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Make Your Twitter Prettier for Free

2009-07-02T20:31:00.005-05:00

Update your Twitter theme easily using free tools available online. There are many resource sites for free and custom Twitter backgrounds, themes and buttons. Here are a few that I found.

Complete Themes

My number one choice for ease of use is: Twitter Gallery - Pick a free twitter theme by category or color and then have it automatically installed on Twitter. Ten minutes, max.

Use a visual designer with more options: PrettyTweet - Use the on site WYSIWYG editor to design your free Twitter theme. Add, crop and adjust image, change border, link or text color. Post theme automatically to Twitter and have background image emailed to you. Twenty or more minutes.

Backgrounds Only

cheth Studios - Free background pictures (PSD format) from DeviantArt.

FreeTwitter Designer - Create free Twitter backgrounds using an on site tool.

SweetTweet - Cute, fun free backgrounds organized by categories.

TwitterImage - Free Twitter background pictures by category.

Naked Lunch

2009-07-02T18:55:00.001-05:00

Naked Lunch

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Top Ten Success Blogs for June

2009-06-30T23:39:00.005-05:00

THANK YOU

to our top droppers on Advertising for Success blog in June!

Please visit our Top Droppers for June

Bloody Computer!

This blog offers clear and simple advice to deal with many common Windows problems, drawing upon over twelve years experience in helping people overcome their PC woes.

Rocket Scientist

I’m an engineer by accident. Since my field of choice tends to be science fiction and fantasy, I’m also interested in psychic power, dragons and faeries, magic, tarot, well, everything.

Tycoon Blogger

A blogging tips and making money online blog written by a newly turned professional blogger. Can the tycoon blogger make 6 figures online this year?

Article Marketing Methods

Making Money Online Using Articles - Advertise and Be Seen - Entrecard Widget Is Above The Fold!

Lifesigns Life Quotes

Life Quote Wisdom Advice and Everything Else

Learning How To Make Money Online

Learning How To Make Money Online: Advertise and Be Seen - Entrecard Widget Is Above The Fold!

Crimsonsparkle.net

The view from my window.

Sands of Thyme

Remembering what it's like to be alive.

Blogs With Wings

Help for bloggers who want to create a successful blog. Blog writing tips, blog promotion ideas, blog design, blogging software, blogging tools, strategies for blog success. Teach your blog to fly!

Balance Your Budget Today

Personal budgeting and finances does not have to be difficult.

Blog Your Blessing : Bridges

2009-06-28T13:40:00.005-05:00

I love bridges, the physical type. One of the trips on my bucket list is to see every 100-year old truss bridge in Texas.

Metaphysical, emotional and economic bridges exist as well. Bridge Over Troubled Waters, Bridge the Digital Divide, Bridging the Gender Gap, Bridges to Babylon . . .

Below I have written some of my favorite quotations about bridges. If you have one, please share it.

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You know, I do speak the Queens English. It's just the wrong Queens that's all. It's over the 59th Street Bridge. It's not over the Atlantic Ocean. ~Cyndi Lauper~

A politician is a man who will double cross that bridge when he comes to it. ~Oscar Levant~

I consider myself to have been the bridge between the shotgun and the binoculars in bird watching. Before I came along, the primary way to observe birds was to shoot them and stuff them. ~Roger Tory Peterson~ (wrote many birding guides)

If you hug to yourself any resentment against anybody else, you destroy the bridge by which God would come to you. ~Peter Marshall~

One of the dreams of Zionism was to be a bridge. Instead, we are creating exclusion between the East and the West instead of creating bridges; we are contributing to the conflict between East and West by our stupid desire to have more. ~A. B. Yehoshua~

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Tell Your Story in Six Words

2009-06-27T20:31:00.006-05:00

Ernest Hemmingway was once asked to tell a story in six words. Almost immediately, he returned with "For sale: baby shoes, never worn."

