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Last week’s Creative Freelancer Conference reinforced something that I’d long suspected: you don’t have to be the best, but you do have to be the kind of person that people want to work with. Likable, responsive people get the business and the referrals. The idea was reinforced on the drive home from…

A few weeks ago, I had an infected finger. I went to the doctor (one who I adore at a practice that I respect) and spent a grand total of five minutes with her. She gave me my options: high-powered oral antibiotics or a quick slice to drain the finger.…

In most healthcare organizations, the data center is in crisis. Utility costs are increasing, squeezing out other elements of the IT budget, and as hospitals require more applications, resources and storage, data center space is increasingly limited. The global recession has put a crimp in many ambitious plans for green…

“How do you edit?” he asked. Lately, prospective clients have been asking some interesting questions, often questions that I’ve never really thought of answers for. This was one I had to ponder. Aside from my eye catching the usual typos and punctuation errors, there’s something strange that happens when I…

I have, so far, been fortunate to have work in 2009. True, it hasn’t been in the form of the large, multi-month projects that I had in 2008, but it’s still been plentiful. I have to admit that this has caught me by surprise, and I am eternally grateful to…

At a recent lunch, a client asked me what, aside from my talent for writing, was my most important skill. I answered without hesitation: listening. I’m a freelance writer. The best part about it is that I know something about almost everything. The worst part about it is that I’m…

In a recent conversation with a friend, I realized that there’s a name for the way I work: agile writing. Quite unintentionally, I’ve developed a writing style that mirrors agile software development: create a preliminary draft and get feedback early and often for quick delivery of a quality product that meets…