Straight Talk, Sprint & South Dakota

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Straight Talk, Sprint & South Dakota See the picture of the phone above?  I want that phone.  ;) You see, I’m a Straight Talk user and I love Straight Talk, wouldn’t switch.  Their prices are rational, it’s prepaid, so no contracts to deal with and the phone service is great!  There’s just one thing that’s [...]

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9 Ways to Overcome Writer’s Block {for Niche Bloggers}

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Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson   I’m not immune to writer’s block and I definitely have those times where my creative mojo is at a stand still, but having two consistently published blogs means that I don’t have the luxury of taking a day off very often.  If I do, my blogs suffer and since I’m establishing [...]

An Empowering Event: New Latina’s Renewal Twitter Party {12/28}

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  A New Year’s ‘Renewal Twitter Party‘ to help you refresh your goals and renew your ambition for the year to come! Join us for a conversation about resolutions, challenges and big dreams for the new year! If you’re an entrepreneur, student or aspiring to achieve personal goals, New Latina wants to help you exceed [...]

Quick Fix: Facebook Share Preview Not Working?

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I’ve had this problem sooo many times!  I grab a link from my blog and get ready to share it on Facebook, but the image won’t load and neither will excerpt.  This happens every so often and it’s completely unpredictable, but I’ve found one thing that works…Facebook’s Linting Tool…now know as the “Object Debugger“.     [...]

World’s Most Beautiful Marriage Proposal – Really???

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Screenshot via YouTube   Last week, this YouTube video was circulating wildly and when I read the title along with comments like, “Omg…beautiful!” I just couldn’t help myself and I watched.  What I saw was something I totally didn’t expect, that left me a little confused and a lot disgusted.  Here’s the video in question… [...]

Don’t Mind Me…I’m Just Sprucing Up!

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  You might have noticed that I’ve been shifting things around a lot lately.  Well, if you’re head is spinning, I apologize…I’m just trying to optimize my creative space and de-clutter.  ;) As you can see in the image above, I’ve brought back the old social profiles widget with new buttons and links!  I’ve also added [...]

Happy One Year to La Familia Cool! {Twitter Party}

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    Our amiga at La Familia Cool, Dania (a.k.a. “Mami Cool”), is celebrating her one year anniversary!  Yes, she’s been blogging at La Familia Cool for ONE YEAR on December 5th!  To celebrate her success and ring in the new year right, Ruby from Growing Up Blackxican and myself are joining forces to help [...]

ZipList: Ultimate App for Recipe Lovers & Food Bloggers

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 Image: ZipList.com ZipList: Ultimate App for Recipe Lovers & Food Bloggers I recently had the pleasure of doing a blog design makeover for a friend, fellow blogger and die hard foodie, Vianney of Sweet Life.  While researching recipe plugins, I fell in love with this amazing app that seems to DO. IT. ALL. If you [...]

We’re Going to Blogalicious!

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   Image: Gaylord National Hotel & Conference Center / Blogalicious Weekend   I have a little bit of news for you!  We’re going to Blogalicious!  On Friday, I was contacted by Clever Girls Collective who told me that I had won their #Cleverlicious Tweet contest!  Myself and another blogger each won a ticket by responding to this [...]

Racist Note from McDonalds?

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Racist Note from McDonalds? Well, by now, most of us have seen this crazy TwitPic that made us all do a double-take.  What!?  Is McDonald’s really telling it’s employees to charge customers additional fees for being black!? Something about this image just seemed a little strange though, and while it could very well have been [...]

Facebook Privacy For Professionals

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If you’re a professional and you’re on Facebook, chances are you’ve thought about creating a second Facebook account so that your clients will have the option to “friend” you, but still allow you to maintain some privacy.  I thought about this too, but who wants to juggle two accounts?  I already have enough to juggle [...]