April Book Club

It's time to bring you the latest crop of discoveries we made on Amazon.com across various genres. Let us know if you have read any of these books and what you thought. Have a great week.

Today's 10 Links a Day: April Book Club

1. The Secret Holocaust Diaries: The Untold Story of Nonna Bannister



2. A Year on Ladybug Farm



3. Always Looking Up: The Adventures of an Incurable Optimist



4. Your Money or Your Life: 9 Steps to Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Achieving Financial Independence: Revised and Updated for the 21st Century


5. The Shack


6. House of Cards: A Tale of Hubris and Wretched Excess on Wall Street


7. Naturally Thin: Unleash Your SkinnyGirl and Free Yourself from a Lifetime of Dieting


8. Long Lost


9. Waiting for Autumn


10. Columbine

We Heart Peeps

One staple that comes to mind when someone mentions Easter is Peeps. Those speed ball, sugar infused, cuties have inspired some hilarious websites and contests that we had to share with our readers. Tell us your favorite memories of Easter with Peeps in the comments section below. Hope you enjoy your holiday weekend and if you want to laugh, please click the links below.

Today's 10 Links a Day: Peeps for my peeps

1. Marshmallow Peeps Official Home Page
   
   
2. Peeps in Places
   
   
3. The Office Themed Peeps Contest
   
   
4. Power to the Peeps Annual Contest
   
   
5. Peeps Show 2
   
   
6. 100 Ways to Kill a Peep
   
   
7. Urban Dictionary: Peeps
    
8. Wikipedia Entry - for real
   
   
9. Peeps Science
   
   
10. How Peeps are Made and Born
    

Job Friday - April 10, 2009

#Job Friday is back... Here are additional resources for your job hunt. Drop us a line and let us know what sites you all use to scope out the open requisitions or other resources you would like to see on future installments of Job Friday. 10linksaday@gmail.com or leave a comment below.

Today's 10 Links a Day: Job Friday

1. LinkUp
   Twitter: @linkup
   
   
2. Cable 360
   
   
3. Social Media Jobs
   
   
4. CrunchBoard
   
   
5. Job Angels
   Twitter: @jobangels
   
   
6. Job Shouts
   
   
7. JobForge
   
   
8. oDesk
   
   
9. Elance
   
   
10. Startuply
    

If you missed previous installments of Job Friday, please go to the Workplace category to get caught up. Of course, you can also sign up for our emails or RSS feed and never miss another installment of 10 Links a Day again. (look left)

Gaming Mom

More than 200 million people are going to the internet each month to play casual games, and 74 percent of these are women.  In a study by GameHouse (guest blogging today) they found that:

Surveyed men and women ages 18 and over who play casual games:

• 64% do so as a way to unwind and relax
  
• 53% do so for stress relief
  
• 42% cite the activity as a way to keep his/her mind sharp
  

Surveyed women over age 40 who play casual games:

• 67% play casual games at least four times per week
  
• About half (47%) play every day
  
• About 60% or more would rather play a casual game than talk on the phone, knit or do other projects at home (such as building or painting)

Today's 10 Links a Day: 10 Games to De-Stress Mom!

1. Sally’s Spa
   
   
2. Little Shop – Road Trip
   
   
3. Super Collapse! 3
   
   
4. Pool
   
   
5. Aloha Solitaire
   
   
6. Jigsaw365
   
   
7. Hearts
   
   
8. Checkers
   
   
9. Wheel of Fortune
   
   
10. Scrabble

Here Comes the Bride...

Wedding season is right around the corner.  We love today's list of diverse wedding themed blogs. Each one listed brings an original and unique spin on the wedding genre. Our list has something for all brides, everything including the green bride, the economically smart bride, and the offbeat bride. No matter what, it's your day, so go for it!!! This post is a must see for any bride heading down the aisle. OK ladies, get to it and remember to smile!

Today's 10 Links a Day: You go and get your wedding on!

1. A Practical Wedding
   
   
2. Brooklyn Bride
   
   
3. Etsy Wedding
   
   
4. Offbeat Bride
   
   
5. Wedding Chicks
   
   
6. Weddingbee and Weddingbee PRO
   
   
7. Earth Friendly Weddings
   Twitter: @EarthlyAffair
   
   
8. a $10,000 wedding
   Twitter: @tenthousandonly
   
   
9. Budget Savvy Bride
   Twitter: @savvybride
   
   
10. With This Ring...
    Twitter: @withthisringblg
    
    
11. Green Wedding Shoes
    Twitter: @grnweddingshoes

Social Responsibility, Charity & You

We all need to step up and do our part to better the world we live in. Today, we bring to everyone's attention, some fantastic causes we can all rally behind. I hope you take a moment to check them out.

