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Blogging

Updated Publications Page

August 29, 2009

Inspired by Danny Brown’s 12for12k.org media page, I realized that my publications page had become dull and boring with barely any images and lots of text, text, and more text — it was definitely time for an upgrade. My goal was to create an interactive space  that featured video tutorials I uploaded to Viddler and [...]

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Even Preschoolers Are Blogging These Days

August 6, 2008

Today’s Guest Blogger is Erin from The State That I Am In. Erin currently teaches preschool special education and shares her thoughts on how she’s managed to incorporate social media with her students and their parents. I became a blogger shortly after I got married, when I was finishing up graduate school. I’m not really [...]

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Design the New 20SB Header Contest

July 15, 2008

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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Update on Blog Status

July 14, 2008

This past weekend I tried to make the leap from WordPress.com to self hosting HeyStephanie.com. If you visited over the weekend you would have noticed that my blog was down and/or timing out – that was my weekend of madness. Long story short, the move didn’t work out the way I wanted it to and [...]

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World of Wordle

July 12, 2008

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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Why I Love Post-It Notes

July 5, 2008

Editor’s Note: I wanted to share with you the guest post I did for Maxie at IHateSoMuch for the 20SB Big Blog Swap. Maxie’s a blogoholic from Chicago and a featured blogger in Alltop’s Twenty Something. If you haven’t checked her out yet, please do – you won’t regret it. – Ever since college, Post-It [...]

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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. – - Hi everyone! My name is Maxie and I normally [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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. [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Grab a Gravatar

May 23, 2008

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

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

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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