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• How to Build a Laptop Studio on Any Budget
  Although there are many reasons for choosing a laptop for music making, we've focused on three common scenarios: the software-only, all-in-the-box setup for the composer-performer; the songwriter's studio, which will need mics for recording voices and instruments; and the multitrack live-recording rig. Even if what you do doesn't fit neatly into one of these areas, our reasons for choosing particular pieces of gear may help you with your own buying decisions.
• How to Build a Personal Recording Studio on Any Budget - Part I
  Recommendations for gear for building audio recording studios on a wide range of budgets.
• Recording the Spoken Word: Expert Tips on Producing Voice-Overs
  Opportunities for voice-over (v/o) production have increased dramatically for project studios, mimicking the DIY paradigm shift that continues to rock the music industry. Increasingly, clients needing v/o talent and related audio services are bypassing bigger studios to hire more cost-efficient producers for everything from commercials to interactive voice response (IVR) systems. Norton, Perry Anne
• Translatable but Debatable גורם
  When there’s a decision to be made and several gormim are consulted, a complication for the translator is that a גורם can be an individual or a whole department or company. Personally I sometimes get away with office as a translation because the גורמים can presumably all be found in offices of their own. But only sometimes. A גורם that you consult could also be a sample of schoolchildren, shoppers, or beachgoers. Sometimes גורמים can be stakeholders, but again only sometimes. Levinson, Mark L.
• Doing Good with Technical Communication Skills
  Writers suggest people maintain or improve skills – or develop new skills – in some open-source type project where there is no pay, but plenty of opportunity to learn and, well, practice. This post is for sharing a few of those places of practice. Mardahl, Karen
• Microsoft Help Viewer - New Help System in Visual Studio 2010
  In this video, Ryan Linton, a Senior Program Manager on the Library Experience Team, describes the new Help system in Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2. McGrath, Kathleen
• Information Strategy Pyramid
  Consistency is an important part of communication, even at the simplest level of having a common terminology, using the same words consistently throughout a document helps the reader learn. Take this idea up a level, from a single document to a number of documents and maintaining the same terminology across all documents can further help re-enforce the messaging and aid learning, and should give the reader a level of comfort that the entire set of information has been thought of, and delivered, as a cohesive set. McLean, Gordon
• Comparing RSS Feeds to Social Networks
  Jakob Nielson and his research group, Nielsen Norman Group, have done it again – letting us know how users are actively perceiving and using social software for different business tasks. This research is important as the social web evolves so that we, as web content creators, know the best ways to present and offer different types of information, especially for corporate sites. Gentle, Anne
• Technological Ecologies and Sustainability
  In the chapters of this anthology, contributing authors approach technological ecologies and sustainability from a variety of angles. DeVoss, Dànielle Nicole, Heidi A. McKee and Dickie Selfe
• Six Reasons Why Your Wiki Isn’t Working
  Wikis are a great way to create and publish documentation online, but there are many wikis that haven’t worked. They comprise just a few pages of incomplete, out of date information. Why is that? Why do some wikis work and others just fail? Here are six key reasons. Pratt, Ellis
• What’s More Important, Content or Process?
  While style guidelines can be useful for maintaining consistency across a set (or several sets) of documentation, the editors that I worked with viewed the style guidelines as sacrosanct. Any deviation, no matter how small, was punishable by a nasty email and a sharply worded note to the offending writer’s manager. Nesbitt, Scott
• How To Find Time For…Everything!
  Time management is one of the most important skills a freelance worker can learn. With a good time management system you can easily find the time to do the things that are important to you, whether in your professional or personal life. Successful time management can be challenging, especially to those who are new to freelancing or being self-employed. Chapman, Cameron
• Using Twitter For White Papers
  Are you scratching your head trying to come up with current trends on a particular white paper topic? Why not tap into Twitter? By using applications that harness the power of this vast network, you can selectively search the Twittersphere for trends in your industry. Parcher, Apryl
• Changing Terminology: "User" versus "Customer"
  The term "user" has also been critiqued because it obscures the fact that people use software and web sites in different ways. Sometimes the "user" is a customer, sometimes a contributor, sometimes an employee, sometimes a learner. In many cases, one of these words would be more accurate than the catch-all "user." Ruby, Jennie
• Crowdsourcing: Five Reasons It's Not Just For Startups Any More
  While Internet startups have had considerable success with crowdsourcing over the last few years, including with its more serious cousin peer production, it's only recently that they've focused on creating the tools and communities that can be readily consumed by enterprises. Hinchcliffe, Dion
• The Three Waves of Enterprise 2.0: Climbing the Social Computing Maturity Curve
  The intranet is often a depressingly static place even today in many organizations. But those applying Enterprise 2.0 (social, emergent, freeform approaches to business activities) can soon find that the opposite is often the case. The information captured and the knowledge shared in a social business environment is usually globally visible and lasts long after the collaboration ends. Hinchcliffe, Dion