Could you write a story with six words? Tell your life story in six words? For more information or to submit an official six word memoir, visit Six-Word Memoirs at SMITH Magazine. If you are not submitting to the site, please leave your six-word stories in a comment.

Here are a few of mine to get you started:

Raised in the 1960s. Still kicking.

Celebrate, laugh, live long and prosper.

Drinking and driving too fast. Buried today.

Wordless Wednesday : Handfed Deer

2009-06-24T12:54:00.008-05:00

Medina Lake Preserve, Texas
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More Information Than We Need

2009-06-23T22:25:00.002-05:00

If you cannot stand to watch the video, here are the tips in writing:

Trim, lather up with some shave gel and ensure you're using a fresh blade.
Pull your skin taut, and as flat as possible. Don't exert pressure; let the razor do the work.
Use short, light strokes to minimize nicks, cuts and scratches.

I would add one:

Be very, very careful . . . LOL

Tags: groin shaving, gillette, shave your groin

Click and Comment Monday

2009-06-22T15:11:00.000-05:00

Want to play?
Leave your name and the URL for your blog in Mr. Linky. Then leave a comment so that I may click, come and comment on your blog.

Let me know if you want to be on the blogroll for C&C Monday.

Then, click on a blog on my blog roll or on the Mr. Linky. Comment on that blog and then click someone on their blogroll and comment on that blog. Repeat. You may also login to your Blog Catalog or MyBlogLog and visit the blogs in your neighborhood. If you do not belong to these, you can click a blogger's picture from my sidebar and go from there.

Try to click and comment on at least five new blogs each week if you have time. I guarantee you will find some cool blogs and you will increase your readership.

Mr. Linky changed some things. I will be downloading each Monday's Click and Comment participants and be maintaining a blog roll. Join us!

Blog Your Blessing : Heart of Earth Songs

2009-06-21T02:09:00.008-05:00

I love moving water. We camped for three weeks at Medina Lake. The river recharges my psyche and soothes my worries. I usually do not want to come back home after a stay at the river. Is there a specific waterway that calls to you? Or. are you like the mole below--any river will do?

~From The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Graham~

He thought his happiness was complete when, as he meandered aimlessly along, suddenly he stood by the edge of a full-fed river. Never in his life had he seen a river before -- this sleek, sinuous, full-bodied animal, chasing and chuckling, gripping things with a gurgle and leaving them with a laugh, to fling itself on fresh playmates that shook themselves free, and were caught and held again. All as a-shake and a-shiver -- glints and gleams and sparkles, rustle and swirl, chatter and bubble.

The Mole was bewitched, entranced, fascinated. By the side of the river he trotted as one trots, when very small, by the side of a man who holds one spellbound by exciting stories; and when tired at last, he sat on the bank, while the river still chattered on to him, a babbling procession of the best stories in the world, sent from the heart of the earth to be told at last to the insatiable sea.

~From The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Graham~

The Blue Panther Experience is host for Blog Your Blessings Sunday. We are of all faiths, creeds and races, so everyone is welcome. Join us on any Sunday as we blog our blessings.

Wordless Wednesday : Medina River

2009-06-10T01:03:00.001-05:00

Medina River, Medina, Texas

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Blog Your Blessing : People Who Care

2009-06-05T21:31:00.003-05:00

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Above and similar wallpapers free at UCSUSA

The American outdoors has been central to some of this country's greatest books, from Henry David Thoreau's The Maine Woods to Mark Twain's Life on the Mississippi. Writers like Ralph Waldo Emerson, John Muir, Rachel Carson, Peter Matthiessen, and E.O. Wilson have inspired us to make positive changes in our lives with their wisdom and words about our lands, geographical riches, and wildlife.

Now, it is time for the next generation of writers to inspire the people of the world to fight global warming--in all its forms.

Online Anthology Available Soon

The Blue Panther Experience is host for Blog Your Blessings Sunday. We are of all faiths, creeds and races, so everyone is welcome. Join us on any Sunday as we blog our blessings.

