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Happy HumpDay! Welcome to our Wednesday blog, where we share links to interesting things we’ve found over the past week. Stuff which we hope might interest you, maybe even inspire you, to finish out the rest of your week with  marketing news, tech / social media news, education news, maybe even the news that we found too hilarious to not share with you all!  At the very least it may help you to slide over the hump and into the safe arms of the weekend.

Just to change it around this week I have a few ideas  to keep you amused either at your desk or on the weekend.  We will start off with a really cool app game, move on to a PC game and finally one which makes you get out of your chair and off into the outdoors!

#1  Candy Crush Saga

Candy Crush Saga is my new addiction. It’s a good way to kill some time. Some of the puzzles so far are ridiculously hard but patience and time have prevailed so far. I’m only up to level 37 so far. I am playing with no boosters and not buying lives so when I am out of the 5, I’m out!  I would have to say the Android app is the best although the Facebook version is pretty good too!!!

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#2 Geography guessing game – GeoGuessr

This link takes you to a really good explanation of the game and then go to http://geoguessr.com to play.  Basically the game dumps you in a spot and you can move around to discover and then guess where you are.  Based on your accuracy, you are awarded points.  The developer is working on a multiplayer version now which will mean you can play against your friends

Image credit:  http://ow.ly/l2MUm

#3 Great weekend adventure with family and friends – Geocaching

This is absolutely awesome!!!  There are an amazing number of caches out there very close to you.  I found 5 within one kilometre of me and that was from the free version.  You can buy the app so you can get even more.  Using the GPS on your phone you are given clues to find the cache.  Once you do you sign the log and put it back where you found it. Here is the link explaining how to find your first cache - http://wiki.geocaching.com.au/wiki/Finding_your_first_cache.

Image credit:  http://geocaching.com.au

So – this is what took our interest this past week. We’d love to hear your thoughts! Was there some other games you know of to amuse us? Feel free to add a link in the comments!

Happy HumpDay! Welcome to our Wednesday blog, where we share links to interesting things we’ve found over the past week. Stuff which we hope might interest you, maybe even inspire you, to finish out the rest of your week with  marketing news, tech / social media news, education news, maybe even the news that we found too hilarious to not share with you all!  At the very least it may help you to slide over the hump and into the safe arms of the weekend.

#1  30 Undeniable Facts That Everyone Knows Are True

These are all so true!!!  Really awesome and I have to admit to a chortle or two.  Just the ticket to distract you in time to bridge the hump over into the weekend.

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#2  10 Beautiful Landscape Reflections

These photos are truly awesome!!!  You get to see quite a few great pictures from the internet but these really make you try and understand which perspective they were taken from.  My favourite is the skyscrapers.  Which one do you like best?

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#3 25 Priceless Texts Only Mom Could Write

We have just had Mothers Day and in honour of it I found this collection of auto correct epic fails from some American mothers texts.  So hilarious that even putting them in here for you has me laughing until my stomach hurts all over again and tears streaming down my face.  I hope you enjoy it as much as I did!!!

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So – this is what took our interest this past week. We’d love to hear your thoughts! Was there some other news that we missed? Feel free to add a link in the comments!

Happy HumpDay! Welcome to our Wednesday blog, where we share links to interesting things we’ve found over the past week. Stuff which we hope might interest you, maybe even inspire you, to finish out the rest of your week with  marketing news, tech / social media news, education news, maybe even the news that we found too hilarious to not share with you all!  At the very least it may help you to slide over the hump and into the safe arms of the weekend.

#1  9 Timeless Leadership Lessons from Baseball

While this is from America, I still enjoyed the concepts behind it.  Working as a team and continuing no matter what.  Although my favourite was “Hit ‘em where they ain’t’.  You can find many analogies in sport which inspires you to do better.

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#2   25 Sporting fails from Youtube

So what is it about these short clips that make us watch them right to the end and laugh?  Some of these have been around for a while and have gone past viral and onto legendary.  Which one is your favourite?  I would have to confess that the boy at the beach with his surf board had me laughing the most.

Image credit:  http://mashable.com/2012/08/26/youtube-sports-fails/

#3 10 Brands Whose Visual Facebook Content Tickles Our Funny Bone

We all know that visual content is the way to get your audiences attention.  This collection from Facebook was very funny and and a testiment to the very clever brains for some marketers out there.  What are your favorite Facebook business pages for a good chuckle? Share with us so we can celebrate Humpday together.

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So – this is what took our interest this past week. We’d love to hear your thoughts! Was there some other news that we missed? Feel free to add a link in the comments!

