As some of you have heard, I'm leaving Case Western Reserve University Marketing and Communications, and will be doing freelance Web design and consulting. As part of this transition I'm moving my Web Development blog to a new location at http://www.heidicool.com/blog/.
The old blog has been around for a few years,… Continue
Added by Heidi Cool on February 23, 2009 at 5:25pm —
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French Toast Ingredients:
5 slices sour dough bread
2 eggs
1/2 cup (maybe more) milk
1 tsp sherry
Syrup Ingredients
Juice of 1 Orange or Tangelo
Juice of 1/2 lime
equivalent amount sugar
For Frying:
2-3 tbs Canola Oil
1 pat butter
Picture set with step-by-step cooking instructions on Flickr. Continue
Added by Heidi Cool on February 7, 2009 at 5:08pm —
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As though I'm not spread thinly enough across the InterWebs, I recently joined Plinky - http://www.plinky.com/people/cool.
From their site: "Plinky makes it easy for you to create inspired content. Every day we provide a prompt (i.e. a question or… Continue
I'm not always clear on why people follow me on Twitter. Frankly my Tweets aren't that fascinating, so if you don't know me or my friends, aren't into the Web, mktg, or some other core interest of mine, I may not understand why the request came in.
But today I received an illogical request for which I could make a connection, albeit a tenuous one. I received an e-mail saying http://twitter.com/CollarTraining was now following me. "Collar training?… Continue
In celebration of the Year of Darwin the Open University (UK) has provided this fun exercise on their Darwin site.
"Ready to journey back in time? Use our fun tool to see yourself as you would have looked as an early human. When you've finished, why not share the results with a friend?
Upload your photo and see yourself travel back through the evolutionary timeline... it's not an exact science but it is a lot of fun!"… Continue
Now that we're a few weeks into the Pownce diaspora I was wondering where people have been settling in. I know some are on Vox and Soup, many are on Topixz beta, we're trying http://www.schmownce.com/ (I'm username cool there) and so forth. I've also had a lot more Pownce friends connect with me on Facebook and Twitter. But does anyone have a primary home?
I try to spend a lot of time here, esp. as I'm pulling content from elsewhere into some of our group… Continue
Having spent too much time reading Nick's updates on his holiday food extravaganza I was in the mood for something yummy. Of course I also wanted something easy. And this is.
Ingredients
3 cups water
3 tsp Lobster (or chicken) flavor Better than Bouillon
(If you have some good shrimp, lobster or chicken stock use that instead)
1 tsp (or more… Continue
I just joined BackType today, and it looks like a very useful tool for social media. I'm http://www.backtype.com/cool.
"BackType is a service that lets you find, follow and share comments from across the web. Whenever you fill out the "Website" or "URL" field in a comment form when you publish a comment on a blog or other website, BackType attributes it to you. We give comment authors a profile featuring all the co… Continue
Added by Heidi Cool on January 1, 2009 at 6:55pm —
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I am going to a party at a friends and spending the night so I don't have to be out on the roads with all of the crazy party people. I'm bring red wine and the semi-crustless quiche with bacon, pancetta and Emmental cheese.
Now I just have to decide whether to show up promptly at 7 to get a good parking spot or to arrive a wee bit later. I guess it will… Continue
I just finished my latest blog post, Social Media is People (but more enriching than Soylent Green), in which I reflected on some recent experiences in social media including the Cleveland Social Media Club and the demise of Pownce. For the latter I focused mainly on the creation of Pownce Refugees and included some usage stats, in case any of you are curious. R… Continue
http://www.millerpromos.net
Apparently these people think it's 1995 and anything that moves is cool. Don't watch if you are prone to seizures, the Flash intro induces queasiness (among other things) and hides a perfectly nice view of my fair city, Cleveland.
Then when you get inside, oh the fun begins. Marquee tags! Woo! Someone's nephew was seriously overpaid for this project. And it's brand new. I got the e-mail announcing the new site just today. Continue
I don't know why, perhaps I'm too easily amused, but Hot Amish Chick cracks me up.
"Can't sleep. Had the goat dream again. Screamed in my face, "WHY AREN'T I IN THE S-S-SAUSAGE? AREN'T I G-G-GOOD ENOUGH??" Worrisome."
"Dear Lord, please bless Father and Mother and thank you yet again for not t… Continue
My grandmother gave me this ring when my grandfather died. It belonged to his mother. The finger it fit was my left ring finger. So that's where I put it, and that's where it stayed.
But lately I've noticed people mistake it for a wedding ring and ask me about my husband...who doesn't exist. (Apparently I've reached an age where marriage is assumed.) So I moved it to my right hand. But it feels weird and the fit is a bit tight. I wonder how long it will take to adjust or if I'll give up, switch… Continue
"Consumers are flocking to blogs, social-networking sites and virtual worlds. And they are leaving a lot of marketers behind.
For marketers, Web 2.0 offers a remarkable new opportunity to engage consumers.
If only they knew how to do it.
That's where this article aims to help. We interviewed more than 30 executives and managers in both large and small organizations that are at the forefront of experime… Continue
