A retired British naval officer?s scathing email to his three adult children about his bitter and frustrating disappointment in all of them has gone viral with his eloquence and biting honesty. Nick Crews, 67, of Plymouth, England, sent the letter to his two daughters and...
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?Twitter may be the most misunderstood and underused social media platform, but it is an incredibly powerful way to build relationships as well as amplify and accelerate your nonprofit?s message,? said Westerberg. ?This session will explore the ways nonprofits can benefit from a regular Twitter presence.?
Attendees will learn:
* Who to follow and how to grow your followers;
* The power of #hash tags for key words, events and chats;
* Free tools for more efficient participation and helpful analytics;
* How to use Twitter lists to key in on critical audiences such as donors, media, other nonprofits, and influences;
* Bonus ? how to get more online presence through your business partners.
There is no charge for nonprofits attending the session, but registration is required. Registration information can be found at http://www.orangeleap.com/shinebrighter.shtml .
Orange Leap launched the Shine Brighter Series in October and has featured experts from around the country on a variety of topics with the intent to provide valuable tips and strategies that nonprofits can use to fulfill their mission. This particular session on Twitter was developed in response to requests from attendees.
About Orange Leap:
Orange Leap (www.orangeleap.com) helps nonprofits raise more money with fewer resources by streamlining the fundraising process with innovative technology solutions and collaborative support. A cloud-based, Constituent Relationship Management (CRM) technology solutions company, Orange Leap effectively manages donor and constituent relationships; processes donations and tracks gift history; and automates fundraising and marketing communications. Based in Dallas, Texas, the company works closely with nonprofits that are focused on reaching and engaging a wide range of missions and constituencies.
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Source: http://floridanewswire.com/2012/11/28/fnw5773_035501.php
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By ANNE M. PETERSON
AP Sports Writer
Associated Press Sports
updated 12:24 a.m. ET Nov. 29, 2012
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - It was something of an understatement when Alex Morgan said she was feeling it against Ireland.
Morgan scored three first-half goals and the Olympic gold medal-winning U.S. women's national team defeated Ireland 5-0 on Wednesday night, the latest match in an exhibition tour for fans following the London Games.
On the drizzle-slicked turf of Portland's Jeld-Wen Field, Abby Wambach and the rest of the U.S. women's team encouraged Morgan.
"Abby and everyone just kept saying `Shoot! Shoot! It's a slick surface!' So I did," Morgan said afterward, lingering to sign autographs. "I was feeling it."
Sydney Leroux added two goals to help the top-ranked United States improve to 4-0-2 on its Fan Tribute Tour.
Morgan struck first in the 24th minute. It was her 25th goal this year, making her the third U.S. player to reach the mark in a season - Wambach had 31 in 2004 and Michelle Akers had 39 in 1991.
Morgan scored again in the 34th minute, when she had a clear path from just outside of the box in front of goalkeeper Emma Byrne. Morgan's third, which was unassisted, came in the 44th minute.
It was her second career hat trick. She also had one March 7 in a 4-0 victory over Sweden.
Acting U.S. coach Jill Ellis said the 23-year-old forward's performance was "obviously special."
"Every time she touched the ball something dangerous happened," Ellis said.
Morgan was subbed out for Leroux, who scored in the 66th minute to make it 4-0. She scored again in the 81st minute for the final margin.
Leroux has a reserve-record 12 goals this season.
Hope Solo started in goal for the U.S. while her personal life was again grabbing headlines. Earlier Wednesday, husband Jerremy Stevens was taken into custody in Hillsborough County, Fla., for an alleged parole violation.
The day before their wedding on Nov. 13 in Washington state, Stevens was arrested for alleged domestic assault during a party in the Seattle suburb of Kirkland. Court documents said police reported seeing signs of a fight and a cut on Solo's arm.
A judge released Stevens after a court appearance, saying there was no evidence connecting him to any assault.
Solo spoke to reporters at a team training session in Portland on Tuesday, proclaiming she was happy and she would never stand for domestic violence. She blamed the media for distorting the story.
Following reports of Stevens arrest in Florida, Solo posted to Twitter: "I feel bad for all the ignorance in the world. People are so quick to judge. The media spins stories in such dramatic fashion. I will continue to show love, and never make judgments. I am blessed w True Love & the beautiful game of soccer. I wish everybody the same happiness."
Stevens was selected with the No. 28 pick of the 2002 draft by the Seahawks after a stellar career at Washington. But he also was involved in incidents away from football that included reckless driving charges for crashing into a nursing home.
Solo also went to Washington. According to various reports, they started dating following the London Olympics.
Solo did not speak to reporters after Wednesday night's match.
The United States is 9-0-0 against Ireland, including a 2-0 victory in September 2008 in Bridgeview, Ill. The Americans have outscored Ireland 35-1 in their nine matches.
Ireland, ranked 32nd in the world, has never qualified for the Olympics or the World Cup. The Portland fans, known for their affection for soccer, cheered the Irish players after the match. Ireland returned the favor, heading to both sides of the field to applaud.
