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How To Create An Editorial Calendar to Publish Blogs, Facebook Fan Pages, Twitter, and Email Newsletters

TweetThis article is an exhaustive overview of how to design, create, and use an editorial calendar with links to additional articles, templates, and more. It brings you up to date on how best to create... 
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WorkingPoint Easily Manages Your Business Accounting

TweetHere’s a great example. I’m not an accountant. Managing my business accounting has been the only unsolved business problem that has plagued me for the past eight years. I’ve tried... 
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Email Newsletters Get More Social

TweetEmail newsletters have been separate marketing channels from Facebook, Twitter, and other social media. This week, MailChimp has taken a great stride forward by adding Facebook Like buttons and other... 
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How to Add Background Images to Email Newsletters

TweetWhen Microsoft decided to use its older HTML rendering software from Word in Outlook, as the means to display HTML email, some key HTML email functionality disappeared. In particular, Outlook 2007... 
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Contrast is King in Design

Tweet“If you can make a solid design in black, white, and shades of gray, it will often allow you to translate your design to almost any color combination—as long as that color combination maintains... 
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New Search Site Aggregates Personal Data

Tweet“Harrison Tang cares about his privacy and takes elaborate steps to protect it. Your privacy is another matter. Tang, 27, is co-founder of a “people search” website called Spokeo,... 
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Quick and Dirty Remote User Usability Testing

Tweet“There are three basic approaches to conducting quick remote interface tests, whether you’re testing live websites, designs, wireframes, or prototypes. The approach you take will depend mostly... 
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The Social Media Landscape in Charts

TweetCMO.com a few months ago, published a chart that describes the social media channels most used by businesses. According to research CMO.com and BazaarVoice did recently, CMOs Plan for Higher Social... 
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Resources: CSS Frameworks, PSD to HTML, Text Editors

TweetThe Programmers and Web Designers resource pages have been updated with these topics: Photoshop PSD to HTML, Hosted Forms, CSS Frameworks, and Text Editors and IDEs. Please check them out. If you... 
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How To Code HTML Email Newsletters (All New Version)

Tweet My How to Code HTML Email Newsletters presentation is embedded below. My presentation also included a one-sheet with resources for coding HTML email newsletters.Please note a version of this article... 
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Free Google AdWords Campaigns for Non-Profits

Tweet“Google Grants is a unique in-kind donation program awarding free AdWords advertising to select charitable organizations. We support organizations sharing our philosophy of community service... 
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How to Find the Perfect Color and Create a Color Palette

Tweet“No single visual element has more effect on a viewer than color. Color gets attention, sets a mood, sends a message. But what colors are the right ones? The key is that color is relational.... 
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6 Tips for Better Branding with Avatars

Tweet“We’re living in a social media world, and, like it or not, our avatar is often the first impression others get about us as we interact virtually on social networks, blogs, microblogs and... 
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LA Weighs Replacing Software with Google

Tweet“Frustrated by a slow and antiquated computer system, the city of Los Angeles is weighing a plan to replace its e-mail and records retention software with a service provided by Google, a move... 
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Apollo 11 40th Anniversary

TweetIn case you’re somewhere on the planet without the internet, today is the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission that landed men on the moon on July 20, 1969. NASA has a commemorative site... 
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Xobni Organizes Your Outlook Email

TweetAs a web designer and coder, I collect tons of emails and attachments from clients that have to be carefully tracked and easily found. And many projects have three, four, or more people attached.... 
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The Not-So-Hidden Politics of Class Online

Tweet“Many of us in this room have had our lives transformed by technology. Some of us have grown up with tech while others have embraced it as adults. Many of us have become enamored with tech and... 
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Tips for Sorting Through the Social Networks

Tweet“Bonnie Smalley has Internet bragging rights: She has been blocked by Twitter for hand-typing too many tweets in an hour. They thought she was a computer program made to spew spam. Ms. Smalley,... 
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Cool Search Engines That Are Not Google But Still Useful

Tweet“How do you find a new search engine if all you know is Google? Typing “search engine” into the usual box might lead you to Microsoft’s newly launched Bing, the combined search at Dogpile,... 
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UI Pattern Documentation Review

Tweet“To date, the most common approach to propagating a single user experience standard is the development of UI guidelines and principles documentation within an organization. Development teams... 
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