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9 Digital Tools to Reduce Your Junk Mail. We all lead busy lives, and the last thing we need is to come from a long day to find our mailboxes overflowing with junk mail.

9 Digital Tools to Reduce Your Junk Mail

How many times have you received an unwanted credit card offer and thrown it out without even opening the envelope? It's wasteful and unnecessary. Fortunately, there are many digital options both for marketers and recipients to reduce that unwanted pile of junk mail — marketers need not waste money sending materials to uninterested consumers, and consumers can receive only things that interest them.

Despite the presence of this technology, millions of tons of junk mail are sent and tossed every year — not the best way to conserve our finite paper resources. According to the Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. uses 71 million tons of paper each year. There are a number of reasons why businesses and people in general are still using so much paper. Still receiving hard copies of your bills? How do you keep your junk mail under control? Social Platform For Doodles Pushes Bounds of Web Creativity.

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Social Platform For Doodles Pushes Bounds of Web Creativity

If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. Name: Doodle.ly Quick Pitch: Doodle.ly is a creative social platform for doodlers. Hand-drawn masterpieces created on Doodle.ly can be shared to social networks. Genius Idea: Doodle.ly artists can draw straight on the website or sketch using the Doodle.ly iPad app. For Doodle.ly co-creators Evan Vogel and Darren Paul, the social platform they dreamed up and launched in July 2011 — is the place for innovation, creativity and inspiration on the web.

The latest user-submitted drawings include doodles of bright flowers, dinosaurs and detailed sketches paying homage to Beastie Boys Rapper MCA, who died last Friday. Doodle.ly is a web application and iPad app that lets users draw whatever they want and effortlessly share creations to the web. 12 Free Tumblr Themes to Class Up Your Blog. By the end of the year, there may be more people Googling the word "Tumblr" than "blog.

12 Free Tumblr Themes to Class Up Your Blog

" The very language of content creation and curation has shifted thanks to Tumblr's ridiculous growth. If you're already Tumbling, you know what's going on out there. If not, you'd better grab a hipster username before it's too late. SEE ALSO: 10 Premium Tumblr Themes Worth Paying For Whether you're just getting started on the platform or looking to give your site a fresh coat of paint, these 12 free themes show off what Tumblr's design community is capable of. GrabInbox - Manage multiple social media accounts like Twitter, Facebook and Linkedin. Pinterest dan Brand. Setiap kali ada aplikasi social media baru yang lagi menanjak popularitasnya, otak ini selalu memikirkan, apa ya yang bisa diadaptasi oleh brand di sini?

Pinterest dan Brand

Saat Instagram dulu mulai populer, yang dipikirkan adalah dengan cara apa nanti brand bisa masuk di dalamnya. Skype Wants You to Use 'Humoticons' As part of Skype's latest marketing campaign, the video call service has launched a Facebook app geared at making our interactions more human: Skype Humoticons.

Skype Wants You to Use 'Humoticons'

The app basically allows us to recreate classic emoticon images — such as the smiley face, sad face or tongue-out face — with our own real-life expressions. You can post existing photos to a "Humoticon gallery," or snap new pictures within the app. The results can be shared on a Facebook wall, downloaded, or turned into a URL to share in an Instant Message. The "It's Time to Skype" campaign, launched earlier this month, is based on the premise that social networks such as Twitter and Facebook are "degrading humanity. " Some of the slogans Skype is using for the campaign: "140 characters doesn't equal staying in touch" and "Upgrade from a wall post to a first class conversation. " Photo courtesy of Adweek The reasoning behind Skype Humoticons? There is a distinct irony in the campaign. 10 Free WordPress Themes for Photo Lovers. When it comes to pictures, we just can’t snap enough of them.

10 Free WordPress Themes for Photo Lovers

And we love adding filters, playing with tilt-shifts, and uploading our creations to social media for the world to enjoy. There's Flickr, with 28 photo uploads every second. Instagram (pre-Facebook) comes in at a slightly more impressive 60 photos uploaded per second. QR-Code Generator. PDF to Flash page flip - flipping book software. Infographics & Visualizations. Create, Share, Explore. Top 5 Tools to Better Time Your Tweets. Leo Widrich is the co-founder of Buffer, a smarter way to publish tweets and Facebook posts.

Top 5 Tools to Better Time Your Tweets

He writes more about Twitter tips and tools on the Buffer blog. Follow him on Twitter @LeoWid. When exactly are your best times to tweet? With over 200 million tweets posted each day, this is a very important question to tackle. When you better time your tweets, you’re better able to reach your followers. Kuhcoon.com. HOW TO: Get Your Own Google+ Vanity URL.

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