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Cool Stuff I Figured Out Using Google: Set Up Google Analytics for your Intranet

by Pia Simeoni on February 26, 2010

Here’s another case of “I can’t believe I didn’t think of this sooner.” In January we launched our newly redesigned intranet site for our department, the web strategy team. We have a content management system with strict intranet standards as defined by the intranet standards group. Since we’re the web team, we felt we [...]

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You’re Coming, Write?

by Pia SimeoniFebruary 25, 2010 eat it

Come one, come all! Children of all ages are encouraged to attend Green City Market and Slow Food Chicago’s “Kids Write to Eat” event this Saturday, February 27. It’s an opportunity for America’s youth to participate in a letter-writing to Congress, speaking out about their wishes for the Child Nutrition Act and its governance [...]

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Cool Stuff I Figured Out Using Google: HTML Gmail Signatures

by Pia SimeoniFebruary 24, 2010 geek it

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Gmail isn’t just web-based mail. It’s a fully-loaded app with filters, labels, POP and IMAP support, and more. You can manage all of your email addresses in one Gmail account and attach labels to them so you know what account your mail is coming from. Whenever you send an email, you can [...]

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Cool Stuff I Figured Out Using Google: Publish to your Blog with Google Docs

by Pia SimeoniFebruary 21, 2010 geek it

Whenever I think about some kind of business productivity tool I need, such as a free mind-mapping tool, the first thing that comes to my mind is Google. Of course I use Google to search for this information, but because I use Google Docs, Calendar, Voice, Reader, Maps, and so on, I look to [...]

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In Retrospect: My Top Ten Apps for the Blackberry Storm

by Pia SimeoniFebruary 20, 2010 geek it

My fiancé has finally announced that our Droids are in. He’ll be picking them up when he visits one of his Cell-Vision Verizon store locations on Tuesday. I’ve had such a close relationship with my Blackberry Storm 9530 for the last year and a half. Pink silicone cover. Folded business card under the battery [...]

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And now, for my next number…

by Pia SimeoniFebruary 19, 2010 eat it

This is blog post number three in my 28 Day Blogging Challenge. Yesterday I was at a loss for what to write, which resulted in my speed skating metaphor. This morning I woke up with several ideas, and I’m now tracking them all in an Evernote notebook called “blog ideas.”
One of my ideas has [...]

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Kids and Media: How much is too much?

by Pia SimeoniJanuary 30, 2010 geek it

My 9-year-old daughter lives in a geeky household: at any given time, we have two laptops and two desktop computers with dual 17″ monitors. Two of our computers dual-boot into Windows and Linux. Each of us has a phone, two of them smartphones. A Gameboy, DS, DSi and Wii. On weekend mornings, instead of [...]

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