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What is Your Google Reader Replacement Recommendation?

A screenshot of my Trends tab of Google Reader

Count me among the many avid Google Reader users who were bummed by yesterday’s news that Google is shutting down the RSS reader service. If you’re in the same boat, what RSS readers would you recommend I replace Reader with? On iOS, I’ve been using Feeddler and enjoy it, so this would be mostly for my browser or a MacBook Air app. [Read more...]

Weekend Reading: Guest Posts 8/6 – 8/10

By Marissa Brassfield 08/11/12

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This week’s guest posts focus on work productivity tips, employee benefits and networking pointers. [Read more...]

Filed Under: Productivity, Work Productivity Tagged With: balanced diet, diet, employee perks, google, linkedin networking, millennial workers, millennials, networking, productivity, work productivity

Weekend Reading: Management Guest Posts 4/27 – 5/2

By Marissa Brassfield 05/6/12

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Each week, I contribute dozens of articles on business-related topics to a variety of Web properties. Here are some of my favorite posts from this week.

IFTTT Stitches Internet Services Seamlessly

By Marissa Brassfield 01/4/12

IFTTT, or If This Then That, is a productivity service that aims to streamline common Internet tasks by stringing together services like Dropbox, Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. [Read more...]

Filed Under: Productivity Apps Tagged With: Dropbox, facebook, google, If This Then That, IFTTT, Instagram, productivity, productivity apps, twitter, Wordpress, work productivity

How I Use Social Media for Content Production

By Marissa Brassfield 12/17/11

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I’ve previously shared my Ridiculously Efficient social media workflow, but until now, I haven’t discussed how I use social media for content production. [Read more...]

Filed Under: Productivity, Ridiculously Efficient, Work Productivity Tagged With: facebook, google, instapaper, news discovery, ridiculously efficient, social media, social media best practices, social media strategy, timely, twitter

Comunitee is a Social Network for News Discovery

By Marissa Brassfield 12/17/11

A screencap of the Comunitee dashboard for logged-in users.

Comunitee is a social network that blends features from StumbleUpon, Google+, Flipboard, Facebook, Twitter and Digg to simplify news discovery. [Read more...]