#PhotoaDayMay: Something You Do Everyday

Computer, coffee, and headphones at the kitchen table, also known as my workspace, and of course my blog dashboard is up on the computer screen. This is pretty much what my daily workday looks like. Sometimes I move to the couch if I’m having more of a relaxing day and can watch some television between blog posts and emails, but most of the time this is it. It’s a rather nice thing to call “work.” Sometimes I forget how fortunate I am to have taken this hope of mine of writing for a living and running a website and to have successfully turned it into my reality. Fortunate indeed.

If you want to join in, check out the May Photo a Day Challenge List.

Attention Bloggers! Signups Now Open for Xbox Kinect Bundle Giveaway Event [Free Event Signup]

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Everyone Has Unique Life Experiences; Share Them on Life Story Talk

No one in the entire world will ever live the life you have lived, make the same choices you have made, or have the exact same outlook on life that you have. Your experiences, the way you look back on them and how they have molded you as a person, are completely unique, and the only way that you can expect someone else to understand the way you feel about something and your individual point of view is by sharing your story with them.

We humans are natural story-tellers. From the earliest people who carved their lives out in drawings on the sides of caves, to the penning of novels and poetry embracing ideas socially deemed as ‘radical,’ to the most recent incarnation of self-expression–the personal blog. We have story-telling down, and as much as …

Sh*t Mom Bloggers Say [Video]

By now I am sure you have all seen at least one version of the “Shit People Say” video. This flurry of videos began in mid-December with Shit Girls Say, a hilarious and frighteningly accurate 1 minute and 19 seconds full of numerous quips that pretty much every woman alive is guilty of saying. The video quickly went viral and has since accumulated over 12 million views. That was just the beginning.

In the past month and a half, people everywhere took this idea of things certain types of people say and started creating their own videos. Some are based in observation, some from personal experience; some are in the name of awareness which lends to social justice activism (most notably, this happened with the Shit White Girls Say to Black Girls …

Is it Gender or Skills that Make a Good Social Media Marketer?

Ten years ago I started working for my husband providing marketing services for his software business. At the time, we were not married and he lived in another state therefore most of our communication was done over the phone. He didn’t have any background in marketing, and figured since I had taken some college courses related to marketing I could turn his business around.

How I wish social media was then what it is today. We were lucky to at least have Instant Messenger.

According to ComScore 2010 US Digital Year in Review women spend more time social networking than men. Women spent approximately 16.8% on social sites in December of 2010 while men spent only 12%.

Today, social media tools are just as much associated with businesses as well as personal lives. Some researchers …

Join Bloggers Unite for International Day of Compassion in Honor of Dr. Patch Adams

Compassion is an integral part of our humanity and sadly, we are seeing less and less of this trait being exercised in many of our everyday lives. On a much larger platform, the political climate we have found ourselves in today, and what we have seen in this aspect of our world throughout the past decade or more, is sorely lacking the degree of compassion for others as many had hoped to see when they cast their ballots for change.

After seeing a post on Dr. Patch Adams’ website, Bloggers Unite were inspired to create a day in his honor centered around this very trait that Dr. Adams so abundantly lives his life by. In the post, Dr. Adams put together a variety of different ways to show compassion in your …