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How a professional writer can reduce a blogger’s workload

The benefits of blogging are too obvious to ignore. If you believe you don’t have the time or resources to handle blogging, a professional writer (like me) can make blogging manageable. Read these sections as individual tasks that you can outsource, even as you keep others in-house.

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Creating and maintaining a blog

Let’s delve into the common steps people take to manage a successful blog. 1.    Create a vision for your blog Before you start a blog (and at regular intervals after the start), you need to find answers to several questions.

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The benefits of blogging

Successful companies maintain relationships with people who matter to them. These include customers, suppliers, business analysts and members of the media, to name a few. These relationships involve conversations. While face-to-face chats with customers might seem ideal, most companies can’t bring this idyllic notion to real life

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Lawyers who blawg

originally published in Lawyers Weekly Is your firm looking for fresh marketing ideas? If so, consider a blog. Web logs are the personal journals of the new millennium, public pages where your grandmother, your pre-teen, and everyone in between posts thoughts on the Internet.

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Speaking of Sustainability

Thoughtful discourse on green building design from industry insiders originally published in Award Magazine Events like BP’s Gulf of Mexico oil spill spur people to fret about the environment. Fortunately, encouraging signs exist. Whether people bring their own bags when shopping or choose fuel-efficient vehicles, society seems to

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How to blog

They’re the new newsletters. Millions of current blogs cover just about every business topic under the sun. You want your blog to stand out. How do you make that happen? Take it seriously by taking the steps below. They’ll have you running your blog like a magazine,

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An ounce of prevention

Whenever I share tips on this blog, I assume you have a question or problem with specific technology you own. Rarely do I explicitly advise on how to avoid problems in the first place. Avoiding problems isn’t too difficult, really, presuming you take two tips to heart:

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Adobe Acrobat tips for lawyers

Originally published in Lawyers Weekly If people who share documents recognize Adobe Acrobat for anything, it’s the ability to preserve the look of their documents across different computers by converting them into portable document format (PDF) files. Since the early 1990s, when Acrobat debuted, the PDF format

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Creating a table of contents

Word processing styles are the key to “effortlessly” making a document look elegant. They also help you automate a number of different tasks, like the creation and maintenance of tables of contents (TOCs).

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The Benefits of Video Mediation

originally published in Lawyers Weekly Magazine Face-to-face mediations won’t go away, but for cost reasons, they sometimes give way to videoconferencing. Some professional mediators are banking on this trend. “It’s a great time to do online mediation,” Petra Maxwell says. The founder and CEO of New York-based

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