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How to aggregate Social Media Photo Sharing with MobyPicture

MobyPicture is a photo sharing site that allows users to send out one photo via email, mms, or uploading directly online and having it distributed over a vast number of photo sharing and blogging platforms.

A lot of people use Twitpic, Yfrog, Twitgoo, TweetPhoto, Img.ly, but they are all lacking syndication with other social media sites. Mobypicture fills that gap by aggregating Flickr, Facebook,  Blogger, Wordpress, Twitter, LiveJournal, Youtube, Tumblr, Brightkite, Vimeo, Forusquare.

It’s easy to set up (in video below) and an excellent way to share photos and videos with people in one simple message.

To use MobyPicture all you have to do is send the picture via email or mms to your custom mobypicture email address (usernamer.password@mobypicture.com) with the subject as the message you want associated with that picture. Mobypicture handles the rest and blasts it out to the services of your choosing.

My Video Tutorial on MobyPicture.com

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90 Twitter Users Every Small Business Should Follow – in one click

This list can originally be found over at Small Biz Trends . I added some more users that I thought appropriate. Please E-mail me or comment below if you would like to be added to the list. Enjoy.

To follow the entire list in just one click here:

The List of 90+ Twitter Users that every small business or organization should follow

Intuit – Intuit

Intuit helps small businesses thrive. Follow @QuickBooks @IntuitPayroll @IntuitCommunity @IntuitDeals @IntuitInc. Contact @1practicalgal

aaronwall – aaron wall

SEO + U = Win!!!

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Vark! A human Google

It has been a while since I have updated my blog and even longer since I have been throughly delighted by a new web 2.0 app.

Aardvark. Vark for short. Is something I recently stumbled across and can’t seem to get enough of it.

Vark is a community based question service that taps into your existing network of friends via various social media sites as well as it’s own very expanding community.

Think of it like yahoo questions on steriods.

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Using WiseStamp to build your personal brand in every email

I recently came across a new firefox plug-in called WiseStamp. It is a tool that automatically inserts an html signature into your Gmail (also supports AOL mail, Yahoo! mail and Hotmail) while composing an email.

What does it look like?

Why should you use it?

Well for starters, the internet such a vast place with so many destinations that being easily findable is KEY.

Every email that you send serves its original purpose of communicating a message AND provides a myriad of ways for people to easily connect with you at their convenience (via the hyperlinked contact buttons, much like the addtoany share buttons on most sites)

I am a strong believer in usability/accessibility. This gives your signature a personality and acts as a portal to all things that are you. By providing these hyperlinks you are doing the legwork so that other people don’t have to. 

With the set up being completely intuitive and only taking about 3minutes, I don’t understand why everyone would take the time to further promote their online spaces/brand.

Non-Profit Use

I would Highly recommend using this plug-in for non-profit organization that have little or no budget for their email marketing. It will most certainly take that barrier of people having to find you online (where ever that may be), while making your emails appear more professional looking.

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Launchy to the rescue

Application Launcher to improve workflow

One of my favorite things I have ever found in personal productivity software is hands down a program called Launchy. It is a keystroke launcher application that can launch websites, programs, open folders, and even add an event to your google calendar.

How does it work?

Glad you asked. Well launchy is ridiculously easy to use. Once you download it, simply install and then launch it with ALT+Space. The launchy box will pop up and you type in what you are looking for. Launchy is a smart program and learns your shortcuts the more you use them.

For example: Alt+space f opens up the facebook homepage in firefox much quicker than manually opening your browser and opening up the bookmark or typing it in the nav bar.

For Example: Alt+Space my d , quickly launches my documents. Instead of having to mouse through the start up menu.

My Favorite Launchy Plugin

There are many different plugins you can get to make launchy even more useful! My personal favorite is the yubby plugin. The yubby plugin allows you to search numerous sites without having to go to them or clicking on the mini search nav bar on the top right corner of your browser.

For example: if I want to do a google image search without having to navigate to google and then click on image search, I can simply Alt+space (to pop-up launchy) and then another “Space gim kangaroos Enter” and launchy will open up a tab in Firefox with my search query displayed.

And this happens :

You can download the yubby plugin here. All of the Yubby shortcuts are listed here.

My Favorites include:

• (Space) gim (search query) for google image search
• (Space) ebay (search query) for ebay item search
• (Space) g (search query) for google search
• (Space) wp (search query) for wikipedia search
• (Space) imdb (search query) for a internet movie database search

Why this program is important

This may seem like just another program that will actually decrease productivity (probably because the examples given about seem like time wasting websites) but think about how much time it take to navigate to different folders and websites. I would guestimate that at least 10 seconds are wasted each time we are searching for that god forsaken lost folder. Now multiply that 10seconds by 20 times a day when finding a file or navigating through a website you don’t have to.

Thats 200seconds a day. Well, hey doesn’t sound too bad. Unless you add up at 3.3minutes a day of wasted time and muliply it 5days a week and 44weeks a year and you are looking at 12hours of work time wasted on navigating and not actually doing what you want as an end result.

You could use a nice hour break every once and a while! So give launchy a try. I think that every company should employ this or something similar to just plain make peoples lives easier and more productive.

Additional Resources:

Screenshot tour: Tweaking Launchy

Launchy Plugins

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Aggregate all of your social media status updates with Ping.fm

When I first started my journey into the social media realm. I stumbled across things like twitter, plaxo, friendfeed, linkedin…. (The list goes on.)

I thought to myself that these were pretty interesting applications,
But I don’t have the time in my busy day to day life to manage 25+ different social media profile updates.

I recently started using a using Ping.FM, a new social media aggregation service. It brings all of your status updates into one box to click and post.

It has given me a chance to try out more of these social media outlets while saving me considerable amounts of time.

You have the ability to set different posting profiles as well right from your igoogle desktop. You can setup Ping.fm to post to just your blog/s or just to your facebook like profiles like myspace and bebo.

• Here is what it looks like on my google homepage as a new widget.