If actions speak louder than words, and a picture paints a thousand words, take a look at this image and ask yourself what message it portrays. If you’re a business owner, would you bring out a new product that could change the way your customers use your service (and that of your competitors) forever, yet not allow them to use it via your service? That’s like a restaurant that employs the best chef then delivers the food to the restaurant across the street. Or Ford coming up with an amazing safety feature and then making it work in every vehicle except Ford cars and trucks.
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Don’t Do a Google
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Why Headway 1.5 is the Future of WordPress Theme Design
3 Nov 2009 | 6:32 amBold claim? No – seriously, the new Headway 1.5 premium WordPress theme has just raised the bar so far ahead of the rest of the WordPress theme developers it’s scary. I’ve been using the Headway theme on this blog for around 3 months now. In that time, I’ve been consistently impressed with the way it allows changes on the fly to any part of your theme, simply by using its drag-and-drop design. I’ve also been impressed with the way it allows the choice of blog design with or without custom CSS or HTML coding. More than anything, I’ve been impressed with the… -
It Just Takes One
1 Nov 2009 | 8:55 pmYou’re in business – you have competitors. They make a similar product, similar price – how can you separate? How about great service, great follow-up, great pro-activity? How about attracting the non-fans through acknowledging the other service as a solid competitor? People watch; take notes, mental and physical. People remember. They remember how you work; how you react; how you talk. Professionalism is more than just being professional to the person directly in front of you; it also means being professional about who’s around you. People watch; take notes. It just… -
Happy Hallowe’en!
31 Oct 2009 | 7:51 amHappy Hallowe’en folks – have a great evening and make sure to take a healthy mix of candy and beer! (Except for the kids – maybe just candy for these little guys…) © dannybrown for danny brown, 2009. | Permalink | Post tags: hallowe'en, marilyn manson, nightmare before christmas No comment -
Do Good, Look Good
29 Oct 2009 | 6:10 amAs you may know, I’m part of the 12for12k social media-led charity initiative that supports a different charity each month throughout 2009. October’s chosen charity is Musicians on Call, an amazing group of folks that take the healing power of music to bed-ridden hospital patients. They currently operate in four cities across the U.S. and amazingly a whole program can be operated for one year with just $10,000. Tonight sees a live concert take place to help raise funds and awareness for MoC and arranged by fellow 12for12k supporter Richard Marti. This is at the Rock Cafe and…
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All Facebook
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Zynga’s FishVille Goes Live On Facebook
6 Nov 2009 | 4:13 pmLess than a month we wrote that Facebook had just trademarked FishVille. Weeks later the company is officially launching FishVille. Happy Aquarium, the application which FishVille is based on, is now the 5th largest application on the Facebook Platform. Given Happy Aquarium’s presence, I’d expect to see FishVille advertisements all over Facebook. So what is FishVille? It’s a game where you raise a fish, feed them and help decorate the tank which they live in. It’s similar to many of the other games like FarmVille, Cafe World, and Roller Coaster Kingdom, however in this… -
ABC Launches Facebook Connect Integration
6 Nov 2009 | 3:46 pmThis afternoon Facebook posted an update about all the television networks that have integrated Facebook Connect, including ABC who has two new exciting integrations. The first is a promotion for the series “FlashForward” which takes advantage of Facebook Connect to integrate your profile data into a promotion. It’s similar to other promotions we’ve seen such as the Doritos promotion and the Prototype XBox game trailer. In contrast to MySpace, who also has their own identity service, Facebook has been focused on striking large media integrations with Connect. Not only… -
Facebook Surpasses 325 Million Users
6 Nov 2009 | 8:22 amFacebook has continued to grow at an impressive rate throughout the year, most recently announcing the 300 million user milestone. According to Facebook’s own advertising statistics though, the company is now beyond 325 million users and continuing to grow. The story has become relatively repetitive at this point: Facebook is growing like a weed and doesn’t appear to be slowing. The other part of the story that we regularly hear is that Facebook is growing at the expense of companies like MySpace, hi5, Bebo, and any other social network which was once successful. While many… -
Which Ad Networks Did Facebook Shut Down?
6 Nov 2009 | 7:03 amLast night Facebook restated their commitment to fighting off aggressive advertisers and as part of that commitment they have shut down two more ad networks which continue to violate the platform terms. Unfortunately we have no idea which ad networks they shut down and even after talking to multiple sources we have yet to uncover who those networks are. Perhaps the people who were shut down are irrelevant, but as I wrote at the beginning of the week, casualties were inevitable. Techcrunch has become the source for finger pointing and Offerpal has been forced to make highly public changes. -
MySpace Dances With The Press As They Try To Avoid The Facebook Comparison
5 Nov 2009 | 1:46 pmAt the Web 2.0 Summit a couple weeks ago, Owen Van Natta, CEO of MySpace, told the audience that “I really don’t view Facebook as a competitor.” It’s funny because absolutely every quote from the company in the press over the past couple weeks involves a differentiation from Facebook, and the more they discuss how they’re different, the more they appear to be a competitor. It’s an unfortunate truth for the company which missed its minimum traffic levels last quarter, costing the company $100 million. Today’s quote from News Corp’s digital…
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Liz Strauss at Successful Blog
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Cool Tool: screenr - Screencasting How to Add Text to Your Twitter Background
4 Nov 2009 | 5:29 amScreencasting Fast and Easy Screencasting is recording actions on the screen with narration. It’s a great way to show people how. What it says it does: allow screencasting without software. How well it does that: screenr is easy and intuitive. Size the capture screen to the website you want to discuss. Click the record button and record. Pause if you want. Then wait, a few minutes for it to process. Embed the screencast in your eCourse, download the video as MP4, upload it to your You-Tube channel, and watch it on your iPhone! Send it to Twitter. Post it on your blog. It’s free… -
Why Can’t We seem to Keep Things Simple?
3 Nov 2009 | 6:00 amA Guest Post by Kyle Lacy I was asked to write this guest post about the power of simplicity in blog design and honestly, I was at a loss for words. What does it mean to have simplicity in blog design? Are we discussing the concepts of the layout design? Or a universal view of all things blog? I am not here to talk about the back-end coding of a blog, the rules of user interface design, or minimalistic thoughts on design…but the ability to give your readers the easiest way to read your valuable CONTENT. It is easy to say that the simpler the design the better. I mean… look at… -
Trusting Ourselves, Structure Damage, and Recovering
2 Nov 2009 | 5:12 amA Project Post by Liz Strauss and Kristi Daeda I’ve been working on a special project with Kristi Daeda, an awesome friend, writer, and career counselor. Our project will take many forms for people working on true trust and business relationships. Right now we’re working on breaks in our trust and world view. We’ve named them structure damage. What Is Structure Damage? It can happen when the world seems most in order. Suddenly, without warning, someone or something pulls the rug out of from under us. Trusting what’s next can be hard. Structure damage occurs when we are… -
Thanks to Week 210 SOBs
31 Oct 2009 | 7:32 amSuccessful and Outstanding Bloggers Let me introduce the bloggers who have earned this official badge of achievement, and the right to call themselves Successful Blog SOBs. I invite them to take a badge home to display on their blogs. They take the conversation to their readers, contribute great ideas, challenge us, make us better, and make our businesses stronger. I thank all of our SOBs for thinking what we say is worth passing on. Good conversation shared can only improve the blogging community. Should anyone question this SOB button’s validity, send him or her to me. Thie award… -
What Jim Ericson Had to Say About Corporate Trust …
30 Oct 2009 | 6:37 amA community isn’t built or befriended, it’s connected by offering and accepting. Community is affinity, identity, and kinship that make room for ideas, thoughts, and solutions. Wherever a community gathers, we aspire and inspire each other intentionally . . . And our words shine with authenticity.
