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How to Make HTML Tables

by Kim on July 23, 2009 · 22 comments

I’m no html expert, but I like to dabble in it occasionally to see what I can figure out. One of the coolest things I’ve learned is how to create tables for my blog. I love being able to add tables because it can keep pictures and text lined up, something my OCD personality [...]

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Blog Improvement Project Week 6: Let's Get Social!

by Kim on March 16, 2009 · 14 comments

Thanks to everyone who submitted posts for the Social Media Carnival last week — I learned a ton from reading the posts, and I hope everyone else did too.
Week 6 for the Blog Improvement Project (a long three weeks) is going to be pretty simple, trying out a new social media tool.  While I [...]

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Social Media Carnival (BIP Week 5)

by Kim on March 14, 2009 · 11 comments

Thank you to everyone who submitted posts for the Blog Improvement Project Social Media Carnival. We have post on a whole variety of topics, so feel free to scroll around and learn more about social media that’s interesting for you.
Some Overviews

Margot at Joyfully Retired wrote an excellent post pointing out the uses of a ton [...]

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Using Delicious for Blogging (BIP Week 5)

by Kim on March 12, 2009 · 8 comments

March is Social Media Month for the Blog Improvement Project, and the first task is to write about how you use a social media tool to improve your blog. I thought about writing on a bunch of different things, but finally decided to write about Delicious because it is one of the only tools I [...]

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Blog Improvement Project Week 5: Social Media Carnival

by Kim on March 2, 2009 · 22 comments

Thanks to everyone who participated in Week 4 of the BIP where we worked on blog basics. It was nice to take a little break and work on some things that I needed to do around here. I hope everyone else felt the same.
Because I love alliteration, March is going to be Social [...]

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Tweeting Class

by Kim on January 30, 2009 · 11 comments

Welcome to my second edition of J-School Journal.  I hate that name, so instead of formalizing my feature with a name I’m just going to commit to writing a post about journalism and journalism school on Friday, without worrying that it has a snazzy button or name (unless I come up with something cool later [...]

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Best Blogs from PC World

by Kim on January 27, 2009 · 13 comments

PC World recently published a list of 100 of their favorite blogs.  I went through it yesterday and a lot of them seemed fun.  I know everyone’s Google Readers and Feeds are overflowing, but here are a few more I think you should consider (that don’t take any time to keep up with):
passive aggressive notes.com: [...]

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BIP: 2009 Blog Goals

by Kim on January 7, 2009 · 15 comments

I’ve been inspired and excited by reading through all the goals people have posted about.  It’s given me a lot of food for thought as I try to formulate my own goals for 2009.
Make time for personal reading. In 2008 I read a lot of books for class that I reviewed here, but in [...]

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Monday Tally: June 23

by Kim on June 24, 2008 · 1 comment

This weeks Monday Tally is pretty heavy on articles from MSN, which is probably a good indication that I didn’t have as much time to randomly surf the internet as I usually do. Instead, most of the things I read came from links off my homepage, a vicious cycle of being spoon-fed articles from [...]

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