The plain English campaign provides a writting guide called “How to write in plain English”. I found this guide useful as it helps to write better informative text. So this might be valuable for other bloggers to. The advices provided by the guide are:

Keep your sentences short: A clear sentence should have an average sentence […]

I found via Juice Analytics, a very good education web site called Habits of Mind. The web site provides resources for Educators and teachers. The “Habits of Mind” concept has been developed by Arthur L. Costa and Bena Kallick:“A Habit of Mind is knowing how to behave intelligently when you DON’T know the answer.” So it’s the […]

Anthony Robbins presents in “Unlimited Power” what he calls the seven lies of success. Those ‘lies’ are empowering beliefs that help us to have better reactions in everyday life. They are listed below with some comments:

Everything happens for a reason and a purpose, and it must serve us. You might think about this ‘lie’ if […]

Last week, I discovered a very useful software called Workrave. This software assists in the recovery and prevention of Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI). But you may also use it to increase productivity and stop procrastination. Basicaly, Workrave is a timer, that will alert you for micro-pauses or long breaks. You may use long breaks to […]

A guy called Tarun Upadhyay has created a software that allows to add Labels in Outlook (like Gmail) using categories. I didn’t tried it but it looks interesting. The software is free and may be found here.

I just discovered that it is possible to tag mails with categories in microsoft outlook 2003. Once you have done that, it’s easy to display mail in a folder by categories. It is a more flexible way to organize mail than folder, because you can attach a mail to several categories whereas it can only […]