Do something wonderful!: Internet

Showing posts with label Internet. Show all posts

Thursday, October 15, 2009

How to support a good cause using Twitter, blogging & social networking

Have a good cause to support? Add your information in the comments!

People often ask me how can they do fundraising for a problem or person they know about. Basically, you write a blog post and ask people to help you promote it, and to visit and donate. And you spend a few weeks at it.

Read more

Wednesday, November 26, 2008

How can you get a better job, better friends and a better life? One word: Twitter

If you were to meet people who appreciate who you are, what you do and what you love, and can help you do more of it and get paid for it, would that be a bad thing?

BEGIN: Find people in two or more of these 5 categories:

People who have needs or interests you can help them with;
Supportive people you enjoy being around;
People who work doing something you love;
People who work doing something you are good at;
People who work doing something that you could (or do) get paid to do.

Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Twitter's “Billionth Millionth” Day

November 12, 2008—Twitter had it's one BILLIONTH tweet today, and TwitPic had it's one Millionth pic. The odds of both of these happening on the same day have to be astronomical!

Monday, November 10, 2008

You know you are too popular on Twitter when…

From blog.tweetsmarter.com:

You know you are too popular on Twitter when…

People don’t invite you out—they go without you and livetweet you about it.
Because you instantly tweet about everything you do, you no longer see the point of confessing in church.
You know where the Twitter Twanonymous 12-step meetings are held (“Hi, my name is @, and I'm a Twittaddict…”).
You gossip like a complete Twit: “What a failwhale! Her mistweeted tweetahead retweet got her uninvited from the tweetup and the twitcast. With tweetard twittiquette like that she'll never be in the twitterati twibe.”
You never do anything without first considering how Twitterrific it will sound on Twitter.
You lie about how much you Twitter to keep your friends and loved ones from trying to organize a Twittervention against you. You are always jumpy when you go out, afraid they will throw a net over you and pry your blackberry away.
Everyone knows that while you’re technically still married, your spouse is actually a “Twittdow” (Twitter widow).
Whenever you get long-winded, your spouse tells you to “Shut up if you can't talk like we do on Twitter.”
Watching court TV you thought the bailiff said “Please be tweeted,” instead of “Please be seated.”
In your dreams, everyone has @ symbols where faces should be.
You have two homepages: twitter.com, and status.twitter.com …not necessarily in that order.
You're Scobelizing your time, resources and life away.
Big events nearly give you a heart attack every time—from simultaneously trying to listen to it on TV, tweet, and see what everyone else is tweeting about it
You start to think in 140-character thoughts using abbreviations with too many exclamation points and question marks: “Y can't these ppl learn to p/u their own damn dirty socks. It’s thx 4 nothing 4 all the work I do around here, imho. Y do I p/u with this??!!”
Two-hundred thirty-seven people already sent you this blog post this morning.
If it weren't for Twitter, you would have no contact with other living beings 167½ out of 168 hours each week. (It would be never, if grocery delivery to your door was available in your area.)
People DM you before calling so that they know you will answer.
When you see thousands of people following the “Can you hear me now?” guy around in ads…you know just how he feels.
Your kids know they won't get your attention unless the notes they leave on the kitchen table say something like “@Mom, please bring home milk and DM me if I can go to @Jason’s house.”
You have your real name legally changed to your @twitterName.
Obama and Kevin Rose follow you…and DM you when they need advice.
You get the “Twitter Twitch”—you've twittered until two in the morning and now all you can do is lay in bed and twitch.
You never leave the site except to go to Tweet-ups.
More people know you by your Twitter picture than by what you actually look like.
