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Tabbloid Turns Feeds into a Personal Magazine 2008-11-01 22:08 Micro Persuasion I actually found this one through an Adwords link in myGmail and it’s a gem. Tabbloid is a “hatchling” project from Hewlett-Packard that turns your favorite feeds into a personal magazine (HP’s personal systems group is an Edelman client). All you need to do is point it at one or more feeds and set up a delivery time and you will get a nicely formatted PDF by email. You can also generate a PDF on the fly from one or more feeds. Below is what a sample magazine issue looks like. I simply pointed Tabbloid at my favorite feeds from Google Reader and generated this PDF. Inspirational Notes - Alexandra Scott & Lemonade 2008-11-01 21:31 Time to be Frank One of the items I will use this blog for is to share stories that inspire me. Sometimes this will be related to social media, other times service, but I wanted to start with a story more personal. These will be people that truly inspire the best out of everyone they meet. To start this off I planned to talk about people I have met recently but I kept coming back to a story very close to my heart. Have you heard of Alexandra Scott? You may better know her by Alex. She started Alex’s lemonade stand back in 2000. Here is the story how a 4 year old started something that will keep her close to people’s hearts for a long time to come. She and her family are the definition of inspirational. Her story begins when she was diagnosed with neuroblastoma, 2 days before her first birthday. When she was 4 years old she wanted to have a lemonade stand to get some money. Her parents were willing to give her money for whatever she wanted. This is similar to any parent in this situation. But it turns out she wanted something bigger. She wanted to find a way that should could help her doctors find a cure for kids with cancer. She did this by starting her lemonade stand. Her family, in an effort to make sure she received the best care, moved to the Philadelphia...