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Turning Lemons into Lemonade – and Adding Song!

Remember that horrible writer’s strike that the Writer’s Guild subjected us all to? Of course you do! If you watched any regular programming during last year’s television season, your shows were disrupted and TV pretty much came to a standstill. During that awful time, a group of very creative guys (the Whedon brothers) wrote a […]

10 Things You May Not Know About Blogger

1. Blogger is a Turnkey solution. Once you sign up, you simply choose a blog name and a template, and you’re good to go! You can even rename your blog, giving it a new website address, if you decide you like a different name better without having to create a new account. 2. There are […]

This Week in Review – Edition #2

Some news from the Home Front! This week Sharon’s Report Techafina went through yet another design overhaul. What can I say, I’m indecisive! If you read site updates from your RSS Reader and haven’t been to the site in a while, this is a good time to check it out. Feel free to leave comments […]

Read Any Good eBooks Lately?

I did it. I finally bit the bullet and bought an Amazon Kindle. The Kindle caught my interest when rumors first broke about it’s upcoming debut, and now that it has been available for several months I decided it was time to take another look. If you are not familiar with the Kindle, it is […]

Welcome, and Thank You!

I want to take a moment and point out that last night’s What is OpenID article was NOT written by me. If you read it quickly you may not have noticed that the name David Rosen is the name in the byline! Yes, I managed to convince my husband to be on occasional guest author […]

Twitter: See the Other Side of the Conversation

Twitter previously had a function that allowed you to click on the profile of someone and see their replies. I’m not sure when that feature disappeared, but it leaves people at a loss when seeing only part of the conversation come through to their stream. That happens if they are following you, but not your […]

Social Media, as Spoken Word

Thanks to this Tweet by LouisGray on Twitter this morning: I was notified of a fantastic rendition of Social Media – as Spoken Word by Rasheen Porter. Rasheen, let me just say, you blew me away with this video. For anyone not in loop with regard to Social Media, here are all the items Rasheen […]

Let Me Buy You a Coffee – From Across the Country

As someone who has co-workers all over the entire United States, I can honestly say,  there is a GAP here waiting to be filled. Want to buy someone a beer from afar? Someone figured out there was a need for that and yes, I can buy you a beer right here, right now, from my […]

Buzz Bites Buzzes with Caffeine

What follows here is a remarkable example of how to effectively use Web 2.0 to help market your product. On Sunday, August 3rd, I published an entry explaining how little caffeine is really in Jolt gum. On Saturday, August 9th, I received a packet in the mail from Vroom Foods (wonderfully stamped “SERIOUSLY CAFFEINATED! CONTENTS” […]

How to Customize Your Blogger Template

This past week I have been focused on customizing my Blogger Template, and I have to admit, I was shocked to find just HOW much information is available. Blogger can be tweaked to your own personal tastes and needs regardless of what it is you want it to do or how you want your site […]