Archive | January, 2009

Improve Your Personal Branding On Twitter

27 January 2009

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Everything you do on Twitter can have a positive or negative impact on the image you project. In this article, I will highlight the key elements to maximizing your personal branding on Twitter.

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25 WordPress Plugins I Use On A Daily Basis

23 January 2009

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WordPress is my favorite blogging platform for one simple reason: it is flexible! I am still amazed that Blogger and TypePad are still in business… What I really like about WordPress is the level of customization you can get to. From custom themes to plugins, WordPress has made it easy for noobies to set up, [...]

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New Blog Design

22 January 2009

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Every 6 months or so, I like to get a new blog theme for my blogs. I was way overdue with this one as I hadn’t updated it since May 2008. As usual when looking for an original WordPress theme, I went directly to Smashing Magazine as they always have the best looking designs for [...]

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Why You Should Use Your Real Name On Twitter

21 January 2009

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I was inspired to write this post by my friend Debi and the brand new Twitter account she created. Debi is the Director of Marketing at CrownAir Aviation, an aircraft maintenance company out of California and when she learned about Twitter, she thought it would be a great new social networking tool for her company [...]

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Get On The First Page Of Google Using Craigslist

19 January 2009

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This post will show you how to use Craigslist for SEO purposes and make the front page of Google for a given keyword.

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Working At Google Is Not As Great As You May Think

18 January 2009

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TechCrunch as a very interesting post today about why Google employees quit. Google’s HR department interviewd a group of ex-employees and asked them why they quit the company. Read some of the authentic posts to the thread below and think about it for a minute. I love how some of them are so sad they [...]

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How To Snatch The Twitter Username You’ve Always Wanted

11 January 2009

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I have several Twitter accounts and even though I mostly use my personal one, I do have a few niche websites for which I set up independent accounts. For my franchise website www.FranchiseBrief.com, I really thought I would be able to get the @franchise username because I assumed no one in the franchise industry knew [...]

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The History Of The Internet In 8 Minutes

7 January 2009

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From its birth in 1957 to today, here is a short video that tells us the story of the Internet. Don’t expect to know it all… check it out!

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How To Unlock Your iPhone 3G

1 January 2009

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For those of you that are not on top of what’s happening in the iPhone community, the Dev Team, the preeminent group of iPhone hackers, just released Yellow Sn0w, a software unlocking tool that can be run directly from the iPhone. Yellow Sn0w is ridiculously easy to use, assuming you’re already on a jailbroken iPhone. If [...]

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