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Fight or Be Fondled – Rising Above a Bully of a Boss

Dorri Olds tells her personal account of battling a bully of a boss who made sexual harassment a daily occurrence. Other women refused to help, but Olds took the best revenge.

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How to Quit Your Job and Write for a Living

How to write for yourself. Here is how to make a career in writing versus daydreaming about a romanticized version of a writer’s life. To grab the reigns and succeed with a money-making freelance career, you need to think critically about what you want and what your skills are. Then you can make an educated choice on the type of writing role that’s right for you. Google freelance writing for ongoing gigs. you may choose to pursue content marketing, ghost writing, editing, ghost editing, journalism for industries that have an ongoing need for writers. Think: science, finance, health, parenting, tech, or any topic that interests you. The list is almost endless.

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Ridley Scott Directs the John Paul Getty Kidnapping Starring Michelle Williams and Kevin Spacey

At 3am, July 10, 1973 in Rome’s Piazza Farnese, John Paul Getty, III was pistol-whipped in the head, forced into a car and taken to a cave in Calabria. The kidnappers sent a ransom note demanding $17 million that the infamously wealthy oil business family refused to pay.

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Social Media: Harvard Business Review Found Most Companies Use Social Media Inffectively and They Need Help

58% of companies are engaged in social networks like Facebook, microblogs like Twitter, and sharing multimedia on platforms such as YouTube but research from Harvard finds that much of the investment in social media is future-oriented. Now is the time to hire a social media consultant to get you and your business on the right track.

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Industry News for Writers in my ASJA Monthly Market Monitor Column

Attention Writers! Stay ahead of the game with a Wordpress website, a strong social media presence, branding your image, building your platform. So many options for writers to sell their work. It’s a writer’s world out there. American Society of Journalists and Authors (ASJA.org).

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Encouraging Economy News

According to thefiscaltimes.com the job market is improving. The number of Americans filing claims for unemployment benefits dropped for a second consecutive week. The economy added 162,000 jobs in March—the largest increase in 3 years. As of this week the unemployment rate has holding been steady at 9.7 percent for three consecutive months. That is … Read more

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Things We Know re: How the Viewer Sees a Page

Thanks to a study of Eyetracking research there is a pattern and course that most eyes will track on a page. “Eyetracking is research that tracks where a person’s eyes look while reading, then analyzes the data to reveal patterns. By combining and reviewing data from multiple individuals during testing, you can discover representative patterns … Read more

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USA Today Survey of 46 Economists' Predictions

Economists expect recovery to stick in 2010, forecasting a slow, steady rise. Nearly four of five economists surveyed by USA TODAY say the stock market rally since March is heralding a sustainable recovery. View encouraging predictions see chart. If the predictions are correct, our beautiful nation won’t slip back into recession nor will the Dow … Read more

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