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						<h3><a class='pinball-sinkhole' href='http://www.meryl.net/2009/07/twitter/'>Almost Everything You Want to Know about Twitter for Business</a></h3>
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						<p>Think I&#8217;ve covered every aspect of Twitter? Bet this list is missing something. What do you want to know about the microblogging service that even Conan O&#8217;Brian includes in his routine?<br />
A Twitter Mystery for Businesses: An adventure created in PowerPoint, but not using its built-in templates &#8212; just the design.<br />
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						<p>Happy 4th to Americans and Happy belated Canada Day.<br />
Email going around with this. &#8220;At 5 minutes and 6 seconds after 4 a.m.,on the 8th of July, this year, the time  and date will be:<br />
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<p>I started writing a post about Twitter this morning. Then I realized, the post would work for one of my clients and moved it there. My clients come first, which makes it harder to produce high quality blog entries for my own blog.<br />
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						<p>Easy on the Hooptedoodle: How to be invisible when writing a book. You know&#8230; show instead of tell. [Link: The Blood-Red Pencil]<br />
Exposing Some Myths About Blogging Pay Rates<br />
7 Ways to Rediscover Your Dreams<br />
Book Marketing 2.0: 5 ways you can use Web 2.0 tools to promote your book<br />
Namechk: See if a user name is available across [...]</p>
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						<p>Image credit Flávio Takemoto<br />
I love participating in Twitter chats. These bring together intelligent individuals with a common interest yet each one adds something unique to the conversation. I&#8217;ve already covered how to join Twitter chats. This post looks at the process of participating in the chat.<br />
#journchat set many of the standards that other chats have [...]</p>
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						<h3><a class='pinball-sinkhole' href='http://www.meryl.net/2001/11/design-a-bookmark-and-win/'>design a bookmark and win</a></h3>
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						<p>Ack! I wrote a wonderfully comedic piece about this&#8230; and then it got lost in cyberblog space. OK, maybe it was not all that.   Anyway, Bookpool has extended its design a bookmark contest through January 25, 2002. You can check out many of the submitted entries to see what you&#8217;re up against. Wow, [...]</p>
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						<p>The following games will be discounted next week on Game du Jour, the &#8216;one-deal-a-day&#8217; website dedicated to indie and casual games:<br />
Sun. April 5th: 50% off on BABLS Game<br />
Mon. April 6th: 40% off on Rescue at Rajini Island<br />
Tue. April 7th: 50% off on Antarez Mssions<br />
Wed. April 8th: 50% off on Antarez Prefect<br />
Thu. April 9th: [...]</p>
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						<p>Been tied up on a few new projects and the usual projects, which have kept me from adjusting to daylight savings time (my brain is confused). Daylight savings time applies only in the US (except Arizona) on Sunday night, April 6 at 2:00AM, we had to forward our clocks by one hour. OK, it doesn&#8217;t [...]</p>
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						<p>SVG is still an up &#8216;n coming thing. Came across a list of SVG Related Links and thought some of ya would like to see it. [Link Tremendo Weblog]</p>
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						<p>Photo credit Mike Wade</p>
<p>The popularity of Peter Shankman&#8217;s Help a Reporter Out (affectionately known as HARO) proves many of you, your company or clients want to get in the spotlight. Occasionally, Peter kicks folks off the list because they can&#8217;t follow one simple rule:<br />
By joining this list, just promise me and yourself that you&#8217;ll ask [...]</p>
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