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 Keepin'
Cool in the Summertime
- We're back from our East Coast and
Baja vacations, and we want to "share some vacation" with you. Check
out this totally refreshing stream flowing under the
Natural Bridge in Virginia,
from our recent trip. Got a favorite of your own?
Send it! And thanks for sending your business to The Wordpix Team.
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IN THE WORKS at Wordpix.
Have you ever known the Wordpix staff to twiddle their thumbs? It's
never the case around here. Right now, our illustrious programmer
Earl is setting up Joomla and .Net "Nuke" for you. Two programs
that will make it easier for you to maintain your own website. We're
not going this route because we don't want to continue doing revisons for you
but because a few
customers have inquired about the newer content management systems.
We're happy to oblige. We're
also about to announce a brand new website for the floral community.
It's a new Wordpix venture that will provide a much needed service
to florists and others.
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ARE YOU A "DIGITAL NATIVE?"
Those who were "born digital" are the
topic of a new book, Born Digital by John Palfrey, in which
Palfrey addresses the massive generation gap between those who were
born digital and those who were not. The book is an offspring of the
work of the Berkman Center at Harvard University, about children
born into and raised in the computer (digital) world. These "digital
natives" use technology to further their productivity - and they may
also become distracted by it. Entire generations being raised and
studying and working digitally means human behavior of the future
will probably be different than it is today. Wall Street Journal,
6/11/08
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 Just
For Fun: Crabby
Office Lady offers solid advice - with attitude! In Crabby's world,
you can learn your way around all the Microsoft Office software
programs easily and quickly. Crabby's the best teacher. Check her
out at
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/help/FX101679371033.aspx
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OF INTEREST:
The Length of Your Domain
Renewal Speaks a Thousand Words :
Word on the Internet is that
Google's sophisticated algorithms give a domain (website address)
more weight if it is registered (and renewed) for multiple years. Seems the years
indicate the domain owner's seriousness about the business - and they tell Google the
site is not one of the thousands that are set up temporarily by
spammers trying to build traffic to their websites. Forget
renewing for one year; go for two, three, five or ten.
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*THE CHAIR TALE:
He had his heart set on winning that
mesh-back chair, the black one donated as a prize for the Buena
Park-La Mirada-La Palma Business EXPO held in March 2008. Earl
Russell refused to buy drawing tickets for other prizes and bought
only one - the one at the chair vendor's table. He told everyone who
dropped their tickets into the box at the vendor's table that they
were wasting their time because he was going to win the chair. At 5
o'clock when the winning ticket was drawn, he became the winner of
the chair. He's been enjoying it ever since. Now that's the power of
positive thinking!
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VACATION ALBUM -
The Natural Bridge,
in central Virginia, was surveyed in 1750 by a young George
Washington and has attracted thousands of visitors since. The bridge
is 215-foot high and adorns a gorge cut out by nature thousands of years ago. It sits on land once owned by
President Thomas Jefferson and is still privately owned. US Highway 11 crosses it;
and you can still see George Washington's "GW" carved into the side
of it.
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WHERE'S YOUR "ESCALATOR"
PITCH? Forget the 30-second commercial for your
business. Forget the "elevator" pitch. Today's entrepreneurs aim to
tell their story in about 20 words or less and to imagine telling it to
someone they pass on an escalator! The trend seems to have started
on the new Twitter
site, a microblogging platform where you send messages to your
friends and contacts that say, simply, "What are you doing?" In
fact, Stowe Boyd, who experimented with the brevity of an escalator
pitch, calls it the Twitpitch. Brevity and relevance are key.
BusinessWeek, 5/16/08
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WHY DO
WE SEND YOU THIS NEWSLETTER? It's simple!
It's to remind you that all the tools that built this ezine are here for you. Let us help with
your words and pictures - for your brochure, book,
newsletter and website. Call 714 228-1101 or send a note:
peg@wordpix.com It's always
great hearing from you! |
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JULY
2008
In This Issue . . .
Are You a
Digital Native?
"Joomla "
In The Works
at Wordpix
How Long Is It?
Your
Domain
Talks to Google
The Chair Tale
Earl's Chair
Just for Fun
Crabby Office
Lady
What's To Know?
Your
"Escalator"
Pitch
Quips & Quotes
They Say...
Vacation Album
The Natural
Bridge
Why?
Why Do We
Do This?
Wordpix Services
Words & Pictures
Marketing
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The Successful
Website Workbook
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"Moving fast is not
the same as going somewhere."
"The human race is divided into two
classes: Those who go ahead and do something and those who sit still
and inquire, 'Why wasn't it done the other way?'" - Oliver Wendell
Holmes
Watching TV with his wife last
night, Joe said to his wife, "I never want to be so sick
that I'm dependent on a machine and fluids from a bottle. If that
ever happens, just pull the plug." His wife got up immediately,
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