Stop throwing darts at a board when you need to estimate. Track your pace so you have the data to
Author: Adrienne (scieditor)
An editor of words, mostly those in instructional materials — and mostly on technical subjects such as science.
Stop Wasting Time on Estimates (podcast)
Learn how to get a ballpark estimate on the table asap to avoid pointless estimates. That’s the topic of this
Links OTW, Sept 27–Oct 3
Here’s this week’s interweb awesomeness for editors: You don’t know fuck (literally), diagram a sentence, teach wavelengths by walking, and
Microcontroller Links
This page contains bookmarks to Arduino and Spark code libraries and tutorials for Kingston Maker Space. Adafruit tutorials for Arduino
Learning from Americans (reflections on CCC)
Learnings from the short journey south of the border for professional development at the Communication Central Conference in Rochester, NY. Today,
Conference report: Communication Central 2014
Two roundups from the Communication Central conference. Several print and tech resources for writers and editors, as well as efficiency
Stop Wasting Time on Estimates
Are you spending hours developing accurate estimates specific to a project only to hear the client say “That’s ten times what I thought I’d have to spend”?
Stop it. Stop it now.
LOTW, Sept 20–26
Here’s this week’s interweb awesomeness for editors, plus some shit I just know I’m going to want to find again
“Try this punctuation test,” she exclaimed!
A simple test for the most exciting punctuation, today, in my Canadian, Eh? column at Copyediting.com. This is a retake on my
The Art of the Upsell: Elevate your sales using three-tier pricing
How to put “Would you like fries with that?” to work in your business without feeling like a fast-food clerk.