Archive for December, 2007

Maki at DoshDosh usually blogs about making money online but in The Value of Being Incomplete: What Are Your Goals for 2008? he talks about setting goals.
Goals can be useful but you mustn’t depend on them to define yourself. We are taught that if you don’t have an aim in life, you’ll end up nowhere. [...]

Categories: Personal development Tags: , , ,
Published on December 31, 2007
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Brandie Kajino of The Home Office Organizer made an interesting introduction in a group, an elevator pitch that really caught my attention:
Professionally, I organize home offices for home-based professionals. I love helping people create clarity in their physical environment, reducing stress and increasing productivity. I usually tell people I help them create a [...]

Categories: Work Smarter Tags: ,
Published on December 31, 2007
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I am too humble to create my own list but have placed my favourite posts in the side menu. Instead I link to some of my favourite blogs.
I start with Skellie and The Best of Skelliewag in 2007. She writes “Unfortunately, this list can’t be a true ‘Best of 2007′ round-up because Skelliewag is only [...]

Categories: Link Medley
Published on December 29, 2007
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Skellie has a guest post at ProBlogger about How to Develop the Habit of Writing Posts in Advance. This is a habit I do not yet have but will try to get during 2008.
Another Skellie guest post, now at DailyBlogTips, brings up an important issue: What’s Your Long-Term Blogging Strategy?. Skellie shares nine tips you [...]

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Published on December 28, 2007
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Jason Alba has posted Company Year-end Letter (or, Here’s Your Pink Slip). Well written and good advice, here is part of the final statement:
There’s no better time to think about Me, Inc. Sit down, strategize, pull your board together (close family, mentors, etc.), and figure out what you are going to do in 2008 to [...]

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Published on December 28, 2007
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I have posted about Task management my way - pen and paper which gives me the basic tools and a simple system. What I needed in order to achieve my own goals was a philosophy that works for me. I have tried GTD but found it too complex for my needs. Then I came across [...]

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Published on December 26, 2007
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I found 50 Best WordPress Plugins for Power Blogging and went looking for plugins that would enhance my blog without cluttering it.
The TrackBack Validator plugin works behind the scene, it performs a test on all TrackBacks in order to stop spam.
Peter’s Random Anti-Spam Image for WordPress creates an image with text that has to be [...]

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Published on December 26, 2007
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Seth Godin has published a free e-book titled ‘Money for nothing (and your clicks for free)’. Quotes from his post:
There’s an enormous amount of superstition about what makes some pages rank high while others languish. When you look at the actual figures, though, much of that fades away.
It turns out that the new playing field [...]

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Published on December 24, 2007
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I wish you a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
Here is a Christmas song.

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Published on December 21, 2007
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I like using images in my blog, it spices up posts and makes the blog look more attractive. It was not easy to find images that I knew for certain I was allowed to use. But then I came across Skellies post A Complete Guide to Finding and Using Incredible Flickr Images and since I [...]

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Published on December 20, 2007
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