On Saturday, January 23, 2010, I had the opportunity to attend my first WordCamp hosted by WordCampBoston.com . WordCamp is a conference that focuses on everything WordPress, the platform that many bloggers (like me) use to host our blogs. WordCamps are informal, community-organized events that are put together by WordPress users.
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Top Blogging Tips for Developers and Bloggers from WordPress WordCamps
Elysia is “an enthusiastic fashion-addicted chick writing about trends, inspiration, often changing wants, and anything else random popping into her mind,” and she blogs all about it at Fashion Fille , which is set to celebrate its two-year anniversary this July.
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Ten Questions with Fashion Fille
ShoesForHaitNow.com has a simple goal: collect 100,000 pairs of shoes to send to the people of Haiti. BlogCatalog and BloggersUnite have offered their support to the Shoes For Haiti Now project.
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BlogCatalog Accepting Donations For ShoesforHaitiNow.com
What if Sherlock Holmes could wield an umbrella or a walking stick with the same dexterity and deadliness that Bruce Lee demonstrated with nunchuks? Introducing the coolest blog ever! No, really I defy you to find a blog more unusual or interesting or creative than this one. Actually, that sounds like a challenge. Alright then, let’s make it official! I’m issuing a challenge
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What if Sherlock Holmes could fight like Bruce Lee?
History of East Asia (China, Japan, Korea, Vietnam) Seven Confucian Values: education, family loyalty, work ethic, value of traditions, conformity to traditional standards, honoring of ancestors, and obedience to superiors. Five Students of Confucius: China Japan Korea Taiwan Vietnam Confucianism and Its Spread to Vietnam By: James A. Crites www.angelfire.com What we now today as the northern part of Vietnam was first annexed by the Chinese in 207 BCE.(fig.1) This was the beginning of more than one thousand years of Chinese rule and Vietnamese rebellion
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East Asia (China, Japan, Korea, Vietnam) of Confucian Work Ethic
Here’s some thoughts on the discussions that we’ve been having around the idea of sexism in Confucian thought specifically & Chinese thought in general. Really, it involves a bit of discussion about gender as well.
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Reflections on sexism in Confucian Thought.mov
From what I’ve read throughout the day cash is desperately needed by the aid organizations heading up relief efforts in Haiti after the devastating earthquake that rocked the small island nation. This cash will be used for everything from medical supplies to food. I found a list of reputable organizations that are taking donations on a Fox news site: -The Red Cross is asking the public to make financial donations to the International Relief Fund by calling 1-800-RED-CROSS or online at http://www.redcross.org -Donors may also text “HAITI” to “90999″ and a donation of $10 will be given to the American Red Cross to help with relief efforts.
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BloggersUnite for Haiti: Cash Needed For Relief Efforts
In the light of the recent allegations that well-known and established retailers H&M and Wal-Mart purposely destroyed and disposed of apparel rather than donating it to homeless shelters or any other nonprofit charity, it’s time that all Americans reflect upon their own personal choices on what to do with used items they no longer want. If you still haven’t heard about these atrocious actions, read RIMTailing’s blog post on Aim to Donate, Not Destroy, Merchandise and The Thrifty Chicks’ Why are two major retailers torturing their own trash? Not only should American consumers evaluate their personal decisions on donating or disposing based on whether or not someone in need may benefit from such a donation, but they should also consider the ecological impact of such a disposal.
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Donate Your Fashion
Here is a little of what Photographer Dan Bodenstein writes about the photo’s subject, Eartha the sea turtle : I visited Eartha at the Loggerhead Marinelife Center in Juno Beach Florida. Eartha was very photogenic. She would swim right up to the glass in her tank as I positioned myself infront of it for a photograph
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(Almost) Wordless Wednesday: I Got A Turtle Head Poking Out!
Whether you’re planning on hitting the town, throwing a party, or just enjoying a quiet evening with family and friends, we have put together a few blogs that will help you prepare for your 2009 New Year’s Eve festivities. Hey Ladies New Year’s Eve parties give all of us an excuse to get dressed up and get a little wild. Earlier in the week LollieShopping gave the ladies some tips on looking glamorous for the occasion in her post Looking Chic For New Year’s Eve
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Ring In The New Year, Bloggy Style
In some recent discussions I have had, I have noticed an opinion–mainly amongst non-bloggers and non-Facebookers–that these digital realms are dominated by young people. While this is not a total misconception, it is also not entirely true. Take a look at Facebook’s user statistics from the past year or so, and you’ll see that while the largest percentage of the participants are younger than Boomers, users over 45 are steadily making up a larger percentage of their overall users.
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Boomers Increase Presence on Facebook, In Blogosphere
It’s Christmas time and that means bloggers are putting up Christmas-themed posts. We asked Austin to go through BlogCatalog and find some “recommended reading” for the holiday season. Here’s what he came up with: And So This Is Christmas: Christmas means different things to everyone.