Today's 10 Links a Day: Charity = Goodness

1. Not On Our Watch Project
   Our mission is to focus global attention and resources towards putting an end to mass atrocities around the world. Drawing upon the powerful voices of artists, activists, and cultural leaders, Not On Our Watch generates lifesaving humanitarian assistance and protection for the vulnerable, marginalized, and displaced. We encourage governing bodies to take meaningful, immediate action to protect those in harm’s way. Where governments remain complacent, Not On Our Watch is committed to stopping mass atrocities and giving voice to their victims.
   
   
2. Bloggers Give
   Check out the site. IT's pretty amazing what the blogging community does for one another.
   
   
3. One Dollar Nation
   One Dollar Nation is a non-profit organization devoted to eliminating extreme poverty and advancing education. We're an online community that gives our members a chance to participate in our mission. To become a citizen of One Dollar Nation, we ask that you commit at minimum of one dollar a month to our cause. We ask our Corporate Citizens to give one dollar a month per employee. The money raised will be put towards projects that have been selected by our citizens.
   
   
4. Bloggers Unite
   Bloggers Unite is an attempt to harness the power of the blogosphere to make the world a better place. By asking bloggers to write about a particular subject on 1 day of the month, a single voice can be joined with thousands to help make a difference; from raising awareness for cancer, to an effort to better education systems or supporting 3rd world countries.
   
   
5. charity : water
   One billion people on the planet don’t have access to clean drinking water. That’s one in six of us. charity: water is a non-profit organization bringing clean and safe drinking water to people in developing nations. 100% of public donations directly fund water projects.
   
   
6. Stop Poverty Now
   Your donation will support Grameen Foundation's work to help local organizations reach some of the world's poorest women with small loans. With as little as $50, a woman can open a fruit stand, a bakery, or a tailoring shop.Grameen Foundation and our partners have already provided 6.8 million families with an opportunity to build better lives for themselves.Join a global movement by taking five minutes to make a difference for women and children in need. Help us Stop Poverty Now!
   
   
7. Thistle Farms
   Thistle Farms is a non-profit business operated by the women of Magdalene. By hand, the women create natural bath and body products that are as kind to the environment as they are to the body. All sales proceeds go back into the program. Through Thistle Farms, the women of Magdalene gain much needed job skills, and learn responsibility and cooperation. Into every product goes the belief that freedom starts with healing, and love can change lives. Our dream is that people will come to see Thistle Farms as a humble but powerful business synonymous with women’s freedom.
   
   
8. The dZi Foundation
   THE dZi FOUNDATION supports twenty-two health, education, and community development programs throughout the Himalayan region of India and Nepal. We serve communities not on the radar of other International Non-Governmental Organizations due to caste make-up and remote location. Our programs make basic education more accessible by building schools; sponsoring and training teachers; organizing effective parent-teacher groups; and supplying books, school uniforms, and even daily lunches; Provide safe havens for young girls so that they are not subject to child labor and trafficking, and have an opportunity to go to school; Promote basic health through preventive dental and vision clinics for children, water and sanitation improvements, and hygiene education;
   
   
9. Peace Angels Project
   Lin Evola now known as Lin Marie Evola Smidt continues to work throughout the world creating inspirational works of art and sculptures fashioned in part from the melting of weapons (from street arms to the casings of decommissioned nuclear missiles). The Peace Angels Project is grateful for her having worked with select corporate sponsors and partners to make a portion of her original works and reproductions available to you through the Peace Angels Project. 100% of all Proceeds from sales made through the Peace Angels Project go to support one of its community based projects.
   
   
10. Share our Strength
    Share Our Strength is a national organization that works hard to make sure no kid in America grows up hungry. We weave together a net of community groups, activists and food programs to catch children at risk of hunger and surround them with nutritious food where they live, learn and play. We work with the culinary industry to create engaging, pioneering programs like Share Our Strength’s Taste of the Nation, Share Our Strength’s Great American Bake Sale, Share Our Strength’s A Tasteful Pursuit, Share Our Strength’s Great American Dine Out, and Share Our Strength’s Operation Frontline.

I Wish I Thought of That

Let's get this week started off right. It's our next installment of "I Wish I Thought of That". We've been working on installments of this category for a while and it just keeps getting more interesting to us. Our list spanned longer than 10 links, so we cut it back and will bring you those additional items in our next installment. If you want to see everything we wish we thought of, check out the entire category dedicated to just that.

Today's 10 Links a Day: I Wish I Thought of That!

