You may enjoy contributing to communities like LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter, where you can expand your network by connecting from users around the world, share information, and raise your visibility. If you’re an introvert, you can use these venues to thrive quietly in your Batcave, devouring facts and figures, theorizing, and philosophizing online sunup to sundown. Each day you can wake up and read, research, and write some more. (more…)

Is it time for you to run your own business? Let’s say you dream of making a fortune manufacturing whizbang gizmos to make millions of lives easier. Or maybe you would be happier with something more pedestrian like running a dog grooming business or offering consulting services on your area of expertise. (more…)

What personal information do you disclose about yourself on social networking sites like Facebook? A survey on internet privacy found three-quarters of respondents said they wouldn’t share their mother’s maiden name, 40 percent wouldn’t share their street address, 24 percent wouldn’t share their political views, and four percent wouldn’t share their gender with anyone, according to a recent article in Bostonia, the alumni magazine of Boston University.
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“When I’m working I sit alone and write words that no one will see for months or even years,” says author Leah Stewart in her recent story titled, “One Author’s Journey From Twitter-Clueless to Organizing a 48-Writer Social Media Giveaway,” in the Huffington Post.
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