Power Point at Play

31Dec08

A few weeks ago, I told  you that, For a Heavy Does of PPT, I Prescribe Pandora. I was in the middle of several deadlines, building deck after deck for presentations and new biz and relied on a constant stream of new tracks to keep my mind fresh.
Tonight I created part one of a Power [...]

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“Think like a geek and act like a kid”

30Dec08

I love this quote from @RickMurray’s Christmas List of 9 things he’d like to see happen in 2009:
“Youth and the young at heart will prevail. This will be true in business and life. If you think today’s world is just for geeks and kids, then you are about to get your lunch handed to you [...]

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Just Keep Doing What You’re Doing

30Dec08

I know lots of students read this blog…and I’m sure lots of very frustrated students read this blog.  Finding a job is never easy, especially now.  Here is a great article by John Boyd: Using social media to find a job in a down economy
Get involved in the conversations happening around you, and you never [...]

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Tragic.

27Dec08

As a digital kid, and apparently part of the most annoyingly coddled generation, I fully believed that I’d become a YouTube star when my crappy video [in which I talked about my lunch, pouted my lips and shifted my eyes a few times to show off my disaffected digital hipster appeal] reached 1,000,000 views. I [...]

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Twitter is “An Online Place Where You Keep Your Secrets”

26Dec08

A classmate once asked me, “So I know I should quit Facebook because my boss can see my profile… but I can just put all of those photos on Flickr, right? That will be safer?”
To which I replied, “Um… no. Not at all. Sorry:)”
 
As funny as this Jake and Amir video [...]

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Good Grief Friendster. In the Spirit of the Holiday…

23Dec08

“We’ll decorate it and it’ll be just right… Besides, I think it needs me.” C. Brown
Recently, I took an easy jab at a sad social networking site that’s seen better days (pre-MySpace/Facebook world domination). In my holiday unofficial OOO message (OOO is “out of office” for anyone who’s not pretentious enough to understand and appreciate [...]

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Tired of Craigslist? Try MyApartmentMap.com

22Dec08

Finding an apartment is probably one of the most stressful experiences college students and young professionals face entering the real world. What to look for, what neighborhood to live in, means for transportation, proximity to school or job, etc. Over the years numerous sites such as Craigslist, and even now Facebook’s Marketplace, have sprung up [...]

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Brand Yourself…Temporarily

21Dec08

I guess when it comes down to it…advertising is all about grabbing the consumer’s attention.  What better way to do that then…wait for it…branding it on your eyelids.  The website  is offering models on a PPW (pay per wink) basis to put their URL on the model’s eyelid. 
I think I’ll stick with a T-shirt for [...]

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Are Mac Users Jaded?

19Dec08

For one of my final projects, some classmates and I were asked by Doug Quintal (@bugsyph1) to come up with a creative strategy for Apple’s new MacBook. While going through the Zag process we came across the question, “what would you add or subtract?” The add part, no problem! The subtract part? WHAT? Apple has [...]

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I’m a Digital Hipster

14Dec08

Ok so after writing far too many posts about:
Cassettes
Walkmans [Walkmen?]
TalkGirls
etc.
I’ve noticed that I’m a digital hipster. I’m as infatuated with rejected tech as any hipster loves plaid, leggings, novelty shirts, big glasses, Raybans and sequence. 
Image via one of my favorite style blogs, Hipster Musings.
-Amanda Mooney

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