We’ve all heard the stories about bloggers who have written things about their companies in their personal blogs that have caused them to get fired.  Heather Armstrong of Dooce.com is probably one of the most well-known examples of this, but have you considered that your company could fire you just because you blog regardless of whether or not you ever mention your company (by name or not) in your blog?

That’s exactly what happened to Chez Pazienza who was fired from his job as a producer at CNN because he wrote a…

If you’re like many of us, you’re working in your boring, dead-end office job for just one reason: you need a quiet place with internet access where you can update your blog. (Also, it helps you pay for rent and food and stuff. But mostly jobs are about blogging, right?)

Even if you love your job, there are few who can resist the lure of a half-hour of downtime and a quiet desk in the corner. Sometimes, you just gotta blog. Alas, less progressive bosses and supervisors don’t always look kindly…

Have you thought about your goals for 2008 yet? Better yet, have your written your goals down and defined them specifically? Its one thing to set goals, it quit another to achieve them. If done correctly you can achieve and possibly exceed any goal that you set for yourself be it Blogging or some other aspect of your life.

Here are some effective ways to set, monitor and track your goals.

Make your resolutions goals - Have you ever noticed how most resolutions are made. Lets use the one I hear the…

I’ll be going home for Christmas Tuesday, back to a small town of 7,000 people on the edge of Ontario and Minnesota, a place where designers and bloggers are a very foreign concept that I’ll inevitably have to explain to anyone asking “what I’m up too now”.

People don’t really get what a designer or a blogger is there, and explanation of either is usualy meet with confused looks and attempts at comparing you to something almost unrelated. People expect me to be working in some sort of IT support…

Sometimes you wind up having to blog on a holiday. I, for example, have a Thanksgiving deadline today for which I am totally unprepared. Fortunately, I am always happy to hold myself up as an example of what not to do, so learn from my mistakes and never, ever do the following:

Wait until the day of your deadline to post your work.
As I try to post this, my internet connection is experiencing small technical difficulties, probably because all my neighbors are using my bandwidth to surf the web and ignore…