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My wife and I did our wills a few days ago on LegalZoom. Pretty darn easy - which impresses me.
Apparently Facebook should make it a bit easier to figure out how to create such a page, since I do get asked about this by small business owners pretty regularly. Do a little prep to start out with... you should have the following items at the ready so you can provide the content
when creating the account:
Two small paragraphs of description of the
organization
Address, phone number, and web site URL of
organization
Hours of operation
Names of Facebook users you want to invite to
page.
If you want to add your organizational logo, I'd probably recommend something more like 250 pixels wide by
180 high, if you can fit it in that size comfortably.
To create the page, log in under your Facebook
account. Then go to this URL:
http://www.facebook.com/help/search.php?hq=business+page&ref=hq#/pages/create.php
and you can get started. You can also use FBML (Facebook Markup Language) to customize the page a bit more.
and you can get started. You can also use FBML (Facebook Markup Language) to customize the page a bit more.
And in this league, every player gets a uniform shirt with the sponsor's logo or text on it. Our family has participated in this league for several years now, and I have not seen a team go with simply a company URL as the sponsor logo (unless that was the company name as well). I thought about it this year, but decided not to, mostly because after 14 years we're upgrading our logo and I wanted to use that. However, we may consider using only a URL for sponsorship logo graphic next year - I'm just curious to the "local" linkage after games.
I don't think it's the death, but there's definitely a continuation of the evolution. In the end, it comes down to the relationship of the content to the content management system and content delivery system a person wishes to use to express themselves on the web. I don't think social media networks reduce the desire for a blog for a person that has lots to say and says a lot quite often, because the storage and scroll rates will impact both content and visibility. But they serve as enhanced ways to expand notice of such blog posts to potentially interested readers, and you see this all the time.
On the other hand, personal blogs that serve as primarily link providers are probably on the way out, even the most popular ones, unless they provide a compelling voice in providing those links. Context.
The lines of "blogging" are so blurry now with the variety of social media networks and content management systems available that at some point the term is probably going to just become synonymous with "writing for a web audience" with little nuance for location, software or distribution options. Can you blog on Facebook? What's the difference between writing an expanded Note on Facebook every day and posting the same daily on Blogger? Not enough to make a distinction.
On the other hand, personal blogs that serve as primarily link providers are probably on the way out, even the most popular ones, unless they provide a compelling voice in providing those links. Context.
The lines of "blogging" are so blurry now with the variety of social media networks and content management systems available that at some point the term is probably going to just become synonymous with "writing for a web audience" with little nuance for location, software or distribution options. Can you blog on Facebook? What's the difference between writing an expanded Note on Facebook every day and posting the same daily on Blogger? Not enough to make a distinction.
If what you are doing is clogging bulletin boards and blog comments with your supposedly valuable links, then you're pretty much just a spammer.
Whatever it was, I doubt it was enough. Going through life with the very public perception that you'll sell out to even the most pathetic companies/campaigns known to humanity is tough when you're that young and were likely have options of at least equal value available in the future. I suspect she cost herself long-term money. I guess there's always Enzyte to pitch when Bob eventually croaks.
Yeah, I'm a GoDaddy.com despiser.
Yeah, I'm a GoDaddy.com despiser.
and it starts with "Hey, some jerk has posted your pictures (u understand what kind of pictures are there)"...
Don't click the email link.
Don't click the email link.
If you haven't seen this site, you should check it out, bookmark it and hope that it is continued. It's an actual web page library of the history of the appearance (and content) of the iterations of web sites, large and small, through the time of the web. It is, in short, astounding.
Last Wednesday, I made a snide remark about the 15-minute fame of "Pants on the Ground" as an update on Facebook. I make snide or silly remarks on Facebook all the time, no big deal.
At about the same time a reporter for the Patriot-News was given the assignment to write a story about Pants on the Ground. She reached out to friends and acquaintances about the song and to whether kids were adopting the chant, and it just so happened that one of her friends is also one of mine.
He gave her my information. She contacted me. She asked a few questions for the story she was writing. I answered them.
Saturday morning the story was in the front section of the Patriot.
I literally did nothing but come up with some half-clever comment on my Facebook account, and some less-clever-but-true responses to her questions, and now we're getting contacts from friends about the story. Just goes to show the power of using Facebook at a useful moment, even if by accident.
At about the same time a reporter for the Patriot-News was given the assignment to write a story about Pants on the Ground. She reached out to friends and acquaintances about the song and to whether kids were adopting the chant, and it just so happened that one of her friends is also one of mine.
He gave her my information. She contacted me. She asked a few questions for the story she was writing. I answered them.
Saturday morning the story was in the front section of the Patriot.
I literally did nothing but come up with some half-clever comment on my Facebook account, and some less-clever-but-true responses to her questions, and now we're getting contacts from friends about the story. Just goes to show the power of using Facebook at a useful moment, even if by accident.