Ellis, women's development director for U.S. soccer, coached the U.S. team against Ireland. Former Australian national team coach Tom Sermanni takes over the national team in January, replacing Olympic coach Pia Sundhage, who stepped down.
Ireland, coached by Sue Ronan, will play the United States again in Glendale, Ariz., on Saturday as the tour continues.
The U.S. women improved to 10-1-0 in Portland, with their lone loss coming to Germany in a FIFA Women's World Cup semifinal in 2003.
With temperatures in the low 40s, attendance for the weeknight match was 10,092.
"I'm not going to do an ice bath," joked fan favorite Megan Rapino, who played at the University of Portland. "It's too cold."
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It?s Episode #95 and we?ve got plugins for eCommerce, Age Restrictive Content, Cart Sharing, Online Quizzes and plugins to embed a post within another post! It?s all coming up on WordPress Plugins A-Z.
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Shout Outs ? Marcus would like to say hello to all at the OC WordPress meetup. Marcus and his wife attended for the first time on Monday and had a great time learning more about what Jetpack does, a few framework discussions, and a rousing good time at the House of Brews after the meeting. Marcus will be presenting some new plugins at future meetings. If you?re in Orange County California and want to participate, check out http://www.meetup.com/OC-Wordpress-Group/ for meeting dates and more information.
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Looking for theme that will allow multi-users to post articles. Also looking for the best plugin to use to promote featured articles based on how many comments or likes it has received.
WordPress Popular Posts
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-popular-posts/
WordPress Popular Posts is a highly customizable widget that displays the most popular posts on your blog.
Use this in conjunction with other plugins that import your social shares and Facebook wall comments into WordPress as comments. This plugin should do the rest and be customizable to the point that you can include social stats and such.
Joe Trent
Loves the show on Stitcher. He?s found that the show has helped him to shave 10 seconds off his load time.
Scott Johnson
How safe is it to upgrade to a new version of WordPress? When do you upgrade the site and not have to worry about the plugins not working?
Looks like I may loose seems WordPress 3.5 is in Beta 3 already http://wordpress.org/news/2012/11/wordpress-3-5-beta-3/
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The Lowdown:
Well I started a new on line business for my kid and decided that I would use this e commerce plugin for it due to all I had heard and seen. Wile it is pretty straight forward to setup and easy to use. I did find it missing some of the great features in WP ecommerce, I needed a couple of different options for shipping and payment that are not available without adding a plugin that cost a bit extra.
In fact as good as this plugin is most of the features that make it good are additional priced plugins
Rating 4 Dragons
The Lowdown:
This was needed to put up an 18 plus on the site but has many purposes, I found it to be pretty straight forward and required just a minor amount of CSS tweaking to get it to look like I wanted it to.
rating 3 Dragons
The Lowdown:
This plugin was to offer an interesting way for getting people to share you in their social networks, you set it to offer them a discount say 10% if they tweet or facebook their shopping cart. The discount was to be applied right as soon as the tweet of facebook post was made..
While this plugins was a great idea in theory, I found it to be a pain for my use, it would not layout correctly and it would not work correctly seems they have a ways to go. I will revisit it after they do an upgrade
Rating 2 Dragons
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-pro-quiz/
A powerful and beautiful quiz plugin for WordPress.
Requires: 3.3 or higher
Compatible up to: 3.4.2
Last Updated: 2012-11-11
Downloads: 98
Marcus? Take: This format has always been great for increasing page counts on sites and driving very qualified leads to your clients. As far as plugins go this is one of the best I?ve seen for quizzes, especially given the multitude of HTML embedding options for the questions.
Rating: 4 out of 5
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http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-advanced-include/
Requires: 3 or higher
Compatible up to: 3.4.2
Last Updated: 2012-11-11
Downloads: 52
WP Advanced Include creates an [include] shortcode which can be used to add content from any Post or Page on your site including Post Content, Post Excerpt and Post Meta
Shortcode
Attributes:
content_id = [int] The id of the post or page you wish to include content from. content_limit = [int] Limits the content if required, set to a value less than 1 to remove limiting ? Default 0 content_limit_type ["words"|"chars"] Sets the content limit to be words or characters ? Default ?words? content_limit_append [string|empty string] Text to be appended to the end of the content if limited ? Default ?&hellip? content_type [post_content|post_excerpt|post_title|"meta name"] The content type to be included, if meta name, specify meta name. ? Default ?post_content? do_shortcode [true|false] Specify whether to parse shortcodes of not ? Default ?true?
The use of [include] to include itself with do_shortcode set to true will create an infinite loop, use wisely.
simple include of post content [include content_id=x]
include first 50 words of post content [include content_id=x content_limit=50]
include first 150 characters of post content [include content_id=x content_limit=150 content_limit_type=chars]
*include ?custom_meta_name? meta from post X [include content_id=x content_type="custom_meta_name"]
Marcus? Take: This is a wild plugin that has a lot of cool options for replicating content from one post to be embedded in another. The thing that I found really incredible was that I could use shortcodes of other programs and embed that to another page by using this WP Advanced Include shortcode. I used it for banners and testimonials to create a post mash-up for a client.
