Being the nerd that I am, I figured out how to sync my Plancast with my GCal (google calendar) which will then of course be on my iPhone. Do you follow?

A few moments after posting this fun fact on twitter, the lovely Sydney Owen wanted to do the same. So, I decided to share my ohh so top secret ways of making plancast and gcal be friends.

1. Go to your profile page on plancast. Mine is http://plancast.com/elysa
2. Right click the little Red iCal icon at the top.
3. Click “Copy Link Locations“
4. Open up Google Calendar
5. At the bottom left under “Other calendars” click Add
6. From the drop-down you will want Add by URL
7. and voila GCal and Plancast are now married, or at least dating.

And if you wanna be the ultimate nerd like me, you can import your my.sxsw.com for your panel choices, and add Plancast for parties and put then all together into a fun calendar to share. Checkout Elysa @ SXSW

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Last night I received the following email from Colin, with some requests on how we can support their team! And of course I offered to spread their request for help to the world, because well they’re awesomesauce. So please read, and pass along, and retweet, and email your grandmother … the following message.

Friends and Family,

As you may or may not already know, Alyssa and I were selected to participate in Chapter 2 of the Ford Fiesta Movement.  The Ford Fiesta Movement is a promotional program for the new Ford Fiesta, a car targeted towards millennials and city dwellers (us).

Only 40 people (20 teams) were selected out of well over 1,000 applicants.  For the next 4 months, we’ll be driving a Ford Fiesta around town, and completing a series of challenges for points.  At the end of the 4 months, the team with the most points wins a pair of new Fiestas!  Given the fact that Alyssa and I are sharing a car – we’re very motivated!

There are a few ways that we could really use your help to win this competition.

First of all, one of the scoring criteria is the number of pageviews to our official team page.  So, if you could set your web browser’s default homepage to the following URL, or try to visit our page regularly, it would help immensely.

Our official team page is: http://www.fiestamovement2.com/dallas.

If you need help doing this, just let me know, I’ll be more than happy to show you!

The next way you can help is by “following” our team’s profile for updates.  All you have to do is go to our official team page (http://www.fiestamovement2.com/dallas) and click the “follow this team” button (see the picture below for guidance).  You’ll be asked for your e-mail address, but you will only receive updates from the Fiesta Movement program.

Next, each of our challenges will require us to plan and host a major event.  RSVPs for the event count towards our point total.  It would be helpful if you could RSVP each time we have an event (we’ll let you know!).

Finally – feel free to pass this along to anyone and everyone you’ve ever met!  We can’t pull this off without the help of our friends and family, so anything that you can do to help is very appreciated!

There may be other opportunities that come up from time to time, and we’ll let you know when we know!

Much love and thanks,

-Colin

In response to the devastating 2010 earthquake in Haiti, the Society of Typographic Aficionados issued a call to action to the typographic and design communities to participate in Font Aid IV. The result was Coming Together, an OpenType font that contains over 400 ampersand glyphs designed by participants from around the world.

All proceeds from the sale of the typeface go to Doctors Without Borders, in support of continuing relief efforts in Haiti. Get it here for just $20.

Here are some of my favorites from the collection:

“Better Together” for Match.com from FriendsWithYou on Vimeo.

This beautiful portrait of John Lennon is one of 28 Excellent Examples Of Typography Portraits

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The king of Twitter appeared on Live! With Regis and Kelly earlier this year, and explained the inner workings of the social networking platform to Kelly. Hilarity ensued.