By dmc-admin
Published: February 11,2010
By Caitlin Coakley I have to say, I don’t understand all the fuss over teleprompters stirred by Palin’s snarky remarks at the National Tea Party Convention. I could go the route of mocking her own scribbled hand-notes, but it’s already been done by every late-night host much funnier than I am (and the simple fact [...]
By dmc-admin
Published: February 8,2010
By Sam Boykin We have a story this week about the Five Ventures Business Competition, a great opportunity for entrepreneurs to obtain useful guidance, win prize money, and get a healthy head start on their venture. Oh, how I wish they had a similar program for new parents. My daughter, Lily, turns 5 months old [...]
By dmc-admin
Published: February 4,2010
By Caitlin Coakley Everything I needed to know about my professional career I learned as an endurance athlete. Here are three lessons that I learned in my first triathlon and am re-learning as I enter the workforce. Lesson #1: Sometimes the water is colder than you think. Before the race, I was pretty cocky about [...]
By dmc-admin
Published: February 1,2010
By Sam Boykin It’s Friday morning as I write this, and all the finely coiffed TV meteorologists and silky-voiced radio hosts are breathlessly discussing the approaching winter storm, which is expected to dump a couple of inches of snow on Charlotte. This, of course, is akin to a raging blizzard in the northern states. And [...]
By dmc-admin
Published: February 1,2010
By Caitlin Coakley There are a lot of things that sound romantic in theory. Working from home is one of them. On paper, it sounds perfect: No set schedule, no morning traffic to contend with, and no need to wear pantyhose to work. However, for the year that I did it, I was miserable. The [...]
By dmc-admin
Published: January 25,2010
By Sam Boykin As a former full-time freelance writer, I related to some of the concerns expressed by the folks in my stories about the challenges of business ownership. Prior to working here, I was essentially a sole proprietor for about five years. While I didn’t have employees or a business license, I was responsible [...]
By dmc-admin
Published: January 21,2010
By Caitlin Coakley Last week, I wrote about the ineffectiveness of the Facebook bra-color campaign to raise awareness of breast cancer. This week, I may have to rethink my skepticism. After the earthquake in Haiti that has so far killed an estimated 200,000 people, some of my cyber-acquaintances have been using Facebook to do some [...]
By dmc-admin
Published: January 20,2010
By Sam Boykin It was perhaps the lowest point of my working life. After years of floundering and false starts, I somehow ended up working as a manager at an office supply store. I loathed it. Working in a retail environment within the confines of a giant corporate hierarchal structure was just not for me. [...]
By dmc-admin
Published: January 20,2010
By Caitlin Coakley Checking my friends’ Facebook status updates last Friday was like running through the whole ROY G BIV of the underwear rainbow. I got the message in my inbox too, about “some fun” going on where the ladies on Facebook were posting their bra color as their status updates. Supposedly, the campaign was [...]
By dmc-admin
Published: January 20,2010
By Sam Boykin While just about every industry has been hit hard by the recession, folks in the newspaper and magazine industry, including us lowly writers, have had a particularly trying time. We’ve been hit with a double whammy of both a crumbling economy and technological changes that allow people to get their news and [...]
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