Archive for January, 2008

This was at Web Worker Daily… Using full screen view, increasing the text size, and taking frequent breaks – among other suggestions – are recommended. I try to have some eye drops handy as well for the “dry eye” problem. But also doing eye exercises and massaging the area around your eyes seems to help [...]

Yesterday I wrote about KIVA and I’ve mentioned “One Laptop Per Child” before too on several occaisions. Here’s an interesting story by Christian Science Monitor on “Nonprofit slips in race for cheap laptop for world’s poor kids Problems at One Laptop Per Child show how social entrepreneurs can blaze trails but miss the payoff.” Microlending [...]

I saw this one on Writer Lance. A blogger wants articles on foreclosure. The blogger’s budget is “$10 to $50″ — for 5 articles up to 5 pages in length! I could see writing 5 articles for $50. I wonder what sort of trash they expect if they pay $2 per article on such a [...]

My Angel Food Ministries Lens at Squidoo  keeps getting quite a few hits… 504 in the last 7 days. It’s ranked 142 today overall on Squidoo and I haven’t done anything much to upgrade it for weeks. One of the things that helps keep it “up there” (in my opinion) is that it gets lots [...]

I love Kiva.org don’t get me wrong. But they’re a case where their popularity may exact a price. I went there the other day to recirculate some money that had been paid back and all the businesses were funded! That’s a bit like going to Starbucks to learn they’re out of coffee. Fortunately they had [...]

Alpine Access is growing rapidly. How does the Colorado based company do it? Web Worker Daily has a fantastic article on the company today. Because Alpine’s workers can work remotely, Alpine gets the “pick of the litter” as far as worker quality goes. These aren’t “I can’t do anything else so I’ll work at home [...]

From Dane’s Blog Web Worker Daily: Do you dream of working from home? Flexibly blending the professional with the personal? Working hours that suit you instead of following some old-fashioned nine-to-five schedule? All in an environment that you arrange so it suits your needs and temperament? Then you’ll want to download and read “Work from [...]

you are trying to bootstrap your way into having a work at home business, finding small revenue streams may be the key. Here’s an example of that from Dane’s Blog. SeattlePI: Q: I am a young photographer trying to start my own business. I have so much gear that I still need to buy, and [...]

Yes, these are free sources of training. Dane‘s blog… Education-Portal.com: Getting a business education online doesn’t have to be expensive. There are an increasing number of colleges, universities and nonprofit organizations offering free business courses online. Find out where you can sign up and what you can get from these cost-effective sources. 1. MIT OpenCourseWare [...]

Originally published in 1988, I think Lessinger’s predictions are gradually being seen as correct in many ways. Your sleepy little home town that seems – today – so devoid of opportunities might be the next boom town! From Mother Earth News Seattle and, for that matter, most major U.S. cities as dinosaurs caught in the [...]