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How to Protect Your Intellectual Property
Details Category: Business Security Created on Wednesday, 12 October 2011 09:50 Written by Tim Burton Hits: 434 It is crucial for all businesses to protect their intellectual property. Patents Inventions are crucial to the success of many businesses. If your business is one in which inventions are created on a continuing basis, it is very important that you have a clear understanding about who owns the inventions. Copyrights A copyright provides protection for original works of authorship, fixed in a tangible medium of expression including literary, musical, and dramatic works, as well as photographs, audio and visual recordings, software, and other intellectual works. nt of your copyright. Trademarks A trademark protects the name of your product by preventing other business from selling a product under the same name. Different types of intellectual properties and ways to protect them: inventions, manufacturing process and new and invented technical features of your products. About Author
12 Enjoyable Names for Relatively Common Things
Fancy yourself a logophile ... and didn't have to look up "logophile"? See if you know these 12 words for common things. 1. The plastic table-like item found in pizza boxes is called a box tent and was patented in 1983. Most people in the biz now call it a pizza saver. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Getty Images 9. 10. 11. 12. What are some of your favorite extra ordinary/extraordinary words? For 12-12-12, we’ll be posting twenty-four '12 lists' throughout the day.
113 Things You Can Do to Grow Your Freelance Writing Income -- Now
3inShare Aren’t you sick of the negativity out there in the freelance writing community? I know I am. You know the spiel. The economy is still so awful, bla bla bla.All articles are now $5 or less.I can’t believe this Craigslist ad asks for three free samples. The fact is, some freelancers are still earning a great living, and you can, too. To help you take charge of your writing career, I put together a list of 100+ proactive things you can do right now to build your income: Tell your clients your rates are going up.Raise your rates for new clients.Raise your rates every year in the fall, to take effect the following year.Let your current clients and all your friends and former co-workers know that you’re looking for new clients and you’d appreciate their referrals.Grow your network.Write for more parts of your existing clients — does that publisher have other magazines? (Yes, there are a few affiliate links in there, for products I have used and highly recommend.)
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How to invite others to join a LinkedIn group « Linked4Ministry Blog
Are you a member of a LinkedIn group that you would like to invite others to join? You might be able to do it easily if the group manager allows member invitations. Here are the steps: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. That doesn’t work if the group manager doesn’t allow members to invite others to join. The third solution (and the easiest for you) is tell them the group name and have them go to your profile, scroll through your groups, and click on the “+ Join” button to request membership. The last choice is to send their email address to the group manager and ask them to invite them. Why invite others to join groups? If you are not in the “Linked4Ministry” LinkedIn group and would like to be, go to and click on the “Join Group” button As always, thank you for reading Linked4Ministry. Blessings, Bill Bender Linked4Ministry & Anothen Life Ministries Like this: Like Loading...
25 Ways To Fight Your Story’s Mushy Middle
For me, the middle is the hardest part of writing. It’s easy to get the stallions moving in the beginning — a stun gun up their asses gets them stampeding right quick. I don’t have much of a problem with endings, either; you get to a certain point and the horses are worked up into a mighty lather and run wildly and ineluctably toward the cliff’s edge. But the middle, man, the motherfucking middle. Seems like it’s time for another “list of 25″ to the rescue, then. Hiyaa! 1. Fuck the three-act structure right in its crusty corn-cave. 2. Hey, when you fake an orgasm, you gotta commit. 3. The shape of a story — especially the shape of a story’s middle — is a lot of soft rises and doughy plateaus and zoftig falls. 4. When I was a kid, Christmas Eve was the most interminable time because, y’know, Christmas morning is everything. 5. Sometimes, a story needs a bit of new blood in the form of a new character — someone interesting. 6. Sometimes, a story just needs blood. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13.
8 Writing Techniques to Win You a Pulitzer
Today’s guest post is from writer Joe Bunting, who blogs at The Write Practice. We all know there are novels and then there are “literary” novels. When you read Margaret Atwood, it just feels different than when you read Tom Clancy. And for some reason, these literary novels are the ones that win all the most prestigious awards like the Pulitzer Prize, the Man Booker Prize, and the Nobel Prize for Literature. Literary authors are known for their unique voices and experimental styles. You might have learned not to write run-on sentences in school or to avoid beginning a sentence with “and,” but literary writers often seem to flaunt their rule-breaking ways. This is both good and bad. So if you’re salivating to win a Nobel Prize, and just don’t think your diplomacy skills are good enough to win the Peace Prize, here are eight techniques you can use to make your writing more “literary.” Isn’t that beautiful? Writing long sentences can get old. One thing. Try reading it aloud.
Guest Blog: A Year of Non-Fiction? by Emily « Nadia Lee :: Romance Writer - Blog
I have been utterly and completely turned off reading fiction. I'm not sure why, but I just don't wanna. I've been to the library a couple of times since I got back home -- and god, I love the public libraries here in Singapore! Do you know what amount of monstrous effort that would normally require of me? I'm someone who usually reads upwards of 200 novels each year. Now I can't remember the last time I read a novel. It's depressing, is what it is. I watch some TV. I listen to a lot of podcasts from the BBC and the Economist -- I save a lot of time by not reading newspapers any more and using that time for stitching. So I'm thinking. An enforced year of reading only non-fiction. It might kill me. Do you think you could do it? Emily spent the past three years in the cold and wet, and is now basking in the tropical sun.
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