You don't bother to have your Twitter client automatically startup on boot because doesn't everyone sleep with Twitter on the laptop next to them in bed?
When Twitter goes down, you have to restrain yourself from trying to tweet about, and write in your blog until it comes back online.
You understand Twitler's every reference and know exactly how he feels.
You are always accidentally trying your Twitter password to log onto things.
You need a job, but you can't find one with a Twitter-friendly environment so you remain unemployed…and Twittering about it.
You're more popular on twitter.grader.com than @grader itself.
Your @name starts appearing in other people's Twitter jokes.
You decide to do a quick check of your tweets before your email - and it ends up being hours before you read your email.
You freak out when twitter goes down for a few hours and wonder if you will ever see your friends again!
You look for the UNFOLLOW button during boring TV shows.
You find yourself in an actual, honest-to-goodness face-to-face conversation…and catch yourself looking for the “reply” button.
You start to think of everything in @’s as in “I wish @husband would take the garbage out…”
You would never need to wear a tracking device if you were convicted of something because your BrightKite tweets make you easier to track than Barack Obama.
You get wedding presents from Twitter friends you have never met in real life.
You resolve to get off Twitter to get some work done but can't remember when you had that thought, and anyway @guykawasaki is just now saying that Alltop is cool because …
@guykawasaki DMs you but you miss it because you get too many DMs all at once.
When your realize you're having heart palpitations from being so hyped up trying to reply to your thousands of DMs and @'s.
You tweet wearing gloves when the heat goes out.
Twitter's business model depends on your tweets. Either that, or they get money from Greenpeace for saving the Fail Whale.
It takes you three tries to read this post—because you have to check twitter in between.
You’ve long since forgotten what it was like to have friends in the real world in the days “BT” (before Twitter).
When you're off twitter, you make up new twords. You share the twords with your twouse who rolls their eyes at you and goes back to sleep.
Your dog has her own twitter account.
Your name is @conniecrosby.
When u go online to find that recipe, you get so many DMs you logon to twitter & forget to eat dinner, much less cook it.
You decide not to tweet your bad experience at a chain restaurant, just in case the CEO decides to follow your tweets and then vows never to hire you to voice their spots…Hey, with Twitter, it could happen!
You write articles called "6 Reasons I am a Twitter Crack Whore"
You respond @eachperson to all friends then realize you probably flooded 30 pages into the feeds of your less popular friends (…a common misconception! Here's how it really works.)
You start writing on your actual blog and realize u start wrtng shrt form 2 fit what u want n 140 chars. Then you realize it's not necessary & decide to stop writing and go check out what's happening on twitter.
Your mind begins to think in update format, categorizing people into TweetDeck columns... and you talk to people the same way.
You insist that all of your friends sign up for Twitter, but wait to follow them until they say something interesting.
All your thoughts become micro-thoughts, and then other people start to promote your micro-thoughts...
When Billionaires like Richard Branson of The Famed Virgin Brand start following YOU on Twitter.
Your cold has its own twitter account. Yep, check out Digg's founder: @kevinscold.
You no longer like 'talking.' You now prefer talking in tweets... Or 'twalking.' You are constantly competing in your mind to communicate in 140 characters or less.
You realize Twitter should be called “Twitch” for how compulsively your fingers are at needing to keep typing something.
You type e-mails and just hit ENTER - then wonder why it didn't go.
When you find yourself converting all your blog posts to excerpts.
You're supposed to be a legal observer, but you spend election day at the polls compulsively checking your phone for Twitter hashtag election results.
It gives you flashbacks to the BBS days
You find yourself nodding knowingly to every item on this list

