June 2008

Meet Maxie a Blogoholic

June 30, 2008 Blogging

Today’s guest blogger is Maxie, author of I Hate So Much and member of Twenty Something Bloggers. We’re both taking part in the 20somethingbloggers’ Big Blog Swap. Special thanks to Ben Boudreau for organizing this event and thanks to Maxie for her guest post. – - Hi everyone! My name is Maxie and I normally [...]

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This Week’s Highlights

June 27, 2008 Blogging

I have 32 subscriptions to blogs and 1000+ items in my Google Reader that’s waiting to be read. While I filter through these unread items and take steps to simplify and organize my RSS feeds, here are a couple of standout posts, websites, and tools that I found worthy to be highlighted this week. Posts [...]

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Save Time Post at Ping.fm

June 24, 2008 Blogging

Ping.fm is the most effective way to update your status on multiple social networks. A single post to Ping.fm can update 16 popular social services at the same time so you don’t have to sign into each account individually. You can post a status update, a blog, or micro-blog through one platform and posting a [...]

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Firefighters Battle I-805 Brushfire

June 23, 2008 Blogging

(Photo Credit: Misty Phillips) We had just got out of a late meeting when I returned to my desk and saw this outside our office window. A brush fire had broke out on I-805 and the smoke started to fill the sky. We gathered around the window in shock but were relieved when we saw [...]

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Capital One Wants to Get Personal

June 20, 2008 Brands

I stumbled across Kristen Nicole’s article on Mashable titled, “Use Flickr for Custom Capital One Cards” and thought it was a great campaign for several personal reasons. First, Capital One makes it simple to create a personalized credit card. I already have a Capital One card but now I can select a photo that’s already [...]

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This Week’s Highlights

June 19, 2008 Highlights

Posts: 100 Personal Branding Tactics Using Social Media 10 Minute Guide to Plurk – Part 1 and Part 2 Blogs: ChrisBrogan.com WebWorkerDaily.com Websites: MarketingCharts.com GeekSugar.com Ping.fm

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Firefox 3 Download Day 2008

June 18, 2008 Social Media

June 17, 2008 was dubbed Firefox 3 Download Day. The goal, to set a Guinness World Record for Most Software Downloaded in 24 Hours. When I heard of the event, I signed up for a reminder on FF’s download page so I wouldn’t forget. And just as I had predicted, June 17th was a very [...]

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HeyStephanie’s Social Map

June 14, 2008 Blogging

I thought it would be ifun to create my very own Social Map. It’s a break out of websites, forums, online communities, and other social networking platforms that I’m a part of and have contributed to (i.e. LinkedIn, Myspace, Ning, etc.). Click here for a more interactive map where you can zoom in and out. [...]

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Work Smarter with Web 2.0 Tools

June 12, 2008 Blogging

I was excited when I saw the question above on LinkedIn because I’m always interested to find out what other people are using to make their life easier at work. I’m glad I checked in on this otherwise I wouldn’t have found out about JingProject.com. Jing allows you to capture any image on your desktop [...]

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Highlighters Are Now Digital

June 11, 2008 Blogging

“i-Lighter is a cool way to highlight, grab, and save text and graphics from virtually any Web site and store it for future use.” – PC WORLD The majority of my reading material is online and if you’re like me, the materials usually covered are articles, blogs, forums, reviews, RSS feeds and more. With all [...]

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