photo credit: pcesarperez
People are so hung up with being labeled n00bs- it’s time for the bulk of us in that category to let our n00bility to bask in the sunshine, not hide in a closet of shame. Here are some suggestions for pumping up your n00b factor:
Keep those generic icons that come with every account, grey generic silhouettes are unique, almost no one uses that brown twitter icon.
Send thousands of invitations via linkedin to people in your address book(s) and be sure to use the custom text, “I’d like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn.” Everyone will thik you sent them a personal email.
Tag everything in delicious “cool”, but don’t waste time adding more descriptive tags because that just messes up the database.
The perfect text to describe your WordPress blog is creating an About page that says “This is an example of a WordPress page, you could edit this to put information about yo...
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Badge of HonorFrom: cogdogblog.com
Post Date: 2007-05-18 14:14:45
Badge of Honor posted 17 May ‘07, 9.45pm MDT PST on flickr
You have no idea how much honor there was in being a part of Faculty Academy
Sitting in the Richmond airport, sipping the free wifi on my way home to Phoenix, I am still swimming in the euphoric high of having the honor to have been a part of the University of Mary Washington’s Faculty Academy - 2 days of tech-teach-learn-love fest.
On the ride to the airport, I joked with Jim Groom that it was al...
more Traffic HelpFrom: cogdogblog.com
Post Date: 2008-07-18 16:07:20
Us Americans Appreciate the Traffic Help by cogdogblog posted 18 Jul ‘08, 1.18am MDT PST on flickr
Look Right! There is a car!
Even after 2 weeks in Australia, I remain confused at traffic crossings- yesterday I cam oh so close to stepping in front of a fast moving bus. The horn blew and there was not even time for the life flash before my eyes (or there are not enough highlights to make a reel).
Sydney has plenty of these curb notes for Americans, supposedly ...
more Sydney Meetup, Walk, WhateverFrom: cogdogblog.com
Post Date: 2008-07-16 17:33:48
If you are in Sydney on Saturday and game to play dodge the pilgrammage crowd game, then join me and my NMC colleagues for a walk somewhere on a beach or around the harbor… er “harbour”. That’s th eplace with the funky curve building. I think they do art stuff there or maybe it is a fancy coffee shop (just kidding- above photo is from my first visit to Sydney in 2000 ).
My friend/colleague Sean FitzGerald is picking out some routes, and we’ll make ...
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