Wordless Wednesday : Name that Flower

2009-06-02T22:07:00.004-05:00

Lilac Blossoms or Larkspur

Not sure whether the flowers are lilac blossoms or larkspur.
Anyone know for sure?

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Top Droppers for May

2009-06-01T06:26:00.000-05:00

It is time to give my top droppers their due:

* THANK YOU

* do-follow link

* my Top Dropper Award

Top Droppers on Advertising for Success in May 2009

Online Social Networking

Thought-Provoking Outside-the-Box Articles on a Broad Range of Business and Social Strategies

Learning How To Make Money Online

Learning How To Make Money Online: Advertise and Be Seen - Entrecard Widget Is Above The Fold!

Anything Goes W/ Pahn

Anything Goes w/ Pahn is a personal website of Pahn to weblog his views, opinion and some story to the world wide web.

Blogs With Wings

Help for bloggers who want to create a successful blog. Blog writing tips, blog promotion ideas, blog design, blogging software, blogging tools, strategies for blog success. Teach your blog to fly!

Article Marketing Methods

Making Money Online Using Articles - Advertise and Be Seen - Entrecard Widget Is Above The Fold!

Rocket Scientist

I’m an engineer by accident. Since my field of choice tends to be science fiction and fantasy, I’m also interested in psychic power, dragons and faeries, magic, tarot, well, everything.

Balance Your Budget Today

Personal budgeting and finances does not have to be difficult.

Many Free Ways To Make Money Online

This blog shows the information how to make money online without spending any single penny. Only free ways is shown in this blog.

Ur Entertainment Port

Ur Entertainment Port contains all latest news and gossips on Asian or Hollywood Entertainment News. It also Reviews what is Hot and latest in Tech World. you can read all the information and details of Asian Drama, Movies, and OST / Musics. Some of the things I write are from real life experiences, while some others from various sources around the net.

JDMaBelleverlasting

My Hope, Faith n Love!

Wordless Wednesday : Miniature Donkeys

2009-05-27T05:12:00.003-05:00

Miniature Donkeys

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Blog Your Blessing : Lush Green Land

2009-05-23T23:08:00.009-05:00

May flowers always line your path
and sunshine light your day.

May songbirds serenade you
every step along the way.

May a rainbow run beside you
in a sky that's always blue.

And may happiness fill your heart
each day your whole life through.

~Irish Blessing~

We saw these two flowers on our trip. I do not know the name. If you know, please leave me a comment. We saw many flowers we had never seen before. It was a lush green land we visited.

The Blue Panther Experience is host for Blog Your Blessings Sunday. We are of all faiths, creeds and races, so everyone is welcome. Join us on any Sunday as we blog our blessings.

Head on at 125 mph = 10+ Grenades

2009-05-22T02:19:00.005-05:00

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2 cars meeting in head on collision at 125 mpg
6,968,000 joules

Wordless Wednesday : Crimson Clover

2009-05-20T02:10:00.007-05:00

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This wildflower is actually clover. Crimson Clover.

Can You See the Fuzzy Heads in This Picture?
The clover looks like caterpillars before they turn red.

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Building a Blogging Community

2009-05-18T12:06:00.000-05:00

Over at SlogBite, there is an article about the 13 Rules of Blogger Etiquette. I think these items of netiquette should be adopted by all who want to be part of the blogging community. They should be taught to new bloggers, along with the best way to remove the NAV bar from Blogger.

Now, dropping your EntreCard is not conducive to exploring blogs and commenting on posts. I think memes are better, because you come to the blog to read the meme post. However, with the advent of Mr. Linky, sidebar busting blogrolls, most people are not visiting, from blog to blog, in a way that builds community.

Join Click and Comment Monday in the post below if you wish to build community.

WordPress Angels Rescued Me

2009-05-12T01:57:00.006-05:00

I spent all day Saturday backing up my files for my WordPress blog on TexasRVTravel.com so that I could upgrade to the latest WordPress and get rid of some malicious code that had found its way into my template files.

