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Archive for the ‘productivity’ Category

Using Mail Merge to make and print ID badges

Here’s a brief walkthrough of how to use MS Office tools to quickly make and print a batch of ID badges for your next get together. I’m using Office 2004, but other versions are similar and the steps should be generally the same. You may have to look in a different location for the tools, but the concepts are pretty standard across versions of Office.

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How to find interesting people to follow on Twitter

When it’s time to search for interesting people on Twitter, I’ve been using a method that I learned from Chris Penn that is really quite good, if a little complex in the middle. Recently, a friend of mine shared with me that the complex middle part is now unnecessary, and the whole process can be really simplified.

Here’s the new version in a screencast, so you can follow along and try it out for yourself.

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How to change back to “normal” retweets in Hootsuite

Let me just say that Hootsuite is awesome, and I usually don’t complain about new features. However, with the most recent update, they decided that by default, retweets should be Twitters “new” version. You know, the kind everyone seems to hate.

So, after taking a peek into the settings area, I found the way to change it back to normal, and thought I’d share that with you in a screencast.

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Installing and Using Markdown in WordPress

Here’s a really quick video introduction to my favorite WordPress editor, Markdown. The syntax is very easy to learn (and teach), and since the focus is on the content and the page structure, there’s less chance of a site owner accidentally pasting in some code that makes the page invalid.

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Useful Accessibility Tools

The Thursday Three

Today’s three are all about accessibility again, but this time I’m focusing on tools that will help you create more accessible sites. I personally use each of these, and find them very useful. This is not a sales pitch, either, as all of them (at the time of writing this) are free to use and platform independent. (more…)