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By Atem Yaak Atem
I have one of my precious collections, a copy of the manual- in Dinka language- for use by the congregation of what used to be Anglican Church in Sudan, later to become Episcopal Church of the Sudan after the enthronement in 1976 of its first native archbishop, the Right Rev Elanana Ngalamu.
The book which is the subject of this article carries the title: KITAP DE DUƆR. First, let me present the physical outlook of this antique kind of a book. It is a pocket size hardcover 327-page book. The white lettering is within two rectangular and concentric boxes on a rose background. The spine is broken. It was in recent days when my wife- who has realised the importance of the item- that she reattached the broken part with a glue that the book now looks more useable. It's first two pages and corners are not as elegant as they used to be during their youthful days; they have become an eyesore with yellow smudges. That the book has passed through several hands or overused by its first and last owner (I got this book in 2012 from a member of the Emmanuel Jiëëng Parish Church, Juba. I have since forgotten how I came to be the owner of this treasure, only that I recall, a few if any, saw any value in what appeared to be a junk).
The title deserves a brief, if a passing, comment. Kitap de Duɔr in Dinka1 means Worship book, "kitap" being a loan Arabic word for kitaab or book and "duɔr" is Dinka for "worship". The loan word should have been the Dinka possessive "kitam de" or "the book of" while "duɔr" is Dinka for worship. Again, something here is not right with the spelling of this word which should have a long /ɔɔ/ instead of short /ɔ/. Since the book is a product of the days before the marking of "breathy vowels" had been introduced by Summer Institute of Linguistics, SIL, in late 1970s- an orthography that helps the reader with pronunciation and meaning- today Dinka word for "worship" is written "duɔ̈ɔ̈r".
The title which is in white on a rose hardcover. Although there is no subtitle, the book is not a novel or a biography; it is or used to be a manual for senior clergymen (those were the days when the role of women in Church leadership was very marginal).
Printing history
The book production has a long history. The following are the dates of the years when the book was published and the information is in English:
- Shortened Prayer Book with Hymns: Dinka, Bor, dialect2
Published in England, 1930
- Prayer Book with Hymns: Dinka, Bor dialect
Published in Cairo, 1946
- Prayer Book with Hymns: Dinka, Bor dialect, modified3
Published in England, 1956. The addition information is that the publishers (in London) were Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge.
- KITAP DE DUƆR, New Day Publisherd [sic], Khartoum, Sudan, 200. (New Day Publishers is affiliated to ECS).
The book is 327 pages long, the final page, gives the reader of the name of a famous and one of the oldest (established in 1803) publishings entities in Britain: MADE AND PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, LIMITED, LONDON AND BECCLES
Church prays for temporal leaders of the time
Members of the younger generation from South Sudan may not be aware that the Church leaders of the day conducted church services that included the congregation praying for temporal leaders, who before independence of Sudan were British, Egyptian and Sudanese. They also prayed, as they do today, for peace, relief from pestilence and mitigation of natural disasters such as drought. Here is an extract typical of such prayers for leaders- civil administrators in particular.
Lɔŋ [lɔ̈ŋ]4 de Thudan
Nhialiny nɔŋ riɛr ebɛn [ebɛ̈n]
ku ye dunyiny [dunyïny] de kaŋ [käŋ]
kedhia, yin [yïn] laŋku [läŋku] ba pinydɛn
de Thudan ya thiei [thieei]. Ku cɔk kɔc tɔ [tɔ̈]
ne [në] kɔc nhiim [nhïïm] ne [në] riɛr de Miriida
cɔk ke [kë] ye piɔndu [piɔ̈ndu] kɔɔr
ku piath de kɔc kedhia. Ye Medook [mëdöök]
thiei [thieei] kene [kenë] Gabanai
kedhia, agut mapatic ku banykuɔk [bänykuɔk] ke Miri kedhia
this is on page 29.
The title- in bold above- is "Prayer for Sudan". It addresses God, the omnipotent and omniscient to bless "Sudan, our land" and to let leaders in government (Miri) do "Your desire" (or will) and bless "the Guides- probably a reference to top leaders such as Governor General- and all Governors (provincial), District Inspectors (mapatic) and "all our (traditional) chiefs of the Government".
Prayer for parliamentarians
There is also a prayer called "Lɔŋ [lɔ̈ŋ] ne [në] ɣoot [ɣööt] ke Parliament nyiny [nyïny] wel [wël] or "Prayer for the houses of parliament guided by wisdom. Since the word plural, "ɣööt", is used, this must be referring to the lower House of Representatives and the Senate, which were established before and after independence in 1956,
There is also a prayer for the day when people had been elected to parliament or "Lɔŋ [lɔ̈ŋ] de akol [aköl] lɔce [lɔcë] kɔc ne [në] Parliamentic".
Among other things, the second part of the prayer says the following:
Cɔk ŋɛk ne [në] keyiic ye rɔt puol [puöl) ku tɛɛu [tɛ̈ɛ̈u] tueŋ a piath de raan ebɛn [ebɛ̈n].
Cɔk tuŋ kedhia mɛt [mɛ̈t] ku kɔrki [kɔrkï) man [män] yiic bi [bï] kɔc ke Thudan kedhia ceŋ ne [në] dɔɔr [dɔ̈ɔ̈r] ku miɛt de piɔu [piɔ̈u], ku rieu [riëu] de wuot [wuöt] kɔk [kɔ̈k] ku piɔn [piɔ̈n] piath ya yok [yök].
Because the content of this part is important I have to quote it at length. It goes this way: "Let everyone among them- the legislators- sacrifice personal interests and put first the welfare of everybody. Let all the parties seek unity (of purpose) so that the people of Sudan will live in peace and happiness, and respect by other nations and to find good will".
