Handbook Section 8.II.D.3.b.iv.
Take It Personal Days
From time to time conflicts may threaten the strategic effectiveness of the staffing resources. Should team members become entangled in such an inconvenient circumstance we offer “Take It Personal Days.” Implementing time away from the source of conflict will sufficiently diffuse all unwanted repurcussions from internal team member dissatisfaction. [...]
Volunteer Appreciation Week (April 23-29)
Volunteer Appreciation week is coming up and if you don’t yet have a plan to recognize your volunteers, time is running out. I have been giving it a lot of thought and have really wrestled with the appropriate way to recognize volunteers.
After talking with a few other volunteer coordinators, I have decided that it is [...]
The Southshire Pepper Pot
A few weeks ago I submitted a story entittled “A Bittersweet Land” to the Southshire Roundtable, a writing group down in Bennington. They are putting together an anthology having to do with food and put out a call for short stories. While not a food expert, I have held Turkish coffee in high regard after [...]
Drawing the Line with Volunteers
From time to time I am forced to deal with the limits of my volunteer core. This is typically due to either the changing needs of the organization or the changing skill sets of the volunteers. It is my experience that organizations tend to overestimate what volunteers can do. Large projects that should be put [...]
Northshire Non-Profit Network Meeting
Tommorrow morning at 8 am the Northshire Non-Profit Network will be meeting at Hildene in Manchester Village, VT. If you’re involved with a non-profit and you’re in the area at that time with nothing to do (since we all find ourselves roaming town early in the morning with nothing to do from time to time [...]
Kelly “Stranded” Road
This sounds like a rough night. At least the town of Sunderland did their best to warn those involved.
The Bennington Banner reports that a couple went off the road while traveling on Kelly Stand rd. at 6:30 pm on Tuesday. The article mentions that the husband in the car had a broken leg prior to [...]
Selling Out on Blogs
I received an e-mail yesterday with a link to an article about how to profit from a blog. While I’m not opposed to putting ads or a donate sign (hosting a blog is not always free), the focus of the article and a subsuquent link within it was how to maximize revenue through search engines [...]
w.Bloggar: My New Toy
Though I downloaded it a while ago, I finally got into “w.Bloggar,” an offline blog editor. It essentially allows you to write up your blog posts in the exact format they will appear without actually having to be online.
While there are a number of reasons why this is a good thing, the number [...]
Why? People are Complaining
Writing Exercise: You’re in an art gallery and you come accross a cabinet with the 5-Disc CD changer that is playing the music in the galleries. A typed note reads, “Please do not change the CDs.” A hand written note is below that message, “Why? People are complaining.” How did that note get there?
What Not to Wear
My initial intent was to not only publish writing exercises, but to also post what I myself had done. I now realize that I will never keep up. I have too many written out that I’ll never type them all out any time soon. In light of this, I’ll post my own writing when I [...]
Pleasantly Surprised with Blogger
I have now wasted about a good hour playing around with a new blog set up with Blogger, one of the most popular free blog programs around. While many are singing the praises of Wordpress, I have found that for a newbie such as myself with minimal html experience, Blogger is a decent choice. You [...]
