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What to Look for in Baby Stroller Safety

2012-02-04T09:19:00.000-08:00

For many parents, strollers are a must-have. They free you up to walk, run, and shop--all while bringing your baby along for the ride. Because of the precious cargo they carry, though, it is essential to consider a number of safety factors when choosing the right stroller for your baby. I have to tell you that in my native language, Baby Strollers is carucioare copii

Baby's Age
One of the most important safety consideration when buying a stroller is choosing the right type for the age of your infant. You wouldn't, for example, put a newborn into an umbrella stroller. Similarly, very young babies should not ride in jogging strollers or in any stroller that does not recline. While older babies can ride in most any style of stroller, there are some features that are not safe to use with them, such as the carrier component of a travel system or the leg hole cover of a traditional stroller. You could buy two strollers to accommodate your child as he grows or save yourself a little money and buy a combination stroller that converts from a carriage to a stroller.

Harness Types
No matter what type of stroller you buy, the most crucial safety feature is its harness. There are two basic harness types available in most strollers: three point harnesses and five point harnesses. Three point harnesses consist of two waist straps and one crotch strap that fasten near the baby's belly button. Five point harnesses have two chest straps in addition to the other straps. They fasten both at the baby's chest and tummy, like the five point harnesses found in a car seat. While a three point harness may be adequate, particularly for older babies and toddlers, a five point harness is the safest option.

Stroller's Purpose
While one stroller might be ideal for a walk around the block, another might be suitable for running or jogging. Unfortunately, one stroller is rarely suited for both purposes. If you plan to have your baby in the stroller during long walks or outings, a stroller that reclines will be more comfortable for her. If you will be running or jogging, a jogging stroller is a must for your child's comfort and safety. If you just need something for a quick trip to the mall, an umbrella stroller might be all you need. Remember, though, that babies need to ride in reclining strollers until they are able to sit up on their own. You may have to put off jogging for a few months but with a newborn in the house, you could probably use the break.

Hinges
The hinges that allow strollers to fold up for convenience have also been responsible for injuring babies and young children. Small fingers can get caught in the hinges and result in pinching, breaking, and in a few cases, even amputation. You can avoid this potential safety hazard by purchasing a stroller with no exposed hinges. If they are covered by fabric or plastic they will help to keep your child's fingers safe. Fortunately, more and more stroller manufacturers are becoming aware of this problem and as a result, fewer strollers are available with exposed hinges.

New vs. Used
As with so many other baby products, it is a good idea to avoid buying a used stroller. Older strollers may not conform to modern safety standards while previously owned strollers of any age may have been recalled. If that's not enough, strollers that have been stored in basements, attics, or garages can easily become breeding grounds for dust mites, mold and other allergens

You can find your desired baby stroller on kidmag.ro

My Horoscope - Pisces

2011-06-08T02:27:00.000-07:00

Pisces

PISCES - The Partner for Life
Caring and kind. Smart. Center of attention. Messy at times and irresponsible! Smart but lazy. High appeal. Has the last word. Good to find, hard to keep. Passionate, wonderful lovers. Fun to be around. Too trusting at times and gets hurt easily. Lover of animals. VERY caring, make wonderful nurses or doctors. They always try to do the right thing sometimes get the short end of the stick. They sometimes get used by others and hurt because of their trusting. Extremely weird but in a good way. Good Sense of Humor!!! Thoughtful. Always gets what he or she wants. Loves to joke. Very popular. Silly, fun and sweet. Good friend to other but need to be choosy on who they allow their friends to be.

Website design Los Angeles

2011-05-26T01:35:00.001-07:00

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Relax yourself in order to make money

2011-04-28T00:16:00.000-07:00

This days I took a little break to myself. I was in a trip with my wife and some friends at the Bran Castle, in Transylvania - then we had a three days vacation on a beautifull villa somewhere in 10 killometres in the mountains. There was incredibly silent, only the wind was making noise. I really enjoyed that. I needed this break, but the problem is that I can not enter into my work program - I am a little lazy right now.

BUT!
No more lazzynes, this can not be. Let`s get to work! Right now!