This is on page 30.
Glossary and endnotes
1The Dinka people of South Sudan call themselves Jieeng and their language Thong e Jieeng (Thoŋ e Jiëëŋ- Thong e Jieeng, and is always with a long "breathy" /ee/ not short /e/).
2 dialects: The Dinka language consists of many dialects. Some linguists put the figure at 12. This is an underestimate. For example, the population of the former Bor District alone, speak four main dialects, namely Bor (Gok and Athoc), Twi, Nyarweng and Hol. The status of the dialect spoken by Thany is debatable; some people say it is an occupational rather than "ancestral" dialect. Those committed into written form- mainly scriptures- are Rek, Bor, Padang (Padaang) which is rather a collection of dialects than one. Others are Agaar (Agar is the plural, people, while the dialect and a person is Agaar), Malual, Ngok, Abiliang, Ageer, Ciec and so forth. One of the foreign missionaries who made immense contribution to the writing and development of the Dinka language was Fr P. A. Nebel, a Catholic priest based in Kuajok of the former Gogrial District. Among his notable works is his Dinka Dictionary of Rek-Malual dialect which also contains text and vocabulary. He also wrote Dinka Grammar in 1947. Despite the fact the book was published in 1948, the work is still a useful reference for the students of language.
3modified: The first missionaries of the Church Missionary Society, CMS, which founded their mission at Malek, 11 miles south east of Bor town, in 1905 and a school the following year, began translation of the scriptures into Bor dialect. The leader of that pioneering Christian missionaries of the Gordon Memorial Sudan Mission, was Archdeacon Archibald Shaw. "From about 1911 Archdeacon A. Shaw took time from his preaching and teaching to supervise the translation of the N.T. (New Testament) into the Bor dialect of Dinka, publishing it book by book during the 1920s and 1930s, some trial editions at least being produced on the mission press at Malek… Philip Anyang Agul, Gordon Apeec Ayom and Daniel Deng Atong were his Dinka co-workers"- (From Janet Persson's In Our Own Languages: The Story of Bible Translation in Sudan, Paulines Publications Africa, Nairobi, 1997, p12).
Shaw's interactions were mostly with the Guala people, whose area is close to Malek and whose dialect belongs to Gok (Gɔ̈k) cluster which is a very close variant of Athoc (Athɔ̈ɔ̈c).
However, the use of the word "modified" attached to "Bor dialect" came about after the scriptures- mainly the Book of Common prayers, the New Testament and portions of the Old Testament were being used by the Christians in the former Rumbek and Yirol Districts. To accommodate some aspects of the dialects those areas, some changes in spellings of some word made. Two examples out of those words are: piath in which the sound /th/ is shown in italic, meaning that in Bor dialect as well as Twi and Nyarweng (Hol excluded) the equivalent is not appreciably similar- more of an /h/ than a /th/. The same applies to cɔk, when it means "let" in English. In Bor and other dialects spoken in the area, a keen listener will not hear the /k/ sound; but a sound similar to an /h/.
4Words appearing in square brackets are written to indicate "breathy vowels", which were not in use in those days. Application of diacritics or umlauts, helps in deciphering pronunciation and meaning of a given word. Dinka words appearing in square brackets have been written with diacritics- to help in pronunciation and meaning especially in reference to the so called "breathy vowels" which are not in the original. The symbols serve as guides to pronunciation and meanings.
5Miri or Miir: this is a foreign word for government. It is said to be Egyptian in origin. (Some Dinka translators prefer this word to Arabic akuma {Hukuma} on the assumption that it is Dinka, rather than a loan word from Egyptian Arabic).
7mapatic, plural mapatiic: Dinka corruption of Arabic "mufatish" or inspector in reference to a District Commissioner or DC, who in those days wielded great authority over many people and ran extensive territory unlike today's county commissioner who heads an equivalent of a rural council or mostly inhabited by a clan, not tribe.
Part two of this will follow.
Atem Yaak Atem is a South Sudanese journalist, translator and full time writer currently living with his family in Australia. Among the books in Dinka he owns and which he uses for the purpose of comparison are copies of books- three of them scriptural: Nebel's Dinka Dictionary of Rek-Malual (including texts and stories); Lëk Yam, New Testament in Rek dialect (it is designated as a language in the book); Jam de Nhialic Löŋ Thɛɛr ku Löŋ cï Piac Mac, Old and New Testaments in Padaang (Jieeng de Padang) and Lëk Jöt, Bor dialect.


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Today while cleaning out Noah's room and purging half-used notebooks from last school year. I came upon an essay he wrote...suddenly I no longer care that my dryer conked out this morning.
She is nice
Natalie is a good friend. She never gets mad at her friends. She has a lot of friends because she is kind. She plays with friends in her class at recess even though her old friends are in a different class. She calls people to come over to our house. She gives my mom and dad hugs and she hugs me.
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Natalie is good at making things up with toys
She is good at making up house and we make up stories with stuffed animals. It makes me laugh when she makes her stuffed animals do crazy things. She helps when I'm bored.
Sunday, August 24, 2014
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Marc having unexpectedly turned into Sigmund Freud, he's all about what's happening into the dark corners of my mind, and since he won't take 'wtf??' as an answer I'd better practice my introspection. Current exercise: what did you think about your mother's boobs? if you don't want to think about them, you're just repressing, that's sad but you can always try to describe with full detail what happens in a PULD.
yeah, PULD, or PU&LD. that's how they call it on 'loops. In case you're like myself somewhat unfamiliar with the pro's lingo (and then feel retarded) it's for Pick Up & Lay Down.
so, my unenlightened version would be like: take rod… sling back… tug… sling forward… follow. but that won't do, obviously. I need to get a finer grain.
