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The affront! De-caf indeed!! :) - Barbara Ling

From the page: "Google has, finally, released Google Chrome for the Mac. As Google admits, "it took longer than we expected" but it appears to have been worth the wait. The beta browser is blazingly fast, and packed with all the cool features of Chromeâ€"and a few extra that are Mac-flavored." - Barbara Ling

From the page: "Blog contests are awesome things to do. Some people think they just get you traffic, but thatâ€s an outright lie. If you set it up properly, running a contest on your blog can lead to massive brand exposure, sharp increases in sales and, well, just about whatever you want to happen. " - Barbara Ling

From the page: Life isn't meant to be spent chained to that computer. Every now and then you just have to go out, get some fresh air, and do something with yourself. But if you're at all serious about the success of your blog, living a life outside of the computer can seem like nothing more than a fanciful dream. - Barbara Ling

From the page: "Part of â€oestanding on the shoulders of giants”, is finding the heroes to learn and model from. Starting with the assumption that â€oeeverybody has flaws,” you can choose to focus on peopleâ€s super skills and insights. Everybody brings something to the table. In this post, Iâ€m focusing on Guy Kawasaki. His super skill is making Entrepreneurs more effective. Heâ€s also a master at the business of life. He lives life in a sustainable way, living his mantra of â€oeempower Entrepreneurs,” keeping things real, enjoying the ride, and staying authentic." - Barbara Ling

From the page: "â€oeIâ€ve been blogging for five years. Time to think about the retirement fund.” I was having a conversation with Deb Ng of Freelance Writing Gigs on Twitter, and I smirked at her comment. â€oeWe get to retire? No one ever told me that…”" - Barbara Ling

From the page: "The word â€oeYou” has always been the Alladinâ€s Lamp of good communications. Using it opens the door to a real connection with the people reading your blog or brochure. Whoever youâ€re writing or talking to, make sure they know you mean THEM. And the best way to do that is with the magic three-letter word: YOU." - Barbara Ling

ROTFLMAO!!!! - Barbara Ling

The stark truth behind the humpback whale's song - finally decoded! - Barbara Ling

From the page: "Have you been tiffed by the amount of profanity on Youtube? While a vast majority of this site glamorizes cute kittens and bloated puppies, there are red light alleys lurking here and there. Any responsible adult must keep the seedy side tucked away from the eyes of the youth- until the day they start cussing themselves." - Barbara Ling

Great resources! - Barbara Ling

From the page: "I'm pretty sure Darth Vader didn't brainstorm with marketing, HR, and Emperor Palpatine on naming ideas. It never would have gotten final approval. I mean, anyone who's worked in business knows how these things go, particularly when there's a committee involved." - Barbara Ling

INCREDIBLE shots of rainbows - Barbara Ling

Great resource! - Barbara Ling

From the page: "Like some of the other Savvy sisters, I'm a multi-tasking mom whose days ping back-and-forth between mommy mode and marketing mode like a jet-fueled game of supersonic ping-pong. The result of the constant collision between my two worlds is that I often see marketing in mothering and mothering in marketing. It can get confusing, but eventually it actually makes sense." - Barbara Ling

From the page: "First came the web, and it was a mess. Servers went up everywhere, the net connected them all, pages bloomed like flowers, and no one could find a damn thing." - Barbara Ling

Loved starting my morning with this!! - Barbara Ling

From the page: "Sometimes Iâ€m really in despair of my fellow marketers. You might have noticed the few BILLION posts regarding the FTC and their views on bloggers/affiliate marketing and the like. " - Barbara Ling

Great monitoring tools for your business - Barbara Ling

Birds (not squirrels) of a feather flock together!! - Barbara Ling

From the page: "I had a dream this weekend that Joanna Young sold me her house. It was under construction with half finished rooms and much of the roof missing. Somehow I had bought the contraption house and was happily living in it while completing construction." - Barbara Ling

From the page: "One reason why the summer's Swine Flu coverage was so closely followed in much of the West was of course that it was local, real and very often linked in with 'local cases on the rise' type stories." - Barbara Ling

From the page: "One of the things I want to explore in this theme of essential writing (now Iâ€ve got the blocks out of the way ;-) ) is whether and how blogging can help us to capture the essence:" - Barbara Ling

From the page: "Tomorrow Breast Cancer Awareness month will kick off and the pink breast cancer awareness ribbons and pink breast cancer awareness products will be available to show your support for BCA." - Barbara Ling

WOW! Incredible creations. - Barbara Ling

From the page: "Launched in March 2008 as a self-described online magazine rack of blogs, Alltop is a go-to website that nearly every blogger I know visits frequently in addition to (or in place of) RSS readers and Twitter streams to learn what people are writing in given topics and to visit blogs that are trending and hot." - Barbara Ling

From the page: "In order to stay up to date, I subscribe to a lot of great blogs via my newsreader. I categorise blogs into different sections to help me find the information I want quickly (e.g. blogging, marketing, domain names etc). " - Barbara Ling

Must read for all retailers! - Barbara Ling

From the page: "Last week saw the launch of Google Place Pages which Google described as â€oea webpage for every place in the world, organizing all the relevant information about it.” Nothing like a modest goal to scare the crap out of everybody else in local search." - Barbara Ling

From the page: "With the compulsive viewing of the X Factor back on our TVâ€s in the U.K. I thought I would share with you my tips for giving your child the â€oeX Factor”. 1. To start the ball rolling, ask your teenager this simple question: â€oe If money was no object and you could do whatever you wanted when you get older, what would it be?”" - Barbara Ling