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It’s February 2, and you better get started on your Valentine’s Day shopping now. Remember, Valentine’s isn’t about how much you spend so much as it’s about how you express your eternal love to your special Valentine. Think romance, creativity and originality

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Shop for Your Valentine Online

On Saturday, January 23, 2010, I had the opportunity to attend my first WordCamp hosted by WordCampBoston.com .  WordCamp is a conference that focuses on everything WordPress, the platform that many bloggers (like me) use to host our blogs. WordCamps are informal, community-organized events that are put together by WordPress users.

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Top Blogging Tips for Developers and Bloggers from WordPress WordCamps

Elysia is “an enthusiastic fashion-addicted chick writing about trends, inspiration, often changing wants, and anything else random popping into her mind,” and she blogs all about it at Fashion Fille , which is set to celebrate its two-year anniversary this July. I had the pleasure of speaking with Elysia about her blog and her take on fashion. LS: Are you doing anything special to celebrate the two-year anniversary of Fashion Fille ?

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Ten Questions with Fashion Fille

ShoesForHaitNow.com has a simple goal: collect 100,000 pairs of shoes to send to the people of Haiti. BlogCatalog and BloggersUnite have offered their support to the Shoes For Haiti Now project. Not only will we be helping to promote the site, but we will also be collecting shoes at our BlogCatalog offices.

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BlogCatalog Accepting Donations For ShoesforHaitiNow.com

What if Sherlock Holmes could wield an umbrella or a walking stick with the same dexterity and deadliness that Bruce Lee demonstrated with nunchuks? Introducing the coolest blog ever! No, really I defy you to find a blog more unusual or interesting or creative than this one. Actually, that sounds like a challenge.  Alright then, let’s make it official! I’m issuing a challenge

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What if Sherlock Holmes could fight like Bruce Lee?

In the light of the recent allegations that well-known and established retailers H&M and Wal-Mart purposely destroyed and disposed of apparel rather than donating it to homeless shelters or any other nonprofit charity, it’s time that all Americans reflect upon their own personal choices on what to do with used items they no longer want. If you still haven’t heard about these atrocious actions, read RIMTailing’s blog post on Aim to Donate, Not Destroy, Merchandise and The Thrifty Chicks’ Why are two major retailers torturing their own trash?

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Donate Your Fashion

Whether you’re planning on hitting the town, throwing a party, or just enjoying a quiet evening with family and friends, we have put together a few blogs that will help you prepare for your 2009 New Year’s Eve festivities. Hey Ladies New Year’s Eve parties give all of us an excuse to get dressed up and get a little wild. Earlier in the week LollieShopping gave the ladies some tips on looking glamorous for the occasion in her post Looking Chic For New Year’s Eve

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Ring In The New Year, Bloggy Style

Site Of The Day: So, in case you’ve been living in a cave in Turkmenistan for the past day and haven’t heard the news, BlogCatalog has been named the Site of the Day by Top Site Tally . In recognition of this award, we have prepared a few words: BlogCatalog: We’d just like to say thank you first and foremost to our families for standing behind us no matter what, and… Kanye: BlogCatalog, I’m really happy for ya and I’m a let ya finish, but Facebook has one of the best websites of all time. BlogCatalog: Uh, thanks to Top Site Tally and all of our amazing members

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Meanwhile, Back At BlogCatalog…

Here’s a little shopping secret for you: when you sign up for sale email alerts, you know about hot fashion sales before everyone else does. Rather than sign up to receive the email newsletters of various retailers and wind up with many emails in your inbox, you can instead sign up for sale alerts through a third party provider and receive the bargain information of all your favorite retailers in one email. Best of all, the service is FREE.

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Fashion in Your Email Inbox

On November 17, 13,200 bloggers from across the globe participated in BloggersUnite: Fight For Preemies . Their posts about the rising rates of premature births raised the awareness of approximately 3 million readers. Through a mix of sobering facts, statistics and moving personal accounts, these bloggers poignantly illustrated the impact premature births have on both the individuals involved and on our society as a whole.

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Fight For Preemies: 13,000 Blog Posts Reach 3 Million Readers

As of December 1, 2009, new FTC guidelines went into effect requiring bloggers to disclose any time they are compensated for endorsing or reviewing products or services. Bloggers should now be disclosing any time they receive payment, free products or services, or perks in return for a post on their blogs. Also any relationship with a company or organization that can be viewed as creating a conflict of interest should be disclosed

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Bloggers Must Comply With FTC Disclosure Guidelines

This week, @TonyBerkman and @AngieAlaniz are out of the office and that means Rocky and Ariela, the office pugs, are gone too. While the office isn’t quite the same without our trusty pugs–it is quieter and smells a whole lot better–it does give us a chance to appreciate a new addition to the BlogCatalog office. Tom Wilkinfish is a little fish in a little bowl, and he is often overlooked by everyone other than his friend and caretaker, @ithinkdancan

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Even Fish Use Twitter

Sometimes it can be cumbersome to update your status on Twitter, Facebook and Linkedin by having to visit the individual sites. Your readers want to stay connected to you in various ways and some prefer different outlets.  You have to make sure that if you create a social media stream for your users to follow you, then you need to continue to use it so you don’t lose your reader’s interest. I am a part-time blogger since I am also a full-time stay at home mom and involved in various organizations.  Even though I am considered a “stay at home mom,” it seems like we are never at home!  So staying connected in different outlets took a lot effort, but not any longer with HootSuite

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Update Your Status on Facebook, Twitter, and Linkedin with One Application

Twenty-one years after writing her award-winning book The Cake Bible , Rose Levy Beranbaum–a.k.a the “Diva of Desserts”–shares more amazing cake recipes in her new book Rose’s Heavenly Cakes . Featuring detailed directions and instructional photographs that guide readers step-by-step through her recipes, the book makes it easy for any home baker to create Rose’s mouth watering cakes.