- initial position: right handed, open. left foot in front, right foot behind. body plane slightly tilted towards the line plane. 10m of line on the ground, straight. no slack. rod in line with the line.
- grip rather loose, wrist slightly bent to have the rod in line with forearm.
- start moving up the rod by flexing the elbow and shoulder. smooth acceleration. the whole movement goes towards a sharp stop with arm horizontal, forearm vertical and wrist straight. the rod is at one o'clock.
- your eyes follow the loop, hence your head has turned back over the shoulder to look at the backcast
- meantime, and just after the stop, try to squeeze and release the grip to absorb bounce (not very clear what to do, but you try to dampen the goddamn thing)
- arm extends a little in direction of backcast while the loop unrolls
- when the line is straight, start front cast. smooth acceleration to a stop. stop should be more or less 1-2 o'clock. things you try not to forget:
- less power
- concentrate on loop: let the loop happen correctly, then the rest will follow (relatively easy to believe at 10m)
- careful with power, not too much, else you tail
- be smooth and sharp but smooth
- try to have the tip moving in a relatively straight path. this one is wishful thinking, because the tip moves too fast and I have no fucking idea of its trajectory (the tail will tell me)
- think you shoot into a tube to try to get a narrow loop
- all this went well, so the loop is nice and not tailing (much) and maybe it has a kind of point to it. (you should film it to really know but lazy)
- just before the line straighten, start lowering the tip. the idea is to follow the line as it falls on the ground.
Now there's a cool variant where you first send a wave in the line to take it of the surface before actually back casting it, I guess it makes for a quieter pick up. at least, that's what I imagined when I saw Marc doing this:
spent an hour this morning with my ol' 4wt, trying to have the quietest possible PÜLD (sounds like an ikea name now :mrgreen:). obviously not very quiet yet. I like these "presentation oriented" stuff for the rhythm. a PÜLD cycle is like 2 seconds. you do that for ten minutes and that's three hundred casts. you feel your arm working. ^_^


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An evening arrival at Funchal airport just in time for the bus to Funchal town.It was still warm enough to eat outside at a restaurant in the old town close by the Residencial Colombo where I was staying for the first four nights.
28th November
The bus to Santo da Serra wasn't until 10.30 so I was able to fit in a visit to the town market "Mercado dos Lavradores" beforehand.
I'd planned to buy some veg seed there but found some good value packets in a garden shop on the way.Mostly 0.85 cents each for a lot of seed per packet.Near the end of my stay I found a few more varieties in the supermarket at Machico and have now more or less completed my veg seed purchases ready for the 2016 season.
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Mist and drizzle in Santo.Same as on my previous visits!Seems to be a wet spot.
I ignored the closed for walkers sign at the start of the channel near the Capela dos Cardais as I'd already seen from the geocaching site that the difficulties were few.It turned out to be just a few tree branches across the path and some care needed at a slight land slip near the next road crossing. The route was a bit "airy" in a few places before becoming less exposed in the ravine above Madre de Aqua.
|Flight of steps down to the stream ,where you'd cross and go up the other side to get to the higher Lev do Tornos
Time for a coffee and beer before catching the bus back to Funchal where it was warm and sunny and I had a walk along the sea front which has now been fully remodelled following the devastating floods in 2010.
|Last year this area was still a waste ground behind hoardings
29th November
Breakfast on the hotel 5th floor balcony with great views over Funchal and then a local bus up to Corujeira de Dentro at the top of the town west of Monte and a walk along the old route of the Levada dos Tornos into the deep ravine of the Ribeira Santa Lizia visiting a few geocaches along the way.
|Luxuriant vegetation at the top of the path where the waters of the old Tornos emerge from the mountain
|New flood defences post 2010
30th November
Rodoeste 96 bus up to Corrida above Estreito de Camara de Lobos and Jardim da Serra.Unlike my previous walks up the cobbled road to the Boca da Corrida some kind Germans stopped to give me a lift on the very steep road. I then followed the main path to along Boca do Cerra before branching off on the Pico Grande route to reach the next col with Pico Cerco.Autumn colours very much in evidence.I'd been hoping to have a look further along the ridge towards Pico de Jorge but the mist came down and the hoped for cairns weren't very apparent.
Retraced my steps back through this lovely mountain landscape and got a lift back down to Estreito with some safari journey thrill seekers after a beer at the Marco bar.
|New development at the Rotunda da Infante.Until recently this area was behind hoarding after devasting flood damage
Caught the 81 bus to Faja dos Cardos at the head of the Nuns Valley to start my walk across the mountains to near Boa Ventura on the north coast ,where I was staying for the next three nights.I'd previously done the southern half up or down from Boca das Torrinhas at various times and also most of the northern half apart from the top section which had been very overgrown.Now was the time to complete the whole route given the path upgrades in the last few years.
The way up to the Boca is now much more straightforward than I remembered and the old track is in fine condition.The start of the path down on the north side is still fairly vegetated but this is probably due to the higher rainfall resulting in lush undergrowth.An amazing route that has been carved into the cliff face sidling round the mountain avoiding the frequent bluffs.
|Falca villages above Boa Ventura
A great walk.I'd fairly whizzed along in about 4 1/2 hours .A bit parched when I reached the bar at the main road junction and as I didn't feel the need to do the uphill road walk into the village I stopped for a couple of beers before catching the very handy 16.00 bus.
