Blogging is a Fashionable Business!

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Fashion and beauty bloggers with popular blogs which have diverse and engaged audiences are the newest influencers making them sought after partners for fashion and beauty brands.  These bloggers post photos of themselves wearing the free clothes, accessories and cosmetics that brands send them, host parties for brands, walk runways and even star in television commercials like Lindsay Calla of Saucy Glossie.  Fashion blogging has become a serious business!

Check out the links below to learn more about the business of blogging:

• The Business of Fashion Blogging

• Fashion Blogging is Creating a New Era of Influencers

• Fashion Bloggers are the New Fashion Icons

• Fashion Bloggers, Posted and Represented

• The Business of Blogging | Elin Kling (See Kling's blog, here and a video Kling did with H&M, here)

• Who's The New Judge of America’s Next Top Model? BryanBoy! (See BryanBoy's blog, here)

• Fairchild Fashion Media Buys Blogger Network of BryanBoy, Elin Kling, Rumi Neely and Anna Dello Russo

• Fashion’s Top Bloggers Make It Work For The Gap

• Beauty Bloggers Design a Color Collection for MAC

• Fashion Bloggers on the Runway

• Marriage of fashion and social media

• How a Blogging Duo Is Changing Fashion Photography With Animated Cinemagraphs

• Straight Talk: A New Breed of Fashion Bloggers

• What I Wore's, Jessica Quirk wrote a book based on her blog

• In 2010, fashion blogger Gabi Fresh became MTV's first Twitter jockey

 

TIP: Use Microsoft's OneNote to plan your summer vacation

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Summer will be here before we know it!  If you are planning a vacation for you, your family and/or friends, try using Microsoft's OneNote to organize your travel plans. 

See also: Learn about the basics of using OneNote 2007

Earth Day

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This Sunday, April 22, is Earth Day so we're sharing some previous blog posts on e-cycling electronics.  Check them out below:

 

• How to "e-cycle" broken and unused electronics
• Protect our Earth - follow these tips for recycling electronics
• If you donate your unwanted electronics, please be sure to read: How to remove personal information from your hard drive

 

Here are some more helpful links:

• Earth Day international site: http://www.earthday.org/2012
• Where Can I Donate or Recycle My Old Computer and Other Electronic Products?
• Find information on e-cycling events in NYC - http://www.grownyc.org/recycling/events

It's International Shareware Day

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It's International Shareware Day.  Learn more about shareware, here

What is a QR code?

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Quick response or QR codes such as the one at left are appearing everywhere - in magazines, brochures and newpapers, in stores, on billboards and other advertisements, in BlackBerry Messenger, on your grocery packaging and even on rooftops.  

With a scanner app downloaded on our smartphones, we can scan these codes and access online content such as websites, Twitter pages, videos, contests and other multi-media content about products, stores and services.  Many of the scanner apps are also able to scan EZ codes,  Data Matrix codes and Universal Product Code or UPC codes.

Wikipedia describes QR codes as:

a type of matrix barcode (or two-dimensional code) first designed for the automotive industry. More recently, the system has become popular outside of the industry due to its fast readability and comparatively large storage capacity. The code consists of black modules arranged in a square pattern on a white background. The information encoded can be made up of any kind of data (e.g., binary, alphanumeric, or Kanji symbols).^[1]

Created by Toyota subsidiary Denso Wave in 1994 to track vehicles during the manufacturing process,^{[2][unreliable source?]} the QR code is one of the most popular types of two-dimensional barcodes. It was designed to allow its contents to be decoded at high speed.*

 Check out the links below to learn more about QR codes, how they are used and how you can create your own!

• Code scanner: iPhone/iPad, Android, BlackBerry
• Q&A: Make a Quick QR Code
• HOW TO: Create and Deploy Your Own QR Codes
• 7 Great Uses For QR Codes & How To Generate Your Own For Free
• 5 Ways QR Codes Could Shake Up the 2012 Election
• Noticed:  Want More Information? Just Scan Me
• Smartphones turn bar code squares into sales tools - highlights a variety of ways in which QR codes are being used
• Using a QR Code to Build Your List
• Rooftop QR Codes Aim to Infiltrate Google Maps
• Facebook Places, FourSquare and the future of QR codes
• HOW TO: Use QR Codes for Event Marketing
• 13 Creative Ways to Use QR Codes for Marketing
• HOW TO: Use QR Codes for Small Business Marketing
• Starbucks QR Codes Tell You More About Its Coffee
• eBay Opens Scannable Storefront in Manhattan QR codes take you to product pages

 

With the good news, there is always the bad:

• New Security Threat: Infected QR Codes
• 5 reasons you’re probably wasting time with QR codes

 

*Source:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QR_code