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Use about.me as Your Digital Business Card

Whether it be for personal or professional use, a challenge that we face is merging the individual social presences together to form a single on-line identity.  Many of you (like myself) exist on more than one social network.  You probably have at the least, a Facebook, and possibly a Twitter & LinkedIn profiles.  If you’re looking to reference those networks to build credibility with your expertise/profession, having your online identities displayed in one place makes is critical.

That’s where about.me comes in.  About.me makes it easy to build a dynamic splash page that points your visitors to your content from around the web.  Think of it like a digital business card you can give out to others, and with it they now have directions to your many locations throughout the web.

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Download: Help Desk Poster

For those of you (like myself) who run a help desk, it is frustrating at times when you have users circumventing the system for non-emergency requests.  This poster which I had my girlfriend design, not only lightens the mood, but also encourages users to use the help desk instead of coming up to your desk every time Firefox or flash prompts for an update.  Continue Reading…

Dropbox

Typically when I bring up Dropbox to someone who hasn’t tried the service before, it’s because they’ve experienced the pain of data loss.  Let’s face it, computers break and thieves steal, why not have a seamless method to protect your valuable digital assets from the unexpected?

Dropbox is a double-feature solution that not only backs your files up to the cloud, but syncs your files across all of your devices.  It’s so easy that David Pogue of the New York Times even agrees, Dropbox will simply your life! Continue Reading…