2nd December
Today's walk was put together from geocaching and Sunflower Books.I'd previosly done the middle part along the Levada de Cima before (Walk 27a) and also part of the Levada da Achada Grande not shown on walking maps but on Street/Cycle Map. Took the bus at around 9.00 up to Lombada above Ponta Delgada and started my walk with a look up the Ribeira da Camisa before returning through Lombada and up the road to the mast to get onto the Levada da Cima.
|Holiday cottages Ribeira da Camisa
|Levada da Cima
After arriving at it's source I used my local knowledge to locate the old path further up the Ganhalo valley which leads up to the higher levada and walked along this to the path junction and down to Boa Ventura.
As there was plenty of day left I continued down the lane to the Cristovao bar just above the coast and then returned back up to the village on the old cobbled path which meets the old road at the bend below the bar and chemist's.
|Local knowledge helpful here
|Levada de Achada Grande
|Recent landslip cleared
|Start of the old path
|Near the top just below the village centre
A walk from the door back up the steps to Pastel and top levada to Achada Grande into the Urzal valley to explore the bottom of the ravine and Levada da Faias along to Lamaceiros and Faja do Penedo ,helped by the description on the geocaching site.
|Above Pastel
|Short tunnel between the valleys
|The difficult bit
The hamlets above Faja Penedo have the widest roads and the most zebra crossings that I've seen on Madeira.All they're waiting for now is traffic and people.
4th December
Moving base today from Boa Ventura to Porto da Cruz further east,so I caught the Rodoeste bus up to Arco de Sao Jorge and after a coffee and walk round took the next Horarios do Funchal bus via Santana and Cruzinhas to the road junction with Lombo Grande where the driver dropped me off for the start of my walk down the lane and onto the local levada to Sao Roque.This section was a repeat from a previous trip but today I was going to extend it through the lower ravine to Cancela. All of these local paths are now very well signposted and it's possible to do a circular walk to include the Levada Castelejo.
|Bus interchange at Arco
Arriving at the road in Cancela I realised that there was a bus due which would take me to the Porto da Cruz "Tunel" stop on the motorway.It's then quite a long but pleasant walk down the winding old road into the town.
|View from my hotel balcony
Another walk from the door up to Lorano and round the cliff path to Boca do Risco then dropping down to Ribeira Seca and Machico. Mostly a repeat of a walk done on an early visit but this time I found some better ways through Lorano by following one of the local levadas.
|Seems much nicer to follow this levada round to the next dip than use the tarmac road
|Steps up where the dirt track ends on cliff path begins
|Top of Ribeira Seca valley below Boca do Risco
|A well deserved beer
6th December
My last full day on the island with a well timed Sunday morning (Sam) bus up to Portela to start my walk along the Levada Portela to Lamaceiros and then follow old paths up to Pico Suna and northwards along the ridge over Pedreiro and down to Batista da Cruz.After Pico Suna I did a diversion on part of the Levada Furado which had been closed on a previous trip.
|Sea fed swimming pool at Porto da Cruz
|Chino and Pastel de nata
|Levada Portela
|Disused fire tower on Pico Suna (although there are still regular fires!)
|Levada Furada
|Bush ridge above Bastista
|You can follow the levada to it's source from here and then go up to Lombo Grande where I started my walk two days ago
|Penna de Aguia
|Finishing my walk in the fading daylight


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Sellers and Realtors: Staging Education, an Overview, Part One
Part of my role as a professional home stager is to educate Home Sellers and Real Estate Agents about the realities of Home Staging. Watching home staging programs on TV frequently misleads viewers and does not often impart the details of how a professional stager works and how the staging process plays out.
In the Fresno, Clovis and Madera foothill and mountain communities the housing market remains a very strong Buyers market. I have heard many stories of buyers getting homes for 40-50% of the value that was established for them 2-3 years ago. Many sellers are underwater with their loans and need a way out. Home staging can help with these issues.
Professional home staging is frequently misunderstood by many real estate agents and homeowners. Sellers and agents are often fearful of the stager and the process. They often think that it is primarily about decluttering, removing family photos and then adding beautiful items from a stager's inventory or having to buy new furniture themselves.
While those aspects can be important they are NOT the sum total of what a professional home stager can do for you and your home. We do NOT come into a home to demean or berate how the seller lives. Our goal is to help sell the property and to make the process as easy on the seller's as possible.
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When you call a PROFESSIONAL home stager for a consultation, the following six steps should be discussed in detail:
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* Updating: this can be as simple as replacing light fixtures, plumbing fixtures or cabinet knobs to painting and removing wallpaper. Most professional home stagers are also great shoppers and can send you to stores to find the bargains and can advise on style and finish issues.
* Neutralizing: this is where removing family photos is included, but also covers removing odors, changing paint colors, depersonalizing theme specific rooms and making the overall feel of the house appeal to a broad range of potential buyers. Professional home stagers know what colors and styles have broad buyer appeal. We focus on the target market for each home.
* Decluttering: most of us live with a excess of stuff. Our personal items are important to us, but they are not important to buyers, they distract buyers and they take up too much valuable space. They need to be packed away for the eventual move. THE WAY WE DWELL is NOT THE WAY TO SELL.
* Cleaning: Who wants to buy your dust and dirt? NO ONE! A home For Sale must be pristinely clean. Upkeep can be a hassle but professional stagers can help you with ideas on how to make it easier.
* Dramatize: this is where Professional home stagers shine but that's AFTER the above five (5) issues are remedied. In this step, the home stager will consider curb appeal, traffic flow, creating focal points, highlighting architectural features and views, and generally making the home feel comfortable with WOW factor that makes any potential buyer to want to move in.
A Professional Home Stager should be able to advise and counsel on all 6 of the above steps. Be leary of those that cannot.