List of good article directories to submit to

2011-01-31T00:29:00.001-08:00

http://www.articlesbase.com/
http://goarticles.com/
http://www.amazines.com/
http://www.ideamarketers.com/
http://ezinearticles.com/

just post in comments which ones you use

Another article directories with PR4 and autoaprove:
1. http://www.articleslash.net
2. http://www.fourpxarticles.com
3. http://www.ideamarketers.com
4. http://www.goarticles.com
5. http://www.selfgrowth.com

Create WEB2.0 Structures Yourself - A Simple Method - Part 2

2011-01-11T05:51:00.001-08:00

It's a reaction to all the posts and discussion about the "glamour" tools.
I like the idea of having WEB2.0 sites made automatically but.

a) Not one tool has made them properly (with full profiles to help disguise the self promotional nature of the tool)

b) They are expensive. - If I charge my time at $20 an hour, (minimum) then it's touch and go if I get value from these tools. I make 9 or 10 link rings a month at 30 minutes a time. That's $90-$100 dollar value for a $130 dollar tool.

c) The extras these tools come with are (frankly) shit. The keyword tool, article marketing, RSS, Bookmarking,Video submission and even profile making sections of Nuke - even when it was actually bloody working properly (something It has failed to do to an acceptable level for some months now) are all pretty crap - stand alone, one off cost solutions are available that are no only cheaper in the mid term - but do the job a hell of a lot better (A HELL of a lot better - if you bother to see how Nuke's keyword tool works out whther to go for a site or not you'll realize it's just ever so slightly shuffling the data straight out of Googles tool and expressing the result in words rather than number or diagrams. AN idiot could write a better tool in Excel or VBA in 30 minutes)

People are then left with these shoddily constructed WEB2.0 structures, and many then sit back and wonder when the traffic is going to pour in.

In most cases it's never going to come - bacause the REAL hard work is getting gazillions of links to these structures and dozens more good quality ones to their money sites.

This is where the attention needs to be for most people.

But that's not as much fun as coming back to your desk and seeing some software has "created" a few websites for you. There is no immediate "wow" factor in paying someone for 200 backlinks or a Xrumer blast or whatever. But at the end of the day, creating WEB2.0 structures and doing just about everything these "total solution" packages do is a piece of piss and can be done low budget and quick.

I realize most don't want to hear this, and want the flashy toys with fancy names and loadsa advertising,but this post was just for the newcomers who are contemplating where best to put their resources.

If you are time rich and cash poor (as probably most IM newcomers are) Then learn to make these structures yourself - it's quick and easy.

Spend you cash on quality links to power your network instead.

Create WEB2.0 Structures Yourself - A Simple Method

2011-01-11T05:50:00.000-08:00

Creating Web 2.0 properties.

Okay, you asked for it, you're going to get it.

Creating Web 2.0 properties dirty and down way of doing it.

Firstly, get yourself a list of do follow Web 2.0 sites. I'm not going to give any specific URLs here, because that's bad form, but if I do say check out “Target Hut”first, it will tell you exactly which ones are worth putting your content onto. Unfortunately it doesn't detail whether they do follow or no follow, and a couple of searches through Google should sort that out.

While we're on the subject of this, don't be afraid of the odd no follow the link. But do follow are a lot better. It's interesting that many sites change their policy on link following from time to time. If Or you are a newcomer, and have a low maintenance blog or page, many sites will automatically class all of your links as no follow.

I've noticed on sites like Squidoo and others, that link start as no follow, but if you are a good little boy, some may well become do follow in time. There's no science to it unfortunately, you'll just have to work this out for yourself, and it changes all the time.

Secondly, you're going to need content. I like to create a six spoke structure to the main URL of whatever site on promoting as my first port of call. This will have two pieces of unique written content and a video. For video, I use a site called Animoto,(free) it lets you upload your own still pictures and it turns them into a snazzy video. You can either cheat and use a product like Cam studio (free) to record what it makes, or for five dollars a month you can become a member and make some quite long and complex videos yourself. Making a video in Animoto, once you have the still pictures is a 10 minute job. You can edit out the animoto logo with Windows movie maker (free), and add your own titles if you want.

The written work I write using Dragon Naturally Speaking 10 ($30), and a decent USB microphone. The speech to text program cost about $30, and it makes that back for me every single day without fail. It is one of the best investments I've ever made.

I suggest writing completely unique content for your hubs, that means writing 12 pieces to go with your video. How long should that take? Well with speech to text it would take me about 40 minutes.

