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Nancy Messieh

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About Nancy Messieh

Nancy is a writer and editor living in Washington DC. She was previously the Middle East editor at The Next Web and currently works at a DC-based think tank on communications and social media outreach.

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Search Hashtags Across Social Networks With Tagboard

Thanks to one Twitter user, the concept of the 'hashtag' has become synonymous with an easy way to find meaningful search results on Twitter. It's since gone far beyond that - making it an easy way for Instagram users to tag their photography, has found a home on Google+ and there is even talk that hashtags could soon be coming to Facebook as well. But what if you wanted to search one hashtag on several services?

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4 Chrome Extensions For Gmail To Boost Your Productivity

There's no doubt, as far as email options go, Gmail is one of the services that really does a lot to boost your productivity. Whether it's through the creative use of labels or Gmail filters, canned responses, and more, Gmail lends itself to a more productive email experience. While Google has certainly put a lot of thought into the product, there are a few Chrome extensions out there that can make the Google experience even better.

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Filter Out The Noise And Get The Content That Matters To You With Undrip [iOS]

While social networks are a great way to consume content, it can get pretty overwhelming. It gets incredibly noisy, and the content that matters to you gets drowned out. Rather than look for the important links and articles that your friends are sharing that are of interest to you in the midst of personal status updates, checkins and games, you can use an app like Undrip to do all the heavy lifting for you.

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Disappointed To See Google Reader Go? Use Twitter Lists Instead

With Google Reader on its way out, people have been scrambling to find alternatives to get their RSS fix. We've even come up with a list of solid alternatives to Google Reader to make sure you aren't left wondering where to go next. But what if you were to ditch the concept of RSS altogether? You could do that by opting instead to get your news and blog post fix using Twitter lists.

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How To Create a Successful Curated Blog

Content curation is, in a nutshell, picking and choosing content from around the Web, and sharing it with your followers. Running a curated blog is not just about finding interesting content to share. It requires selectivity, context, and relevance. It's very easy to flood your readers with a lot of content. Instead, you should pick and choose the very best content you can find, and always let people know why you think it's worth sharing.

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Quiet Google+ Feed? Here Are 10 Techies You Should Follow On Google+

If you're still trying to navigate the labyrinth that is Google+ and are wondering who to follow, we've got a list of 10 must-follow photographers, techies, and more that will liven up the quietest Google+ feed out there. With Google employees, tech bloggers, photographers, vloggers, designers, entrepreneurs, and more, there's an incredibly lively discussion going on on Google+, it's just a matter of knowing where to look.

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Put a Bit Of Personality Into Your Smartphone Cover With These 4 Ideas

This weekend I had the unfortunate luck to drop my iPhone flat on a hard pavement. It landed with a thud that told me what to expect when I turned it over. The back of the phone was covered in small cracks, making their way across the entire phone. I was mortified. I never thought I would be one of those people. I instantly decided that I need to do what I should have done all along - buy an iPhone case.

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Create An Endless Playlist Of Documentary Films To Watch With These 8 Sites

We all know how easy it is to waste an inordinate amount of the time on the Internet, not doing much of anything productive. On the flip side, there's a lot of interesting, useful and educational content that you can take advantage of. Rather than waste your time on social networks or online games, you could put some of your online time to good use by watching documentaries. There are a lot of free and entirely legal sites.

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Upload Photos To Facebook Automatically And In The Blink Of An Eye With These Tools

Whether it's automatically uploading photos on the go using your phone, or automating uploads from your computer, there are several handy ways you can take the hard work out of getting your photos into your Facebook profile with a few easy steps. With most of these options, all you need to do is set up the option to automatically upload your photos to a Facebook album, and then you can forget all about it, and leave your photos to sync automatically.

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Twitter Search: 4 Ways To Find Results That Matter To You

Twitter search has its limits. For one, you can only search back so far, with Twitter making public search results available only for a limited period of time. That said, there are a few tips and tricks you can use to make sure that you find the most important search results, and you can even bend the Twitter rules, searching a little further back than the social network's own search engine allows.

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4 Methods To Curate Your Way To An Internet Following

With the amount of information online, it often becomes hard to cut through all the noise and get straight to the stuff that you're interested in. If you want to generate relevant content online and find a way to cut through that noise - and make sure people find what you're sharing - there's no better way to do that than with content curation or aggregation. There are several ways you can go about this.

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Supercharge Your Pocket Experience With These IFTTT Recipes

Between the two of them, Pocket and IFTTT are excellent services that do their part in making their users more productive. Pocket gives users a one-stop shop to access all of the content - articles, videos and more - that they want to save for later viewing. Combine that with IFTTT, the ultimate automating service, and you have the ultimate way to automatically save content to your Pocket account, and more.

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8 Tumblr Blogs Every Writer & Book Lover Should Follow

Tumblr is known as being a great blogging platform for visual content, and is a photographer's smorgasbord of just about everything you could possibly imagine. That said, there's also an incredible wealth of content that can provide inspiration to writers, poets and book lovers. We've already introduced to you to 10 creative blogging ideas to try out on Tumblr if you're suffering from writer's block, and you can now combine them with these 8 blogs.

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Keep Up With Your Favourite Social Networks Using RSS Notifications

Keeping track of the many social networks you're a member of can certainly be a challenging task. Between Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Instagram, Flickr, and more, we all probably have at least two or three accounts that we check on a daily basis. If you're an avid user of RSS readers, one solution to keep up with notifications, is to load them all into Google Reader.

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Armchair Shopping: 5 Must-Have Apps for the Serious iPhone Shopper

There's no denying how much easier smartphones make our lives - and one of the things that has become all the more easy thanks to the wide variety of apps available - it's online shopping. Using nothing more than your phone, you can buy just about anything from a car to a notebook, from a computer to a home. And you can also use that same phone to make sure that you're getting the best deal.

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8 TED Talks Videos Under 5 Minutes Long You Want to Watch

Have five minutes to kill? What better way to spend that time than to watch an fascinating or informative TED Talks video. There's a lot of great content available to watch on TED but sometimes you have just a few minutes - and rather than waste that time playing a game or checking your email for the 20th time in two minutes, watch a TED video instead. We've put together a list of eight videos.

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4 Unique and Innovative Uses for Pinterest

Social networking site Pinterest can be pretty addictive, with good reason, but it can also be an incredibly useful site. While we know it's easy to waste many an hour on Pinterest, being less than productive, there are a also lot of great ways you can use Pinterest to get more organized, or to get noticed.

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5 Tried & True Tips For Winning At Instagram & Getting Tons Of Likes

When it comes to getting noticed on Instagram, there are basic rules to follow as would be the case with any social network - post regularly, interact with users, include an interesting description with your photos that will get other users attention. Beyond that, there are a few Instagram-specific ways to ensure that you can gain more followers, gain more likes, and pretty much win at Instagram.

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How To Attach Files From The Cloud To Gmail In Chrome

Have you ever found yourself in a position where you're trying to get files out of the cloud and send them to friends or colleagues via email? You probably end up having to download the file to your computer first and then uploading it once again in an email. With Chrome extension Cloudy, you can finally get rid of that unnecessary first step of downloading it to your desktop.

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Persona Brings A Magazine-Like Experience To Your Twitter & Facebook Feeds [Chrome]

If you don't want to download a desktop app to use as your Twitter client, there are a few interesting browser-based apps and extensions that can do a great job of offering you all the key features needed to interact with your friends and followers. Persona, a free Chrome app, is not only a great Twitter client, but also offers users a slick interface to keep up with their Facebook accounts as well as RSS feeds.

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