You see that cute little birdie in the image to the left?

Look closely at it and memorize it, because if you use Twitter, you’re going to be seeing a lot more of it.

In case you haven’t heard, yesterday Twitter announced that they are adding 4 new Twitter backgrounds. That’s great news for people who don’t use Custom Twitter backgrounds.

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My husband and I spent the last 2 days enjoying the Labor Day weekend with 9 of our 16 grandchildren. As usually happens this time of year, the conversation turned to the type of costumes they’re going to wear for Halloween.

That got me thinking that the readers of this blog may be in the planning stages of what their blogs and websites are going to “wear” for Halloween.

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If you’re a blogger, webmaster or information marketer, sooner or later the time is going to come when you need to resize a graphic or image.

Now if you’re like I was when first faced with this task several years ago, the first thing you do is panic. Actually, I think my first reaction was to paraphrase a line from my favorite movie, Gone With the Wind…

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The other evening my friend Andrea Chin and I spent a good part of our 2 hour phone call discussing how “iffy” and time-consuming it is finding royalty-free images to use in a blog post.

Almost as if the Twitter gods were smiling down on me, within 5 minutes of finishing our telephone call Michel Fortin sent a tweet that directed me to Seth Simonds’ article, “How I Discover & Use Images On My Blog”.

In his article Seth reveals that he uses Flickr to find his images. However; as he himself puts it…

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