Social Media: How to Live Unplugged

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I like social media. Don’t get me wrong, it has opened the doors to so many wonderful relationships and family that we would never have had time to see in our physical life. It helps me stay in the lives of my beautiful nieces and nephews and reach out to loved ones that are hurting. It has opened doors to new relationships and reconnected us to old friends.

But there was a time when I had to pull away …

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cookies-bake-food-cooling rack Service: Jackie Gonzalez-Feezer Bakes and Blogs to End Hunger

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LaCasadeSweets.com is a blogging confectionery, a treat of fun twists on classic baked dishes…. Jackie Gonzales-Feezer, started the blog a little over a year ago, not only to share her recipes online, but also to raise money to fight hunger. “From the start,” she says, “I wanted to use

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MomBloggersForSocialGood screen shot Global Coalition: Mom Bloggers For Social Good is a Blog that Makes a Difference

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Once each week, we like to tell you about a women making a difference somewhere in the world. We’ve talked about blogosphere pioneer Jeanette Kaplun, author and photographer Karen Walrond…, and many others who are using their talents and their social media involvement to increase positivity in

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sos-fall-23 Write 57 small Service Ideas: 10 Ways to Incorporate Writing Into Service

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This week’s Season of Service challenge may be the easiest yet for all you bloggers out there for whom writing is your bread and butter. We challenge you to write… just a little more for the sake of someone else. Here are a few ideas:
10 Bite-Size Ways to Serve

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Live writer screen shot Microsoft Windows Live Writer: User-Friendly Software That Saves Bloggers Time

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This is a review of Microsoft’s Live Writer software, written from a writer/user’s perspective. Right off the bat, let me say that I will merely describe my experience with and observations of  it, not a complete technical overview. Microsoft provided me with a laptop pre-loaded with Windows LiveWriter…, and

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evo Conference Goes Family Friendly With Elmo, Rolo McFlurries, and Hula Hooping

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If you think Elmo, Rolo McFlurries, and hula hooping are just for kids… think again! At evo’11…—a conference for women in social media—we took our family friendliness up many notches this year by having 7 family friendly sponsored suites, two family parties, day care, day camp, and

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Have you ever gone to a site, been impressed with the content, go to share it with your social followers and there are no social options on their post? One thing that will keep a visitor from returning is not giving them the opportunity to share your content. Even if

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Blogging Tips Blogging Tips: Creating a “Grab My Button”

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We have all seen them, those cute little square ads on blogs that link you to another fabulous blog or website. Having a blog button is an easy way to enhance your blog and by having one, you are putting yourself out there for the online universe to soak up.

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Girl on Computer Blogging Tips: Top 6 WordPress Plugins

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So you have your blog set up on WordPress… and you may even have an amazing theme to go with it, but now what? What will make your blog or website grab the attention of the online universe?
This is where the handy plugin comes into play. There are so

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Blogging Conferences: 10 Reasons to Take Your Spouse

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I go to a lot of conferences. And while I have ended up in my own hotel room before, normally I’m sharing not only a room, but a bed with other women in social media who, like myself, are looking to reduce cost.
But, when I went to Mom 2.0…

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