From the category archives:

Buzzwords

Building Your Personal Brand… or Not?

by Mary on July 15, 2009

One of my favorite blogs, Web Worker Daily, recently featured a series of posts about the necessity (or not) of developing a personal brand. I know that every solopreneur struggles with this, whether it’s viewed as a fun aspect of being in business for yourself… or an uncomfortable marketing necessity.

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Here’s a few snippets of the highlights from my fav tech blogs from the past week… enjoy!
Unless you’ve been under a rock all week (or just offline a lot), you certainly heard about the new Facebook username mania. The launch last night, despite dire predictions of crazy land rushes and crashed servers (200,000 were snapped [...]

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As Im trying to take it easy this Memorial Day weekend, I thought I’d share snippets of some of my favorite blog articles from the past week…
The always-informative Andrea Kalli posts about those pesky  Twitter background upload issues… and I thought it was just me! Andrea compares the two most common fixes.
Formspring’s blog featured a [...]

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If you have ever been reading your favorite blogs and wonder how their authors and commenters get those little square pictures to appear next to their comments, you should get yourself a Gravatar – (short for Globally Recognized Avatars).
Gravatars allow you to to link a little square image to your email address, so that whenever [...]

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OpenID: What It Is & How to Use It

by Mary on May 4, 2009

If you’ve used any web apps recently, you probably noticed an option to log into your favorite sites using OpenID.  OpenID provides users with a single login and password for accessing a variety of sites, alleviating you from the need to track a multitude of usernames and passwords for different services.
OpenID simply replaces a website’s [...]

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