Weekly Blog Roundup, March 8th

Sunday, March 8, 2009 9:01 - By The David

Posted in category links, weekly blog roundup

I don’t know about you, but I’m thrilled that spring and warmer weather are on the way. Plus St. Patty’s Day and March Madness are both coming up soon. There’s a lot to look forward to.

Wall Street may be down, but you can still find ways to improve your bottom line. Here are some of my favorite links from this week:

The Frugal Duchess has 11 Awesome Tips for Cutting your Grocery Bills. We all spend too much on food. Follow her tips, and you can minimize the damage.

PF Firewall has a thought provoking article on The Correlation Between Aggressive Driving and Aggressive Spending. I got in a wreck once because I was angry, so I can understand how destructive an aggressive mindset can be, especially in finances.

The Online Investing AI Blog examines What are the Hidden Opportunities of a Down Economy? Even now, there are ways to get ahead…you just have to know where to look, and have the right mindset.

Monevator asks Can Quantitative Easing Prevent a Recession? I didn’t recognize the technical term, but it’s printing more money with the hope that it will jumpstart the economy. Monevator’s outlook? It’s like hitting a TV that is on the fritz. It may or may not fix it, and there’s no clear correlation between the action and result.

Scordo has a simple, but incredibly effective way to save money: pack your lunch. Too many people overlook this, but I save around $40-$50 a week by packing my own food.

And for the fun week, it’s the video behind my post about how Jon Stewart destroyed CNBC:

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Jesse

I sure do! Sorry it took me so long to check back here. I usually read via RSS and dont always realize to check for comments on my comments. To the point:

My fav twitter tools are Hootsuite and Tweetdeck.
Hootsuite is pretty cool in itself but the most useful thing I use it for is the "hootlet" which is a bookmarklet that you can click to tweet ANY page. It will pull the title and info about the page, then send it to your twitter account, or multiple accounts if you have them. It even autocreates a shortened trackable link for you, makes it so easy to twitter anything I run across that I want to share. I even use hootlet to tweet my blog posts because its trackable and can be monetized with their adsense plugin. They have added some great features to help promote links too like ratings on clicked links.

Tweetdeck is just great when you actually want to be interacting versus tweeting links to the mob. It helps organize everything.

http://hootsuite.com/
http://www.tweetdeck.com/beta/

The David

Thanks for the tips - I'll check out those tools!

Jesse

Thanks for mentioning my post! By the way, why arent you more active in Twitter! It is such an amazing tool to learn and grow, hope to see ya there a bit more. It is hard to keep up with for sure though. Again, thanks!

The David

Do you have any tips for using Twitter? I have to admit, that's one area where I'm wayyyyyyyyyyyy behind the times.

The BG

I know I haven't been Twittering or whatever Colbert calls it (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v... ). I have been having a problem with one of the tools that I use and haven't gotten around to fixing it. I will fix it tonight and be back at it.

You are right it is a good tool to learn and grow. By the way, you my friend are a machine when it comes to Twitter!

B7

Thanks for the mention!

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