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Ten Killer Interviewing Tips

Hi! Seems it’s your first visit on Freelance Folder. Welcome! You may want to grab our RSS feed or you can also subscribe and receive updates in your e-mail. So you’d always be up to date! Thanks for visiting!As a Technical Writer, I have had to interview hundreds of computer professionals to better understand […]

2008-03-30 Sunday Links Folder

Hi everyone, I hope you’re having a great week-end and you don’t have too much work to do. As usual, on week-ends I like to compile a list of interesting articles I’ve read during the week that I think you’ll find interesting. I’m sure you’ll find some good stuff in there. :)
Here we go:

13 Ways […]

A Step By Step Guide To Writing About Stuff You Know Very Little About

There’s absolutely nothing wrong with writing only on a handful of topics, but what if a client asks you to write on a topic you know nothing (or very little) about? Can you afford to turn down work?
Before you find yourself in a position where you have to say no to a client, why not […]

Popular and Better - Synonyms or Misconception?

In today’s society, where image is everything, it’s definitely easy to get carried away and end up thinking that a popular product or service is automatically better as well. Let’s try to look beyond the surface and ask ourselves if popularity should really be an important factor which needs to be taken into consideration when […]

How To Balance Freelancing With A Full-Time Job Without Burning Out

It is possible to effectively balance your full-time job with freelancing - without going insane or burning out. I do it, and in this post, I’ll tell you how you can, too. Many of us begin freelancing while we are still employed in full-time jobs.
Here are some requirements and tips for staying sane while […]

Ten Ways to Optimize Your Software Experience

Today, software is an integral part of our lives – whether we are working on the web or on a school or business client-server environment that has all of the applications we must use. The following article features ten ways in which you can maximize your software experience, making order out of seeming chaos that […]

Web/Graphic Designers Interviewed On VandelayDesign

Hi folks, just a quick post to let you know that Steven at VandelayDesign interviewed 10 web and graphic designers, some of them you probably already know. You can read the whole post on VandelayDesign.
Who got interviewed?

Alen Grakalic of CSS Globe
Jon Phillips of Freelance Folder (that would be me)
David Airey
Matt Griffin of Liquid Design Media
Chris […]

2008-03-23 Sunday Links Folder

Hi folks, how was your week? I hope you were able to meet all your deadlines and there’s not too much left on your to do list. I read many great articles this week that I’d like to share with you. Please take a minute to read these posts, I’m sure you’ll find them interesting.
But […]

Ten Great Technical Writing Tips

Technical writing is a skill that will not only help you to better understand a software or system that you are working with, but also will help you to build credibility before others in an organization, especially as a knowledge expert regarding the topic or areas you are covering in your documentation. Here are ten […]

Online Entrepreneurs And Responsibility

As far as more than a few online entrepreneurs are concerned, someone else seems to always be at fault. They blame others for the fact that their projects haven’t turned out as well as they had initially planned, they blame others for each and one of their flops as well as for the fact that […]