The Wedding Plan Part III: Location, Location, Location

Jul 22, 2011 by Michelle Berger

venueWow how time flies!

In the next couple of months I will decide where to get married and officially lock in the date. As promised, here are some sites I’ve used to help me pick a location.
The Knot
http://www.theknot.com/

The Knot continues to be a priceless resource. In addition to tips on what to consider when picking a venue, I get a quick overview of local wedding sites, contact information to follow up on my own, and I have the ability to …

What is Google+ (and why the talking heads get it wrong)

Jul 14, 2011 by Aaron Rubman

plusone-v2According to CNN the tech elite are struggling to define Google+.  This seems very odd to me, as the premise of Google+ is very straightforward: it is a social media platform that allows you to control where your message goes.

What makes this a radical concept is that no one else is doing it (well, no one aside from Diaspora, but I’ll get to that later).

The problem that CNN’s experts have run into is that they’re trying to define Google+ in terms of other social media platforms.  …

Timing Blog Entries for Highest Impact

Jul 7, 2011 by Aaron Rubman

Even in our increasingly social online world, the blog continues to play an important role.  Blogs are one of the few online properties where you have full control over the message while still inviting reader participation.  However, the blogosphere is a cacophonous place.  If you don’t time your posts well you run the opposing risks of missing your audience entirely or of being drowned out by all the other online voices.
How Often to Post
Quality should be the key driver of frequency.  Even if you write infrequently, your readers will come back time and again so long as you always have …

Are we ready to move past .com?

Jul 7, 2011 by Aaron Rubman

tldsLast month ICANN, the organization that sets internet protocols and website naming conventions, announced that any “established public or private organization” can now register a top level domain (TLD).

Soon .ibm and .union may be join the ranks of .com, .org, and .net. The price tag to set up one of these vanity domains is $185,000, and ICANN is still working on the renewal fees.

TLDs have been introduced before to mixed results. Some TLD’s like .biz have taken a place as …

How to Say “2000″ Correctly

Jul 6, 2011 by Lindsay Gower

Ah, the good old days! When we could say “the 40s” or “the 90s” and the words flowed easily and everyone understood each other.

But now… what? This century is not only uncomfortable to live in, it isn’t easy to refer to.
How to Write It
If you want to abbreviate a year, let’s use 2006, you can write ‘06.  Yes, there is only one apostrophe.

If you refer to the decade, for example, the first decade of the current century, or the decade just before ,do not place an apostrophe before the s. Write the ’00s and the ’90s or whatever. These sentences …

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