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Featured Site – Yondr.com

This week’s Featured Site is still a newbie. It was just launched on January 26th and has a lot of potential. I usually wait for new sites like this to be around awhile and mature before I consider them for the Featured Site spot. I just had to make an exception for this one. This site is great for the “adventurer” in all of us. Yondr let’s us share and connect to people...

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Social Media and Religion

With recent news of Pope Benedict XVI commanding his priest’s to venture out to social media to bring the Gospel to the masses (especially younger ones), brings quite a message to the world of the power of Social Media. To get you caught up if you haven’t read about this yet, here is a excerpt of what the Pope said regarding this commandment: “The spread of multimedia communications...

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Honest Scrap Award, Huh?

When Kirsten Wright gave me this award, I have to say I was a little confused. After I did a little research on this award, I found out what it is all about. Here is what I found: “This award is bestowed upon a fellow blogger whose blog content or design is, in the giver’s opinion, brilliant.” So a HUGE thanks goes to Kirsten Wright for the award! Now for the rules of the award: Thank the...

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The Secret Password for Customer Service

I want to share with you some great information that I found out purely by accident. I believe it can also save and create jobs in America while giving people better customer service. So how many times have you called a companies service phone line and found that the rep. can barely speak English? Once with a major credit card company it was so bad I demanded to speak with someone who spoke...

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FamDing – Site of the Week – April 27, 2009

I am pretty sure that you have heard of all the major social networking sites out there. For example, Twitter, Facebook, Ning, etc. We all now that these are for the entire public. You might have friends and family that are on and that you talk to regularly, but what if you had a social site that was just for your family? Well my Site of the Week for this week makes that possible. FamDing allows...

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Preventable Professional Mistakes

Have you ever wanted to disappear after committing some stupid faux pas? If it occurs in a professional context, it could be more than embarrassing – it could cost your business or hurt your career. Here are some common preventable gaffes. Gaffe: 1. a social or diplomatic blunder, 2. a noticeable mistake You want visibility in your career. However, that visibility should be a positive one....

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