Category Archives: Odds and Ends

Odd and Ends is the junk drawer here at Blue Duck Copy. If we can’t find a logical place for it, you’ll find it in here.

Website Content Errors Are Costly For Business

Via Scoop.it – Business Blogs The quality of the content on your Website matters. If you walked into a brick-and-mortar business office and noticed that the roof was leaking, the carpet was stained, and the furniture was out of date, would that affect your opinion of effectiveness and quality of the business? Of course it…

15 Killer iPad Apps for Business

Can your business run on an iPad? The answer lies within the iTunes App store. Loaded with the right apps, your iPad can serve just about any business function you encounter. From launching presentations to managing your social media accounts, the iPad tackles them all and asks for more. Must-Have Apps for Copywriters and Freelance…

Top 10 Reasons Not to Celebrate Valentine’s Day

This is a recycled post from my very early writing days, so be gentle and read it in the sarcastic, good-humored nature it is intended. And for those of you who are die-hard romantics: Happy Valentine’s Day anyways (you deluded souls)! Top 10 Reasons Not to Celebrate Valentine’s Day OK, so Christmas has scrooge and…

Streamlining Social Media: facebook Connect

I admit it, I have a love hate relationship with social media. I know all the experts say it’s important, but I also know it can be a real time sucker. One of my goals for this year is to streamline my social media time. Social Media Goals Does this mean I’ll still goof off…

Groovy Search Wins Out Over the Big Dog

photo credit: [ Roberto Bouza ] In yet another domain name dispute, Google leaves the table with its tail tucked between its legs. The search giant lost a recent lawsuit against Groovle.com, where Google watchdogs claimed that the domain name bears enough resemblance to Google.com  to constitute a copyright infringement. The courts say otherwise, making…

The History and Future of Search (according to Google)

This is an interesting, but lengthy, video of Google’s presentation on the history and future of Search. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXHHkROejik&feature=player_embedded[/youtube]

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Chicken Soup and Xanax Anyone?

One of the greatest appeals of the Internet is, like life, it goes on with or without you. Please let me apologize for my leave of absence from the blogging world. Sometimes life has other plans besides what is penciled into your calender. To make a long story short, (and to avoid dragging out all…

Headline Rants

Well, I’m back from the land of the “wish-I-was-dead” after a bout with the flu. (Worst flu I’ve had in years, even my hair hurt.) It seems that most of our little corner of Blogopolis was sick last week, too, so I don’t feel so bad about ignoring blogging and blog reading in favor of…

One of Those Days

Have you ever had one of those days that makes you wish you’d stayed in bed? Well, this is one of them for me. In the last 24 hours: My cat came in heat and is now climbing the curtains, biting my ankles and calling for a mate every 10 seconds. My five year old…

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Real: Up Close and Personal

photo credit: preciouskhyatt When the concept of surrendering and getting real began to surface in my life, I had mixed feelings. Mostly fear and excitement, but some anxiety and wariness as well. When the excitement hit, I started envisioning a blog post. It was based on the fact that Christians are to confess our sins…