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[23 Jan 2009 | 2 Comments | ]

Want to see what your Facebook friends are up to without having to keep Facebook open?

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[13 Jan 2009 | No Comment | ]

Lists make me happy. I like planning out goals I want to accomplish and things I want to do. Problem is, I’m addicted to lists. They are everywhere. And I can’t find them. So, a lot of good they do me now, huh? Alas, the internet has come to my rescue! There are wonderful list-making, task prioritizing lists out there to help a list addict like me.

Ta Da Lists lets me keep track of all of my lists and prioritize them. An extra special feature for me is the ability …

marketing, social media »

[8 Jan 2009 | 4 Comments | ]

     
I went to my local grocery store for square orange cheese crackers. In particular I was looking for Cheese Nips because they were on insane sale.
Cracker aisle. Found the Cheez-Its but where are the Cheese Nips????? Can’t find them anywhere. But they’re on sale. They must be around.
Cruise down the aisle to the granola snack bars. Lo and Behold – there are the Cheese Nips. Why here???
This immediately gets my attention. Why in the world would Nabisco choose to put their square cheese cracker so far away from the other …

SEO/Websites, marketing, social media »

[6 Jan 2009 | No Comment | ]

Google’s page rank system is virtually dead. Google is producing more sophisticated methods or ranking websites and are becoming better and better at weeding out dead sites. Sites that don’t offer fresh content, sites that don’t bring and retain visitors are going to suffer page rank. Google used to crawl sites by looking at the keywords in your website, finding other sites that linked to yours and ranking those sites as well in order to help determine the quality of your website. Now Google wants to see how others see …

Software/Hardware »

[2 Jan 2009 | 2 Comments | ]

Microsoft Office is pretty much the norm in computer world. Microsoft has a monopoly. Until now. OpenOffice.org is a free alternative to Microsoft Office. OpenOffice is made up of 6 basic programs :
Writer - a word processor comparable to Word
Calc - a spreadsheet editor and creator comparable to Excel
Draw – a graphics editor similar to Publisher
Impress – a presentation program rival to PowerPoint
Base – database program comparable to Access
Already have an older version or Microsoft Office or at least have some files others have created in MS Office? The great thing about OpenOffice is …

social media »

[1 Jan 2009 | No Comment | ]

With so many social networking applications available, it can become confusing to sort through all of them and really understand at the base what social networking is and why you should participate. You’ve joined local groups – BNIs, Chamber, Womens Council of REALTORs, etc – but have you joined groups online? Or did you realize that many of these real world groups also have social networking groups online??? The new web is based on real connections and real relationships. Come to the party! This video may help put it into …