Next, comes the signing process to your Web 2.0 sites. They are all different, and some are quite awkward. Over time you will develop your favourite sites. It is best to perm about six sites from 10 or 12, so you never hitting the exact same set of sites with each link structure.

Over time, once you learn how this works, you will be prepared to make this signup process as quick and as painless as possible. Here are the things I use and how I prepare.

Firstly, I have a brand-new e-mail address is ready, not a Gmail or a Yahoo mail, as many sites reject these immediately as spam. (Yeah, Google rejected as spam oh the irony) if you have your own sites and host, it's easy enough to use your own e-mail addresses which you create.

Top tip, once a e-mail address has done its job, you can always delete it. I tend to delete any e-mail address over three months old and then can replace it with a new one.

Okay I also recommend having a form filling bot like a Robo form ,(free). The free version of this does a decent job of making form filling in quite quick, for instance I can sign up to a new WordPress.com account in about 35 seconds, that's actually quicker than SE nuke or magic submitter.

Another great tool is a programmable keyboard, ($12-$80) use the programmable function keys to put in stuff like your name or password e-mail address etc etc then just press the buttons in sequence, you can even include the tab to space down to the next item. I have a system where I always know my name is F1, my e-mail address is F2, etc etc.

Then, pop into your e-mail client and click the links to confirm the signup status with these Web 2.0 sites.

The first time you do all this, it may take you well over an hour. However, I've got to the stage now where I am here in about 10 or 12 minutes, again, that's pretty competitive even when rated alongside automated Web 2.0 is creation and submission tools.

Next, pop back into the sites you've created. Of course you have bookmarked your pages, and made a note of the URLs that you have created haven't you?

Fill in the profiles. To my mind the crappy incomplete profiles that Web 2.0 creation software makes must leave a rather large footprint for the anti spam bots to find.

No photograph, no user information, the standard background theme used every time, to me this stands out like a sore thumb. Filling in a complete profile (again with a programmable keyboard or simply cutting and pasting preprepared information) for six accounts will probably take you 12 to 15 minutes. But in the long run will save you having to remake some of those accounts when they are deleted as spam.

Okay, earlier on I mention having to written pieces of work, one is the bedrock, the other is the banker. Sorry for the crappy phrasing. The bedrock piece is about alter ego or who or whatever, doing, your interests.
I tend to make it general narrative waffle. Just speaking into the microphone about some fictional person and the sort of dumb stuff they get up to on a day-to-day basis until I have three or 400 words. That takes maybe two minutes to write. (remember to include the keyword at 2-2.5% density and any associated words at 1-1.5% density)

You post the six bedrock pieces in the six sites. Then, that's it for day one. No links. Important!
No Links!

Three days later, I logged back in and put in the “banker” piece, and the video. The banker piece has three links in it. Two are self-serving (one to my main URL and want to and in a page of my website) and a third is to a general authority site in the field. You get away with three links as you have a multiple post piece

If you are posting to Squidoo or similar, then it's just a banker piece. You need to take a little more care over it, but you only need one piece. Put the video on at the same time, and you're done

The video must have text or a link to your main site in it. I know you Tube do not allow external linking, so make sure your main URL is prominently displayed in the video, have it up on screen for 10-12 seconds at the end of the video for people to catch it.

Okay, you've created a six spoke hub. Overall, once you are practised at this the actual account creation and posting (bearing in mind you are making multiple posts) will probably come in at about an hour may be a little more for the whole lot.

Of course, you have to create the content, but you have to create the content whether you use an automated Web 2.0 tool or not..

Here's the rub, this six spoke hub will be a complete cocking waste of time. You will not get much traffic from it at all..... until..... you power it up.

Get some links, some bookmarks, or whatever you can to get the hub noticed. Articles pointing to your hub sites,Xrumer blasts, social bookmarking, even the old favourite scrape box spamming.

Preferably do all of these things and a few more. And point them at your hub sites.

Good quality bookmarks and articles on high PR sites can point directly to your main pages,for those of you not afraid of writing a little, tools like “build my rank” are also great to point to your main pages as well as the hub.

Getting thousands of different back links is where the real effort comes in. I made the mistake early in my Internet marketing career are falling for all the flashy lights and jingly bells of automated Web 2.0 creation software. Yes of course it has its place. But it does the easy stuff, and leaves you to do the hard stuff. A WordPress blog or a wiki page on its own will provide next to no linking juice for your site. Bookmark it and link it spam it and basically hammer it, then it will prove its worth.

