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How to Decipher if the News About U.S. President Donald Trump is Fake

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Donald Trump speaking to the media

It is undeniable that the new U.S. president in the person of Donald Trump has become a hot media item. Since he declared his candidacy up to the campaign period, he has attracted international attention not only from the public but as well as from the various media outlets covering his story.

Unfortunately, Trump’s presidency has been tainted with numerous fake news resulting in a war against the press. Fake news is often associated with trolling and lies. Trolling originally refers to certain websites that publish made-up news stories while a lie is equivalent to deception wherein someone committed a wrongdoing. [Read more…]

4 Terms Tech Writers Have to Stop Misusing

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I get that you’re a tech writer and not a computer scientist. Mistakes are going to be made. If you fully understood all the things you wrote about, you probably wouldn’t be a writer. If you happen to be a computer scientist with a blog on the side, you likely use too much jargon that many of your readers understand incorrectly.

Whether the misunderstanding is on your part, or the part of your readers, there is a lot of confusion surrounding terms that are tossed about as if the accurate meanings were common knowledge. This generates a lot of unnecessary confusion. Therefore, when you write about something like the great encryption battle, the article may do more harm than good if your audience is confused about what encryption is. [Read more…]

Got a Project? Learn How To Manage It the Right Way

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There are lots of different things that probably qualify under the name of a ‘project,’ but especially when there’s a budget, a deadline, and a business involved, particularly with regard to SEO and digital marketing in today’s world, then you’re going to have to come to grips with how to manage it.

And you may think that you can handle just a small group of people with a small goal, but as soon as those variables get a bit deeper, and as soon as a few more people are involved, or maybe money from a client, that’s when it’s better to approach it from a professional angle. [Read more…]

5 Tips For Writing Investigative News and Blogs

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Particularly during times when politics are at a fever pitch, the desire to do some investigative journalism or blogging is going to hit some segment of the internet population at large. And thanks to open communication structures and new technology, anybody can do it. Anyone with an itch can investigate and post.

However, if you want that writing to actually have a degree of quality, there are definitely certain steps that you can follow to help keep you focused, including considering things from a public relations angle, not editorializing, linking to valid sources, using a hard news writing style, and being prepared to defend your work if you do publish it. [Read more…]

3 Ways To Make Yourself More Marketable

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In today’s cutthroat business world, you have to do anything you can to make yourself stand out from the crowd in order to get the job or position you want. However, there are times where even though you may seem like the ideal candidate for that job you’re applying for, you still won’t get it. And while this may have nothing to do with who you are, it may have a lot to do with how you’ve marketed yourself and how marketable you appear to employers. To help you reach the career aspirations you’ve been dreaming of, here are three tips for making yourself more marketable to employers.

Get Yourself More Education

Even if the position you’re applying for says that only a bachelor’s degree is required, those who have even more relevant education may have an easier time getting their foot in the door than those with just the minimum education requirements. In fact, according to CollegeAtlas.org, people who have college degrees have higher earning potential, more job opportunities, better benefits, and more job satisfaction than those who have less education. [Read more…]