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TwiTip
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Turn Twitter Friends into Real Friends
6 Nov 2009 | 6:57 amBy Matt Wilson. Follow him @MattWilsonTV. We all have them—”social media friends”—people who we talk to online but most likely have never met in person. We connected with them because of a common interest via Twitter, engaged in interesting conversation with them and shared a bond, but we don’t really consider them a true friend. Truly using Twitter to its fullest potential means networking not just for casual online interaction but actually creating long lasting relationships. Real friends will shout from the rooftops to promote your brand, real friends collaborate,… -
3 Ways to Monitor Your Brand with Twitter
5 Nov 2009 | 7:12 amBy Nathan Hangen of Making It Social. Follow him @nhangen. If you don’t know what you are doing, measuring your brand online is like sticking a finger in the air and trying to gauge the direction of the wind. It just isn’t as easy as it looks. However, once you understand the tools required to make it happen, brand monitoring becomes 2nd nature. The trick then, is knowing what to monitor and how to do it. In the past, people relied on Google alerts to send notifications of brand mentions, which usually came in the form of links. Although this is a great way to measure trackbacks… -
10 Better Ways To Use TwitPic
4 Nov 2009 | 7:08 amBy Kalvin “Dr. Kal” Chinyere, M.D. of Dr. Kal’s Weight Loss Tips. Follow him @DrKal. TwitPic is an excellent application that further boosts Twitter’s usefulness. However, so many people use TwitPic incorrectly. Tweeters use TwitPic to tweet pictures of their children at Disney World or pictures of their grandmother at her 100th Birthday Party. C’mon! Your kids are not that cute, and your grandmother??? I don’t even want to see a picture of Halle Berry when she’s 100 years old. Using TwitPic as if it were Flickr is similar to using your iPhone as if it were an iPod. -
TwiTip Has a Shiny New Look!
3 Nov 2009 | 6:58 amOkay, so it’s been a few months in the making, but the shiny, new TwiTip is finally here! Thanks to the folks at Cre8d Design we’re more organized, colorful and easier to navigate. Check out the Add A Tip page, too! Now you can submit your guest posts right through the site, which is (in my opinion) way cool. Even better, regular guest authors will have their own bios for even more exposure. We’d love to hear what you think, so don’t hesitate to peek around and come back here with feedback. We’re still cleaning up a few things, so please be patient and let us… -
Twitter Lists In Detail or, “Yo Dawg, I Heard U Like Lists!”
2 Nov 2009 | 6:01 amBy Jade Craven – Follow her @jadecraven. “Jack Dorsey and Biz Stone always said that the best way to get real value out of Twitter was to follow a small number of people; it was never their intention for people to aim to follow more than 150-200 people” from Why Twitter Lists Change Everything by @davetroy Twitter has once again changed the social economy. There has been a lot of buzz around the blogosphere regarding lists. People want to know how it can improve their use of twitter and how they can help others. I hunted through the plethora of posts to find the best content regarding…
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Ted is Preposterous
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If I carved a pumpking, maybe...
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Facebook Blog
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Stay Tuned: TV on Facebook
6 Nov 2009 | 12:32 pmThe following is part of our series on different ways you can use Facebook to connect with public figures and organizations around the world. Read the previous blog post in this series here. From reality television to prime-time dramas, I admit it, I can be a bit television-obsessed. I often find myself spending an evening after a long day's work catching up on my favorite television shows. Unfortunately, a busy schedule can prevent even the most devoted fan from catching key plot lines and dramatic twists. Luckily, I can keep up to date on my favorite shows with my friends on Facebook, so I… -
Get Educated on Facebook
5 Nov 2009 | 10:12 amAs a recent college graduate, I use Facebook to keep up with the latest news from my alma mater, Pomona College, in Claremont, Calif. For instance, I learned about a happy hour for young alumni via a status update, and I saw photos of John Krasinski, who plays "Jim" in "The Office," on his recent visit to campus. Pomona isn't the only college utilizing Pages. In fact, in addition to colleges and universities, a number of academic groups are now on the site. We also recently launched a Facebook in Education Page on the site as a resource for teachers, professors, administrators, counselors and… -
Facebook Tips: How Do I Change My Email Notifications?
4 Nov 2009 | 10:40 amThe following is part of our series, Facebook Tips, which answers some of the most commonly asked questions about using Facebook. While we hope the tips we share on the blog will be informative, remember that we are unable to answer individual questions here. We'll always direct you to the Help Center for additional information about the topics we cover. You don't have to be logged in to Facebook to get the latest updates from friends. Email notifications allow you to know when people interact with you on the site, whether through Wall posts, comments, tagged photos or friend requests. -
Cyber Security Is a Shared Responsibility
30 Oct 2009 | 4:38 pmMichael Kaiser is the executive director of the National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA), a U.S.-focused nonprofit organization that works to keep people secure online. The organization focuses its efforts on cyber security education to provide information and tools for people to take control over preventing cyber crimes and attacks. As October and National Cyber Security Awareness month come to a close, we asked Michael to share his thoughts on precautions people should take online. Many people believe they know their way around the digital world as well as or better than the physical world. -
The Fight Goes On
29 Oct 2009 | 7:29 pmUPDATE on Thursday, Oct. 29: Today, a San Jose, Calif. court awarded Facebook $711 million in damages against Sanford Wallace, one of the spammers who accessed people's accounts without their permission and sent phony Wall posts and messages. While we don't expect to receive the vast majority of the award, we hope that this will act as a continued deterrent against these criminals. Most notably, the judge referred Wallace to the U.S. Attorney's Office with a request that Wallace be prosecuted for criminal contempt, which means that in addition to the judgment, he now faces possible jail time.
