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Social Media

Meet Danny Brown & The 12for12K Challenge

May 5, 2009

If you thought corporate brands were the only ones diving into the world of social media, you’re wrong. Non-profits are leveraging the social media landscape  as well to optimize their communication efforts, raise funds and maximize awareness for their cause. In fact, if you’re active within the Twitter community, you may have seen several of [...]

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San Diego 12for12K Charity Event

April 21, 2009
Yehu.org

This past weekend, my husband and I participated in a nationwide Tweetup for 12for12K and Mom It Forward to support the non-profit organization Yehu.org. Yehu is a microfinance organization in the rural coastal region of Kenya for the poor, by the poor. They provide financial services, business opportunities, and skills training for poor rural entrepreneurs [...]

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Are Your Customers Ready for Social Media?

March 7, 2009
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Launching the first social media campaign for your company can be intimidating. With so many ways to engage consumers online (blogs, podcasts, social networks, Twitter, etc.), the feeling of anxiety is inevitable. You know it’s important to get involved in social media, but where do you begin? First, understand who is online and what they’re [...]

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Promote Your Top 100 Tweeps

February 8, 2009

Looking for a great way to promote your fans on Twitter or a unique gift for your Top 100 Tweeps? Then you should check out Twitter Mosaic. Walter Higgins, founder and CEO of Sxoop Technologies, created the Twitter Mosaic tool which lets you create a mosaic of all your followers or friends on Twitter. Simply [...]

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A Gift For The Ultimate iPhone Addict

February 8, 2009

Now you can have iPhone coasters in your home thanks to the guys at Meninos. For $60, you get all sixteen standard apps that come with the Apple iPhone. Unfortunately,  that means no Twitter app coaster — sorry folks. Personally, we don’t use coasters around our apartment but that doesn’t mean I don’t want these. [...]

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Plurk From Your iPhone

February 2, 2009

Plurk is a micro-blogging service that allows you to send and receive updates ( “plurks”) in a timeline view. What’s different about Plurk from all other micro-blogging platforms is that when you start a Plurk, all replies are kept in that single thread making it easier to follow and view both sides of a conversation. [...]

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E-Bestsellers and More From Your Local Library

January 25, 2009

If you’re like me, you love walking down the aisles of your local bookstore to see what new audiobooks are on the shelves. By the time you’re done walking up and down your favorite aisle, whether it be Business & Marketing, Romance, or Self-Improvement, you look down at your hands and realize you’ve grabbed five [...]

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Lose Weight With Web 2.0

January 11, 2009

It’s 2009 and you’ve made a couple of New Year’s resolutions. And if you’re like most “resolutioners” – your number one resolution is to lose weight (myself included ). Great — so what social media tools or communities are out there that can help us meet this goal? Meet TheDailyPlate.com The Daily Plate (TDP) allows [...]

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Splitweet Is Perfect For Twitter Power Users

November 29, 2008

Earlier this year, I wrote about Matt, a web application built by the Carsonified team, to solve the problem of posting to multiple Twitter accounts. Matt was useful in that I didn’t have to log into each of my accounts separately. However, if I wanted to view tweets from individuals I was following via both [...]

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Track Packages in Transit With Twitter

November 10, 2008

The holidays are just around the corner and soon the malls will be packed with eager shoppers and hopefully a lot of deals. Unfortunately, during this time of year, parking gets rough at the malls and the lines are ridiculous. If you’re not a big fan of the long lines like me, you’ll most likely [...]

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College Web Secrets Part 1: Social Media, College, and You

September 12, 2008

Today’s Guest Blogger is Amanda from This Crazy Miracle Called Life where she blogs about all aspects of life and whatever “random fabulosity” that comes to mind. Amanda is currently in college earning her nursing degree, and in her spare time, she enjoys traveling, creating, spending time with family and friends, and planning her upcoming [...]

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

August 26, 2008

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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