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Best Ways to Share Bookmarks

Cindy — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 00:10:00 +0000

The computer age has become the social media age as more an more people are using their computers — and smart phones and iPads — to engage with social media sites online. The need to share everything from favorite videos to passing thoughts seems to be hardwired into the human condition and it didn’t take long for the internet to take full advantage of that fact.

One thing that computer users like to share a lot of are online bookmarks. Bookmarks are simply the specific URL to a web page, video, song file, or blog post and people have been sharing them in one way or another ever since the internet began.

The web has come a long way from having to write down a URL and hand it to another person so they could visit it — or reading it aloud or typing it into an email. Today the best ways to share bookmark online involve social bookmark sites. Because they are designed especially for the storage and sharing of bookmarks, these sites are better at it than general social media sites like Twitter and MySpace.

On a social bookmark site, users can store their favorite sites for their own use or choose to share them with “friends” or even the public at large. Some sites provide blanket sharing settings while others let members decide on a per item basis whether it is private or shared. Members simply upload or copy their favorite URLs into the system and they are instantly shared, depending on personal settings. No muss, no fuss. And unlike Twitter or Facebook, social bookmark sites are great at organizing bookmarks by categories and tags which means they make it easier for users to find related sites or surf through categories as well as retrieve bookmarks that were previously posted.

All in all, anyone wanting to share bookmarks with friends, family, and the entire world should sign up with a social bookmark site and see for themselves how easy it is.

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Passing It Along

Cindy — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 16:49:22 +0000

Growing up in Canada is something that’s rather impossible to forget. The neighborhood where your parents live will always hold a special place in the heart, being the seat of so many first memories and first experiences of the world. After the initial memories of sensations, of the first time you accidentally touch something hot, or the feeling of snow on bare skin, there’s some dim memories of how the parents related to the people in the community. There were favorite neighborhood dogs, grocery stores, and postal carriers, and all of these things go into some great memory bank somewhere. It takes awhile, sometimes a decade or more, to even realize that these memories of a community are very special.

It’s probably because there is a sense of community here. It may not be the same as it was during the last generation, or the one before that, but it’s certainly still here. It’s one of the things that makes Canada such an attractive place to live in the world. It’s something that they seem to understand, too, at TransGlobe Property Management. They’re very convenient, and very friendly, and have thousands of properties to choose from, but there’s a very personal touch here that lets you know there is a sense of what the communities and the neighborhoods here are really like.

It’s difficult to find this kind of commitment and compassion for place these days. Based on the memories of childhood, there seems to be no better place for this kind of commitment. We have something special here in Canada. TransGlobe Property Management has a particularly splendid staff, who are well-trained and efficient, but they also live and work here, too, and share the same enthusiasm for place. This is one thing that can make it easier to make the transition from one place of business or living to another, because enthusiasm can remind us of where we came from, and what we can pass along.

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TransGlobe Continues the Work

Cindy — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 15:40:48 +0000

With an excellent record for customer service, we’ve been serving the Canadian communities for over 15 years, and there’s a bright future ahead, to accentuate this fantastic present. We have thousands of rental properties, for business and residential use, and we have buildings all over Canada. Certainly there will be something for you, and chances are, there will be many choices. Once you start browsing through our extremely user-friendly database, you’ll see all the possibilities, and may even start decorating and arranging in your mind. We love our buildings almost as much as our clients, and we work to make sure you know you’re in good hands with TransGlobe Property Management.

Not only do we take care of you at the very beginning, when you’re looking, we’re with you all the way through, answering maintenance calls promptly and efficiently. It’s important to us that you’re happy, and that you enjoy your new neighborhood. Neighborhoods are very important to us, too, you’ll soon see. Our fleet of fuel efficient vehicles can often be seen around town, attending public events, and charitable fundraisers. We at TransGlobe Property Management like to give back to the communities that have been our source of livelihood, as well as our homes, for all these years.

We recognize that good communities are created and not inherited. The generations that came before us worked so that we would have the right infrastructures in place to create the communities we want, but it’s up to us to continue the work with love, and with vision. Knowing our clients and knowing our neighbors is an important way to begin creating the kinds of communities our ancestors were working toward. We respect their efforts, and integrate them in to the way we work with each other, to continue to make Canada’s reputation as having one of the highest quality of life ratings on the planet.

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