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Dosh Dosh
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How to Achieve Your Goals by Changing the Way You Surf the Web
5 Nov 2009 | 8:38 amEveryone has their favorite way of using the internet. Many of us search to find what we want, click in to a specific website, read what’s available and click out. That’s not necessarily a bad thing because it’s efficient. We learn to tune out things we don’t need and go straight for what’s essential. This goal-oriented way of surfing the web is largely based on short-term results. For example, finding facts to write a blog post, doing a comparison before making a purchase and reading a news site to find out what’s happening right now. If you do all… -
An Essential Marketing Principle: Give Before You Try to Get
18 May 2009 | 12:31 pmExperts have talked about this before. How many times have you read about the importance of ‘adding value’ for your audience? How many times have you read about ‘building trust’ with your readers/prospects? Many, many times. You know it well. Every marketing guru has spoken about this topic. I’m sick of hearing it. But it STILL bears repeating. Because some people still don’t get it. What’s the underlying principle for successful online marketing, selling or networking? The art of giving before you try to get. Before you get something from… -
Twitter Marketing: Why You Don’t Need to Mass Follow Users
22 Apr 2009 | 10:34 amA few days ago Twitter announced on their status blog that all Twitter users are only allowed to follow a maximum of 1000 people a day. This rule was designed to cut down on ‘follow spam’, the act of following many Twitter users in order to get them to follow you back or click on your links. When combined with the already existing limit based on follow ratios, this means that it will be more difficult for marketers or self-promoters to rapidly increase their Twitter follower count by following many people. The old days of following thousands of users a day to… -
Ad Swaps: A Smart and Easy Way to Get Free Traffic
15 Apr 2009 | 4:48 pmAfter yesterday’s post on marketing without search engines, I decided to follow up with a strategy you can use to get quality free traffic. One of the easiest ways to get visitors to your web site is to spend money. Nothing is more effortless then paying for traffic. But if you can’t afford it or don’t want to pay, there’s an equally simple but free way to get traffic: ad swaps. An advertisement swap or ad swap is simply an arrangement where you agree to put up someone else’s ad on your site or email newsletter in exchange for them doing the same. The goal of an… -
Marketing Your Website Without Search Engines
14 Apr 2009 | 12:09 pmI’m not old enough to remember what the internet was like without search engines. Apparently, there were lists of web-servers: they were manually updated and publicized in news updates like this. And then the search engines came crawling, indexing and sorting out pages. As the web expanded with more users and businesses putting up websites, search engines became an essential way to immediately find information. There’s a common saying: build your site for visitors, not for search engines. A famous Google webmaster guideline asks the question: “Does this help my users?
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NTEN: The Nonprofit Technology Network
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2009 Member Appreciation: Daily Member Prize Winner for 11/5
5 Nov 2009 | 7:44 amcafepress.com/ nten I don't know about the rest of you, but I still feel a little giddy from all the #ntenthanks love that was shared online yesterday via Twitter and our Facebook Fan Page during our first ever NTEN Give Thanks Day, a new addition to our annual Member Appreciation month festivities. (By the way, folks are still giving #ntenthanks, I see, so feel free to keep sharing!) One of the things we do during this special month is give prizes away every work day leading up to Thanksgiving to randomly selected NTEN members. As you might have guessed from the pic above, today's prize is… -
2009 Member Appreciation Month: Day Three
4 Nov 2009 | 6:57 amFlickr: vernhartThere are 3 great things happening on this 3rd day of our 2009 Member Appreciation Month: First, our daily NTEN member prize (we're giving NTEN prizes away each week day leading up to Thanksgiving, randomly selected from NTEN members): > Joe Keenan, from Partnership for a Drug-Free America, you're getting an NTEN webinar on us! Thank you, Joe, for being a member of NTEN! Second: free webinar today for ALL NTEN MEMBERS! > The State of Online Fundraising, 11 PT/ 2 ET, today! (If you can't make today's webinar, no worries: check out the line-up of free Member Appreciation… -
Give your #NTENThanks Today!
4 Nov 2009 | 6:24 amif (WIDGETBOX) WIDGETBOX.renderWidget('8c0e03fb-448b-42b3-a3ca-14a84817146f');Get the Holly Ross (ntenhross) on Twitter widget and many other great free widgets at Widgetbox! Not seeing a widget? (More info) Just in case you hadn't heard, it's NTEN Member Appreciation Month, also known as November! We spend all month doing our best to thank folks who provide the financial support that makes all those NTEN reports, discussion groups, webinars and more available to the entire nonprofit community. Of course, not only do you help NTEN, you guys also help each other -- a lot. It's a realy joy to… -
2009 Member Appreciation: Daily Member Prize Winner for 11/3
3 Nov 2009 | 2:12 pmI'm hoping you've already heard some of the buzz about this, but in case you haven't, November is all about NTEN showering our members with appreciation (and free stuff!). You can read more about it in my earlier post. But now I'd like to get down to the important business of announcing today's daily member appreciation winner. Toay was a special "NTEN Tweeps" drawing -- I announced, on Twitter, that I was giving away the Ben Rigby book: Mobilizing Generation 2.0, and the first NTEN member to reply with why they should get it, would get it. And,voila: So, congrats,… -
2009 Member Appreciation: First Member Winner
2 Nov 2009 | 9:04 amIt's the first Monday in November, which means the first of many daily give-aways. Today's prize is a free webinar coupon. The lucky NTEN member can apply it to an NTEN webinar of his/her choice. (Hint: don't pick a webinar that's already free for members.) Drum roll please. Today's winner -- picture me reaching into the hopper -- is: Adam Bricker, from World Vision International! Congratulations Adam, and thank you for being an NTEN member! (Check your email inbox for your coupon :) Don't forget that all our members are winners this month, with free Member Appreciation webinars, starting…
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Zyozy Foundation Blog
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Remarks on Philanthropy
5 Nov 2009 | 1:21 pmA bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog. Jack London. A thought came to me after reading Redefining Philanthropy: Introducing The Citizen Effect, gratitude goes to Amy Carol Wolff. As a matter of fact I know pretty much nothing about modern philanthropy and non-profit organizations, yet intuition tells me that something is wrong here. To begin, non-profits are biased towards helping poor people with their lives. I haven’t heard of any non-profit that aims to help rich people with their lives. Why? Or maybe rich… -
Athanasie’s Journey
5 Nov 2009 | 6:07 amHow One Woman Has Improved the Quality of Her Coffee and Her Life In this video, we meet Athanasie Musabyimana, a Rwandan woman who has overcome extraordinary obstacles. Today, Athanasie is a coffee farmer, and with training and support from nonprofit organization TechnoServe, she has been able to grow better coffee, earn a higher income, and lead a healthy, prosperous life. A foundation grant is helping TechnoServe provide nearly 200,000 coffee farmers like Athanasie with opportunities to increase their incomes and improve their lives. -
Eleni Gabre-Madhin is a woman with a dream
3 Nov 2009 | 7:03 amEleni Gabre-Madhin is a woman with a dream. The charismatic Ethiopian economist wants to end hunger in her famine-plagued country. But rather than relying on foreign aid or new agricultural technology, she has a truly radical plan. She has designed the nation’s first commodities exchange, which she hopes will revolutionize an ancient market system whose inefficiencies have been partly responsible for the country’s persistent food shortages. In April 2008 and after more than a decade of planning, the starting bell rang on the trading floor for the first time. Gabre-Madhin has been running… -
The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2009
2 Nov 2009 | 7:03 am2009 has been a devastating year for the world’s hungry, marking a significant worsening of an already disappointing trend in global food security since 1996. The global economic slowdown, following on the heels of the food crisis in 2006–08, has deprived an additional 100 million people of access to adequate food. There have been marked increases in hunger in all of the world’s major regions, and more than one billion people are now estimated to be undernourished. The State of Food Insecurity in the World raises awareness about global hunger issues, discusses underlying causes of… -
Sir Ken Robinson: The Most Extraordinary Thing
31 Oct 2009 | 6:41 amTranscript: People often ask what is it essentially makes us human beings, essentially, if you just say, we’re sitting here and not far from the natural history museum, you know, what’s the difference between us and all the other species? And you know, it’s a question that’s interested philosophers since the dawn of time. I have my own view of this, I don’t want to say I have the answer to this question… this question which has plagued people since the dawn of time, here is the answer to it, but my point of entry to this is there is this faculty or a capacity that human beings…
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THE DAILY BLONDE
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Repurpose This, OK?