Add to the list by leaving a comment or email /Twitter it to me. Tell me what words to use for your link (or I'll just use your name). Follow me on Twitter at @SarahJL or @Twytter_Tips.

Contributors (Thanks!):

You might also like to see Top 10 perks of the UPCOMING Obama presidency…

Friday, November 07, 2008

Top 10 perks of the Obama presidency

Top 10 perks of the Obama presidency…

Canadians no longer minding being called Americans when traveling abroad…and no longer necessary to pretend you're Canadian while traveling abroad.
Smartest guy in room now IS the President.
Drug companies begin search for compound to relieve new health problem: people suffering from repeated, uncontrollable sighs of relief.
Citizens find days passing by quickly in a giddy lightheaded state (“Obamaraderie”).
Reporter-safe puppy. (Or, Barney's bites no longer make the news.)
Whitehouse now Cheney-Free zone…except for his eighth cousin, Barack Obama.
Having a president whose first language is English and has made a campaign promise to pronounce the word nuclear, nuclear.
Color blind citizens not annoyed by claim “We're all color-blind now.”
Warring African nations declare a "ceasefire minute" to celebrate.
Excuse that lipstick on collar is from “Some teary-eyed Obama supporter in line at Grocery store” accepted at face value by spouse.

Best of Obama humor on the web
Late-night comics' jokes about Obama
Obama's funny jokes from the campaign
All funny moments from the ’08 election season
…and the transcript of Obama's comedy roast at the Al Smith dinner

More benefits:

Oval Office 24-hour live video feed being installed in Oprah's house.
George Bush relaxes for the first time in nearly eight years, knowing someone who can handle the tough stuff will be stepping in.
Political humor writers happily begin searching for new lines of work.
Haircuts to show off Alfred E. Neuman ears are suddenly popular.
Having a president who will stick with us through thick and thin, and really looks the thin part.
Having a thin president probably more motivational than even “Super-size me” was to dieting fat citizens.
Our first black president since the first season of '24'
Having another inexperienced Illinois senator raise expectations
First president with a deadly, fade-away jumper
If we get kidnapped in a Middle Eastern country we can say we know Hussein and they might not behead us

From Late Night, the original Top Ten…

Contributors:

Thursday, November 06, 2008

Another Twitter “who’s who” becomes popular

Twitter Grader claims to measure the “relative power of a Twitter user.”

If you're trying to find people by topic, Twellow.com is a great place to start. (Results are sorted by whoever has the most followers first.) And TwinInfluence.com claims to measure the combined influence of twitterers and their followers, as does Twitterank.com. But if you're looking for more of a “Who's who,” TwitterGrader.com seems to be a good place to start.

One of the nice things on TwitterGrader.com is their suggestions of who to follow. Just enter your own twitter ID in to get graded, and a list of suggestions is automatically generated. Refresh the page for more suggestions.

Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Looking for gift ideas? Got gift ideas to share? Send them to @FunGiftIdeas on Twitter!

Okay, you'll to spend the 90 seconds it takes to get a Twitter account to do this if you don't have one already …

This is a place to find and share interesting gift ideas. If you'd like to add the ideas to your feed reader, here's the gift ideas feed link.

The place to visit is twitter.com/FunGiftIdeas, or, if you have a Twitter account, you can just follow/send to @FunGiftIdeas.

Probably not every link will be accepted, and there will be a limit on how many new links will be shared each day so it doesn't get overwhelming. Here are the 15 most recent gift suggestions, and below that, a photo frame you can win:

Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Flatulence, tumbling thoughts, and other strange and funny stuff from acround the internet

Ah, the internet! You never know what strange and funny things you will find.

I post things as I find them at @Laughing_Improv on Twitter. But before we get to that, here's me on a morning radio show, making a fool of myself and causing my coworker to spit into his microphone.

Probably the most popular thing I've posted is the Sarah Palin Baby Name Generator (If I was born to Sarah Palin, my name would have been: Copper Catfish Palin). But the greatest "laugh out loud" quotient (for people who use Twitter) has to be "No Twitter for Hitler:"

I think you'll also find it virtually impossible to keep from laughing at some of the lists of unusual quotes I've seen lately:

And here are a few more things that caught my eye recently:

The strange and the funny

Pics and Video

Portrayal Of Obama As Elitist
Hailed As Step Forward For African Americans

We're #1!

... and a few quotes:

God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh – Voltaire
Be here now. Be someplace else later. Is that so complicated?
You are hypnotized. Your screen is actually blank. I am waiting around the corner. Take a look. Return, and this will say: “Paranoid much?” ...
Wiseass: My paper is late due to sexual exhaustion. Teacher: Learn to write with your other hand.

Thursday, September 11, 2008

Spiritual images, music and articles from around the web

http://is.gd/2v4b

Here are some favorite links on general spiritual topics from around the web. I post these as I find them on Twitter as @DivineLove if you want to see more.

Images, music, articles, and some funny stuff :)

You might also like these articles:

Saturday, June 14, 2008

What the Google?!? Easy and cool ways to find stuff on Google.

Okay guys, this is essential (and simple) knowledge that will improve your life. I even found you a video so you don't have to read--so pay attention!

Matt Cutts from Google gives a bunch of very useful, simple tips for searching on Google (and a few cool advanced tips). Finding price ranges and only searching one kind of sites are particularly cool to know!

Most people I know don't even know all the basic tips, so I thought I'd put this up "as a public service."

Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Mr. Fantastic and other amazing movement performers

Robert Muraine/"Mr. Fantastic" is hot!!

Watch this video to the end for one of his most amazing moves. The "So you think you can Dance" judges were very impressed. Robert improvises a sweet acceptance performance at the very end. For more amazing dance, don't miss these gravity defying highlights from all eras and styles.

Enjoy!

So You Think You Can Dance?

Robert doing his street performance

Update! Robert got an IKEA commercial:

Other amazing movement performers

Forward this one to 0:14 for the beginning:

Forward this one to 0:50 for the beginning:

Also, here are a few of my dance videos and a recent belly dance video.

Tuesday, May 27, 2008

How do I turn this thing on?