Happy HumpDay! Welcome to our Wednesday blog, where we share links to interesting things we’ve found over the past week. Stuff which we hope might interest you, maybe even inspire you, to finish out the rest of your week with  marketing news, tech / social media news, education news, maybe even the news that we found too hilarious to not share with you all!  At the very least it may help you to slide over the hump and into the safe arms of the weekend.

#1 Develop a culture of “can” in the classroom

I found this a little while back and was and still am really impressed by this content.  I guess because I see it all the time and tap into the concepts quite regularly.  I really believe that everyone should give things a go and not be too worried about failure.  I guess you need some confidence in yourself to shrug it off if you don’t get it right first time and have the courage to give it another crack!! The other concepts tap into this confidence and foster life-long learning.

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#2   5 Tips for interpreting marketing data like Dr Sheldon Cooper

I would have to say that the mention of Dr Sheldon Cooper got me into this one!!  I find that television show just sooo funny!  These tips were very well set out and thought out but with the reference to the big bang, made them very funny and so I read them to the end.

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#3 Get lost in these 19 fascinating maps

So have you got a minute?  Come check out these maps!  One day of New York transit – play it all the way through.  My favourite though is the oyster card tap ins. I guess that must be like our Go card.  Watch and you can see everyone come from far and wide into work and then back out again at night.  Or the London Tube!  For some reason just watching these was very soothing.  Which one was your favourite?

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So – this is what took our interest this past week. We’d love to hear your thoughts! Was there some other news that we missed? Feel free to add a link in the comments!

Happy HumpDay! Welcome to our Wednesday blog, where we share links to interesting things we’ve found over the past week. Stuff which we hope might interest you, maybe even inspire you, to finish out the rest of your week with  marketing news, tech / social media news, education news, maybe even the news that we found too hilarious to not share with you all!  At the very least it may help you to slide over the hump and into the safe arms of the weekend.

#1 The best tear free ways to cut onions

Some interesting ideas here.  I’m actually not too sensitive to onions so I don’t mind too much but I am very interested in all these methods.  Freezing the onion for 15 mins doesn’t seem too hard so that is probably my pick although usually if I want an onion then I want it cut straight away.

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#2 Teaching kids coding using Hopscotch

This is very interesting!  The free beta release of the app teaches kids aged 8-12 the beginnings of simple coding.  What a great way to get them into it.  Even better, what a great way for me to have a go at something which I have always felt was beyond my capabilities.  Even if I am no good, it is free, so nothing lost!

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#3 10 Awesome MacGyver ideas

These have just made my day.  So simple and yet so clever.  I especially love the use of bulldog clips to hold all your cords when you are not using them.  I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve had my head under the desk trying to find them and ALWAYS bump my head on the way out!!  Anyone else got any clever ideas? I’d love to hear them!

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So – this is what took our interest this past week. We’d love to hear your thoughts! Was there some other news that we missed? Feel free to add a link in the comments!

Happy HumpDay! Welcome to our Wednesday blog, where we share links to interesting things we’ve found over the past week. Stuff which we hope might interest you, maybe even inspire you, to finish out the rest of your week with  marketing news, tech / social media news, education news, maybe even the news that we found too hilarious to not share with you all!  At the very least it may help you to slide over the hump and into the safe arms of the weekend.

#1 Twitter Etiquette: 5 Rules to Keep in Mind

I am sure that you have all been told/ know exactly what you can and can’t do on Twitter.  However I found this post very simple and very informative and very well written.  Nice and short and yet reminds me of all the things I should and shouldn’t do.

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#2 Arnold Schwarzenegger Inspirational Speech, Not Just For Body Building

This is one seriously inspirational video.  It is from an unexpected source too, which I guess makes it even more interesting to listen to.  This man knows what he wants and has gone out of his way to achieve everything he wants.  Make sure you watch it because it is really awesome!!

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#3  The top ten horrible book covers

This list is an absolute crack up!!!  So so very funny and an totally fantastic way to celebrate Hump Day.  Be warned though, some of them are a little risque so check them out at your own risk.  Can’t decide whether they are real book covers or they have been photoshopped.  What do you think?

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So – this is what took our interest this past week. We’d love to hear your thoughts! Was there some other news that we missed? Feel free to add a link in the comments!

Happy HumpDay! Welcome to our Wednesday blog, where we share links to interesting things we’ve found over the past week. Stuff which we hope might interest you, maybe even inspire you, to finish out the rest of your week with  marketing news, tech / social media news, education news, maybe even the news that we found too hilarious to not share with you all!  At the very least it may help you to slide over the hump and into the safe arms of the weekend.

#1 The Easter Island heads are not just heads!

Turns out that those amazing stone heads on Easter Island actually are not just heads but they have bodies too!  They are going to be absolutely enormous when they are finally all dug out.  Not only that, but very historically significant, once all the writing all over them is deciphered.  How amazing is that?

