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Faith Based Blogger Conference

Presented by Associated Blogger.com, + Web and Design.net

“Affecting the Blogosphere for the Good”.

Learn How To…

blog, get free hosting, “tweet”, join Twitter, earn money ,

visit eBay, share your faith,

and more…

Friday and Saturday

July 24-25, 2009

Registration Friday evening- 5:30 p.m. First session-6:30 p.m.

Holiday Inn Express -

This conference is for newbies. It will be for those who are unfamiliar with the internet, the web, blogging, social networking, Twitter, eBay, how to share one’s faith online and how to

make money on the internet.

BUT

it will be for those WHO WANT TO KNOW HOW!

This conference is affordable .

While most two day conferences are more than $200,

our conference is a mere $69.00

which includes Friday evening, Saturday sessions,

Saturday lunch and materials.

AND, if you’re already a blogger, you’ll want to be here because it is designed to also unite bloggers in the Jacksonville area. Get your blog noticed as we gather names and web links for posting on the world wide web.

Only $69.00

Holiday Inn Express Jacksonville

Contact us-associatedbloggr@gmail.com

Are you a website and blogger newbie? Are you interested in coming to the Jacksonville, Florida Associated Blogger conference? This is a FIRST conference for Associated Blogger.com . It is being put together by Web and Design.net and AB for “newbies”. The conference is in the works and will be set forth soon. If you’re interested, visit Blog Conference.info and register. We’ll be posting conference information soon. It’s expected to be in July of 2009.

A webmaster can’t do much without electricity but blogging in the dark using the laptop battery can help pass the time away.

Today, we had one of those Florida storms. It really rained hard for a couple of hours, the wind blew so hard that it took trees down in several areas of town and on the street where I live there was no electricity for the remainder of the day and into the night.
At 9:15 p.m. I heard the trucks grunting up and down our graveled road. Voices could be heard in the dark as the wind continued to sway the trees. I walked out on the back deck to see if I could hear or see anything of interest but really the cool breeze of the wind was all I could feel except for an occasional muffled sound of men talking.
At 10:00 p.m.- still no electricity.’Guess I’ll miss The Andy Griffith Show tonight. “Awe!”.

Having this experience just reminded me of the importance of continuing to focus. I haven’t had a shower. I feel pretty sticky and icky and I don’t have the normal capacity of my computer, including no internet but I tried to still focus on the main thing…. Providing information for my website.

One of the most important things about having a website is delivering to the readers who visit each day some kind of information. They are taking their time to drop by. The best thing the webmaster can do it at least put up some information.

One thing about web design is that there is a lot of FREE stuff out there that can make people tons of money. If a web designer would simply give credit where credit is due, one could rake in the dough! Here are a few tips to help you use FREE stuff to make money:

1. Find a FREE HTML editor available and use it!
2. Use some web wizard or web building tool that is FREE to help you build a website.
3. Find someone who will give you some FREE articles for the websites that you have.
4. Take time to view websites that you like. This is a FREE activity that can teach you something in the web business.
5. Take advantage of the FREE tutorials and learn how to do your own thing in terms of web design.

Whatever you do, use as much FREE stuff as you can to save money! But, in the end, be sure that every time you use something free you do two important things: 1. Give credit for that free item. 2. Learn something new.

There are generations between the age of the Queen of England and the United States President. One thing for sure, the age difference was brought to light today when the young Barack Obama gave the mature Queen of England an iPod. According to Jake Tapper of ABC, the iPod included a variety of different things including Obama’s speeches and her photos.

Rumor has it that the Obama’s are MAC people and quite hip on the latest in technology. Obama more than likely had his Blackberry on his hip when he or his team members handed over to the Queen or her team members the Apple iPod.

We can all learn something from this event. Young and old can meet together. The young can share with the older. The older can share with the younger. The youth of one can offer something of possible interest to an older person. The older person can be of influence to the younger.

This can be used in business as well. Live outside the box just be careful and don’t overstep. There is a thin line. You decide.

Yesterday I went to the Seattle Market. It was hustling and bustling. One thing that I noticed was that each market “stand” had its own “thing”. For example, the fish stand had guys dressed in fishermen’s wet pants and throwing fish one to another. ( I wasn’t sure that I wanted to buy those particular fish but…..) YES, throwing fish. It was their little “show” used to drum up interest, get a crowd interested and grow their business.

Another market stand (Mick’s Jelly) had Jellies. The “show” there was open jars of jelly with wooden sticks for tasting. I tasted three and ended up with “Mick’s Pepper Jelly”. It cost me $7 bucks.

The flower stand was offering one free flower; could be a tulip ( just in season) or a daffodil or some other west coast beauty. I did not take one but had this been my home, probably would have ended up with a bunch to take home to put on the table. Lovely.

The bottom line for all of those who want to have a business online or other is to give the crowd “something” to draw them to your biz….

What will you offer your clients today?

How in the world do they figure these things out? I cannot even explain what happened with the iphone so I’m going to refer to you Nilay’s blog about it.

Some people are just smart!

The truth is, if your work area is a cluttered mess, more than likely, so is your mind! It’s spring and we’ve all heard of spring cleaning so let’s get to it.

First of all, determine how serious you need to be. Do you have a complete disaster area? Do you have just a few things to remove or are you a neatnick and only have to straighten a little. Of course there are those out there that did not even read this post because they so don’t need it!

Things you need to think through before you begin-

Now lets determine which category you’re in…..Are you a “disaster”? A fewby? A neatnick? Where are you in this whole situation?

Disaster Folks- If you’re in this category, you simply must completely take out everything from the area and start fresh and new. You may even need help, especially if organization is a difficult thing for you. There is no shame in asking a gifted person in this area to help you. They may even be happy to do it. Most neatnics would be happy to help.

Just a Little Straightening Needed- Maybe you’re in this category. Spend a little bit of time looking through some magazines and get some ideas for regrouping what you have. This may inspire you to toss, rework, reduce or restack some things.

Neatnick- If you’re already neat, you just need to straighten, tighten and maybe rework. You just need to take the time, so just take it. You’ll be glad you did.

Well, you became a part of the people list when you were born. Now you can be on the “tweeple” list if you’ll just join Twitter! Twitter is a social networking website. The purpose of being on Twitter is first to have a ton of fun telling others what you’re doing and finding out what others are doing but also to literally “network”.

Twitter allows you opportunity to follow others in their endeavors on the internet and in life and in turn, they follow you.

Don’t miss this great opportunity! Join Twitter today… and hey, follow me! (I’ll follow ya’ back!).

Bookmarks are a great way to allow people to simply “click” your “Twitter” or “Facebook” or another networking site. I found this site which offers this product. You might be interested. “WP Social Bookmark Menu is a Wordpress plugin that inserts menu of social bookmarking site icons in each of your blog post to make it easier for your reader to bookmarks your blog. You can watch this plugin in action in this blog.”