Archives for April, 2008

The 100 Best Web Applications: Webware 2008 Winners Announced


Warning: this could get a little geeky! Brett, my husband, recently showed me a handy list of 100 top Web applications as voted by nearly 2 million people. Every year, Webware.com sponsors the “Webware 100″ awards (which does all the hard work for you in finding cool, useful Websites). The contest started with 5000 nominees [...]

Easy Ways to “Do-it-Yourself” Research


I recently attended an informative (and fun) luncheon put on by the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) St. Louis Chapter. The topic was research and the speaker was Steve Bast of Nucleus Marketing Lab.
Since we’re all needing to prove our worth these days, research is becoming more important in every field. Steve customized his [...]

5 Cool Digital Tools to Improve Your Life


Overloaded? Want to give your productivity and mental state a positive boost? Check out these great online tools to get more organized and improve your life.

Remember the Milk (rememberthemilk.com) – This is a free, incredible tool for managing tasks and to-dos. It has tagging, date, location, time estimate, frequency, and notes. You can enter everything [...]

7 Career Tips for Students (Or Anyone that Has a Job)


Today, I had the pleasure of participating on a panel about careers in communications at St. Charles Community College. It was fun!
It was put together by the SCC Speech and Communications Department, which includes Darren Osburn, associate professor, who I knew from our days together at Culver-Stockton College. The other panel organizers were: Curt Van [...]