Okay, I'm on a comedy and language kick!

We all have our brain turned to "low" from time to time, but here are dozens of documented cases of the brain turned to "off" from Overheard in New York, The Book Mine and The Customer is Not Always Right.

The Book Mine

Woman: "I am looking for a certain autobiography, but I don't know who the author is. Can you help me?"

Guy: I never knew there was a libary (sic) here.
Me: There isn't.
Guy: What is it?

Me: It's called a book store.
Guy: What's the difference?

Me: I guess there isn't any.
Guy: I didn't think so.

Overheard in New York

Girl #1: Everyone always criticizes my choice in men. I get so sick of it; there's nothing wrong with Tom.
Girl #2: He looks like Hitler, he drools, he's always whining and making high-pitched noises, and everyone keeps putting him down, and he never even stands up for himself.
Girl #1: He may be a total loser and a freak but he still has some redeeming qualities. Plus if I didn't date him no one else would.
Tom: Thanks.

Little boy: Why didn't Harry Potter just take a shotgun and blow that guy's head off?

Man: I just don't get it! Just last night you were complaining about how you never try anything new, but you feel like you should.
Woman: Ok, well ordering the roast duck is a little different than a threesome, Tim.

Business woman: No, I told her I'd rather have sex with my husband than buy her products. And then she hung up on me.

Young woman #1: Guys never want to eat me out.
Middle-aged dad with kids: Hey, we're trying to eat over here!
Young woman #1: See, even hearing about it freaks them out.
Young man at next table: Maybe I can take a look for you and give you my assessment.
Middle-aged dad with kids: For God's sake, this is a family restaurant!!
Young woman #2: You have a very controversial vagina.

The Customer is NOT Always Right

Fast Food | North Dakota, USA

Employee: “Thanks for calling, how may I help you?”
Customer: “Hi. I came through drive-thru earlier tonight, and there’s something wrong with my food.”

Employee: “Um, okay…what’s wrong exactly?”
Customer: “Well, I ordered ***, and there was a used condom on the sandwich.”

Employee, holding in a laugh: “Sir, that’s impossible. We don’t practice safe sex here.”
Customer: “Well played.” *hangs up*

Electrical Store | Middlesbrough, UK

Me: “Hi, can I help you?”
Man: “Yes, I want half of my money back on this camera.”

Me: “I’m sorry? Is there something wrong with it?”
Man: “No, it’s fine. But I want half of my money back.”

Me: “Half of your money? I’m not sure I understand…”
Man: “Look, I bought this camera about 6 weeks ago, and now it’s on a half price offer. So I want half of my money back.”

Me: “Err, sorry, but I’m afraid I can’t do that.”
Man: “So get someone who can!”
(I pop off to grab the manager, and explain the situation to him.)

Manager: “Good afternoon Sir. **** has explained your problem to me, and I’m afraid he’s right, we can’t refund this difference to you. The item is on sale now; it wasn’t when you bought it.”
Man: “This is ridiculous! You’re ripping me off! Why won’t you give me my money back?”

Manager: “Let me ask you this–if the camera was now twice as expensive, would you come back here and pay us the extra money?”
Man: “Of course not, I’m not stupid!”

Manager: “And neither am I, Sir. Good day!”

Tourist Information | Catalina Island, CA

Me: “How can I help you today?”
Customer: “What time does the island close?”

Me: “Close? It doesn’t close. It isn’t like Disneyland, sir. People live here.”
Customer: “Don’t lie to me. I’ve been walking around, and those houses are too small for anyone to live in.”

Me: “Sir, I live in one of those houses.”
Customer’s wife: “No, honey, she can’t break character.” *winks at me* “I get it.”
Customer: “But really, when do you close?”

Me: “I’m not ‘in character.’ This is an actual town, with actual people living in it. It doesn’t close.”
Customer’s wife: “Don’t treat us like we’re children, just tell us when.”

Me: *sigh* “5 o’clock, ma’am. Have a nice day.”

One more from the Book Mine:

Older guy: I'm here for an appraisal.
Me: I charge for appraisals.
Guy: No, I don't want to pay for nothing.

Me: What do you have?
Guy: A book I wrote. It's about gambling.

Me: Has it been published?
Guy: No, that's why I need a (sic) appraisal.

Me: I only deal in old books.
Guy: Hey, gambling is old. It's been around a long time.

Me: I don't think I can help you.
Guy: Yeah I know, you're really wasting my time.

.

Do something wonderful!