Never work for cheap. Instead consider to work on your portfolio!
Have just read a thought-provoking article about the difference between management and leadership: http://blogs.hbr.org/kotter/2013/01/management-is-still-not-leadership.html “Leadership is entirely different. It is associated with taking an organization into the future, finding opportunities that are coming at it faster and faster and successfully exploiting those opportunities. Leadership is about vision, about people buying in, about empowerment and, most [...]
This week I want to share a new artist platform with you which I have just recently found in the net: Seizam is an free-minded online platform based on Wikipedia’s technology and philosophy. Here artists can share, spread and sell their work to customers. Seizam supports the artists by giving them easy tools to create [...]
Now that I am back from London and Berlin I want to wish you all a great New Year 2013! During my travel I have experienced that creativity is actually all around. I’ve seen so many inspiring places, buildings, art and met so many interesting people. Art, architecture, fashion, sceneries, street musicians, beautiful landscapes…creativity and sources [...]
A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all of you!
I have made myself recently a little bit rare here (sorry for that!), because I am a the moment in London and Christmas is coming closer. But actually there has been falling something very interesting into my hands in London today. This book (with the provocating title) by Austin Kleon is answering the question about how to unlock [...]
Bloggers read carefully now: A new blogging platform is causing sensation in the net and not without reason: OverBlog is a promising new host to share and upload your content to (similar to Facebook). The clue is that OverBlog is focusing on blogs and actually offering bloggers visibility and transparence by collecting blog posts from all [...]
After I have received a totally desperate call of one of my friends today, who has had to go through some very unpleasant hardships recently, here a few words about failure. This does not just concern freelancers, but in my opinion anyone who has once already taken a risk and lost the game: Don’t see failure as a [...]
Pinterest is a social media network which is not as popular as e.g. facebook, but it shows growing potential in the net! With Pinterest you can bookmark or “pin“, organize and share images in the internet. So you can show who you are by giving the visitors of your profile a visual example of you and [...]
It can happen out of a sudden and has already happened to most freelancers out there: periods without any new orders. Those kind of periods are just natural and often don’t have anything to do with yourself or the quality of your work. Still, depending on the duration of such a period, many tend to [...]