1. Alltop
   Alltop is an “online magazine rack” of popular topics. We update the stories every hour. Pick a topic by searching, news category, or name, and we’ll deliver it to you 24 x 7. All the topics, all the time.
   
   
2. Net Disaster
   Let off some steam. No worries, the disasters aren't permanent
   
   
3. Legacy Locker
   Legacy Locker is a safe, secure repository for your digital property that lets you grant access to online assets for friends and loved ones in the event of death or disability.
   
   
4. Global Lives Project
   A super cool project that captures the diversity of the planet and it's inhabitats. It's really interesting and worth checking out.
   
   
5. Janera
   The voice of global nomads
   
   
6. Digsby
   Super easy yo use tool that organizes and assists with your online life from Instant Messages, Email to Social Networking.
   
   
7. Eventbrite
   Eventbrite helps businesses and organizations of all sizes manage, promote and sell-out their events.
   
   
8. Old Jews Telling Jokes
   Shout out to Ryan for sharing this link with us. before anyone gets upset, we'd like to say that this sie is super funny and in good taste.
   
   
9. Le Cool
   These are not ordinary travel guidebooks. LE COOL works with local editors, writers, photographers, illustrators and designers to create unique books that truly reflect the experience of each city.
   
   
10. What The Font
    Seen a font in use and want to know what it is? Submit an image to WhatTheFont to find the closest matches in our database.

Job Friday - April 3, 2009

It's Friday, and we are back with another installment of Job Friday. Unemployment numbers came out yesterday and they are topping the charts, not in the way we want them to, definitely not.  Here's 10 more links to additional job search engines that will hopefully provide you some leads to a new position.

Drop us a line and let us know what you want to see on the next Job Friday post. Have you found another job? If so, how? We love to hear from our readers. drop us a line at 10LinksaDay@gmail.com or DM us on Twitter @10LinksaDay.

Today's 10 Links a Day: May there be a new job in your future

1. Beyond.com
   
   
2. Hound
   
   
3. JOBcentral
   
   
4. jobserve.us
   
   
5. oodle
   
   
6. onTargetjobs
   
   
7. Trovix
   
   
8. tweetmyJOBS.com
   
   
9. USAjobs
   
   
10. Execu-search.com

If you missed previous installments of Job Friday, please go to the Workplace category to get caught up. Of course, you can also sign up for our emails or RSS feed and never miss another installment of 10 Links a Day again. (look left)

Money Blogs - Saving Money is the New Black

It's hard to turn on the television without getting inundated about the economy. We all know we need to cut back, but we also know what our limits are. Today's list of blogs are creatively bringing their readers new ideas on how to save money, so we thought, why not share with you all.  April is National Financial Literacy Month. It's an effort to highlight the importance of financial literacy and teach us all how to establish and maintain healthy financial habits.

Today's 10 Links a Day: Show me the Money!

1. Lazy Man and Money
   Twitter: @LazyManAndMoney
   
   
2. Bargaineering - Engineering a Richer Life
   Twitter: @bargainr
   
   
3. Boston Gals Open Wallet
   
   
4. Budgets are Sexy
   Twitter: @BudgetsAreSexy
   
   
5. Frugal Dad
   Twitter: @FrugalDad
   
   
6. Mighty Bargain Hunter
   
   
7. Frugal for Life
   Twitter: @frugalforlife
   
   
8. Dollar Wise
   
   
9. Being Frugal
   Twitter: @lynnae
   
   
10. Get Rich Slowly 

Calling all Foodies

Today we bring you a shmorgasbord of sites from the Well Fed Network. Their depth of knowledge, all things food, has us very excited to hop in the kitchen to cook. Dig in!

Today's 10 Links a Day: A Menu of Food Blogs

1. A Nice Cuppa
   Tea Focused
   
   
2. Edible TV
   Food TV coverage
   
   
3. Fit Fare
   Fit Heart, Fit Mind, Fit Body
   
   
4. Get Your Grill On
   All the hot you can handle
   
   
5. Growers & Grocers
   From farm to table and all the stops along the way.
   
   
6. Just Baking
   
   
7. Kids Cuisine
   
   
8. Paper Palate
   Food and wine in magazines and newspapers, and cookbook reviews too - we’ve got you covered.
   
   
9. Sugar Savvy
   All things sweet
   
   
10. The Spirit World
    Quenching your thirst with sips, nips and tipples.
    
    
11. The Cook’s Kitchen
    What you need, what to buy and where to buy it.
    
    
12. Well Fed On the Town
    Going out? Check here first.
    
    
13. Wine Sediments
    A fascinating mix of wine writing covering an eclectic combination of news, comment and personal enjoyment from writers based all around the world