Then I spent all day Sunday downloading and scanning all the content, themes and "stuff"--there is a lot of "stuff" with WordPress. Then I installed the new WordPress and uploaded my clean content and TA-DA . . . no blog.

I was just about out of my mind (what I have left of it) and was really discouraged and ready to delete the darn blog and restart it on blogger. I think if I could have transferred all the posts back to blogger, I would have done it.

Alas, that was not do-able, so I went begging for help on the WordPress forum on the CMF-Ads forum. Now, Lindi from Let's Talk WordPress had already told me how to upgrade and answered a lot of questions before I started upgrading.

However, the real HERO in this story is Jenny from Fabulously Jinxed. She went on my site and found the problem within minutes--MINUTES! This was at 10 PM on Mother's Day after she had worked all day.

I am humbled by the help that came my way on Mother's Day. God bless both these bloggers with their helpful hearts and technical knowledge.

CSC: Coming soon to a cell phone near you

2009-05-11T09:37:00.000-05:00

Common Short Code (CSC)

Short code marketing uses text and multimedia messages sent through a common short code (CSC) of 5 or 6 digits. Short code marketing made a big splash when CSC user 62262 (Obama) sent a message about his vice-presidential choice last August. Nielsen estimates that this text message was received by 2.9 million mobile phone users over the last weekend in August of 2008.

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According to Nielsen:

. . . 57 percent of all mobile subscribers ages 13 and older use text messaging on a regular basis. Text messaging has become so popular, in fact, that U.S. mobile subscribers now send and receive more text messages in a month than they make phone calls.

According to the Common Short Code Association (CSCA):

Telenor, a European wireless carrier, generated $85 million in revenue from CSCs in less than a year after their introduction.

Short Code Marketing

Is it worth the price to sign up for a Common Short Code (CSC)? What type of cell phone users would the CSCs reach? How to begin sending CSCs?

The revenue opportunities for CSCs are in marketing, advertising, entertainment and commerce. See The Market for Common Short Codes on the Common Short Code Administration (CSCA) website.

Registering and leasing a CSC costs $1,000 per month for a vanity CSC (Obama) and $500 per month for each random CSC. The fees are due up front and are non refundable. Then, you must go through providers of content, applications or wireless services--or connection aggregators-- to use your CSC. It can be an expensive proposition.

Content providers are well-known media outlets. Application providers develop and host mobile messaging software. The CSC must be set up and tested to route from a wireless network to the application. Message routing is done through a connectivity aggregator or to the application provider directly. Connection aggregators have authorized connections to multiple wireless networks.

A complete marketing solution incorporates domestic acceptance of CSC, a premium billing capability and valuable content. I would expect that networks of marketers will form to share cost and revenue.

Marketers must comply with guidelines written by the Mobile Marketing Association (MMA).

According to the MMA:

Current internet marketing and privacy standards do not adequately address the specific challenges faced by marketers when marketing through the mobile channel. Strong mobile industry privacy principles will protect the mobile channel from abuses by unethical marketers, and limit consumer backlash and additional regulatory scrutiny.

Blog Your Blessings : Mothers

2009-05-10T20:16:00.003-05:00

Celtic Woman by Hastings

Happy Mother's Day

The Blue Panther Experience is host for Blog Your Blessings Sunday. We are of all faiths, creeds and races, so everyone is welcome. Join us on any Sunday as we blog our blessings.

Is Your Blog Mobile Friendly?

2009-05-07T02:24:00.000-05:00

In January 2009, 63.2 million people accessed the mobile Internet using their cell phones and handheld devices. Thirty-five percent of these people (22.4 million) reported they used the mobile Internet on a daily basis. This is more than double the size of the mobile Internet users (10.8 million) in January 2008.

Males, 18-34-years-old, account for half of mobile Internet users. Females in the same age group are beginning to use the mobile web; with 40 percent accessing the mobile Internet at least once in January 2009.