Rating: 5 out of 5
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http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/flowboard/
Web development tool, agile whiteboard with sticky notes.
Requires: 3.4 or higher
Compatible up to: 3.5
Last Updated: 2012-11-14
Downloads: 52
FlowBoard makes it easier for web development to visualize the agile process. Eg. Use it with Scrum or Kanban projects.
To see the plugin in action visit the Development and Demo Site!
Every note is saved as a custom post type and editable in wp-admin. The FlowBoard data is stored under the note posts metadata (custom fields).
Marcus? Take: I thought this was a great ?thinking out of the box? application that uses WordPress as its backbone. Lots of possibilities in this kind of use and can?t wait to see how things along this line advance in the future. Really amazing stuff
Rating: 4 out of 5
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Feed back on that plaugin from last episode user admin simplifier it is great save me loads of grief with a client.
This has been episode 94 only 5 to go to 100 some excitement happening
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You'll see the EVO 4G go on sale starting Friday, and the Galaxy Reverb starting Thursday. Virgin offers all of these devices off-contract, with monthly plans starting at just $35.
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When it comes to website design and functionality it's critical to know that you don't know what you don't know. It's no longer acceptable to plead ignorance in business when it comes to your website because if you do you are offering yourself up as a lamb for sacrifice on the alter of 'those who know'.
Five things will result from this:
1.You will pay far more than you need to for your website ? as much as ten times more!
2.You will have a website that looks great and functions today, but has to be completely redesigned as your company grows and/or as technology changes. See above.
3.You will be dependent on your web designer/host to update your site with the result that you will always lag behind the times and usually at an hourly rate that will deter you pressing for continual updates. See #1
4.Your company's Internet ranking will always be haphazard and leave you wondering why some competitor with half your magic is higher in a Google search than you are.
5.You will accept that your business is your focus and leave the website to the experts with a sigh thinking that once you get your sales up you will hire the big guns to get a site like the one who ranks high in your industry. See #1.
Let's undo some of the mystique that leaves so many small as well as large businesses susceptible to being taken advantage of by those who hire themselves out as experts or vulnerable to the vagaries of hackers. Neither of these are costs you want to afford. How do I know?
Not very many years ago I invested over $30,000 in an absolutely gorgeous website. It was with a web design company with whom I had done business for many years in my executive capacity as VP of Sales and Marketing. I was then starting off on my own career and knew the Internet was the future. It wasn't until I was getting at the thin end of my capital that I started asking why the site just wasn't working. When I didn't the get the answers that made any sense ? they were in no language I knew ? I took my first course in Internet Marketing.
On morning one of a three day intensive workshop with the room full of people, laptops at the ready, we were instucted in how to get into the source code of our site. Well, for the next three days, I just took notes because I discovered three things: I had no authorization to access my own website; I didn't own my own domain, and the site was written in a code that was arcane and specialized to a point of non function. I was at the mercy of despots who charged $150.00/hour. And, I wasn't the only one.
Source: http://blogcritics.org/scitech/article/your-business-website-what-you-dont/
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By Ree Hines, TODAY contributor
Actress Jennifer Lawrence is all too familiar with Hollywood's obsession and expectations when it comes to the waistlines of female stars. Shortly after she was cast as Katniss in "The Hunger Games," she faced criticism from those who thought she was too curvy to play the character.
That didn't matter to Lawrence. In a recent interview with Elle magazine, she stressed that she didn't want young girls skipping dinner "to look like Katniss." She even claimed that by Hollywood standards she's "obese."
And as she told NBC?s Andrea Canning in an interview that aired Wednesday morning on TODAY, she doesn't plan to change in order to please Tinseltown.
"I've never really dieted or wanted to diet, or anything, and I just feel like, it's something that really overwhelms our industry in an unfortunate way," Lawrence explained. "It just kind of becomes this distracting dark cloud."
A cloud that she finds particularly disturbing.
"I grew up with tabloids and seeing it on TV, and who's losing this much weight, how to lose this weight this fast, and it's just ? it's kind of gross," she said. "And I'm just ready for it to stop."
Until then, Lawrence is happy to buck that trend. And that's not the only Hollywood standard she avoids.
Lawrence, who's currently the focus of early Oscar buzz for her role opposite Bradley Cooper in "Silver Linings Playbook," doesn't have any interest in participating in the usual young-Hollywood hijinks.
"I'm very boring, and (the paparazzi) know that," she said. "Like, all the paparazzi leave my house at like, 5.pm., because they know I'm not going anywhere."
Those who would like a glimpse of the star can get it Wednesday, as "Silver Linings Playbook" opens in theaters nationwide. ?
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