April 15, 2025 |By Kevin Slimp I wish you could have joined me on my newspaper visits over the past six weeks. I’ve worked on-site with newspapers stretching from the Pacific to the Atlantic Oceans and from the border of Canada to Mexico, plus several places in between. Yes, I’m tired, but I get pumped up …
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March 6, 2025 | By Kevin Slimp I don’t know why I’m surprised by anything anymore. As long as I’ve been traveling all over the map to work with newspapers, I still dread trips just before I leave. Then, like clockwork, I wish I didn’t have to return home so soon. This week, I traveled to …
February 4, 2025 | By Kevin Slimp Those of you who pay attention to such things – and I’m guessing that’s not too many of you – may have noticed I didn’t spend nearly as much time speaking at conventions in 2024. It wasn’t because I didn’t get invited. I just decided to see what would …
December 3, 2024 | By Kevin Slimp I always receive a lot of “fan mail” when I write a “ten tips” or “five best” column. In this digital age, I suppose we’ve all become accustomed to quick bites of information. With that in mind – and in honor of the final days of 2024 and …
November 1, 2024 | By Kevin Slimp Upon returning to my office following a 2,700-mile journey (Bellingham, Washington, happens to be the furthest city in the contiguous 48 U.S. states from my home in Knoxville, Tennessee) this morning, I have three things on my mind. And I’m unsure which of the three I should write …
A better question might be, “How do we grow new readers?” “Hey, Kevin. Do you have a column for us?” “Hi, Kevin. Just making sure you’ll have a column for this month.” “Kevin: Did I miss your column?” You guessed right. I was late getting my column written. But I have a good excuse (my …
One use could cover the perpetual cost of these applications September 3, 2024 | By Kevin Slimp Twenty years ago, many days seemed like Christmas at my office. That’s because I used to receive packages from dozens of software and hardware companies with their latest products, hoping I would review them in my syndicated columns. …
July 5, 2024 | By Kevin Slimp My final stop after six straight weeks on the road – I drove 64 hours between conferences – was to visit with the members of the Arkansas Press Association as they met at Arkansas State University in late June. In addition to the travel, I spent most of …
June 15, 2024 | By Kevin Slimp It has already been a busy summer, and I’m not sure summer has officially begun yet (It’s June 1 as I write this). Upon returning from my latest trip – to Pennsylvania – yesterday, I was greeted by a stack of packages from publishers – most containing newspapers …
May 1, 2024 | Almost daily, I hear from longtime readers of my column who write to tell me they’ve recently benefited from something I wrote months or years ago. I suppose it’s why I keep writing these columns after all these years. Just this morning, I heard from a publisher who wrote that he …
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