This real estate market is NOT hopeless and there are budget friendly things that you can do to help make the sale. Parts 2-7 of this series will cover each of the six staging steps in detail with photograph examples and links to more advice.
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Some dealers would be happy just to hand over a rare vehicle such as the L200 Barbarian SVP. Not at Richard Lawson Autoecosse Mitsubishi. We had to take it a step further and our fantastic Service and Parts department decided to take the already heavily customized SVP and take it to the next level.
The Mitsubishi L200 Barbarian SVP edition is a very special vehicle. Based on a Top Gear Magazine project this stunning L200 was created to mirror the cosmetic and structural differences needed to take the U.K's best performing pick-up truck out of its comfort zone and into the harsh conditions of the desert. We already covered this incredible pick-up when it launched and that article can be viewed here:
For our first handover of an SVP we wanted to do something different and take the ultra-rare L200 (of which there are only 250 in the UK) and make it even more special. Our fantastic one man parts department Grant utilised Mitsubishi's fantastic parts ordering systems to acquire a liner, window deflectors, a roll top and a tow bar to attach to the already heavily customised car. These arrived the next morning and it was on to the build.
Under the hood of this awesome L200
Our Service department had a job on their hands fitting the liner. Inside the bed of the L200 SVP is a row of lights tucked up under the edges which illuminate the metallic bed when the rear tailgate is opened. In order for us to fit the liner we had to remove these lights, remove the brackets, cut into the liner and then re-bracket and rewire the lights. A further bit of cutting and careful positioning allowed us to fit the rolltop onto the bed as well. All of this while maintaining the custom SVP lighting inside the bed.


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Some people say that guest blogging is dead, but I disagree. Content curation is a great way to have enough content to share, and it's beneficial for both business and the content creators. How? This week, I talk about the importance of building those relationships between brands and influencers: how organizations can strategically partner with bloggers, and work with them to create a mutually beneficial relationship that leverages each of their networks.
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In This Episode:
- Content curation is great when you don't have enough of your own content to share, or amplify the voice of your fans, or you don't want to just be talking about yourself
- From an SEO perspective, people want to guest blog because they want that link back to their site
- We had heard from Google that they were going to look down on guest posting, but really, guest posting is alive and well
- Now, let's look at it from the two different perspectives: you being a writer and writing blog posts for a company, or you being the company and seeking out guest posts
- There's a food chain – when you're just getting started, if someone wants to interview you or put you on a top 100 list or have you write a guest post you do it!
- As you get your name out there, you can start to pick and choose where you want to guest post
- I recently got an email from a company I had written a guest post for, and they relayed some pretty impressive stats about my blog post
- If you're a small business looking for a guest blogger, you run into a problem: you obviously want someone who is an expert at what they do, you want them to be relevant, and you want them to be excited about what they're writing for you so that they'll share it to their networks
- This is how I created Maximize Social Business: I started a blog, got a lot of requests from people asking to write guest posts, and after a while, I decided I didn't want a one night stand with content creators; It allows me to widen my audience, and it allows the other writers to widen theirs too
- It's not just about the content, it's about the relationship – if you build the relationship the content will be more genuine, transparent, and it's going to lead to better things for your brand
- It doesn't have to be bloggers creating the content – reach out to employees, reach out to customers, reach out to partners
- What about you as a writer or blogger or social media marketer? You, as a writer, need to see the ROI of guest blogging as well, otherwise you're going to stop doing it, right?
- Take a good look at the blogs! Look at how they share content, the authors page, what they're promoting, think about if you want to be affiliated with that
- As a guest blogger, it's important to think about the ROI from the other side; At the end of the day, you're feeding someone else's content machine
- Guest blogging is here to stay; It has ROI both from a business/brand perspective as well as from the perspective of a blogger or content creator
- Hopefully this episode stops you from accepting the occasional random guest blog post, and encourages you to be more strategic
- You as a content creator should demand more for your content, and businesses and brands should value content creators more than they currently do
This is Neal Schaffer. Welcome to another episode of Maximize Your Social wherever you are in the world. I am at my office here in Orange County, California. Last week I was at the Social Media Strategy Summit in Las Vegas, really great event. I did the closing keynote on something new that I haven't talked about, but I'm excited to share new content about future proofing your social media program. And you'll be hearing a lot more about that in the near future.
I was hoping to get an interview or two while I was there, but you go to a social media conference. And it's just a crazy time meeting a lot of great folks, a lot of great content. And well, those memories, unfortunately, will not make it to this podcast. But the experiences, obviously, live on in everything that I share. Today I want to talk about an email that I got, and I know I've been promising you some information, this Part II Social Summon Podcast, which is gonna come.
But I always like to keep these podcasts fresh by dealing with clients or questions or things that happened in the world of social media over the last few days. So a few days ago, I got an email. Now, the topic for today is "Guest Posting." This is a blogging topic. We all know that social media is the convergence of information and communication. And when I taught that social media strategies summit, I said, "Okay, let's break it down into two easy parts, right?" It's content, and it's communication/engagement.
So this is the content side. There's content curation when you want to share a lot of content, and you don't have enough of your own content to share or you don't want to just be talking about yourself or maybe you want to amplify the voice of your fans whatever it might be, right? There's a need for curation. Guest blogging in essence is the curation of original content for your own website. Now, that content isn't necessarily authored by you. It could be authored by someone else.
We all know from an SEO perspective that people want a guest blog because they want to get that link going back to their site that's usually included in the bio, although it could be included within the text of a blogpost. And blog owners or businesses with blogs want to have guest bloggers because it helps lessen the burden of content curation. And it's part of a social media program that is probably gonna be the most time or resource intensive part of your operation. So that's, sort of, the background of guest posting.
