Win Your Way In! Bad Beat on Cancer Charity Poker – February 21st

February 11, 2010

The Twitter Poker Tour is having it’s 3rd charity event in conjunction with Bad Beat on Cancer to raise fund for the Prevent Cancer Foundation! You can win your way into all three events plus win a free month subscription to the DeucesCracked poker training website! This entire prize package is valued at $100.
All you [...]

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All I Want for Christmas in 2009…

December 23, 2009

All I Want for Christmas in 2009 is for YOU to consider making a donation to a charitable foundation. Give what ever you can, $1, $5, $10, etc. There is no such thing as a donation “too small”.
Here is a list of my favorite charities to get you thinking:
Jimmy Fund
Since its founding in 1948, the Jimmy [...]

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I’m Officially a Wordpress Plugin Developer

December 14, 2009

I had a need for a wordpress plugin to manage the Twitter Poker Tour poker league Leader Board and Schedule. I sent along my project plan to John Hawkins (@vegasgeek) of 9Seeds to have him give me an estimate for getting it created and after a few conversations I realized that it was no small [...]

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Make a Difference in Someone’s Life this Christmas

November 27, 2009

I’ve long toyed with this idea. I am sure it’s nothing new and people probably do it all the time, but for anyone looking to buy me Christmas or birthday presents, I would like them instead to make a small donation to my favorite charities. I’m an impulse shopper and at times spend foolishly so [...]

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Twitter: Hashtag Etiquette

November 10, 2009

Nearly every Tuesday or Thursday, and sometimes randomly, someone tries to start a new Twitter meme by using the #tpt hashtag for a variety of things: Third Person [Tue/Thu], TwitPic [Tue/Thu], and others. The Twitter Poker Tour has been using the #tpt hashtag for over a year and it is counter productive to both the [...]

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Jimmy Fund Radio Telethon

August 29, 2009

The telethon is now over and the Jimmy Fund raises over 4 million dollars in the past two days. The proceeds from this will go to fund cancer research and to help make the lives of children and families dealing with cancer have a sense of hope.
My friend emailed this to all of us yesterday [...]

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Corporate Blogging

April 12, 2009

In my day job I work for an online home furnishings retailer OrientalFurniture.com. We are in the process of upgrading our ecommerce platform and redesigning the site to provide new functionality and an updated look and feel.
We are currently rebranding and carrying out our new marketing efforts and one key aspect is our new [...]

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Blogging from iPhone

March 22, 2009

I am blogging this from my newly downloaded Wordpress app for the iPhone. The HTML markup has to be done manually but it is a great little app.
I will get the most use out of it from the comment management functionality. I suppose it will also be good for drafting new posts and then finalizing [...]

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TweetSuite Errors and Troubleshooting

March 10, 2009

I ran into more issues getting this to work properly so I switched to another TweetBack plugin. I like the TweetSuite implementation better so I will try to get it working on another one of my blogs (this one perhaps!). Thanks for reading!
I was having a lot of trouble getting TweetSuite to work properly on [...]

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URL Encode a Twitter Status Message

February 19, 2009

You may have seen Twitter contests where to enter you need to “Click Here to Retweet” a certain message. Here is how it is done!
You can add a custom message to the Twitter URL as a link like so:
http://twitter.com/home?status=Custom%20Message%20Here
When you click it, you will be brought to your Twitter home page (if you are logged [...]

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