Fri.Dec 23, 2011

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“You Have To Love People”: The Shashi Bellamkonda Interview

Firebelly

Twitter, Trains & Tandoori Chicken. I met Shashi Bellamkonda a few years ago at the Optimization Summits where we were both speaking (along with Mack Collier , Jason Fall s, John Jantsch , Jay Ehret , Mark Juleen and other members of the social media intelligentsia). I was immediately struck by the sheer number of people that Shashi knew – and how he intentionally went out of his way to get to know new people.

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One Click Could Say “Happy New Year” to Nonprofits Worldwide

Waxing UnLyrical

Perhaps you’ve started celebrating Hannukah, or you’re counting down the hours until Christmas Day. In the midst of your holiday cheer – which is well-deserved and much needed, would you take a moment to give a really great gift to nonprofits worldwide? All it will take is one click. I’m serious. Here’s the gen: Next year, thousands of new Internet domains will be up for grabs.

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Primer on Windows 7 Speech Recognition

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The speech recognition software provided by Windows 7 has proven to be a resourceful tool for those who lead busy and hectic lives. This software allows you to ultimately control your computer simply by using voice commands. The initial use of the software will be somewhat challenging as most people are use to controlling their computer with their hands, but as you continue to use the software, it recognizes your voice and becomes easier to control with each use.

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Build Your Work From Home Business

Small Business Mavericks

With the economy and the job market in the shape that they’re in, more and more people are learning to start their own small work from home business. The work from home business has been growing by leaps and bounds. No longer is it just about selling candles or crafts online. Many top businesses are hiring people to telecommute and others are building a business based on their expertise.

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21 Advanced ChatGPT Prompts To Take Your Social Media to the Next Level

Upgrade your social media game with our in-depth playbook: "21 advanced ChatGPT prompts for social media managers". These powerful prompts are tailored to supercharge your content creation, strategy development, and results analysis. Say goodbye to writer's block and hello to endless creativity as you effortlessly generate engaging posts, come up with original strategies, and optimize your social media performance - all in a fraction of the time.

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Fetching Friday – Resources Mashup & Happy Holidays

Kikolani

This post is part of a weekly series, Fetching Friday, featuring the best posts of the week in blogging, making money online, SEO, and social media on kikolani.com. Happy Holidays. Before we jump into the goodies from the week, I wanted to take a moment to let everyone know this is the last Fetching Friday post for 2011. Next week I will be out of town and it will be near impossible to get any work done.

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Six Links Worthy Of Your Attention #79

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Is there one link, story, picture or thought that you saw online this week that you think somebody you know must see? My friends: Alistair Croll ( BitCurrent , Year One Labs , GigaOM , Human 2.0 , the author of Complete Web Monitoring and Managing Bandwidth: Deploying QOS in Enterprise Networks), Hugh McGuire ( The Book Oven , LibriVox , iambik , PressBooks , Media Hacks ) and I decided that every week or so the three of us are going to share one link for one another (for a total of six links) t

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Simple Tricks

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We tend to over-complicate things. Don't we? For years I have suffered through terrible sinus infections (sexy, I know). It got so bad many years back that a doctor recommended surgery. Well, I had the surgery and it was either botched or didn't work (nobody knows for sure), so I continued to endure the pain and constant colds. My current doctor thinks that I'm in a state of chronic sinus infection with varying levels of seriousness.

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Ghosts of the Past – cool site using historical photos

The Way of the Web

It’s always nice to discover a cool new site, and even better when it turns out to be made by someone I know. Andy Reedman, of Milk Media and an attendee of DPiP meetups has created a great site, Ghosts of the Past , which I’ve only just discovered. Like many great ideas, it’s also pretty simple. Take an overhead photo of an area, and then juxtapose that with a historical one, which switches when the image is rolled over.

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What Will Future Marketers Think Of Us?

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That is the question that consumes me. I not only see the new forms of Digital Marketing as an opportunity that no Marketing Professional should waste, I often wonder if I am doing everything I can (and - in the process - encouraging the clients we connect with at Twist Image ) to ensure that the future generations of Marketers will look back on this very unique moment in time and be proud of the work that we all, collectively, did to help people connect in much more efficient and human ways wit

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Whose Blog First?

ProBlogger

This guest post is by Shakirah Dawud of Deliberate Ink. Writing for three blogs on a regular basis, with the odd request for a guest post elsewhere, my writing plans are already tight. But because I write for overlapping fields of interest, my plans can also tangle. The most common: Snag A: The topic could be of use to any blog I write for. Should I send it to my friend’s blog, where the people know me better, or let it air at the writing forum where it’ll snag more eyeballs?

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Social Media Automation 101

A beginner's guide to social media automation tools and getting automation right.

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Combining UX With Your Social Media Profiles

Mindjumpers

Tweet. Guest blog post written by Samantha Peters, a graduate student of journalism and communication at University of Oregon. Samantha is passionate about social media, blogging and other areas of online communication. Content and communication are essential parts of creating a social media presence for brands. One of the first steps in this process is to spread the word and be seen within the social media paradigm, primarily through engaging content.