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Friday Fun: Share Your Favorite Quote

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New Zealand quotations (1)

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I’m shamelessly (!) stealing this idea from Bolaji.

Here are seven of my favorites:

1. Life is uncertain, eat dessert first.

2. “Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.” — Albert Einstein

3. If life gives you lemons, throw them back and demand chocolate.

4. I have always believed that writing advertisements is the second most profitable form of writing. The first, of course, is ransom notes – Philip Dusenberry

5. Walk like you’re wearing a cape – Josh Hanagarne’s dad

6. The only difference between an audience and a community is the way the chairs are facing – Chris Brogan

7. If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am for myself only, what am I? And if not now, when? – Hillel

What are yours?

Friday Fun: Choose Your Words Carefully

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CANGRTALATION :)
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This post was inspired by a friend who posted some serious spelling and communication disasters.  The post is private, but it reminded me of the importance of being careful about what you say, how you say it, and how you spell it. Let’s hope the new graduate is a better speller than whoever decorated that cake (or at least knows how to use spell-check).

Got any examples of your own? Share them here!

Friday Fun: End of Year Holiday Party

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Champagne and pate on Thanksgiving.

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Get our your champagne glasses and your funny hats.  It’s time for the end of year holiday party.  Last year, I had a roundup of posts by topic. Here’s the list:

Five Free Ways to Market Your Business

What Every Marketer Ought to Know in the New Year

Creative Ways to Write Great Headlines

Get More From Your Email Marketing

Do You Make These Common Marketing Mistakes?

This year, I’m going to do something different. A countdown of my five best posts (ever). Stay tuned for number five on Monday, counting down to number one next Friday. (Hey, why should Casey Kasem – sorry Ryan Seacrest doesn’t count) have all the fun?

Meanwhile, happy, merry, and joyful to all of you.

Friday Fun: Cool Tools!

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The RGB color model mapped to a cube. POV-Ray ...

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OK, these two are really great. If I’d found them earlier, they would have saved me loads of time!

It took me ages to figure out the color of the blue font on this blog and match it to create the sign-up box at the end of my posts. With these tools, it would have taken a few seconds.

The first one was hiding right under my nose.

Digital Color Meter: It’s included with my Mac software.  If you’ve got a Mac,  you’ll find it in the Utilities folder.  Fire it up and it will tell you the color formula (web or RGB percentages) for any color that you hover  over.

Could be something on a web page, a file on your desktop, a font color in a document, anything at all. It will save you loads of time trying to match colors.

Firefox Colorzilla Plugin: If you don’t have a Mac (or even if you do), try the Firefox Colorzilla plugin.  This will only work on web pages, but it will tell what color something is. It lets you zoom in, and has history and favorites palettes (so you’ll have a handy record of what colors you like). You can also pan over the page, without the scroll bars.