5 Nov 2009 | 9:03 pmI was at the grocery store yesterday. For the record, I’m always at the grocery store. For some reason, my kids seem to have this David Copperfield effect on food and the only thing that never gets eaten is the jar of wheat germ that I bought when I was on my last fake health [...] -
The Runaway School Bus
3 Nov 2009 | 6:23 pmMonday morning started out a little more stressful than usual this week. It wasn’t supposed to. After seemingly recovering from a nasty week of the H1N1 flu, my youngest son, Maxx woke up with yet another high fever and sporting an odd red rash on his face. I tried not to let that colossal worry [...] -
Ready to Check Out?
30 Oct 2009 | 10:24 pmWalmart never ceases to amaze me. Not only can you shop at Walmart for a bag of Fritos (love Fritos) or a garden hose, you can also pick up a shotgun, duct tape, a shovel and a coffin. One stop shopping for just about anyone. That’s right. Walmart sells coffins. You have to order them online [...] -
It’s Official: I am a Geminus.
24 Oct 2009 | 11:39 pmThis morning I received yet another email from an astrology site telling me who I am and what is going to happen to me. It’s like having the prophet of doom sitting in my email on a daily basis. Who signs me up for all these senseless emails? Must be the same jackass that [...] -
Jiffy Pop Boy
18 Oct 2009 | 7:26 pmWith all the obnoxious news about Balloon Boy, I thought that I should start a similar project with my children to see if we could get ourselves on a reality show. I know we won’t make it on WifeSwap because I don’t have a wife. I don’t even have a husband. Who Wants To [...]
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Guy Kawasaki
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The 19 bloggers Inc. thinks you should read
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How to Get Found
4 Nov 2009 | 3:29 pmThe reality is that people and technology is getting better and better a blocking out unwanted interruptions—aka, “marketing.” Brian Halligan is the CEO of HubSpot, and he explains in my post on the American Express Open Forum “how to get found.” It’s all about creating great stuff and letting Google et al do what they do: find great stuff. -
How I tweet
2 Nov 2009 | 8:47 amBy popular demand (and some complaints), I’ve done a FAQ with myself about how I tweet. Hope this helps you use Twitter for your business too. I explain how I use ghostwriters and why I repeat my tweets among other “unusual” practices. -
Current Twitter Demo Script
28 Oct 2009 | 2:26 amThis is the set of links that I used to demo Twitter by going down through this list to show why Twitter is such a valuable marketing tool. Introduction Home page Profile page Monitor Search Guy Kawasaki or Alltop Starbucks VIA introduction Search for “Prius” or “Civic” Sell Dell Outlet Kogi BBQ Support Comcast Cares Engage JetBlue Virgin America Fandango Prospect Camaro Camaro near Palo Alto Advanced searches Surfing or skateboarding (shows how to eliminate extraneous results such as “surfing the web” How I Tweet - Find Alltop MyAlltop helped me find this. -
How to Avoid Twitter Cluelessness
26 Oct 2009 | 4:24 pmOver at the American Express Open Forum blog, I explain how to not look clueless on Twitter. The first five ways are: Don’t tell other people how to tweet. Don’t tell the world that you unfollowed someone. Don’t ask people why they unfollowed you. Don’t constantly tweet mundane updates and babble. Don’t use a small picture for an avatar. To read all ten and why they impugn your intelligence, click here.
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SmartBrief: Leadership
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Man turns up alive at his own funeral
5 Nov 2009 | 10:00 pmA Brazilian bricklayer stunned friends and family by wandering into his own funeral. -More- Chief Operating Officer (COO) Neighborhood America -
Spending big bucks can stifle brainwaves
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Fast-food giant aims for cultural overhaul
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Financial firewall could tame mammoth banks
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How Steve Jobs turned corporate America upside down
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SmartBrief: Entrepreneurship
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Your spot at the high-stakes table
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The 19 "smartest bloggers" for entrepreneurs
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Father-son team profits off botanical blend
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The stuffing that dreams are made of
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How to find a committed (financial) relationship online
5 Nov 2009 | 10:00 pmSocial-media sites can act as virtual matchmakers for entrepreneurs and investors, but there are some rules for finding your -More-
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The Bloggess
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I’m in Japan and too sleep-deprived to come up with a good title. Also, I’m very, very grumpy.
6 Nov 2009 | 3:32 pmSo I’m still in Japan. Day 847. Or Day 6. Something like that. All the days blend together here because my nights and days are still mixed up and I haven’t slept more than 3 hours at a time and it all feels like I’m trapped in a weird Hunter S. Thompson story except that there are less drugs and more puddings that look like boobies and I spent the day disguised as a Japanese prostitute. Those links both take you to my satirical sex column, by the way, because they’re paying for all the really fucked up parts of this trip. Thanks, Eden Fantasys! Now my… -
Sue me. I’m awesome.
30 Oct 2009 | 10:34 amSo this weekend I leave for Japan. ”Why?” you ask? Because it’s there. And also because I got drunk one night and Victor asked me if I’d go to Japan with him and apparently I said yes. This is what happens when you get drunk around Victor. You wake up in the morning and need a passport. Whenever I mention it to people they’re all “JAPAN! THAT’S AWESOME!” but to be honest I’m a terrible traveler and Japan scares the shit out of me and all I really know about Japan is that Godzilla was born there. Also, I may be mixing Japan up… -
UPDATED! An open letter to the King of Germany who might actually only be a Prince. I didn’t really research it. But we’re at war now so you’ll probably hear about it on the news.
29 Oct 2009 | 10:00 amDear Mr. King of Germany: It has been brought to my attention that your daughter is either impersonating me or mocking me in her royal portrait. Exhibit A: I’ve been rockin’ this look for years so I can only assume this is an act of aggression on her part. That’s why this morning I declared war on Germany. I try not to judge people for their parenting skills but I can’t help but think this is kind of your fault for not reigning your daughter in (Get it? “Reigning”? Because you’re a king? I kill me.) but lucky for you, I am a kind and… -
Twitter will molest you.
28 Oct 2009 | 1:10 pmConversation between me and twitter, who is kind of an asshole: And that’s the reason why I don’t like twitter. Because it’s judgemental and it never goes away. It’s like your junior high boyfriend when you’re all “You hang up the phone first” and he’s all “No, you hang up” and you’re like “No, you hang up” and he probably thinks he’s being all romantic by not hanging up but you really want him to hang up because you have to pee and you don’t want him to hear you peeing. And that’s basically what twitter is all about. This is like a tutorial for… -
In all honesty, you’d probably be better off skipping this post.
