Archive for August, 2008

When Blogging Brings You Down

Friday, August 29th, 2008

Sometimes publishing a blog is a drag.
Unless you are fortunate enough to be paid to blog, keeping on top of it can become another admin nightmare for any entrepreneur. Weighed against getting your client work done, checking in at the Social Media you use, and doing all your other admin chores, it can be hard [...]

Blog Action Day 2008�What will you do to fight poverty?

Tuesday, August 26th, 2008

Blog Action Day 2008 is October 15. This year’s topic is poverty.
Last year, thousands of bloggers participated by writing about the environment, posting our articles en masse on October 15, 2007.
This year the format is the same in that all participating bloggers upload their posts on the topic of poverty simultaneously on October 15.
There is [...]

Geekgyrls.com launching soon

Monday, August 25th, 2008

Update on Geekgyrls:
As of this writing (October 22, 2008), Geekgyrls is closed and offline.
Internet Marketing Specialist Anna Baron, owner of The Virtual Link, is launching a new forum just for us girls. Make that gyrls. Make that geek gyrls.
Anna describes Geekgyrls.com like this:
“It’s just a fun place to hang out, share information, etc. It’s [...]

Photo Walk

Thursday, August 14th, 2008

Well, it stinks that my blog has been off line most of the day due to a server issue. Too bad I earlier spent lots of time visiting other great blogs and leaving comments with links back here, which will never be accessed by potential visitors due to loonnnnngggg load times and outright “file not [...]

A few thoughts on … Popcorn?

Wednesday, August 13th, 2008

Seth Godin metaphorically examines popcorn’s assets and liabilities in this post. As in image versus profitability.
Seth’s points are that 1) whether you’re a popcorn person or not, you are likely to sample it whenever it’s put in front of you and 2) this is not necessarily a good thing since popcorn is not inherently a [...]

Roundup #2, Prescott Style

Wednesday, August 6th, 2008

Cleaning out ye olde bookmark files today unearthed some lost treasures I’d forgotten. Warning, this batch runs the gamut from technology to glamour to ethics. What can I say? I am an eclectic type:
Tools for You
Thinking With Type
You Look Fab!
Facesaerch
Search Me
How to Write an Ethical Will

Unintended Outcomes (of Social Networking)

Friday, August 1st, 2008

This week, blogging maven Darren Rowse threw a Love-In of sorts, intended to inspire us to get acquainted with hundreds, even thousands, of new Twitters, Plurkers, Stumblers, etc. If you need some new social contacts, you can plow through this list of Twitterers, these Diggers and Stumblers, and, to top it off, a smaller group [...]