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Find All Your Stuff
Find All Your Stuff
I’m really missing a gadget which dials home when it’s out of rang of you.
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Mike Elgan
Tired of losing stuff? Now you don’t have to.We all lose stuff around the house. Keys. Wallet. And, of course, the TV remote. It is frustrating, time consuming and always seems to happen when we’re running late.Fortunately, low-cost gadgets can eliminate the panicky ransacking process and simply reveal the location of whatever it is you’re looking for. They use wireless technology and in some cases even smart phones. Here are three available now or in the near future.http://www.houzz.com/ideabooks…
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Clean Out Your Blog Drafts
Dani??l Crompton shared Mack Collier’s post with you.
Clean Out Your Blog DraftsYou can only learn by doing, so post your unpolished drafts and get valuable feedback. It’s a Build-Measure-Learn cycle for your blogposts.
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Mack Collier
People are telling me they are cleaning out their drafts and publishing them after reading this. Blogging is like anything else, you get better the more you do it!
Done is better than Perfect when it comes to blogging
I’m enjoying reading Ekaterina Walter’s new book Think Like Zuck, which is about the five keys to business success that you can learn from Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. In the book, Ek…
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Create Documents from GMail Conversations #blogging
Using GMail daily I hadn’t noticed the item Create a document in the menu before yesterday, I decided to try it out and I really like it. The function allow you to turn an entire conversation into a document which is stored into Google Docs with the push of a button.
The quoted text contains all the included markup, altough it doesn’t include the sender details, it removes all the quoted text it recognizes. What it doesn’t do is truncate the text below the “sig dashes” (“signature cut line”, “sig-marker”, or “sig separator”), which is what I expected.
I create many post based on conversations I see on mailing lists, or other place. This feature makes it easier to collect all the text of the conversation, as the sender is not included it is necessary to through source text to attribute the quotes to the correct person.
Nice feature!
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Proof of Concept: Google Docs Mail Merge Form with Text and HTML #wordpress
I needed a way to be able to shamelessly plug the posts I recently bundled into the booklet “Write Something” again.In a similar way to the last time I did it in Proof of Concept: Google Docs Mail Merge Form
As I explained before I have set up a system to automatically mail somebody when the enter their address in the form, my issue was that I wanted to add a unique blogpost which they would only be able to get by signing up. Naturally I wanted to style it in the same way the posts are styled in this blog. Again I turned to the documentation, specifically the Class MailApp which I was using to send the mail. Using this documentation I had a starting point. I wanted three changes to the current script:
- keep the plain text
- add HTML message
- add inline images
Proof of Concept: Google Docs Mail Merge Form #wordpress #updated
I needed a way to be able to shamelessly plug the posts I recently bundled into the booklet “Write Something“. I want to build a list, and offering something which adds value for the subscriber is a good way to do this. There is a host of good material which you can use to help, so I won’t elaborate on that in this post.
I have a hosted WordPress.com blog, which means that I can’t run a local script to collect the mail addresses and mail them, so I turned to Google Docs’ Form functionality for the entry form, naturally I give them the option to download the booklet there, and I wanted to send the subscriber a message to thank them. In the Google tutorial: Simple Mail Merge they explain how to do a mail merge using the Script Editor. I wanted to go a little further and have it send a mail with thank you note and a link to each subscriber as soon as they filled in the form.
Pssst, Chris Brogan hasn’t started a secret podcast #gtd #productivity
Chris Brogan isn’t reinventing himself, and his project for 2012 Shhh! The Secret Show is certainly not a podcast.
So what is he doing?
Write something: Insightful #blogging
This item continues the section “Write something:”, which I hope will inspire you to write something for yourself using the keyword. The topic for today is: Insightful.
How do I write something insightful?
This can either be an insight I had, something I learned or a thread or conversation I have been following which made me think. In the first item I wrote about my habit to jot down notes in a notepad which I carry with me. An idea is always a work in progress so I take the notes I make I put in a mind mapper and free associate, this allows me to make connections that I may not have made initially. Sometimes I leave it for a while, although often I pour the idea into a blog item and leave it to mature.
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