From comScore: Mobile Internet Becoming A Daily Activity For Many

Those who visited social networking sites or blogs grew even faster--up to 9.3 million from 1.8 million a year ago. The number of mobile subscribers accessing financial accounts and movie information roughly tripled to more than 3 million, while the number of users accessing business news and directories more than doubled to 2.4 million and 5.5 million, respectively.

Is your blog mobile friendly? If not, you may want to develop a mobile version of your blog. It is quick and easy at MoFuse. Below the steps are numbered and illustrated.

Figure 1

visit the site: http://mobifuse.com
complete the short registration for blogs
login for blogs

Figure 2

The first screen you see after login is shown above.

enter your blog name
decide on your .mobi URL and enter the name in the blank
select a category for your blog
type in a name for your RSS feed
enter URL of blog feed -- the system will check to see if the feed is live
-OR- skip this step for now
check the boxes and click the Launch Your Mobile Site button

Figure 3

The next screen (above) has options for

customizing the SMS widget
downloading an automatic detect/redirect plug in (Word Press only)
selecting a banner to publicize your new .mobi website.
-OR- skip this step for now

Figure 4

Figure 4 above shows the screen on which you may customize your SMS widget colors to match your blog. The SMS widget is the best option for bookmarking your .mobi site. Generate, copy and paste the HTML code into your blog.

Add to Cell Phone

That is it! You are done! You may use a custom domain for your blog or opt to upgrade to a premium membership. However, if you want to be visible to over 60,000 mobile web users, get it up today!

Blog Your Blessings : Lakes

2009-05-01T23:52:00.006-05:00

Stubblefield Lake in Sam Houston National Forest

A lake is the landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature.
It is earth's eye; looking into which the beholder
measures the depth of his own nature.

~Henry David Thoreau~

Stubblefield Lake is an oxbow lake that was separated from Lake Conroe by the wanderings of the West Fork of the San Jacinto River. It is quiet and peaceful, just as it is unexpected only miles away from the Stubblefield oil field.

The Blue Panther Experience is host for Blog Your Blessings Sunday. We are of all faiths, creeds and races, so everyone is welcome. Join us on any Sunday as we blog our blessings.

April's Top Entrecard Droppers

2009-05-01T19:18:00.003-05:00

The blogs below continued to drop the Entrecard on this blog. I was traveling and unable to drop much at all. Through this post, these blogs each have a "do follow" link on this blog. Thank you!

The Pond - A mom of grown children who talks about everyday things such as quilting, books, movies, travel and owning a small business.

Ask Me Anything - Your chance to get exactly the blogs you want as I answer your questions or offer you support.

Anything Goes W/ Pahn - Anything Goes w/ Pahn is a personal website of Pahn to weblog his views, opinion and some story to the world wide web.

Online Social Networking - Thought-Provoking Outside-the-Box Articles on a Broad Range of Business and Social Strategies

Work-at-Home-Wealth - Work-at-home-wealth.com is your ultimate destination for free work at home resources, free affiliate resources, free affiliate marketing articles and reviews of top affiliate programs.

Rocket Scientist - I’m an engineer by accident. Since my field of choice tends to be science fiction and fantasy, I’m also interested in psychic power, dragons and faeries, magic, tarot, well, everything.

Trading Resource - Forex Trading and More Online Opportunities

Article Marketing Methods - Making Money Online Using Articles

My Opinion Counts - I have opinions about just about everything.

My Christian Diary - Before Christ I was into so many things that was a danger to my life, and GOD came and saved my life in more ways than one.

Social Media Stats and Strategies Webinar

2009-04-27T22:18:00.005-05:00

Learn about the latest research, upcoming trends and best practices for Internet marketing with social media.

The free webinar, Social Media Stats and Strategies: Success Stories Marketers Need to Know, will feature Geoff Ramsey, CEO of eMarketer.

Discover:

Size and scope of the social media market.

Opportunities and pitfalls of social marketing.

Future of social media.