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 you [...]

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Share Scribbles and More On Springpad

December 3, 2008

Today’s Guest Blogger is Alana from Good Girl Gone Blog. Alana is a college student and a member of Twenty Something Bloggers. She’s currently interning at a company called Springpad which looks pretty cool but I won’t spill the beans on what they’re all about. I’ll let Alana do that instead.
My name is [...]

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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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Avoiding a Business Card Hiccup

October 19, 2008

Last week I met up with my old colleagues at a Happy Hour 2.0 in La Jolla. It was the perfect opportunity to catch up with them since I recently started a new job and to mingle with other marketers, developers, and other web people. The only drawback was that I didn’t have my new [...]

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This Week’s Highlights

October 4, 2008

My Google reader was flooded with great articles and blog posts this week and there were a few that I knew had to be highlighted and shared with the rest of you. Want more great blogs to read? You can view all of my shared items on Google Reader here.
Also note that I want to [...]

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Brickfish® at Web 2.0 Expo NYC

October 2, 2008

Special thanks to Ashley Futak for her post on Brickfish at the Web 2.0 Expo that was held in New York City last month. To get more information on where Brickfish will be next, contact Ashley at AshleyFutak@brickfish.com.
The Web 2.0 Expo in New York was filled with firsts for Brickfish. It was the first time, [...]

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Personalize Your Posts on Twitter

September 27, 2008

Thanks to the Twitter Photoshop template available at Boinblog, personalizing your Twitter profile to promote your personal brand just got easier. Most tweeps upload a background for their Twitter profile while others take it a step further, like Problogger, and include links to their other social media profiles.
Inspired by Problogger, Boinblog’s easy to use template, [...]

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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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Survive an Email Avalanche

September 5, 2008

Companies encourage their hard working employees to reap the benefits of work-life balance, to go on vacation, and take a break from the office every now and then to recharge.
For some of us, getting out of the office isn’t difficult but for the 15% of workers that forfeited their vacation days last year— it is. [...]

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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. [...]

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Marketing via New Media Meets Brickfish®

August 24, 2008

Earlier this month, our company was invited to be guest speakers at Becky Carroll’s Marketing via New Media class at UCSD Extension. Carroll’s class focuses on how social media can leverage customer loyalty and engagement. In fact, the book that she uses in her course is Groundswell by Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff—a definite must [...]

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Jumpstart Status Meetings with ididwork

August 17, 2008

Every morning our team meets to discuss items we’ve been focusing on, what’s been completed, and projects we need extra time on. This week I wanted to try something different so I rallied a couple of my co-workers to try out ididwork.com. It’s a simple and easy-to-use web app that lets you keep a log [...]

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Brickfish has been SuperTagged

August 14, 2008

Special thanks to our friends at BatchBlue for creating BatchBook, an easy-to-use CRM software, that has literally saved us hours organizing our contacts and managing our communications with partners. Not only do they have a remarkable product, excellent customer service, but they have cool t-shirts too!

Your happy customers,
Ashley, Stephanie, and Rachel (aka R3K2)

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12 Seconds: the Twitter for video

August 8, 2008

Special thanks to Jun Loayza, Chief Marketing Officer at Future Delivery, for this post on 12seconds. Don’t forget to check out his blog on Living the Startup Life.
12 seconds is not a lot of time for a lot. You can’t really watch a Youtube video, read a blog post, or even microwave a hot pocket [...]

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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 sure [...]

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Discover DC Universe Online

August 1, 2008

One of the most memorable booths at Comic-Con was the Sony Online Entertainment booth where they unveiled DC Universe Online. There were multiple demo stations available and it created a huge buzz among the crowd of hardcore comic fans. Fortunately, my husband and I were able to get a first look of the game and [...]

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The New Face of MySpace

July 28, 2008

If I had to award one costume from Comic-Con as the most entertaining, it would go to Dexter and his tribute to MySpace. I literally laughed out loud when I saw Dexter coming around the corner in his costume because it was so original and well thought out.
In fact, when I asked if I could [...]

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Summer Highlight: San Diego Comic-Con 2008

July 27, 2008

Since 2001, we’ve been going to the San Diego Comic-Con (SDCC) and this year we didn’t miss a beat. This week’s theme will feature highlights from SDCC including plenty of photos, updates on must-have games, ridiculously talented artists, and websites that you’ll definitely want to check out. Stay tuned for Stephanie and Storm Troopers [...]

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