I made a post yesterday about Xrumer. Saying that it has its place. And it certainly does.

As far as back links go nothing will create more faster. And contrary to popular belief, they aren't bad or poor back links, however the huge downside is the majority of them will be deleted. If you can retain 30% of them for six months you are doing quite well.

I suppose the point here is, decide whether you are technically proficient enough to host your own Xrumer setup, or just pay a service 100 bucks a month to supply you with tens of thousands of links.

Other services will also help, and sick submitter does more or less the same as Xrumer, but much slower. I have not found it unstable, but others have had problems with it. Both tools are all about profile creation really. Although the new version of Xrumer claims it will do a lot more. (That probably means it will be even more complex)

Don't underestimate the power of social bookmarking to get your good links found. When you create a Web 2.0 structure bookmarking it multiple times will get it found, it's only a temporary thing, but once it's indexed you can press on. After all, time is money.

I hope you find this post at least a little useful, there are some sites here and tools that aren't normally spoken about in the black hat forums, and remember folks when it comes to Internet marketing tools

Quote:
Buy what you really need not what you want to play with.

link building softwares

2011-01-11T05:49:00.000-08:00

My favorite link building softwares are SENuke Light, Article Marketing Robot, Bookmarking Demon, and Scrapebox.
One idea - Look at crazyflx's phpbb bot, it is freely available here and can be used in tandem with sbox.

Another idea - invest in a decent spinner app if you don't already have one to spin the hell out of your comments, or, alternatively, look crazyflx's bot that makes unique articles from articles you find elsewhere.
Also you can try out:
- sick submitter

Simple method to start an autoblog

2011-01-11T05:32:00.001-08:00

Grab auto-blog wordpress software from the downloads section(in bhw forum), and the auto-spin for unique posts. Do some research for a good niche. Decent searches, low competition, potential for commercial intention.

Buy a domain and hosting. Set up the auto-blog. Monetize with affiliate from CB or adsense. Build some links with SB.

Watch it rank, and if you picked the right niche, some money should start coming in.

4 tier link pyramids

2011-01-11T05:27:00.000-08:00

So far I have been doing 4 tier link pyramids I have been ranking keywords on the first page of google in about 3 - 5 days. The most recent keyword I just got to the first page I did in 4 days and it gets 22k Exact Searches a month in google $$$ =D

** Also when you get to the top of google keep updating your content. And on page SEO is a must!
On the 3rd and 4th Teir you do your Scrape Box and Xrummer blasts

60 TIPS FOR A STUNNINGLY GREAT LIFE

2010-12-24T02:12:00.000-08:00

I want to shift gears from leadership to a pure focus on crafting an exceptional life for this blog post. Ultimately, life goes by in a blink. And too many people live the same year 80 times. To avoid getting to the end and feeling flooded regret over a live half-lived, read (and then apply) these tips:

1. Exercise daily.

2. Get serious about gratitude.

3. See your work as a craft.

4. Expect the best and prepare for the worst.

5. Keep a journal.

6. Read “The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin”.

7. Plan a schedule for your week.

8. Know the 5 highest priorities of your life.

9. Say no to distractions.

10. Drink a lot of water.

11. Improve your work every single day.

12. Get a mentor.

13. Hire a coach.

14. Get up at 5 am each day.

15. Eat less food.

16. Find more heroes.

17. Be a hero to someone.

18. Smile at strangers.

19. Be the most ethical person you know.

20. Don’t settle for anything less than excellence.

21. Savor life’s simplest pleasures.

22. Save 10% of your income each month.

23. Spend time at art galleries.

24. Walk in the woods.

25. Write thank you letters to those who’ve helped you.

26. Forgive those who’ve wronged you.

27. Remember that leadership is about influence and impact, not title and accolades.

28. Create unforgettable moments with those you love.

29. Have 5 great friends.

30. Become stunningly polite.

31. Unplug your TV.

32. Sell your TV.

33. Read daily.

34. Avoid the news.

35. Be content with what you have.

36. Pursue your dreams.

37. Be authentic.

38. Be passionate.

39. Say sorry when you know you should.

40. Never miss a moment to celebrate another.

41. Have a vision for your life.

42. Know your strengths.

43. Focus your mind on the good versus the lack.

44. Be patient.

45. Don’t give up.

46. Clean up your messes.

47. Use impeccable words.

48. Travel more.

49. Read “As You Think”.

50. Honor your parents.

51. Tip taxi drivers well.

52. Be a great teammate.

53. Give no energy to critics.

54. Spent time in the mountains.

55. Know your top 5 values.

56. Shift from being busy to achieving results.

57. Innovate and iterate.

58. Speak less. Listen more.

59. Be the best person you know.

60. Make your life matter.

Source
This are some stunning advices for a beautifull life!

