alexsbrown.com News: New Look & Consulting Article (April 2008)

Date: May 1st 2008

Some news from alexsbrown:

*New Look for alexsbrown.com and rlprj.com*

My two web sites have gotten a new look. The design features the same high-contrast, easy-to-read qualities as before, but the color scheme has been updated from yellows and greens to bolder red, white, and black colors.

See the new look at
http://www.alexsbrown.com
http://www.rlprj.com

*“…So you want to be an independent consultant…” Article Published*

A new article on independent consulting is not available on this site. The article is written jointly by Jennifer (Tharp) Russell and myself, and was published for the PMI Asia Pacific Congress in Sydney, Australia in March 2008. At the Congress, Jennifer, Jerry Ball, Frank Parth, Frank Walker, and myself all participated in a frank, open panel discussion about what it is like to be an independent consultant in the project management field.

http://www.alexsbrown.com/independent-consult.html

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ANNOUNCEMENT: NEWSLETTER CHANGES

I am making some changes to the newsletter:
1. Move to text-only format
2. More useful subject lines
3. Product or service promotions marked with "~~~" symbols

After experimenting with different e-mail clients, I have decided HTML-formatted newsletters cause more problems than they solve. Some e-mail clients make them virtually unreadable. Rather than fight with these problems, I am going to send text messages that everyone can read.

To make the newsletters easier to scan and review for readers, I am also going to put brief headlines in the subject line. I hope you find them helpful.

I am also going to include one and only one product promotion in every issue. The promotions will be marked with a line of tildes ("~~~~") and clearly labeled as ads. All ads will be for products and services from my own company, Real-Life Projects. I debated whether or not to put commercial content into these e-mails. At first I was not going to, but then a good friend told me, "When you have a light, hold it up where everyone can see it."

I hope you find the promotions useful and compelling. My customers help me keep these articles free and publicly available. I hope you decide to become a customer someday.
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Have a great month. I hope you enjoy the new look of the web site and the new format of the newsletter. Let me know what you think.

Thanks,
Alex S. Brown, PMP IPMA-C
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alexsbrown@alexsbrown.com
http://www.alexsbrown.com
http://www.rlprj.com
http://www.linkedin.com/in/alexsbrown

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