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How to micro-pay for blog posts you like

Some of you may have seen that I have a paypal button on my blog since a while (for several years to be honest) and I already received one donation from somebody who wanted to endorse my blogging effort with a dollar. After paypal had deducted their fees, I had about 50 cents left (the thought is what counts here).

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07/13/2010 12:45:07, von Marian , 585 words, 120 views   Categories: Articles, quick tips

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Two great free tools for your blog

This is one of my findings that I had in my Google Reader lately. It's a post from "The Rapid E-Learning Blog" and it describes two great Web 2.0 sites that you can use as a blogger to improve your site.

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07/12/2010 14:19:18, von Marian , 181 words, 105 views   Categories: quick tips

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Book recommendation: Outliers

Today I want to recommend another book that I have read some weeks ago. It's "Outliers" with the subtitle "The Story of Success" by Malcolm Gladwell.

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07/11/2010 13:41:03, von Marian , 518 words, 122 views   Categories: Articles, quick tips, Books

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Webinar with Guy Kawasaki (short review)

I attended the free webinar at Brazen Careerist yesterday with Penelope Trunk and Guy Kawasaki. They had sound problems for several minutes at the beginning so that it was hard to understand but finally they got it fixed so that was a very inspiring and interesting session.

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07/10/2010 15:59:12, von Marian , 587 words, 114 views   Categories: quick tips

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Outsourcing your programming work: vworker.com

Meanwhile it's obvious to everybody: The economy not as healthy as it should be (not only here in europe). This usually hits smaller business much harder and I overhear in my circle of acquaintances, about people loosing their jobs and companies cutting costs.

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07/09/2010 14:09:05, von Marian , 483 words, 258 views   Categories: quick tips

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How secure is my password?

You already know that choosing a good password is really a pain in the back. First of all you should not write it down on paper so that nobody may find it on your desk, on the other hand if it's too easy for you to remember, it's also easy for a hacker to guess. But how easy is easy? How long would it take for a bad person to hack your password?

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07/08/2010 12:19:44, von Marian , 247 words, 103 views   Categories: quick tips

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Free Literature on the Internet

Maybe you have heard about the Gutenberg Project. It's a collection of literature that is old enough so that it's no longer under copyright. It's a great resource to find the works of William Shakespeare as plain text for download.

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07/07/2010 13:20:50, von Marian , 268 words, 118 views   Categories: quick tips, Books

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Need a quick answer? Ask a friend (or a complete stranger)

You may already know about the blessings of the Web 2.0: It's interactive. Reading was yesterday (actually last century), searching (or "googling" as this is now a word in the dictionary) was still yesterday because it's sometimes hard to find a good search phrase that gives you the results that you need. So what's actually the next step?

People are now asking around to find their answers. This was possible before if you could manage to find an online forum that was dedicated to your subject of knowledge (computer software for example), but it's still hard to find a good forum in the first place.

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07/06/2010 13:15:23, von Marian , 349 words, 131 views   Categories: quick tips

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Learning English: Pronunciation

Sometimes I find a new English word in a blog post or an ebook where I don't know how to pronounce it properly. I don't have a native speaker at hand that I can ask right away, so I use the Internet to find out the correct pronunciation.

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07/05/2010 14:54:41, von Marian , 248 words, 106 views   Categories: quick tips

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Book Recommendation: A Whole New Mind

Today I want to recommend a book that I have read recently. It's "A Whole New Mind" by Daniel H. Pink. Subtitle is "Why right-brainers will rule the future", and this is the very essence of the book.

You can find the full article on my secondpresentation blog.

07/04/2010 16:31:24, von Marian , 48 words, 76 views   Categories: News, quick tips, Books

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