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How to Stay Productive As a Web Developer

How to Stay Productive As a Web Developer

Where do you find the time? It’s a question I’m asked weekly. Three nights a week I attend a web professionals meeting, social media chat, or local networking event. I watch at least two webinars every week (my friends call me a “webinar-holic.”). As a volunteer leader for two professional groups, I help plan and [...]

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The Future of Twitter

The Future of Twitter

Social Networking has been a vital part of business strategies for the past few years. The use of Social Networking for marketing purposes, known as Social Media, has many different definitions depending on who you ask. I’ve included a link to a list of 50 definitions for your review. Social Media is vital to today’s [...]

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Can You Conquer the Cloud?

Can You Conquer the Cloud?

Cloud Computing is all the rage nowadays. It has been a trending topic for quite some time. I recently attended the Association for Women in Technology (AWT) forum. It’s a great non-profit organization by the way, that gives scholarships to young women to help them pursue their careers in the technology sector. The hot topic [...]

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Top 5 Most Useful Travel Apps

Top 5 Most Useful Travel Apps

By Patrick Neeman I travel. A lot. About once a month, I try to get on an airplane somewhere. Anywhere. Last year, I spent 140 days outside of San Francisco. It’s not that I don’t like the city, but I get impatient. I also travel light, so I use my iPhone as my primary device [...]

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Stranded on a User Experience Island

Stranded on a User Experience Island

The expectations placed on you in a corporate setting as a user experience professional are going to be the same expectations you’ll have to meet as a UX freelancer. The only difference is that your in-house corporate counterpart has company money to spend. Even though you may not have all the same resources, this does [...]

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Top Free Windows Phone 7 Apps for Small Businesses

Top Free Windows Phone 7 Apps for Small Businesses

Windows Phone 7 and the apps that go with it are blowing up. The mobile apps recently grew to over 10,000, which relatively speaking has grown faster than Microsoft’s rivals – iPhone and Android. With more heads turning toward the Windows Phone 7, I felt it was time for some app recommendations. Below are my [...]

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Top iPhone Apps for Moms

Top iPhone Apps for Moms

I recently wrote a blog about the Top Android Apps for Moms so naturally I’m going to turn my attention to the iPhone apps for Moms. The Moms of today are unlike the Moms of yesterday in that now we come with more reinforcements or ammunition I should say. Thanks to technology, particularly in the [...]

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Top Android Apps for Moms

Top Android Apps for Moms

Due to recent changes in my life, terrific changes in fact, I decided I wanted to share tools on the Android phone that can be used by women as we cross another giant milestone in our lives. Below are my top seven Android apps for Moms.

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Brainstorming Your Unique Selling Proposition

Brainstorming Your Unique Selling Proposition

More Than Just Creative, Be Unique. Whether a unique selling proposition (USP) is for your business, a specific product or for yourself, it is a necessity. It’s the thing that makes you different from your competition, and more importantly, it turns browsers into buyers.

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Adobe Illustrator CS5 New Features and Tutorials

Adobe Illustrator CS5 New Features and Tutorials

Many things have been written on the web about the new features of Illustrator CS5. Guest writer and illustrator, Pablo Lara Henriquez, shares some of his favorite resources from the web, as well as tutorials from different sources, to spice up your learning of this well-known software from Adobe.

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