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And So This Is Christmas
Site Of The Day: So, in case you’ve been living in a cave in Turkmenistan for the past day and haven’t heard the news, BlogCatalog has been named the Site of the Day by Top Site Tally . In recognition of this award, we have prepared a few words: BlogCatalog: We’d just like to say thank you first and foremost to our families for standing behind us no matter what, and… Kanye: BlogCatalog, I’m really happy for ya and I’m a let ya finish, but Facebook has one of the best websites of all time. BlogCatalog: Uh, thanks to Top Site Tally and all of our amazing members
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Meanwhile, Back At BlogCatalog…
Here’s a little shopping secret for you: when you sign up for sale email alerts, you know about hot fashion sales before everyone else does. Rather than sign up to receive the email newsletters of various retailers and wind up with many emails in your inbox, you can instead sign up for sale alerts through a third party provider and receive the bargain information of all your favorite retailers in one email. Best of all, the service is FREE
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Fashion in Your Email Inbox
On November 17, 13,200 bloggers from across the globe participated in BloggersUnite: Fight For Preemies . Their posts about the rising rates of premature births raised the awareness of approximately 3 million readers. Through a mix of sobering facts, statistics and moving personal accounts, these bloggers poignantly illustrated the impact premature births have on both the individuals involved and on our society as a whole
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Fight For Preemies: 13,000 Blog Posts Reach 3 Million Readers
As of December 1, 2009, new FTC guidelines went into effect requiring bloggers to disclose any time they are compensated for endorsing or reviewing products or services. Bloggers should now be disclosing any time they receive payment, free products or services, or perks in return for a post on their blogs. Also any relationship with a company or organization that can be viewed as creating a conflict of interest should be disclosed
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Bloggers Must Comply With FTC Disclosure Guidelines
This week, @TonyBerkman and @AngieAlaniz are out of the office and that means Rocky and Ariela, the office pugs, are gone too. While the office isn’t quite the same without our trusty pugs–it is quieter and smells a whole lot better–it does give us a chance to appreciate a new addition to the BlogCatalog office. Tom Wilkinfish is a little fish in a little bowl, and he is often overlooked by everyone other than his friend and caretaker, @ithinkdancan
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Even Fish Use Twitter
Sometimes it can be cumbersome to update your status on Twitter, Facebook and Linkedin by having to visit the individual sites. Your readers want to stay connected to you in various ways and some prefer different outlets. You have to make sure that if you create a social media stream for your users to follow you, then you need to continue to use it so you don’t lose your reader’s interest. I am a part-time blogger since I am also a full-time stay at home mom and involved in various organizations. Even though I am considered a “stay at home mom,” it seems like we are never at home! So staying connected in different outlets took a lot effort, but not any longer with HootSuite .
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Update Your Status on Facebook, Twitter, and Linkedin with One Application
Twenty-one years after writing her award-winning book The Cake Bible , Rose Levy Beranbaum–a.k.a the “Diva of Desserts”–shares more amazing cake recipes in her new book Rose’s Heavenly Cakes . Featuring detailed directions and instructional photographs that guide readers step-by-step through her recipes, the book makes it easy for any home baker to create Rose’s mouth watering cakes
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Heavenly Cake Recipes From The “Diva of Desserts”
As Thanksgiving approaches and we begin to focus our attention on buying and preparing dish after dish for our holiday feasts, it becomes more apparent than ever that there are many people in our communities that will be going without a Thanksgiving meal this year. In fact, many of these people often go without meals for themselves and their children and some struggle daily with hunger.
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Bloggers Unite Against Hunger Through The Brown Bag Project
Major Religions project for Mr.
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Confucianism- Maj. Religions, Pr. 4
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confucianism (AP Project) 2nd year lead
a project video for our AP human geography class
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confucianism in its finest
Following a recommendation on the New Taoist Community forum I bought a copy of Osho’s book Tao: The Pathless Path My understanding is that the book has been created by collecting together the transcripts of several talks given by him. The book takes several of the parables of Lieh-tzu – the third of the trio of great Taoist philosophers alongside Lao-tzu and Chuang-tzu. Osho then discusses the meaning of the parable and explores its subtleties.
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Osho – Tao: The Pathless Path
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For the past 2 years, the BlogCatalog team has had an absolute blast hanging out with other social media professionals and meeting some of our members at BlogWorld & New Media Expo. The generous hosts of BlogWorld & New Media Expo 2009 want you to be one of the members we have the pleasure to meet there this year! We are going to give away a free 3-day, full access pass (valued at $1195) for this year’s event being held October 15-17, 2009 in Las Vegas, NV. Winning the pass is quite simple.
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BlogCatalog Giving Away Full Access Pass to BlogWorld 2009
A notion that I have heard repeated at conferences and in discussions is that video, which is already prevalent in the world of social networks, will be the next big thing in the world of blogging. Yet, when I spend time searching out and reading blogs, I find that most of the time I don’t see any video being used. When there is video, a lot of it is just clips embedded from YouTube rather than original content produced by the blogger.
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Video on Blogs: The Next Big Thing?