And there are sites where you can hire guest blogposts. You can, obviously, instead of doing it that way, you can hire ghostwriters, which some companies do. But guest posting is, sort of, here to stay. I know Google had announced that we're gonna look down on guest posting, and there's a lot of confusion in the marketplace. But let me tell you this that guest posting is alive and well, okay. Now, I want to look at guest posting from two different aspects, from the aspects of you, whoever you are, of writing a blogpost for someone else, and the flipside if you're a business, having people write blogposts for you.
Now, this email I got is interesting. I wrote a guest post for a company, and to be honest with you, I'm so busy with what I do. And there's so much content I want to create for my own brand. I don't do as much guest posting as I used to do. Now, this brings up the concept of the food chain, right? When you're just getting started and someone contacts you for an interview or someone puts you on a Top 100 list or you have an opportunity to blog somewhere else, you do it because you want to get your name out there, right. And that makes total sense.
But as you get your name out there, you start thinking well, I can guest post on this site that really doesn't have much traffic. It has a very, very low Google page rank. It just doesn't seem to yield that much influence, or I can guest post on a site that has more influence. And you want to work your way up the food chain because people don't scale. Your time is limited, and if you can only have time to write one or two guest posts a month, you want to do it where you're gonna get the most bang for your buck, or in this case, bang or your content of your time. So that's really the background of guest posting.
Now, my whole concept because I could guest post on a lot of different sites. I choose not to. I really want to have my best content and maximize social business. But every once and a while if a company reaches out to me and I haven't guest posted for them before, I will do that if I think it helps me yield leadership. It opens up a new crowd to me, and it helps me build a relationship with that company. I'm all about relationships, and that's, sort of, my background in B to B sales. And I think that's what's helped carry me far in social media.
It's also, sort of, the defining value I have on, like, a guest blog. And then I'll get to that near the end of this podcast. So the email I got, "I wanted to reach out to you, let you know that we've done some – and I'm reading the email, obviously – we've done some analysis of our guest blogging program. And your post was by far our most successful. It received over 5,000 page views and 1,000 social shares. In addition, the post touched over 600 of the leads in our database and generated 30 new leads. Thanks again for doing this."
Those are pretty incredible stats. So if you question the art life of blogging, obviously, you need to have – and this company probably has a hubspot or something setup where they can see who is on their website, what content they're looking at, and finally when they convert, where do they come from and their history of tracking and what have you. But if you have that in place, it's pretty incredible to be able to generate this data that shows the ROI of having original content even if that content wasn't created by you. In this case, it was created by me.
So you can see from a company perspective, bringing fresh perspectives – I'm pretty active in social – I get to attract a new audience that hopefully will click back, learn more about me, become a customer of mine in the future, yield thought leadership because I'm on their blog, and they get incredible ROI because this new content – and maybe because I shared it a great deal on social, it had a large social following – maybe that helped them establish more thought leadership as well within their own prospect database, right. And I maybe introduced new people as well that weren't users of whatever software they have. But you get the feeling that people ask about the ROI blogging that don't get it. This is, like, the most concrete case study I can offer you from one blogpost of – I don't know – 1,000 words or whatever it might have been. So I'm really happy to have been able to contribute that, and when I do things, I want to do things big.
I think it was probably or Darren Rowse who said, "Whenever you guest blog, you want to save your best content for guest blogs because that's where you reach a new audience. And, hopefully, you're guest blogging on a site that has influence." So this was a success from their perspective and from my perspective. Now, if you as a business or maybe you're a small business owner or whatever position you may be in and you want to start recruiting guest bloggers, you run into a problem because ideally you want a guest blogger that is, obviously, an expert on what they do.
You want them to write about content that's relevant to your site, and, hopefully, you want them to be so proud of their content that they're gonna share it as well. So you get to access this new network. And even from employee advocacy data, we know that there's usually very little overlap between a brand social following and their employees. Chances are any guest blogger out there has a different social following than your brand social following, and there's probably very little overlap as well.
I'm just gonna generalize on that, but I think generally that is true. So it really comes down to choosing the right person. And probably if you're a company or you have a blog, you get pinged by lots of people saying hey, I want to contribute this article or. And there's a lot of SEO companies that will go out there trying to get their client's content onto your website. There's a lot of fake people out there, and these people just have a name and an email address. They don't even have a website. They don't even sometimes give their full name.
So there's a lot of anonymous people out there that you really want to try to avoid. It's all about, ideally, the relationship because if they're successful once, you want to have them again, right. And through that relationship, who knows what might happen. You may have found a great content writer that you can rely on for other projects for your company like eBooks and whitepapers and so on and so on. So that's why I created Maximize Social Business. I started out as an individual blog. I used to get guest blogpost requests.
And some of them didn't make sense, but when some of them pitched me a topic that I thought made sense, I had them guest blog. And then I got emails like hey, can you please delete out the spackling to our company? And maybe this was after the Google Penguin update. Google sees this as being an irrelevant site to what we do. And it's because the content was relevant to my site, but the backlink went to some random moving company in Australia that just was trying to build backlinks.
And so it really got me thinking, and when I started getting more and more of these requests, I thought to myself I don't want a one-night stand with content creators. It leaves no value for a blog to have just one contribution from one person unless if I could get a guest blogpost from Magi Kawasaki or a Brian Solis, it's one thing. But if it's not of that caliber, it, sort of, I believe, cheapens the blog especially when it's these anonymous profiles. No matter how good the content is, who are these people? Where are they on social media? What do they represent? Who are the companies they work for outside of the link that's in their profile?
