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LinkedIn in Plain English

Common Craft explains LinkedIn in plain English. It isn’t about building connections, it’s about you being more productive. People networks are often hidden from view. Linkedin solves this problem by making professional connections visable.

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How to Beat the Recession with eCommerce

These exclusive educational videos will quickly give you the basics of using drop shippers in your eBiz. You’ll get a birds-eye view of how the entire product supply chain works. The videos are quick and easy to go through.

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Parking in Paradise

I’m a malcontent when it comes to the subject of parking.

I don’t like moving my car out of the way for movers, construction vehicles or street sweepers. I don’t like it when some moron takes up two spots. I don’t like it when someone parks too close to me. I don’t like it when someone parks in my spot. I don’t like looking for parking. I don’t like paying for parking. I don’t like parking tickets.

Yeah, I already have a bike. You want to buy it?

Parking Q&A (San Diego)

Where are the San Diego parking ticket hot spots?
Downtown, La Jolla, Mission Boulevard and Lindbergh Field.

On what day of the week are the most parking citations issued?
Tuesday, followed closely by Wednesday.

On what day, excluding Sunday, are the fewest parking citations issued?
Saturday.

What is the most ticketed hour of the day?
11 a.m. to noon.

What car color is most often ticketed?
White cars account for about 21 percent of parking violations.

What are the top three parking violations?
No current car registration displayed, expired meters and
disregarding posted rules, typically parking time limits.

Parking Facts

–San Diego collected about $25.5 million in parking fines and late fees last fiscal year.
–Last year, San Diego’s 5,177 parking meters swallowed more than $6.6 million in coins.
–San Diego parking fines range from $25 for failing to display current car registration to $440 for unauthorized parking in a disabled spot.
–UPS pays about $2,000 a month in parking fines for its San Diego drivers.

The idea that the citation process can’t be stopped once it gets started is an urban myth!

More: SDUT special report, the perils of parking in paradise.

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Social Media in Plain English

Common Craft explains Social Media in plain English using the analogy of friends and neighbors sharing ice cream. Who wants some of that pickle ice cream?

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Tailgate Park in San Diego

I had this post saved as a draft and meant to post it sooner, but I forgot about it until today.

I’ve gone to many, many Padres games both at Petco and Qualcomm. Having tailgated at Qualcomm, I had yet to tailgate at Petco Park.

Last month I went to a tailgate party at Tailgate Park before the Padres game. We had some hot dogs (cooked on a propane grill - no charcoal grills are permitted) and cans of beer (no glass bottles are allowed) and generally enjoyed the festivities prior to the game. All too soon it was time to go. We made it inside Petco just in time to hear the National Anthem.

It was unseasonably hot for a Sunday afternoon in April and our seats were directly in the sun. It helped a little that there were some kids in our section with spray bottles. Most of the fans didn’t mind getting squirted with the cool water.

The Padres loaded the bases during the fifth and sixth innings, but they didn’t score any runs. We endured the heat for awhile longer, but we left before the end of the game.

As of today, exactly one month to the day after we attended that game, the Padres have the worst record in the National League. If you are reading this post looking for directions to Tailgate Park, I hope that the Padres have made the necessary changes by now to win games and to make your experience inside Petco as much fun as the tailgate parties outside.

Tailgate Park is located between 12th/Park Blvd. & 14th Avenues and K Street & Imperial Avenue. Enter Tailgate Park on 13th Avenue & K Street and Imperial Avenue between 12th & 14th Avenues.

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Twittering Your Life Away

Lore Sjoberg’s humorous analogy of twitter as a can of Pringles: Open it up and end up with this vertical stack of artificially flavored, reconstituted, byte sized communication snacks which are compelling and at the same time staunchly unfulfilling.

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Twitter Overload

Ever feel like an exploding twitter bird? I thought this whole microblogging in 140 chars or less was supposed to reduce information overload. Express your point-of-view with a twitter overload t-shirt.

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