26 Oct 2009 | 3:09 pm"Other shit I did this week." (Translation, in case you don't read Dracula.) You know how on Sundays I do a week-in-review about all the shit that happened to me that I didn’t write about here but then sometimes I forget to do it and instead I do it at the beginning of the current week and it gives everyone a headache? That just happened again. Honestly, I need an intern to help me with this stuff. I’d be all “Intern, I need to know what animal has claws and is scary but also has a funny name. Something with at least two syllables. And it can’t…
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Dad-o-Matic
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What To Do With Leftover Halloween Candy
6 Nov 2009 | 6:00 amPhoto credit i eated a cookie (candy drawer) via Flickr I find myself in the beginning of November with a slight problem. I have a ton of candy and I am on a diet. I asked around the office and I am not the only one. Some of you might have tried to eat all of it and can’t bring yourself to do it. Maybe your kids have separated out all the “good stuff.” Perhaps, not enough trick or treaters showed up. Here are a couple ways to get rid of the candy. You could cook or bake with it. Check out this 5 Yummy Recipes. Take it work. I took a bunch of candy (mainly… -
New Mobile App Helps Parents Track Where KidsEatFree!
3 Nov 2009 | 1:31 pmKidsEatFree offers an extremely useful service that tracks all of the places where kids eat free (hence the name). Parents just enter their zipcode and a list of all those establishments will be generated in seconds. The good news is that you can actually access this service via your mobile device thanks to their new free app for the iPhone & Android models. Right now, you can access lists generated for several big cities. However, this does not mean you can’t use their service if your city isn’t listed. You can still enter your zip code and see which places offer free grub… -
The Gang’s All Hair! Grow A ‘Stache For Charity Cash!
1 Nov 2009 | 10:10 amToday is November 1, and I just had a close shave. No, I didn’t avoid an accident. I actually had a close shave… with a razor and some shaving cream, and at least for my upper lip, that will be my last close shave this month. November is “Movember,” with the “Mo” standing for “Moustache.” As a writer for Dad-O-Matic I have been interested in supporting a charity that is focused on Men’s health issues. I am pleased to say, “hair it is!” Movember can “help change the face of men’s health” by raising money… -
This One is for the Dads … Two stories
30 Oct 2009 | 8:02 pmI was going to post a story here to share with your kids, but I posted the only kid’s story II have had published that is scary last year…in case you missed that you can find Cat Candles Here: CAT CANDLES If you are in the mood to have someone tell you a story… I just posted a podcast of a story on my own website. That story involves fatherhood – and some deep issues. It goes too far, as many horror stories do, but without any real graphic content…and I think it’s pretty powerful. I also think dads, in particular, will appreciate it… That… -
Stop Carving Boring Pumpkins
30 Oct 2009 | 12:46 pmSince tomorrow is Halloween, and it’s a Saturday, a lot of you will be carving your pumpkins. Please, don’t carve a boring one. We’re Dad-o-matic dads. We don’t carve boring pumpkins. You may think it is difficult to carve a cool pumpkin, but it’s not. Like most things, all you need are the right set of tools, and the instructions. Today, it’s really easy to find both. You can usually pick up a pumpkin carving kit like this one at your grocery store. I like the Pumpkin Masters one (No FTC, I wasn’t compensated to say that), but any…
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Zen Habits
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Low-Stress Ways To Move House and Declutter Your Life
6 Nov 2009 | 12:55 pmEditor’s note: This is a guest post from Annabel Candy of Get In the Hot Spot. Did you know that moving house can be one of the most stressful times in your life? It’s right up there with losing your job, divorce or the death of a loved one, as one of the biggest causes of stress. I’ve been there. In 2007 my husband and I sold our house along with most of our belongings and moved from New Zealand to Panama with our three young kids. We ended up spending 18 months in Central America and lived in Costa Rica for over a year during which time we moved house three times. Moving… -
The Only Way to Become Amazingly Great at Something
3 Nov 2009 | 10:56 pm“Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.” - Albert Einstein Post written by Leo Babauta. Follow me on Twitter. Very often you’ll see blog posts or books teaching you to “master” a skill in only 10 days, or 3 days … in fact, it used to be 30 days but the time frame to master something seems to be shrinking rapidly. I’ve even seen tutorials claiming to teach a skill in just a few hours. Pretty soon we’ll be demanding to know how to do something in… -
How to Stop Being a Workaholic
2 Nov 2009 | 4:10 amPost written by Leo Babauta. Follow me on Twitter. Reader Carolyn recently asked, “How can an achievement-motivated workaholic learn to back off, relax, de-stress, and feel good about doing it? I am too driven!” This is a common problem, and one that has several parts we should look at separately: 1. Being achievement-motivated. 2. Being a workaholic. 3. Learning to relax and de-stress. 4. Learning to feel good about it. Let’s start by saying that there’s nothing inherently wrong with work — it can be fun, exciting, fulfilling, rewarding. I love my work in a way… -
The Beginner’s Guide To Minimalist Travel
30 Oct 2009 | 7:30 amEditor’s note: This is a guest post from Karol Gajda of Ridiculously Extraordinary. “Is that all your stuff?” While embarking on my current 100+ day sojourn I’ve been asked that question almost daily. Most people take more stuff for a 3 day weekend break than I’ve taken on this long trip. If you’ve struggled to pack what you need in a carry-on I will show you the light. It’s not difficult and you don’t have to do everything at once. Remember the old cliché, slow and steady wins the race. 1) The first step to minimalist travel is to use a… -
The Minimalist Gmail Firefox Extension
28 Oct 2009 | 3:45 pmPost written by Leo Babauta. Follow me on Twitter. Great news for you Firefox minimalists: have you always wanted Minimalist Gmail in one click? There’s an extension for that. After my post on creating a Minimalist Gmail experience using Greasemonkey scripts, programmer and artist Matt Constantine worked hard to create an amazing Firefox extension that did what I was looking for and a lot more: The Minimalist Gmail Firefox Extension. You can install this extension and not worry about installing Greasemonkey or any of the many user scripts I detailed in my previous post. This simple…
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Signal vs. Noise
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VIDEO: Ken Burn’s documentary on Frank Lloyd Wright s
6 Nov 2009 | 8:10 amKen Burn’s documentary on Frank Lloyd Wright shows Wright did the actual drawings for the famous Falling Water house in less than three hours! [via TSY] Related:Picasso, Paula Scher, and the lifetime behind every second [SvN] -
INSIGHT: Designs take a leap forward when you kill
5 Nov 2009 | 12:20 pmDesigns take a leap forward when you kill the things you didn’t know you were holding on to. -
Haystack: Two Week Anniversary + Latest Updates
5 Nov 2009 | 10:43 amHaystack is off to a great start. We launched two weeks ago on October 21st, and so far over over 2,500 web designers have been listed. Lots are finding clients as well. That’s exciting. We’ve been hard at work improving Haystack. Here are some of the improvements we’ve made since launch: Call to action footer At the bottom of each company page, we’ve added a call to action after their portfolio shots. This way it’s easier to scroll through someone’s work and then get in touch with them. It says “Like what you see? Contact via email or web.”… -
New Car Camo
5 Nov 2009 | 7:01 amCar companies go to great lengths to hide new models from from the public (or car paparazzi) during road testing. They’ve gotta drive the cars, but they don’t want to give away their designs too early. Car camouflage used to be handled with wraps, fake bodies, or fake pieces attached to the actual body. Like: But lately I’ve noticed more companies using swirly decals or geometric stickers to mask the shape. Check these out: I would assume once cars get deeper into the testing phase, and aerodynamics, wind noise, and overall ride quality need to be fined tuned, the bulky camp… -
VIDEO: Jay Shafer of Tumbleweed Tiny House Company
4 Nov 2009 | 4:06 pmJay Shafer of Tumbleweed Tiny House Company designs and builds small houses ranging from 65 to 837 square feet. He’s spent the last 10 years living in his tiny houses. In this video he gives a tour of a 96 square foot house.
