Social Media

FD Career – More Fun Than What You’re Doing Right Now

August 26, 2008 Events

Special thanks to Jun Loayza, author of Living the Startup Life, for his guest post on the launch of FD Career. As an undergrad, I played video games during the day, partied hard all night, and just barely had enough time for my classes. My future career was the last thing on my mind. I [...]

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Now You Can Post to Multiple Twitter Accounts

July 19, 2008 Social Media

There are several reasons why people have multiple Twitter accounts. Some people use one account to keep their friends up to date on events privately and automate their other account as an RSS feed. I have two Twitter accounts that I maintain. @HeyStephanie is for personal use and @Brickfish[1] is geared towards highlighting new and [...]

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Design the New 20SB Header Contest

July 15, 2008 Blogging

Attention all twenty something bloggers, now is your chance to leave a lasting impression on the Twenty Something Bloggers (20SB) community. The Admins want you to create a one of a kind header to represent our social network. You can start from scratch, use Wordle as a background, or incorporate the 20SB badge in your [...]

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World of Wordle

July 12, 2008 Blogging

Wordle lets you create “word clouds” from an RSS feed, a del.ici.ous username, or you can paste in a bunch of text to generate you word cloud. Once you have the text all set, you can tweak your word cloud with different layouts, fonts, and color schemes. And because images created by the Wordle application [...]

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This Week’s Highlights

July 5, 2008 Highlights

It’s that time again! It’s time to share the standout blog posts, websites, and social media tools that I discovered this week and would like to share with you. Posts BatchBook is Great for Contact Management by Chris Brogan Flex Your Communication Style to Avoid Email Problems by Breanne Potter How to Promote Other People’s [...]

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Brickfish Gas Card Design

July 4, 2008 Brickfish

This has to be my favorite Brickfish campaign simply because it’s easy to enter and the prizes are fantastic! Who doesn’t want a $500 gas card? Check out the prizes listed below but don’t forget to read the complete rules, regulations, and legal notice: Grand Prize: One winner, selected from the top 100 highest scoring [...]

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BatchBook: Answer to my Blues

July 4, 2008 Organization

Organizing my emails in Outlook is simple. Every client has a separate folder and I use the Outlook wizard to create rules so important emails don’t get caught in a spam filter or get neglected. This helps to keep my inbox free from clutter and more manageable. What isn’t simple, is trying to organize my [...]

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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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