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I found a fun site to get stuff done cheap and with lots of humor, the site is called “Fiverr” and people will do pretty much anything they can do for $5.

I used the site to get a logo made for me and was fairly happy with my logo. The guy was doing it for $5 so there were no tweaking going on and I couldn’t complain too much.

The payment was easy too, upload the amount you think you’re going to spend and hit them up via PayPal.

I wouldn’t get too serious about this site as it seems more for fun like these posts below:

• I will jog a mile today and have my wife thank you
• I will die my hair purple
• I will let my buddy slap me with a fish for one minute and send you the video

You probably don’t know this but there are 340+ Social Media type Networks out there and you probably only know of two (twitter & facebook).

If you’re ahead of the game you got onto twitter & facebook and got your nickname or something funny but did you bother to check your real name?

What if there’s another person out there who has the same name as you? or your same last name? What if that person turned out to be an axe murderer? became someone famous? or what if they were a U.S. Army reservist who was convicted of prisoner abuse in connection with the 2003–2004 Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal?

My last name is “Graner” and my Uncle’s name is “Charles Graner” but that’s not him in the link above. I haven’t had too many questions about my last name but my Uncle has, how embarrassing for him to always have that lingering over him.

Now imagine if this guy got your twitter or facebook name and started to run a muck on your good name? UGH!

You probably think that this won’t happen to you and you’d be right, it is far-fetched but it does happen and you should get out in front of it if you can.

I’m currently looking at KnowEm.Com and Claim.IO, they both seem very slick as I can check my names on all their social networks and they will (for a fee) sign my name up for all of them.

I haven’t chosen yet so if you have one of these services let me know what you think ?

I still remember the day I watched this video and it made me laugh because I couldn’t believe it took over two minutes to explain the how but for the naysayers out there it had to be done, wow. It’s kinda like explaining how a spoon works. Funny thing though, today I was talking with a fellow co-worker who is extremely technical and savvy about the internet or so I thought but they poo-pooed twitter and talked about it like it was a fad … kinda like the telephone was (doh). Anyways, I hope this helps all yous out there who still don’t get it … enjoy the video! A quick and plain English intro the micro-blogging service Twitter. Follow us: twitter.com This video comes in an unbranded “presentation quality” version that can be licensed for use in the workplace. commoncraft.com