After my first Twitter post, I got a follow-up email from our geeky reader, Maile. (By the way, emails are nice, but blog comments feel like a warm hug on a cold day.) Anyway, in her email Maile mentioned that she follows the LA Fire Department and several police departments on Twitter.

Wha?! I had no idea that fire or police departments even used Twitter!

As we head into the holiday shopping season, we'll all acquire horror stories about crappy retailers or web sites. In an effort to spread some pre-holiday cheer, I give you three reasons I love Amazon.com...

So, many of us already use our banks' online interface(s) to transfer money, pay bills and check balances. But, if you want to centralize all your financial data your only option used to be purchasing Quicken (or maybe Microsoft Money or something) and maintaining it on your own. If, like me, you use a Mac, it was often a pain (or in some cases impossible) to get information automatically imported from your bank. Which meant time-consuming tasks like exporting and importing files or — horror of horrors — manually entering and categorizing transactions. Not to mention that some of the Quicken reports and interface screens, while powerful, were overwhelming and rather complicated. And sometimes overkill for the everyday person to just keep track of how much money is coming and going, and where it's going.

Geeky reader Ann from Chicago wondered, "How can I post one of your articles on Facebook? I really liked Cindy's thoughts on women in the creative department and want to share it with my homies..."

Ann's question alerted us to the fact that we didn't have an easy way to share our blog posts directly from our site. LAME! So, we recently rectified that situation with the addition of ShareThis at the bottom of each of our blog posts. Now, if you want to share our awesome wisdom and knowledge (or our guest geeks' awesome wisdom and knowledge) you can use ShareThis to post a link to your account on just about any social networking site. Look for it right below each post, above the comments.

Sorry this post is so delayed, but I gave birth to a bouncing baby boy on Tuesday, October 7 and he is keeping me very busy! Anyway, I promised in an earlier post from the MIMA Summit that I'd talk about Twitter. Coincidentally, that same week we also got an email from geeky reader Maile in Los Angeles wondering: "Why should I use Twitter?"

Let's start with Maile's question: what I think she's really asking is "Is Twitter relevant to me or is it some piece of crap I should ignore?" I can't really answer that, but I can tell you everything I know about it and you can decide if it's relevant to you, or if you want to file it under "stuff those crazy kids are doing on the interweb."