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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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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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Mind Mapping Made Easier

June 5, 2008 Blogging

“A mind map is a diagram used to represent words, ideas, tasks, or other items linked to and arranged radially around a central key word or idea. It is used to generate, visualize, structure, and classify ideas, and as an aid in study, organization, problem solving, decision making, and writing.” – Wikipedia Mind maps are [...]

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Grab a Gravatar

May 23, 2008 Blogging

Gravatars are showing up on blogs everywhere and for good reason. A gravatar, or globally recognized avatar, is quite simply an avatar image that follows you from weblog to weblog appearing beside your name when you comment on gravatar enabled sites. Avatars help identify your posts on web forums, so why not on weblogs? 3 [...]

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Share This With Every Woman You Know

April 19, 2008 Blogging

Last month, I came across a thought-provoking blog entry by Patricia Volonakis Davis titled, “From an Older Woman to a Younger One.” Her entry inspired a lot of others as well. Over 200 comments were posted to her entry. Her words of wisdom have been featured in many blogs, passed from mother to daughter, shared [...]

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The Unveiling

August 24, 2007 Blogging

Those of you that know me personally know that this blog isn’t my first. I’ve had blogs dedicated to each and every single hobby of mine and posted on many blogging platforms. In fact, my first blog post went live in the winter of 2002 on Angelfire. From there, I’ve kept several blogs for years [...]

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