Whether your job is painting houses or transplanting hearts, if you’re really yearning to stay at home in your pajamas and make your living creating and sharing on the internet, that job can seem like it’s keeping you from realizing your dreams. Actually, aside from the fact that the job takes you away from home (more…)
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Look at this wonderful theme I just bought for MiscBytes a few days ago! It’s the Press theme by Obox, and it was super easy to set up! Just activate, select the widgets for the home page (select from large slider, dual column widget, multi-column widget), and set the options in (more…)
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Since I am totally addicted to buying domain names and also am fascinated with finding the perfect niche in life, I started searching for a excuse plan to put those two together and create a few new niche sites. (more…)
This is a guest post by Melissa Tamura. You can find out more about Melissa at the bottom of the post.
As a freelancer, one of your biggest obstacles is ensuring that all your clients are invoiced as needed. You will find that there are a large selection of invoicing apps available, but finding the one that fits your needs best can take some time. These amazing invoicing apps for freelancers can help you create and send (more…)
Continue Reading...Working as a freelance writer can be an amazing experience. It’s an opportunity to work at your own pace, set your own schedule, and choose your own clients. Unfortunately, these wonderful freedoms can become a horrendous nightmare for a freelance writer working without the proper tools. The guide below will provide the 10 tools that every writer needs in order to succeed in the world of freelance work.
Continue Reading...Although I have an awesome boss and a really fun job, I want to create an extra little stream of income over the coming years. For one thing, I want to build in some safety and security (more…)
Continue Reading...Last night when I logged into Twitter, I had a message from them that they are trying Lists in Beta. They mentioned that not everyone is getting to use Lists yet, so I should not tweet about it. Therefore I won’t. Shhh… (more…)
Continue Reading...When you first log into Google Wave, you may wonder, what do I do next? For one thing, notice on the lower left side of your screen, any Gmail contacts you had before who have Wave accounts will already appear in the Contacts section. If they are online, they will have a green dot, the online indicator. Once you get started Waving, you will be able to drag contacts into waves any time you like. Note – you can not drag them back OUT of waves, so be sure you really want them in that conversation before you add them. You can always copy a wave and re-invite the people you do want though, in case you get desperate to lose someone.
If you want to get one of your online contacts’ attention, click on them and select the button to Ping them. That will open a message on their screen and they can respond to you.
If you want to check out public waves where anyone is welcome to join in, go to the search box and type with: public + any search terms you want to see. By typing with: public mbti I found a wave where people were talking about personality types. Notice there is a light purple buffer area where someone is typing, but we can watch her as she types. We can click to reply anytime we want, and lots of people can be replying and talking (more…)
Continue Reading...Here are some cool bytes I have seen around the internet the last few weeks. Some are inspiring, some are instructional, and some are just good entertainment! Hope you enjoy, and be sure to Tweet or Stumble if you do!
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When we get a Twitter account, we follow some of our friends, get followed back, then start talking to each other with replies back and forth, even about very personal stuff. I see this all the time, and of course there’s nothing wrong with it as long as you realize that anyone in the world can see your tweets by default. Just go to http://twitter.com/USERNAMEHERE and you can see every tweet this person has done, unless some have been deleted. Want to know what Penelope Trunk has been up to? Just go to http://twitter.com/penelopetrunk and you have it all right there. And the point is of course, if we can do that to her, your boss or future employer can do it to you.
People are also searching for keywords, so if they are searching for a certain keyword that is in one of your tweets, your tweet will come up in their search results. That can backfire even if you’re using an odd username that’s not your real name. Remember the Cisco Fatty? She had applied for an internship at Cisco she didn’t really want, and for some reason she forgot that the whole world could see her tweets if they wanted to. Now maybe only her friends were following her, but remember anyone who’s looking at the public Twitter stream or searching for a word like “Cisco” would see that tweet immediately.
I have a friend who was tweeting about the impending demise of the company he worked for, complete with the company name! I quickly sent him a private message about Cisco Fatty, hoping to save him from an untimely termination. Wouldn’t you think Twitter-savvy company representatives would search for the company name once in a while to see if customers are talking about it? My friend kept tweeting, but he changed his last name in his twitter profile to “Fatty.”
If you decide you want only those you approve to see your tweets, just go to Settings - and check the box marked Protect my tweets. You tweets will no longer appear in the public timeline, but then you will be able to talk to your friends and family as freely as you like. Maybe you could have a personal Twitter account that’s protected, then your public account where you promote your blog like crazy!
Have fun on Twitter! Talk to strangers and enjoy it, but just be aware – we can all see it. Don’t tweet about any fatty paychecks if you want to keep them!
Photo credit: Ben Lucier
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