Last week I took the Metro at 7am to get to work for an early meeting. Looking around at the crowd on the train at a time more than an hour earlier than I usually get on – two things were apparent. First, the people looked sleepier. And second, the crowd was clearly older on
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Continue reading »How To Find Sites Faster Online Without Using Google
Google is great when you are searching for a single webpage or source of information. Many of my searches still fit that category – so I’m a big Google user. The problem is, more and more often I find myself searching not for a single page, but for a web site. A lot of times
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I sign up for a lot of social networks. Part of my job involves reviewing new sites and knowing what is being launched and as a result I end up signing up for 2-3 new sites a week. Of course, I don’t actively use all those sites – but for those that I have signed
Continue reading »IdeaBar: Magazine Subscription Coupons
I love magazines. For someone who lives a good part of their life online, I read and subscribe to an oddly high number of them as well. Of course, I could access most of the content from all these magazines online for free – but I do believe the experience of having a magazine that
Continue reading »How To Find Time To Blog (When It's Not Your Day Job)
The one question I am asked most often by people who are considering starting their own blog or struggling to keep momentum up on a blog they have already created is how to find the time to do it. If asked for a fast response, I usually mention my two top assets – collectng ideas
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As most bloggers know, one of the main benefits of having a blog is the media hits and recognition from multiple sources that you end up getting accidentally and by design. In terms of these hits and recognition, the past week has likely been one of my most busy since starting this blog back in
Continue reading »5 Ways To Improve Your Blog
Blogs are an evolution, and keeping it up is a big commitment. Usually you end up focusing on just creating new content on some sort of consistent interval, but the biggest problem with keeping a blog up to date is revising all those elements you once thought you would use, but now realize are not
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