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{ Monthly Archives } April 2009

Twitter for Newbies

With Oprah jumping on the Twitter bandwagon, the social status update service has gone mainstream. Here are a few general tips for those new to Twitter.

Use as short and easy to remember username as possible.
Add original picture and background to your profile.
Retweet tweet messages if you find them meaningful, insightful, or to show appreciation.
Always [...]

4 Things to Consider Before You Try to Join the Amish

There is an interesting article on Boing Boing by guest writer Maggie Koerth-Baker about being Amish. I thought about being Amish because I liked the concept of Rumspringa, which to me sounded like the Amish version of a year long Spring break mixed in with Sex, Drugs, and Baptism.

Can You Tell the Difference Between [...]

Best Questions to Ask a Charity

The May issue of Money Magazine has the Annual Best List. This years best list has a series of questions worth asking to charitable organization whom you are considering donating your time and money.

Does the IRS recognize you as a charity?
How long have you been around?
What % of my donation will go to charitable [...]

The Business Owner's Bookshelf

Retweet March 2009

Here I am reblogging some retweets for the past month that broken down by subject matter. Some of these tweets also cover events that occurred in March 2009. If you like to follow along, befriend me and I’ll be sure to follow back.
Question

Does two half & half make one full & full?
If everything [...]

Tweet Trip LA

I recently traveled to Los Angeles. In Hollywood every other person has a celebrity story, or is a producer, or is a actor, or is a gang member, or all of the above. I went down there to produce a little R&R and here are some of the tweets regarding my recent trip.
Los [...]