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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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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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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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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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Typography for Lawyers

Tweet“Even though the legal profession depends heavily on writing, legal typography is often poor. Some blame lies with the strict typographic constraints that control certain legal documents (e.g.... 
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Need Something? Talk To My Right Ear

TweetWe humans prefer to be addressed in our right ear and are more likely to perform a task when we receive the request in our right ear rather than our left. In a series of three studies, looking at... 
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De-friending Professional Contacts on Facebook

Tweet“I recently restricted my Facebook account to close friends and family and “de-friended” 205 people. Click after click banished former and current managers, co-workers and other... 
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Got an unusual name? Facebook may think it’s fake

Tweet“Alicia Istanbul woke up one recent Wednesday to find herself locked out of the Facebook account she opened in 2007, one Facebook suddenly deemed fake. The stay-at-home mom was cut off not only... 
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How to Develop a Facebook Page that Attracts Millions of Fans

Tweet“There are numerous ways for brands to leverage Facebook but the overall branded experience is becoming increasingly integrated into a single offering as the new Pages product highlights. So... 
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Ask Jeremiah: The Comprehensive FAQ Guide to Twitter

TweetJeremiah Owyang, a social media analyst at Forrester, has started to compile a terrific list of questions and answers about all things Twitter. This includes the lingo as well as practical issues... 
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Complete Beginner’s Guide to Information Architecture

Tweet“Information architecture is an often misunderstood job title. Are they Designers? Developers? Managers? All of the above? In this article we’ll discuss what information architecture is, why... 
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