SEO Tips

2010-11-22T12:10:00.001-08:00

Traffic is the core element of a successful website. Search Engines have become the primary way of bringing traffic to an online venture. Targeted traffic can convert into potential business and revenue for any website owner.

Tip 1: Avoid Bad Coding.

Ensure web pages are W3C Compliant. Search Engines bots crawl through web sites by analyzing the sites code. The idea is to make html clean and error free so that these bots are able to index every page of a website. Having errors could mean that your entire site does not get indexed by the bots, and ultimately can lead to a lower page ranking.

Tip 2: Use Relevant Keywords.

If a website is about belgian chocolate, then go after specific keywords. For example "gourmet belgian chocolate" and "belgian chocolate truffles" would be good choices because they are very specific. The more specific a keyword is, the less competition it will receive in search engine rankings. This allows sites to have an easier time ranking, and a better position in the search engines.

Tip 3: Smart Keyword Placement.

After the keywords have been decided on, they should show up somewhere in the site title and header tags. The keywords should also be in the web pages body, but avoid overdoing the keyword density.

Tip 4: Get Inbound Links.

Relevant incoming links from other websites that are 'trusted' can boost the site's search engine ranking. Try to avoid paid link backs and too many reciprocal links. Stay away from link schemes.

Keyword Spy Package

2010-11-21T23:07:00.001-08:00

This is my Keyword Spy Package
I hope it will be helpfull

http://www.google.pl/trends
http://www.google.com/sktool/#keywords
http://www.google.com/insights/search/#

http://ranks.nl/tools/spider.html
http://hint.fm/seer
http://www.keywordeye.co.uk
http://suggest.thinkpragmatic.net
http://whatdoyousuggest.net/#|default|default
http://duhomez.ironie.org/seo-widgets/suggest.php?kw=home&mix2=office&lang=fr&depth=1

and after all I use this : http://www.marketsamurai.com/full-version.php

Effective SEO Tactics for Webmasters

2010-11-21T23:06:00.000-08:00

Ever thought of what are the most effective tactics for webmasters to optimize their websites? We certainly have, and we have listed here some of the most essential methods that a webmaster needs in order to obtain the most effect with the least effort:

Keyword research: Having relevant keywords is where SEO starts. Obtaining good keywords could mean the difference of having no visitors for your site to many visitors. It also determines how relevant your visitors are to your website. Most on-site optimization requires that good keywords are present to have a good optimized site.

Meta tag optimization: Description meta tags are used as snippets by Google, so having good meta tags are essential to have relevant visitors coming to your site. Within this description, words that match the user’s query are bolded, so make sure to have relevant keywords within the description.

Title tag optimization: A title tag tells both users and search engines about the topic of your website, so make sure that it is relevant and not just full of random words. Make sure to add in your primary keywords to optimize the title fully.

On-site optimization: This could include different elements such as the content, the image tags, and other website content related changes. Try to add new elements to your site, and make sure that it is relevant and useful for the visitors as well. It will be sure to make visitors come back for more.

These elements are just some of the more important aspects to effectively optimize your site

Today - Fiverr.com

2010-11-10T00:20:00.000-08:00

Today I have posted my first gig on fiverr.com - it is about blogging and this stuff.
This is the gig:
"Send me your written review of anything and I will post it to my blog with 2 links. (Will not accept objectionable material, pornography, etc.) (No bad neighborhood links will be posted) My blog has google page rank 2 and it is hosted on blogspot."

24 On-site SEO Checkups For Clueless Developers / Marketers

2010-11-04T06:55:00.000-07:00

Although this will seem, to many of you, a very generic list of SEO on-site tips, you may be surprised to see how many SEO consultants and web developers overlook or forget these basic steps when launching a new site. These twenty- four On-site search engine optimisation checkups/tips can assure that any link building / link baiting efforts that will be made will give great results.

