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We all know about social networking sites like facebook, myspace, and friendster. They are great places to network with other people, catch up with old friends, and increase your exposure. They’re also a great place to build your personal brand.

What’s your personal brand? It’s the value you bring to a job or business deal. The better your brand, the more of a premium you can get. All of the major social networking sites are great for building your personal brand, but Facebook is my personal favorite. It’s more professional than MySpace or Friendster.

By making a business quality Facebook profile, you can make a positive impact on your personal brand. You can put every piece of the profile together with an eye to building your personal brand. Once you have it put together, you can publicize your profile. You’ll be on your way to building a solid brand.

It seems like one of the things that is most important when doing a quality project is to make sure that proper safety equipment is used in all parts of the project. There is nothing worse and more detrimental to an important project than injuries. Injuries hinder projects, make them more expensive and hurt the very people who are to be helped by the project. The best way to avoid injuries is to plan in advance, take precautions and most importantly, use proper safety equipment.

Oh and that means don’t where flipflops while playing around with the breaker box.

When looking at different projects to implement, I keep going back to the idea of shipping container housing. Shipping containers are discarded at ports around the US and can be be bought cheaply. It doesn’t take much modification to make them usable housing.

It’s the fact that they can be cheaply modified into custom housing that makes them such a great solution and great project to better the lives of those are struggling with affordable housing. It’s interesting to see all of the different shipping containers homes that are being implemented lately.

You can see an example of one of these types of homes on the left. Just curious, how many of you would be interested in living in a shipping container?

My free time is non-existent and I have quite a few projects with a pressing need to be completed. I have decided to prioritize them with certain criteria to make sure I do the ones I need to do ASAP and delay the ones that don’t need to be completed as quickly. I am evaluating my projects against these three questions.

1) Is it overdue? If the project is late then it probably needs to get done ASAP.

2) Is it a paid project? Paid projects mean money so the sooner they are completed, the sooner I earn the money.

3) How beneficial is the project? The more beneficial the project is, the more priority I should put on it.

In previous posts, I mentioned that I’d like to start up a blog directly related to tech and consisting only of tech topics. I thought it might be a good way to get some of my tech writing out there and talk about more of the things I love. I drug my feet over the last few months trying to come up with a name for the blog while clearing time in my schedule to devote to it. To this end, I came up with TechGringo. I still need to add the content, but it’s never too early to get the framework into place. I hope you all enjoy it.