So that's where I embarked on really evolving from the old blog of Windmill Network into Maximize Social Business of saying hey, let's work together. The idea about guest blogging is you want to blog on a platform that's bigger than yours. Well, by all of us getting together and sharing each other's content through our unique networks, we can reach just a broader audience. And it's about the platform, and that's where I went from Windmill Networking to Maximize Social Business when I realized that it wasn't my blog anymore. It was our blog. It was our platform.
But today, I still stick to that mantra that says it's unique content, and it's a commitment. And I want that commitment to be at least a year. So I still get random emails. Hey, I have this one piece of content I'd love to share on your site. No, I don't want your content. I want a relationship. And through that relationship, I think, bloggers are gonna create the best content, and it's gonna be more genuine. It's gonna be more transparent. It's gonna lead to better things in social media for your brand.
So if you were thinking of having guest bloggers, that is, sort of, the route that I would take. And I'd really concentrate on that relationship and understand who they are and what their ROI is because I've had people sign up on Maximize Social Business to blog for over a year. And I've had some quit, like, even after a month or three months saying sorry for whatever reason. Now, I don't not trust these people. I trust each and every one of them, but on the other hand, I realize that you need to see the ROI of guest blogging otherwise, you're just gonna stop doing it and go to other sites or concentrate on your own site.
So I'm pretty passionate about showing the ROI to people of what they've done and hopefully delivering ROI to them. And this is a great example of I've never had a brand reach out to me and say hey, thanks for your guest blogpost. This is the result of what you did for us and actually show me the data. So if I wanted to do it again, obviously, and they want me to do it again, I can get pretty broad coverage and get a lot of people reading my content, which is a great thing.
Now, that's if you're a brand, and you want to bring on guest bloggers. And I'm not gonna say it's a best practice because as part of an employee advocacy program, I'd love to see you having your employees create content. I love to see your customers create content, your partners. You don't necessarily need to reach out to bloggers. But as part of an influence or marketing program, having influencers guest blog for you is one of the many things you can do. And it may make sense to some companies, so that's the guest blogging for brands. What about you as a social media marketer or whatever role you have in a company or for yourself of guest blogging for others? Once again, it's about that food chain and understanding where you are and always trying to get ROI from reaching a broader audience. Look at the blogs. Look at how they share the content of their contributors. Look at the site, and is there even an author bio for their contributors?
Is there, like, an author's page? I go to a lot of sites where I see a guest bloggers, and it's like hum, I wonder is there a list of all the different bloggers on the site. And there isn't even a list, right. I think if you look at Maximize Social Business, you'll see that every author is featured both on a widget on the side on the front page, on every page actually, as well as there's actually a menu for the authors. And the authors you see there, obviously, are only the active authors. But even the inactive authors that have blogged in the past have robust bios at the bottom of all their blogposts.
So that's something you need to ask yourself. The other thing is when you guest blog what is the ROI from the other side? And this is the thing that, sort of, got me about guest blogging from the flipside. Obviously, you want to work your way up the food chain, and you want to guest post of bigger and bigger sites. But at the end of the day, you're feeding the content machine of someone else, right. You're not part of a platform like a Maximize Social Business which is the closest thing to a coop or a commune. You're more, like, doing it so that that business or person doesn't have to blog themselves.
And, therefore, when you go to the site, is it overly blatantly promoting a person or a product, and do you want to be affiliated with that? Do you want to be part of that knowing that your content is working for the benefit of others? So when this business reached out to me with this email, it's like wow. That's, sort of, one sided because if you think of the value that they got from the leads versus the value that I might have gotten from a few people subscribing to the RSS on my own website, there's an imbalance there, right?
But, obviously, it's PR for me, and there's a value in the PR. And you need to weight that, right. So that's the other thing you need to think about is, sort of, the balance, the fairness, the food chain, the ROI from the other side, and the relationships, right, making sure you pick the right places where you want to host your content because content is precious, right. Just as professionals, as I always say with LinkedIn, our networks are our most important assets. As a content creator, where you publish your content is a critical aspect that you need to give a lot of thought to.
So the net net of this podcast is that guest blogging is here to stay. Guest blogging has ROI both from a business/brand perspective of recruiting others to blog for them as well as for you if you are a blogger or a content creator. But, hopefully, the parameters or framework or guidelines that I talk about in this podcast, will hopefully get you stopping from just randomly accepting or guest blogging when there's opportunities to being more and more strategic about it. And right now, everybody loves content creators because there's just a need for so much content, and businesses just don't have the resources. And while they can pay to have a ghostwriter make something, they're always gonna get a better result when they have a blogger with unique experiences, with a unique network that's gonna also share that in social when they can provide that content. So you as a content creator should demand more for your content, and businesses and brands should, perhaps, value content creators more than they currently do.
And that's why with my own maximize social business, I try to be passionate about promoting the content creators because I think they in the world of social and in the world of content marketing, they probably deserve a little bit more respect than what they're getting. So respect the content. Respect the content creators. Maybe that's the net net of this podcast. Those are my thoughts, and like I said, this podcast we cover a wide range of things in the world of social media, the business of social media. If there's something you want me to talk about, hey, ping me, email me. I really appreciate all your comments on iTunes.
We had to re-launch this podcast on iTunes, so we lost a lot of reviews. If you were one of those people who wrote one of the reviews, I'd really be honored if you could rewrite that review you had for me, or if you've been listening to the podcast and find value in it, I would appreciate your comments and your sharing it in social media as well. But for this week, that's it for another episode of Maximize Your Social. And wherever you are in the world, well, we're gonna talk to you next week. But for now, make it a great social day. Bye-bye everybody.