Image credit: http://www.momdot.com/easter-island-bodies/?fb_action_ids=10151391168792709&fb_action_types=og.likes

#2  Twitter has a chuckle over Facebook’s new Chat Heads

This is a hilarious post!!!  I can’t stop laughing at the mental picture it conjures up.  The comments on Twitter are absolutely priceless – make sure you read them all.  On the serious side, Facebook is certainly rolling out some changes lately and I’m not so sure this one will work.

Image credit:  http://mashable.com/2013/04/04/chat-heads-twitter-reactions/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss&buffer_share=1bca1

#3  20 Ways To Live Your Life At A Whole New Level

Inspiring thoughts and very simply put.  I guess there is nothing new in this list but somehow the nothing new is very well put.

Tell me though – What is an Everpurse bag and how can I get one?

Image credit:http://addicted2success.com/life/20-ways-to-live-your-life-at-a-whole-new-level/

So – this is what took our interest this past week. We’d love to hear your thoughts! Was there some other news that we missed? Feel free to add a link in the comments!

Happy HumpDay! Welcome to our Wednesday blog, where we share links to interesting things we’ve found over the past week. Stuff which we hope might interest you, maybe even inspire you, to finish out the rest of your week with  marketing news, tech / social media news, education news, maybe even the news that we found too hilarious to not share with you all!  At the very least it may help you to slide over the hump and into the safe arms of the weekend.

#1 10 simple ideas for IFTTT recipes

Business is complicated. But these tips are very, very simple!  Speaking for myself, Ifttt seems like not only is it fabulous fun to make work, but it could save me heaps of time.  I’m going to have a crack at making it work using “How to: Get started with ifttt in 5 easy steps http://bit.ly/yBpMLP“.  Anyone have any tips to help me out?  In particular, a basic recipe to put all my tweets in a spreadsheet.  I think that would make me very happy!!

Image credit:  http://mashable.com/2013/03/28/ifttt-recipes-business/

#2  Killing Time: 11 Ways to Ruin Your Productivity

This method of telling me how to be more productive actually works better for me.  Strangely I got quite a lot out of this post and I hope you do too! Don’t forget to click through the slideshow, the pictures and captions are so worth it.   I’m off to clean up my desk!!

Image credit:  http://dashburst.com/presentation/killing-time-ways-to-ruin-productivity/

#3   The Best Marketing is Disguised as Entertainment: A Study of Viral Videos

Viral videos!!!  The heading got me in just for a look see.  Who doesn’t love dancing babies? Ever since the dancing baby in Ally McBeal, we have been hooked! Breastfeeding one was clever but my money this week goes to the Bodyform ad.  I am still chuckling!!!  Don’t know if it appeals to me as a female or as a clever response to a critic (if Richard is even real!!)  What do you think?

Image credit: http://www.whudat.com/news/images/evian-water-roller-babies-big.jpg

So – this is what took our interest this past week. We’d love to hear your thoughts! Was there some other news that we missed? Feel free to add a link in the comments!

Happy HumpDay! Welcome to our Wednesday blog, where we share links to interesting things we’ve found over the past week. Stuff which we hope might interest you, maybe even inspire you, to finish out the rest of your week with  marketing news, tech / social media news, education news, maybe even the news that we found too hilarious to not share with you all!  At the very least it may help you to slide over the hump and into the safe arms of the weekend.

#1 30 Ways To See The World! 

Sick of working?  Here are 30 great photos of animals hitching a ride with someone.  Just a little interlude to refresh your mind so you can get back to work.  Some of them are quite amazing and some look a bit posed but either way definitely worth a 10 minute look see!

Image credit: http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/1O7r0t/dashburst.com/pic/ways-to-see-the-world/

#2  German POWS Scrap Book discovered in the New Forest
This is something that I would love to see.  I haven’t ever heard of German prisoner memorabilia and would love to see the sketches.  The photos would be incredibly interesting as well.

Image credit:  http://www.forestandwaterside.info/2013/03/german-pows-scrap-book-discovered-in.html

#3   11 anti-aging drinks
This is very interesting with some great ideas although I have to admit that even though it will help my wrinkles, there is no way I’m drinking soy milk.  Also Number 2 and Number 9 are my favourite things , so I’m very pleased they are on the list and to be truthful are the reason this post caught my eye!

Image credit: http://www.eatingwell.com/blogs/health_blog/11_anti_aging_drinks?socsrc=Ewtw0201133

So – this is what took our interest this past week. We’d love to hear your thoughts! Was there some other news that we missed? Feel free to add a link in the comments!