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People often ask me to recommend something or other, at one point or another. So here goes…

WORK
Blog software: WordPress
Career & Life Coach: Judah Kurtz
CMS: Tasty CMS
CRM: Highrise
Embedding non-standard, non-system-specific fonts online: Typekit
FTP: FireFTP
Inspiration: Brock Davis, Creative Mornings, DesignChat and Swissmiss
Intelligence: Design Observer
Marketing & Promotion: The Designer’s Guide to Marketing and Pricing by Ilise Benun and Peleg Top, and Book Yourself Solid by Michael Port
Newsletters: MailChimp
Printing: That depends. Send me your specs, and I’ll make a recommendation based on that info.
Sketchbook(s): Field Notes and the Norcom 80-sheet 9 x 11
Startup demos: Technori Pitch
Web hosting: Tasty CMS and Media Temple

PLAY
Boutique(s): Art Effect, Careful Peach and Fly Bird
Chocolate: Vosges
Coffee shop: Graham’s 318
Cookies: Chocolate Gourmet
Esthetician: Vlada Kutseyko at Facial Boutique
Hair: Severn Dorre at Maxine
Run: Chicago lakefront and Waterfall Glen
Social networking: Mac ‘n Cheese Minglers
Spiritual food: K to the B dot com
Vintage/second hand clothing: Buffalo Exchange
Walk: Frank Lloyd Wright Historic District Walking Tour
Wordsmiths: Lainie Levin
Yoga: Yoga Trek