From the monthly archives:

June 2008

Meet Maxie a Blogoholic

June 30, 2008

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.
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Hi everyone! My name is Maxie and I normally write at [...]

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This Week’s Highlights

June 27, 2008

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

A Flickr [...]

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Save Time Post at Ping.fm

June 24, 2008

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

(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 the [...]

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Capital One Wants to Get Personal

June 20, 2008

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 hosted [...]

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This Week’s Highlights

June 19, 2008

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

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

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.
HeyStephanie’s Social [...]

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Work Smarter with Web 2.0 Tools

June 12, 2008

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

“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 this [...]

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The Mysterious Mr. X Design Challenge Part Deux

June 11, 2008

I know shameless plug… but I’m seriously floored by the quality of entries in Mr. X’s Design Challenge. Who knew so many people were into vintage rock posters? This is the second design challenge sponsored by Mr. X and he has 7 more challenges lined up until January 2009. Check out his other campaigns here.

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Plurk in Action

June 9, 2008

I signed up for Plurk on Friday and am loving it! It’s so fun and super addicting – join me here.
For an awesome breakdown on the features of Plurk, check out ReadWriteWeb’s “Plurk: Unique or Just Another Twitter Clone?”
Don’t feel like reading? Check out Bwana’s video below:
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(Video Credit: Bwana)

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Mind Mapping Made Easier

June 5, 2008

“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 great [...]

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New Brickfish Swag

June 3, 2008

Blog worthy swag:

Don’t you love getting freebies?

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