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What's your purpose?

February 15, 2010 By Mark Tosczak 2 Comments

I recently listened to an interview with author Daniel Pink (via Elizabeth Marshall’s free Author Teleseminars) about his new book Drive. (Confession: I haven’t read it, so I’m basing this blog post on the author interview, which ran about an hour. If you want to learn more about this, you should read the book, which [...]

Filed Under: Career, Creativity, Doing Good Tagged With: Daniel Pink, Drive, purpose

Helping girls get educated

February 12, 2010 By Mark Tosczak Leave a Comment

Warning: This is not a typical MarkTzk.com blog post. Let me tell you a personal story. I have two daughters. They were both born in Guatemala and lived there, in foster homes, until my wife and I adopted them. I still remember seeing children — whole families of children — standing on a sidewalk during [...]

Filed Under: Doing Good, Personal Tagged With: girls education, Guatemala, Room to Read

Free stuff for bloggers and other online types

February 8, 2010 By Mark Tosczak 2 Comments

1. Free business cards, from Vistaprint. 2. Free phone number with voice mail and other features, from Google Voice. Unfortunately this is still in beta, and you have to request an invite, which may not come soon. They don’t seem to be allowing uses to give away invites, at least yet, judging from the fact [...]

Filed Under: Blogging, Etcetera, Resources Tagged With: Copyblogger.com, David Risley, Filezilla, Firebug, Flickr, FreeConferenceCall.com, Google Apps, Google Voice, pixlr.com, Problogger.net, Simple VoiceBox, stock.xchng, vistaprint

How to say thank you for good things that happen online

September 30, 2009 By Mark Tosczak 4 Comments

When someone does something nice for you — and especially when they do without you asking first — it’s appropriate to say thank you. And offline, that’s pretty easy. You can say thank you in person or over the phone, write a thank you note, send a nice gift (a bottle of wine always works [...]

Filed Under: Career, Etcetera, Networking

What do you think of the new site design?

September 20, 2009 By Mark Tosczak 2 Comments

I’ve just completed phase 1 of the redesign of this blog. I’ve created a new header, messed around with the typography and colors a bit, added new social media icons and a Google custom search interface to make the blog searchable. I’ve got lots more work to do, including new posts to write, updating the [...]

Filed Under: Administrivia

Does more information mean less knowledge?

January 20, 2009 By Mark Tosczak 1 Comment

Clive Thompson has an interesting article in the current issue of Wired that looks at why even though we live in a world awash with information, more than ever, people seem to be less knowledgeable about all sorts of important issues. Is global warming caused by humans? Is Barack Obama a Christian? Is evolution a [...]

Filed Under: Etcetera

Vote for your favorite web site, web app or web tool

November 22, 2008 By Mark Tosczak Leave a Comment

If you’re using sites like Twitter, or if you’ve got widgets on your blog or plug-ins in your browser, chances are you have some favorites in the Open Web Awards. I’ve added a widget, on the right side of the page, that allows you to vote in that contest. By scrolling through the list you [...]

Filed Under: Administrivia, Etcetera, Online marketing Tagged With: open web awards

Why I've added ads to the blog

November 8, 2008 By Mark Tosczak 2 Comments

In the last week or so I’ve installed a new template on this blog, and I’ve also added advertising. This is the first time I’ve ever put ads on any blog I’ve run, so it’s a bit of an experiment. The only two ads, over there in the right column, that I’ve got at this [...]