1. Run a $100 Adwords test campaign after your initial keyword research, helping you do the best themed/relevant keywords on-site optimisation.
2. Ensure there is a well written, non-duplicated attractive Title / Description tags on every page.
3. Verify that almost every single piece of relevant content on your site is somehow static to the page it was written for and is not a text image (double check that with a text browser).
4. Revise the On-page content to be sure there is a minimum presence of your themed keywords on every page. Don't try to go overboard, just think as if you'd be the user.
5. Double check your code to make sure you've got your content titles and subtitles under H1 / H2 tags.
6. Verify that the any navigational element are text links and are not "click here" or "more info" type of links.
7. Make sure contextual links are widely spread and commonly used all across the website content to emphasize key pages.
8. If you plan on trading links, make sure there is small directory with themed categories, or at least get a "links/resources" page.
9. Verify that your robots.txt file exists and that you added the folders you want to prevent access from.
10. Be sure there is a sitemap.xml at the root of your site.
11. Make sure there is a breadcrumb to help the cross-linking of your site.
12. Verify that the static sitemap is easily reachable by your visitors.
13. Ensure that your 404 page contains links to your main categories and maybe a search box.
14. Check that important images are labeled properly with the alt tag (this should be automated somehow).
15. Make sure you installed generic analytics to ensure any kind of tracking (Google Analytics, Indextools).
16. Make sure that conversion/defined action tracking analytics are installed (Heatmap tracking, conversion trackers from PPC platforms, Indextools action trackers, etc).
17. Register / validate your site through Google Webmaster central to be able to analyze incoming links and validate a few things (like your robots.txt file).
18. Do a quick IP location test to make sure you're hosted near your main market.
19. Unless otherwise advised, get your company's signature at the bottom of the pages you create for clients, using one of your best keyword as anchor text. This is vital. You shouldn't be worried about promoting your services, especially if your clients are highly satisfied with your work!
20. Use all SEOmoz tools (I'm a bit biased here): Page Strength and Keyword Difficulty to measure the efforts required to achieve high SERPs (by comparing your actual site with the top competitors website), and the Crawl test to ensure your website will get properly indexed.

21. Get your website xhtml/w3c validated to cover the major issues you might not have thought of

And a few extras, if you're running a blog platform

22. Ping the major content aggregators (Google Blog Search, My Yahoo, Wikio, etc.)

23. Include links to major social platforms (digg, del.icio.us, blogmarks, technorati tags, etc.)

24. Use Feedburner to get stats and a universal RSS feed

With this basic checklist, any web development company that is building and marketing websites will give its customers a fairly good chance of achieving high SERPs while generating several leads with referrals and good SERPs for themselves. The extra time it takes to do this justifies the reward you get. As an example, our company currently employs 17 people: I can say that half of the business we've generated has been solely because we insist that our customers implement at least these basics steps before launching a site. And, let me tell you, nobody is unhappy with the traffic, and nearly all of them don’t mind that our signature's there!

Source: seomoz blog

Dirty little SEO secrets Revealed

2010-11-04T06:50:00.000-07:00

Tip#1

Quote:

I have found that writing a letter to google telling them my site is now live and asking them to let the relevent people know has an astounding effect!

Tip #2 this is the address I use

Quote:

New Websites Division
Google Seattle
651 N. 34th St.
Seattle, WA 98103

Tip #3

Putting the word "Number 1 ranking" automatically lets Google know you are the number 1 ranking website and they put you there

How to be excellent in English or learn English by yourself.

2010-11-04T04:44:00.000-07:00

Find Good communities: That's the first thing to do. Find good communities and blogs to read every day. Put 1-2 hours / day. You won't understand the details, especially if they are written by some kind of location specific language, but you get the whole idea and the style.
Review grammar and syntax: Review your school courses. Tenses and forms, conditionals, passive voice... all that "crap". It's important that you have a solid mastery of the language basics to write fluently.
Watch and listen: My recommended channels are BBC World and Aljazeera International. Listen to podcasts and videos on the web.
Practice: Contribute to forums, get into the discussion and don't be afraid from being singled and turned down. Start a blog.

That's it. It's not hard, it also won't happen in a day or two. Persistence is the key here. Good luck.