10 Nov 09 Power of Checklist and Why Should You Have One Handy

It is often impossible for busy freelance writers to keep track of everything that they have to accomplish in order to successfully complete the work at hand. Often times, you end up missing one thing or another, and it is not before you have hit the button send that you realize the mistake you have committed. But by then it is already too late, and the process of sending an apology mail followed by the correct version of the piece that you sent starts. Generally, clients will not say anything, nevertheless, it reflects badly on your reputation and professionalism. Hence, you should work on doing the things right in the first time only, and in that checklists help a great deal.

Benefits of a checklist

A checklist offers many benefits, and unlike its how-to part, it does not require us to invest lots of time reading it. A checklist offers the following benefits:

It helps us know what we require to accomplish in order to get the work done before we embark upon.
It works as a guiding post, when we get stuck in the middle of the project and ask now what.
A checklist helps us verify if we have missed something in the project.
A checklist is easily scanable, and it should be kept handy when doing some work, as it will help us remember what needs to be done.
A checklist can help us properly prepare the budget keeping each item in mind.
It can prove to be a valuable asset when it comes to making a business decision.

Conclusion

One must keep a checklist handy whenever one embarks upon a new job. As said above, it will prove to be a very valuable tool right from the beginning.

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02 Nov 09 Write an Article in Less than 20 Minutes

Writing fast is the dream cherished by every writer, casual or professional. Some achieves it and other just hope to achieve it. In this post, I will reveal the secret of writing fast. Just follow the steps written below and you will end up writing a well-crafted piece in less than 20 minutes.

Step 1: Research the subject matter

Before beginning to write, gather some key information related to the topics you are going to write about in the article. Do not waste your time in finding every aspect related to the subject at hand. Find only what is necessary to explain what you want to write. Once they are handy, stop researching.

Step 2: Remove all distraction

Switch off your cell phone or put it in silent, remove your landline cord (if you cannot put it in silent), log out from your mail as well as social book marking accounts, log out from all instant messaging services, and also remove the internet connection for the time being.

Step 3: Write down the bullet points

Be quick and write down the bullet points that you are going to cover in the article. It should not take much time, if your pre-writing research is in place.

Step 4: Do not write and edit

Avoid using backspace and delete key when you are writing. Leave the editing work for later. Right now focus your energy on crafting the piece.

Step 5: Edit

Do not waste a life time editing an article. This is nothing but a sheer waste of time, unless you are sending your article for some research or academic journal. Remove the issues you had while writing the article.

Conclusion

Follow these steps and your writing will be quick. Do you wish to know how much time did it take me to write this short piece? Well it took me 9 minutes to write all this. It could have been 6 or 7, if I had not fall prey to editing while writing. Hope, you will not make the same mistake that I did while writing this, and get the work done real quick.

Tags: Academic Journal, Backspace, Bullet Points, Cell Phone, Conclusion, Distraction, Instant Messaging Services, Internet Connection, Life Time, Mail, Mistake, Prey, Sheer Waste, Step 1, Subject Matter, Waste Of Time, Writing Research

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31 Oct 09 How Can I Preview Attachments in Gmail

I once used Rediffmail for mails, and before that it was Hotmail, but since 2004, I, like many others, am using Gmail. In the initial days Gmail was just like another mail, and what drove people to Gmail was Google’s promise and unlimited space.

That was it, but then came the lab feature which changed the game of e- mailing. Gmail became a system, and it started providing one-stop solution for many a thing. The latest addition to the list of Gmail lab feature is Google Docs preview.

Google has made it possible for us to preview content of Google Docs document, spreadsheet, and presentation files inside the mail. This feature is new addition and to enable this feature you need to go to setting and then to lab.

Once in the lab, you should enable previews for other content type as well. Google allows you to preview YouTube videos, Picasa and Flickr images within the mail itself. You can even preview Yelp listing inside your Gmail.

You can also listen to the voice mails that you received from inside your mail. There are many more features in the Gmail labs that are worth enabling. I have been using it for quite some time now.

It is only when you used Gmail lab features that you come to know that Gmail is much more than unlimited space. Unlike every other mail, Gmail is not just a mail, but it’s a system that has many cool features.

Go now and enable features in lab and witness the change in the mailing experience. You will be as thrilled as I am about the cool features of Gmail.

Tags: Attachments, Content Type, Gmail, Google, Images, Initial Days, Lab Features, Latest Addition, Mail, New Addition, People, Picasa, Presentation Files, Preview Content, Rediffmail, Spreadsheet, Stop Solution, Videos, Voice Mails, Yelp

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10 Nov 09 Power of Checklist and Why Should You Have One Handy

Benefits of a checklist

Conclusion

02 Nov 09 Write an Article in Less than 20 Minutes

Step 1: Research the subject matter

Step 2: Remove all distraction

Step 3: Write down the bullet points

Step 4: Do not write and edit

Step 5: Edit

Conclusion

31 Oct 09 How Can I Preview Attachments in Gmail

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