18 Wednesday Jul 2012
Posted in Writing Scams & Experience
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@WrapclothWrites, Information security, Linkedin, nigelld, Security, Westwood College, wrapcloth writings
Guest Blog
I, myself, am an infrequent blogger, sorry that’s just the way it is. However I am open to doing something a bit different so I am delighted to introduce my first guest blog. Following up on my LinkedIn blogs and the LinkedIn password crisis Philip J Reed, from Westwood College in the USA, has written a useful article with suggestions for personal online security.
11 Monday Jun 2012
Posted in Writing Scams & Experience
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@WrapclothWrites, advice for freelancers, Linkedin, Nigel Lewis-Davidson, nigelld, spam, wrapcloth writings
Nederlands: Linked In icon (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
As a follow-up to my last blog on stolen photo’s placed on LinkedIn user profiles*, I would just like to add this from the LinkedIn perspective. Continue reading »
02 Saturday Jun 2012
Posted in Writing Scams & Experience
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@WrapclothWrites, bogus profile, Linkedin, LinkedIn profile, LinkedIn security, nigelld, profile photo, wrapcloth writings
What is LinkedIn?
LinkedIn by its own definition is: -
The mission of LinkedIn is to connect the world’s professionals to enable them to be more productive and successful. To achieve our Mission, we make services available through our website, mobile applications, and developer platform, to help you, your connections, and millions of other professionals meet, exchange ideas, learn, make deals, find opportunities or employees, work, and make decisions in a network of trusted relationships and groups. Continue reading »
08 Tuesday May 2012
Posted in Writing Scams & Experience
A simple answer is, “To con the gullible and naive out of their hard-earned money”, but is LinkedIn doing enough to protect those conned?
For those of you unaware of LinkedIn, it is a networking website with 161 million members worldwide. You can join and set-up your profile, including your CV, and ‘link’ to many others seeking knowledge, ideas and opportunities. A strong part of the site is the ‘Groups’ section; there are over 1 million of them dealing with any subject you can think of. Personally I am only a member of freelance writers groups, so I make these comments particularly with them in mind, however this problem could involve many other groups. Continue reading »
05 Thursday Apr 2012
Posted in Writing Scams & Experience
That’s it! I know you haven’t heard me ranting for a while, just blogging some nice poetry (oh and some clever stories (“big-head”, I hear you shouting)), whilst busily trying to find some writing work, which I haven’t found.
After many months I have finally decided to ditch the ‘must have’ social applications that allegedly give you an edge when trying to run your small business.
24 Tuesday Jan 2012
Posted in Writing Scams & Experience
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advice for freelancers, freelance writer, freelance writing, freelance writing scam, Freelancer, Linkedin, Louis Logic, marc babineau, Nigel Lewis-Davidson, nigelld, Paperwritings.com, wrapcloth writings, writerbay.com, Writers Resources
WriterBay.com and Paperwritings.com – Living Under the Same Roof – Is It A Question of Ethic’s
Whilst looking at WriterBay.com to see whether it was a legitimate operation or another scam I turned up an interesting fact which may pose many writers a quandary with their ethics.
WriterBay.com and Paperwritings.com – The Discovery Continue reading »
03 Tuesday Jan 2012
Posted in Writing Scams & Experience
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advice for freelancers, content mills, freelance writing, freelance writing sites, Linkedin, Writers Resources, writing advice, writing jobs
Have the content mills and freelance writing job sites forced class distinction on the writer making some writers into the new snob social class? Continue reading »