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October 30th
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Dosh Dosh
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How to Achieve Your Goals by Changing the Way You Surf the Web
5 Nov 2009 | 8:38 amEveryone has their favorite way of using the internet. Many of us search to find what we want, click in to a specific website, read what’s available and click out. That’s not necessarily a bad thing because it’s efficient. We learn to tune out things we don’t need and go straight for what’s essential. This goal-oriented way of surfing the web is largely based on short-term results. For example, finding facts to write a blog post, doing a comparison before making a purchase and reading a news site to find out what’s happening right now. If you do all… -
An Essential Marketing Principle: Give Before You Try to Get
18 May 2009 | 12:31 pmExperts have talked about this before. How many times have you read about the importance of ‘adding value’ for your audience? How many times have you read about ‘building trust’ with your readers/prospects? Many, many times. You know it well. Every marketing guru has spoken about this topic. I’m sick of hearing it. But it STILL bears repeating. Because some people still don’t get it. What’s the underlying principle for successful online marketing, selling or networking? The art of giving before you try to get. Before you get something from… -
Twitter Marketing: Why You Don’t Need to Mass Follow Users
22 Apr 2009 | 10:34 amA few days ago Twitter announced on their status blog that all Twitter users are only allowed to follow a maximum of 1000 people a day. This rule was designed to cut down on ‘follow spam’, the act of following many Twitter users in order to get them to follow you back or click on your links. When combined with the already existing limit based on follow ratios, this means that it will be more difficult for marketers or self-promoters to rapidly increase their Twitter follower count by following many people. The old days of following thousands of users a day to… -
Ad Swaps: A Smart and Easy Way to Get Free Traffic
15 Apr 2009 | 4:48 pmAfter yesterday’s post on marketing without search engines, I decided to follow up with a strategy you can use to get quality free traffic. One of the easiest ways to get visitors to your web site is to spend money. Nothing is more effortless then paying for traffic. But if you can’t afford it or don’t want to pay, there’s an equally simple but free way to get traffic: ad swaps. An advertisement swap or ad swap is simply an arrangement where you agree to put up someone else’s ad on your site or email newsletter in exchange for them doing the same. The goal of an… -
Marketing Your Website Without Search Engines
14 Apr 2009 | 12:09 pmI’m not old enough to remember what the internet was like without search engines. Apparently, there were lists of web-servers: they were manually updated and publicized in news updates like this. And then the search engines came crawling, indexing and sorting out pages. As the web expanded with more users and businesses putting up websites, search engines became an essential way to immediately find information. There’s a common saying: build your site for visitors, not for search engines. A famous Google webmaster guideline asks the question: “Does this help my users?
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Blog Design, Optimization & Usability - TopRank Marketing
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Getting Flash (SWF Files) Into Wordpress
5 Nov 2009 | 5:52 amOne of the most popular posts on BloggerDesign is how to get Flash (swf) into a WordPress post. The previous post is about three years old so I thought I’d write up a follow-up post, as embedding Flash is much easier now as it’s all built into WordPress. With the newer versions of WordPress there is a button to embed media. Embed Button Once clicked, all you have to do is enter in the Flash (swf) file URL, set the dimensions, hit ‘Insert’, and WordPress will do the rest. Embed Window It’s that easy. No plugins, no confusing code, just provide WordPress with the… -
How To Keep Your Blog Running Smoothly When Traffic Spikes
22 Oct 2009 | 8:03 amA bloggers dream is to get noticed. That could be in the form of a post getting re-tweeted hundreds of times, hitting the homepage of Digg, shared a lot on Facebook, getting noticed by the media, or one of the many other ways a blog can get traffic. However, a flood of traffic can quickly cripple a blog and turn that dream into a nightmare. The good news here is that the WP Super Cache plug-in can help minimize issues caused by too much traffic. The WP Super Cache plug-in creates a static HTML file of each post and serves that file up to users. This static HTML file loads faster and is a lot… -
10 Lesser Known WordPress Features
12 Oct 2009 | 2:42 pmWhether you are new to WordPress, or have been using it a long time, there are always features that are available in the software that people either forget about or don’t know exist. So I thought I’d write up 10 lesser known WordPress features. 1. More options in the WYSIWYG editor. When writing your blog post in WordPress, there is a toolbar with items such as bold, italic, and lists. At the of that toolbar is a box with little squares on it. Click it to reveal another toolbar with options to underline, change the font colors, embed meida, undo, and more. Quite a few handy… -
31 Reasons Why WordPress Works As A CMS
2 Oct 2009 | 3:09 pmThere are a lot of people who think that WordPress is just blogging software, but it’s much more than that. It can be a website’s entire content management system (CMS). Here are 31 reasons why WordPress works as a CMS. Simple to install. There is a WordPress plugin to add almost any functionality you want. Can setup multiple users with multiple levels of control on the site. It’s SEO friendly. Easy to theme. Easy to customize design and add widgets. One piece of software can run both the website and blog. Comes with pages and posts to separate the blog from the website. -
View Google Analytics In WordPress’ Dashboard
17 Sep 2009 | 7:54 amGoogle Analytics is a full-featured analytics suite that is free to all to use. The data it captures lets blog owners know referrers to their site, keywords, popular posts, unique visitors and so much more. With the Google Analyticator plug-in, you can view a summary of the blogs Google Analytics, for the past 30 days, right on the dashboard for quick and easy access. Here’s how to setup Google Analytics on WordPress’ dashboard. 1. Sign up for a free Google Analytics account. If you already have a Gmail, or other Google account, then just sign-in. http://www.google.com/analytics/…
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The Bloggess
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I’m in Japan and too sleep-deprived to come up with a good title. Also, I’m very, very grumpy.