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For general discussion on this episode, visit the DS9 forum at The Trek BBS.
Does this episode have basically all the reoccuring Ferengi in it? If so, or something to that point, a reference to it should be made in the background info. section. -AJHalliwell 03:25, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- Zek isn't in it. --OuroborosCobra talk 18:41, 18 July 2006 (UTC)
- Zek isn't mentioned directly,but,it is a canon plot point that Zek and Iska share an amorous relationship,and no doubt Zek,as Grand Negus,would have overlooked Ferengi Commerce law to allow Quark,to set up this "unprofitable" venture in the form of the strike team.Wejvagh 10:00, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
If the Sergio Leone's Film "The Magnificient Seven" is going to be mentioned,then mention also in the background material,that the Magnificent Seven,is based on Akira Kurasawa's film "The Seven Samurai"Wejvagh 10:00, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
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- When Brunt is accepted into the group, Rom's remark "Now we are six!" references the children's book of the same title by A.A. Milne.
Do we have an evidence that this was a reference? It isn't as if that is the most unlikely thing for him to have simply said. --OuroborosCobra talk 04:21, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
- According to IMDb, the quote is from The Magnificent Seven. I don't remember this particular quote in the film, but I do remember that Yul Brynner and Steve McQueen kept counting (either verbally or gesturing with their fingers) as new members were added, so it's very likely it did come from the movie. That said, the writers of The Magnificent Ferengi stated in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion that they never really thought about The Magnificent Seven when writing the script. That certainly doesn't mean they or the actors couldn't have thrown in a few references, though (the actors were imagining themselves as The Magnificent Seven, although that was not the intent of the writers). --From Andoria with Love 07:31, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
- Also, Leck kills a Jem'Hadar with a knife, which is reminiscent of James Coburn's role as a knife expert in the film.
- Opinion - only the actors watched the movie and only two claim that... — Morder (talk) 21:37, 5 August 2009 (UTC)
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- Michael Dorn does not appear in this episode, though Worf is mentioned briefly. Other than Quark, none of the regular cast are in more than one scene, with Jadzia, Julian, Miles and Odo seen only in the teaser.
Sisko was in at least two scenes (when Quark and Rom emerge into his office, and the scene where he discusses the mission with Quark in his office). So the part about none of the regular cast being in more than one scene is incorrect, and the note needs rephrasing. Any suggestions? Dendodge 13:39, March 12, 2011 (UTC)
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Did anyone ever ask the producers off camera if the ferengi would have survived if they traded a live prisoner and not initiating any violence (especially if Quark had not negotiated the mass Jem Hadar withdrawal)? – The preceding unsigned comment was added by 188.8.131.52 (talk).
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I don't know if there is any entry on the website about the phasers that the Ferengi carry in this episode. They are smaller than rifles but larger than handguns, maybe like what we would consider a submachine gun or personal defense weapon. They also have an optic on them. 126.96.36.199 07:06, September 25, 2015 (UTC)


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LONDON — The International Monetary Fund and Pakistan reached a provisional agreement on Thursday on a $5.3 billion bailout package that aims to bolster Pakistan's flagging economy and its perilously low foreign exchange reserves.
The rescue package is expected to soothe Western fears about the state of Pakistan's economy, which has slumped in recent years amid unrelenting Taliban violence and deeply rooted corruption that have shaken investor confidence. The I.M.F. package also would provide a tangible lift for the newly elected prime minister, Nawaz Sharif, who has already become bogged down by a seemingly intractable energy crisis.
The I.M.F. has an unhappy history with Pakistanis, some of whom are likely to see the package negatively. The last government failed to meet the terms of the previous I.M.F. package six years ago, and the country is still struggling to repay billions of dollars of that debt.
Moreover, Mr. Sharif's government is ideologically hostile to international financial assistance, and he campaigned before the election on a platform of economic autonomy. But, analysts say, his administration had little choice but to accept Thursday's deal.
The $5.3 billion package will be used in part to service the existing I.M.F. debt, but also to create confidence in the economy and alleviate the severe energy crisis, which has included crippling electricity cuts across the country, even in the capital, Islamabad, in recent months.
"It was a necessary thing," said Sakib Sherani, an economist who advised the last government. "Everyone's been on tenterhooks about the balance of payments crisis, and a possible run on the rupee. At least this will provide some stability so the new government can work on implementing its own agenda."
At a news conference on Thursday evening, Jeffrey Franks, head of the visiting I.M.F. mission to Pakistan, said the package included provisions for a reduction in Pakistan's budget deficit — which almost hit 9 percent of gross domestic product last year — and a comprehensive energy sector overhaul.
Power shortages have been sapping Pakistan's economic growth potential, Mr. Franks said, and the bailout aims to put the energy sector on more stable footing.
The $5.3 billion loan is subject to approval by the I.M.F. executive board, which is scheduled to meet in early September. If the loan proceeds, it will carry an interest rate of about 3 percent and be disbursed over three years, Mr. Franks said.
Ishaq Dar, the Pakistani finance minister, denied that his government had reneged on its election pledges of economic independence.
"We are entering into a new program for the good of the country," he said. "A better tomorrow dawns only when requisite pains are borne today."
The I.M.F. loan is unlikely to be used to directly finance the oil imports needed to get Pakistan's power stations working at normal capacity, Mr. Sherani said. But it may provide a jolt of confidence among other international institutions that, in turn, would help finance oil imports.
Mr. Franks acknowledged Pakistan's failure to repay previous loans from his institution. But Mr. Sharif's government will not be punished for the sins of its predecessors, he added.
"We're not going to turn a country down because previous governments did not do what they had promised to do," he said.


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