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Implementing vision to produce brilliant assets, developing useful templates, digital versus analog challenges, the material circumstances of craft and content creation, iteration, balancing creativity and strategic direction while actually making the work.

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Audience & UX

Internet business writing tip #1: "This is" weak prose

Internet business writing tip #1: "This is" weak prose

Why "this is" is uninspired writing, despite its popularity in the newsletterverse.

Production

How I write and optimize each issue of The Content Technologist

How I write and optimize each issue of The Content Technologist

A detailed description of my writing and optimization process, along with how it relates to my freelance business strategy

reviews

Shorthand review: Step away from the PDF

Shorthand review: Step away from the PDF

Shorthand alleviates the pain points found in many of the first-wave of interactive content builders. Read The Content Technologist review.

Graphic design for the mobile-social-remote era: Projector review

Graphic design for the mobile-social-remote era: Projector review

Projector is an alternative to Canva to create images for social media, presentations, web graphics and other impermanent visuals.

Production

In-line linking and our intentional web

In-line linking and our intentional web

Links are the building blocks of the web. Revisit your linking best practices in the context of 2020s digital behavior.

Production

Easily pull text from images and videos: TextSniper review

Easily pull text from images and videos: TextSniper review

TextSniper has me reminiscing about my early career in content digitization and OCR scans.

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