6 Nov 2009 | 3:32 pmSo I’m still in Japan. Day 847. Or Day 6. Something like that. All the days blend together here because my nights and days are still mixed up and I haven’t slept more than 3 hours at a time and it all feels like I’m trapped in a weird Hunter S. Thompson story except that there are less drugs and more puddings that look like boobies and I spent the day disguised as a Japanese prostitute. Those links both take you to my satirical sex column, by the way, because they’re paying for all the really fucked up parts of this trip. Thanks, Eden Fantasys! Now my… -
Sue me. I’m awesome.
30 Oct 2009 | 10:34 amSo this weekend I leave for Japan. ”Why?” you ask? Because it’s there. And also because I got drunk one night and Victor asked me if I’d go to Japan with him and apparently I said yes. This is what happens when you get drunk around Victor. You wake up in the morning and need a passport. Whenever I mention it to people they’re all “JAPAN! THAT’S AWESOME!” but to be honest I’m a terrible traveler and Japan scares the shit out of me and all I really know about Japan is that Godzilla was born there. Also, I may be mixing Japan up… -
UPDATED! An open letter to the King of Germany who might actually only be a Prince. I didn’t really research it. But we’re at war now so you’ll probably hear about it on the news.
29 Oct 2009 | 10:00 amDear Mr. King of Germany: It has been brought to my attention that your daughter is either impersonating me or mocking me in her royal portrait. Exhibit A: I’ve been rockin’ this look for years so I can only assume this is an act of aggression on her part. That’s why this morning I declared war on Germany. I try not to judge people for their parenting skills but I can’t help but think this is kind of your fault for not reigning your daughter in (Get it? “Reigning”? Because you’re a king? I kill me.) but lucky for you, I am a kind and… -
Twitter will molest you.
28 Oct 2009 | 1:10 pmConversation between me and twitter, who is kind of an asshole: And that’s the reason why I don’t like twitter. Because it’s judgemental and it never goes away. It’s like your junior high boyfriend when you’re all “You hang up the phone first” and he’s all “No, you hang up” and you’re like “No, you hang up” and he probably thinks he’s being all romantic by not hanging up but you really want him to hang up because you have to pee and you don’t want him to hear you peeing. And that’s basically what twitter is all about. This is like a tutorial for… -
In all honesty, you’d probably be better off skipping this post.
26 Oct 2009 | 3:09 pm"Other shit I did this week." (Translation, in case you don't read Dracula.) You know how on Sundays I do a week-in-review about all the shit that happened to me that I didn’t write about here but then sometimes I forget to do it and instead I do it at the beginning of the current week and it gives everyone a headache? That just happened again. Honestly, I need an intern to help me with this stuff. I’d be all “Intern, I need to know what animal has claws and is scary but also has a funny name. Something with at least two syllables. And it can’t…
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37days
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Send him a holiday, his last.
5 Nov 2009 | 5:38 amI believe we can rock this little boy's world, you and I and all the people we know all around the world.I checked on Snopes; this one is for real: 5-yr old Noah Biorkman is in the last stages of neuroblastoma cancer. His family is celebrating Christmas next week and all he wants are Christmas cards. Let's see how many we can get to him from all over the world very quickly--tell your friends in Japan and Papua New Guinea and South Africa and across the U.S. and beyond. I see thousands - THOUSANDS - of cards telling little Noah (and his grieving family) that in this big wide world, he matters. -
thinking thursday.
4 Nov 2009 | 9:04 pmEvery Thursday, just a few links I've discovered, things I'm thinking about. And, of course, a link somewhere to a man who lives near Paris just because he exists(Where I can follow the serendipitous thread I followed to get there, I'll include a thanks to the person who surfaced it for me.) mind :: my brain and yoursIf this headline is true, then I am obviously the mother of the future leader of the entire galaxy past, present, and future.I sure hope Santa reads 37days.Millenials: The greatest generation (of networkers). Can obsessive networking make you a good employee?body :: my place and… -
poetry wednesday : poetic bloodlines, a word's worth
3 Nov 2009 | 9:01 pmPoetry has a job to do, a bloodline to further. Poets teach people and take back the world. They must be about something.One night, God came to me in a dreamWith a scheme that seemed to be out of this worldHe approached me and opened his robeAnd showed me a hypodermic needle in the shape of a penAnd my first reaction was to step back fastBut then God grabbed me and said“Slow down my child,I’ve got a job for you to do”And with a burst of light God grabbed my armAnd said “I mean you no harm”And he pushed the pen inAnd it filled my arteries and God charted meTo write some new shit,… -
found-art tuesday : shadow
3 Nov 2009 | 2:06 pmThey may as well have called the sun a ball of flaming joy. ~Star RichésFind art in shadow. As Sven Nykvist has written, "Light can be gentle, dangerous, dreamlike, bare, living, dead, misty, clear, hot, dark, violet, springlike, falling, straight, sensual, limited, poisonous, calm and soft."Find light.Find shadow.They are everywhere.(shadows on my living room window, 3 Nov 2009) -
Vote. Or shut up.
2 Nov 2009 | 1:48 pm(photo of a fellow air traveler at 37,000 feet en route to Nebraska, June 2009)
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Inspiration & Motivation Blog
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A Child’s Angel
6 Nov 2009 | 2:18 amPhoto by myducksayshowdy Once upon a time there was a child ready to be born. So one day he asked God: They tell me you are sending me to earth tomorrow but how am I going to live there being so small and helpless? Among the many angels, I chose one for you. She will be waiting for you and will take care of you. But tell me, here in Heaven, I don’t do anything else but sing and smile, that’s enough for me to be happy. Your angel will sing for you and will also smile for you every day. And you will feel your angel’s love and be happy. And how am I going to be able to… -
Why Only 5% of People Could Succeed in Changing Their Fate?
22 Oct 2009 | 8:13 pmPhoto by photo61guy Sowing mind, reaping action Sowing action, reaping habit Sowing habit, reaping personality Sowing personality, reaping fate -Anonymous- Anyone wants to change his/her fate to be better. However based on research, there are only 5% of people who have commitment to change their fates. Meanwhile, the other 95% only hope, want or like if their fate change, but they never have strong commitment to change. The 5% people, who have commitment to change their fate, make the change as a must and will do anything to change their fate. Meanwhile the 95% people act reluctantly and will… -
What I Learned in Life
9 Oct 2009 | 2:05 amPhoto by Asmamirza I’ve learned - that you cannot make someone love you. All you can do is be someone who can be loved. The rest is up to them. I’ve learned- that no matter how much I care, some people just don’t care back. I’ve learned- that it takes years to build up trust, and only seconds to destroy it. I’ve learned- that it’s not what you have in your life but who you have in your life that counts. I’ve learned- that you can get by on charm for about fifteen minutes. After that, you’d better know something. I’ve learned- that you… -
The Principal of Appreciation
24 Sep 2009 | 9:32 pmPhoto by Michelle Brea This principal helps you to change your grateful attitude into a habit with giving attention and appreciation to the goodness in your life. The law of Rhythm tells us that every single thing in the universe and in our life is growing or dying. Simply said, This Super law says, “Create or destroy.” Anything that is not growing will die. We are always moving one way or another. We also know that to let things grow we have to give it energy and attention. You can see it on your plants at home. When you give it energy and attention, the plants grow rapidly and healthy. -
Staying Young by Reading a Book
11 Sep 2009 | 10:40 pmPhoto by vinyl_word Whoever we are, we want to stay young, so are men. It can be seen from the changing of man life pattern represented by metro sexual people who go to beauty salon frequently, just for cream bath, facial treatment or something related to body treatment. Metro sexual people, such as women, have seen body treatment as human needs that must be done. The point is everybody wants to look good, healthy, fresh and fit. But, do you know that reading a book can also make us stay young? A good book needs 20 years of the author’s experiences plus 2 until 3 years of compiling it to…
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Max Gladwell - social media and green living
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Prius Voted One of "Fifty Ugliest Cars of the Past 50 Years"
6 Nov 2009 | 7:23 amMax Gladwell Prius Voted One of "Fifty Ugliest Cars of the Past 50 Years" - http://digg.com/environ... 23 hours ago from Google Reader - Comment - Like -
@kristiewells thanks for the tip. will check it out!
4 Nov 2009 | 2:16 pmMax Gladwell @kristiewells thanks for the tip. will check it out! Wednesday from Twitter - Comment - Like -
RT @stevebrita: Postal Service will soon just be personal mail and packages http://bit.ly/4vSF0p - http://www.zumbox.com
4 Nov 2009 | 2:15 pmMax Gladwell RT @stevebrita: Postal Service will soon just be personal mail and packages http://www.economist.com/busines... - http://www.zumbox.com Wednesday from Twitter - Comment - Like -
Architecture for Humanity: Ending Poverty by Design: http://bit.ly/2aX5nq
4 Nov 2009 | 2:07 pmMax Gladwell Architecture for Humanity: Ending Poverty by Design: http://ecomattersdaily.com/2009... Wednesday from Twitter - Comment - Like -
What's the latest on Google Voice/Grand Central? Are there invites available?
3 Nov 2009 | 3:27 pmMax Gladwell What's the latest on Google Voice/Grand Central? Are there invites available? Tuesday from Twitter - Comment - Like
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Change.org's Women's Rights Blog
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Friday Femme Fatale: Social Media, Book Lists & Beth Ditto
6 Nov 2009 | 11:22 amThis weekend I am taking a reprieve from the bright lights of New York City and heading to Washington, DC for a few days to do some speaking at the Pledge2Protect conference and visit old friends. Additionally, for those who wonder what I do over at my full-time gig, Air America Media, I just published this column today in SmartBrief titled: Can social media save the radio star? I hope you all are gearing up for some rest and relaxation this weekend as well, but before you unplug completely check out the stories you may have missed in the world of women's rights: Social Media Salary Report:… -
Female Bloggers Noticeably Absent From Technorati Survey
5 Nov 2009 | 1:49 pmEarlier this fall, Technorati published a survey called the "2009 State of the Blogosphere." Some of the findings are interesting such as the idea that "Despite being perceived by some as enemies of the traditional media, bloggers actually carry a journalistic pedigree." I was trained as a journalist and pursued that passion until I realized that there weren't many jobs left in print reporting. Now I'm a blogger and a new media director. Not surprising that I ended up in the communications field, but what is surprising about this survey are the statistics about gender: Two-thirds are male 60%… -
The Movement To End Genocide
5 Nov 2009 | 11:57 amFor those interested in global women's rights, the Pledge2Protect conference in Washington, DC should be on your agenda this weekend. From November 6 - 9, Genocide Intervention Network's (GI-NET) student-led division, STAND, is bringing together a powerful network of 1,000 students and community leaders and activists from across the country to Capitol Hill for Pledge2Protect: a conference designed to educate, empower, and highlight the work of activists who are driving the movement to prevent and stop genocide and mass atrocities. In collaboration with core partners Save Darfur Coalition and… -
2009 Election: Winning Female Candidates & Democrat Losses
4 Nov 2009 | 8:50 amYesterday's election was fraught with disappointment for Democrats. Instead of continuing the wave of "change" from just one year ago when Barack Obama was elected President, the 2009 elections delivered several big victories for the GOP: New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, the victory by Republican challenger Chris Christie for the governorship in New Jersey and then Republican candidate Bob McDonnell who won the Virginia gubernatorial race. Interestingly, despite these losses, Beau Friedlander at Air America says that this shouldn't be considered a referendum on Obama, but rather an… -
Desperate Times Calls for Desperate Catholics
3 Nov 2009 | 7:34 pmAs someone who was raised Catholic, went to 15 years of Catholic school and is still asked to rise at eight o'clock in the morning when I visit my parents to go to church, the following news is quite the shocking revelation: the Catholic Church is now accepting applications from Anglicans. For those who are not well-versed Christianity, here's a quick definition of an Anglican: those who historically protest the Catholic Church and have been traditionally more liberal on their stances on the ordination of women bishops, gay priests and gay marriage. But it looks like desperate times in the…
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Children
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HAPPY HALLOWEEN!
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The Scariest Halloween Story of All…
31 Oct 2009 | 9:15 amA story sure to give you nightmares is the harrowing story behind child labor across the globe. Whether it is costumes made from cotton picked by child labors in Uzbekistan or clothing sewn by child labors, ghoulish make-up with minerals mined by child labors, chocolate candy-bars made from cocoa picked by the hands of child labors in West Africa, or another hideous form of child labor that haunts our consumer market the stories are all eerily similar and all will leave you tossing and turning at night hoping that when you open your eyes it will all have been a dream. But this is no… -
News…
30 Oct 2009 | 3:48 pmU.S. might accept spousal abuse asylum claims The Barack Obama administration’s recommendation to grant asylum to a Guatemalan woman fleeing severe spousal abuse opens the door for other battered and sexually abused women in other countries to seek refuge in the U.S. Rody Alvarado Pena’s case had languished in immigration courts for 14 years. Federal officials are looking to create guidelines for asylum claims based on abuse. Global health efforts failing on top child killers Diarrhea and pneumonia remain the largest killers of young children across the world but fail to get as… -
Is child obesity abuse?
28 Oct 2009 | 9:36 pmIs child obesity abuse? That is the question that has been raised by many over the past few years. As the issue plagues teachers, care providers and doctors as the rates of childhood obesity increase. According to the American Obesity Association, obesity among children and teens is beginning to reach epidemic levels, as some 30% of children and teens are overweight and 15% are obese. The frightening facts about child obesity is that it most often is not something that children ‘grow out of’, as those children who are overweight, with at least one overweight parent, are 80%… -
Doing more to protect our children from abuse
27 Oct 2009 | 9:58 pmThe United States has done it has topped the list, were number one…but this is one list and ranking we don’t want to go dancing in the streets about.Shockingly to many the US is the cheerless leader of deaths related to child abuse and neglect.Five children die each day in this country as a result of child abuse and neglect kill more than in any other industrialized nation, according to the report, We Can Do Better: Child Abuse and Neglect Deaths in America released by the Every Child Matters Education Fund. The report found that no less than 10,440 American children died from abuse or…
