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I just wanted to update a little, I didn't get to do the craft show in June : ( it got rained out, but I sold some stuff at my families yard sale!! I also have a Facebook page now too http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/pages/Stampin-Up-Demo-Melinda-Ann-Hutchison/131304806885244?ref=sgm !! I have photo albums there and I am learning how to edit videos LOL I am not that good at the tech stuff but I am working on it and will start making videos!!
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- I am a Wife to the most wonderful man in the world *Patrick*, Mom to 2 boys *Patrick and Daniel* and I have 2 fur babies *Cheyenne and Harley* both kitties! I have been a crafter all my life in one form or another! I became a Stampin' Up Demo in September 2009!! I have been scrapbooking since 1997 and have discovered card making and other paper crafts and I LOVE LOVE LOVE IT!
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Late May is a busy time of the year around here. The last frost usually falls between Mother's Day and the beginning of June so there's all sorts of planting/ transplanting going on. The girls are wrapping up school and we're out almost every evening with a recital, awards ceremony or some other wrap-up-the-year event.
Late May is also when the bees come. No, they're not migrating. They arrive at the Post Office. We order our bees from Wolf Creek Apiaries in Tennessee. By now their bee season has been in full swing for months. Ours is just getting started. We've had the early flush of fruit trees flowering but the bulk of our flowers won't be coming out till June on.
Although I know roughly when to expect them, it's always a surprise when we get a call from the Post Office to come pick up our bees. It usually happens at an inopportune moment requiring you to drop everything, mentally shift gears and zip over to retrieve them.
They arrive in a screen sided box containing about 30,000 workers, a queen in a cage and a can of sugar syrup. I can't imagine that the little ladies enjoy their 2-3 day cross-country trip much so I like to install the bees as soon as I can into their new home.
Installing bees is a fairly straightforward procedure. To get them from their travel accommodations into the hive requires you to pry out the can of syrup (at which point bees start flying out and around you) remove the queen cage, pry out a small cork sealing her in the cage and fasten it in the hive, and finally shaking (yes, like a box of cereal) the rest of the bees into the hive.
It's not super difficult but it is a bit intimidating facing thousands of potentially stinging insects the first time. The bees are actually pretty complacent when you are installing them because they are exhausted from their trip. They also don't have a hive to protect and are not working as a coordinated group organism yet. Part of the trick to handling bees is staying calm as they really pick up on your mental /energetic state. I've installed a number of colonies of bees at this point and look forward to it.
Our friends Shanna and Gerard live in Santa Fe proper and have been getting into backyard/urban homesteading in a big way. Over the last couple years they have put in garden beds, started a small flock of chickens and built a small corral for their pygmy goats. I hear that turkeys are coming soon. They are doing all of this on 1/6th of an acre. We talk about having a mini farm but they have a micro farm.
No micro farm would be complete without a bee hive so when I got a call from Shanna asking for moral support while they installed their bees I didn't hesitate to say yes. In my haste to head over to their place I neglected to bring my bee veil. Realizing this on the drive, I figured "Ehh, I'm only cheerleading, I'll stand back a bit and be fine."
When I arrived, Gerard was hastily rebuilding the stand for the hive. As always, there were some last minute tweeks that needed to be made. No problem, I stood around with beer in hand and provided supervisory commentary. The only thing that would have made me look more official would have been a shovel to lean on.
After the hive was set up and ready to go I verbally walked Gerard through the steps of what he was about to do. He suited up and got to work. He did a great job, working smoothly and with a sense of purpose. I, on the other hand, feeling overly confident in my role of bee installing coach and protected only by a pair of sunglasses was standing way too close to the swirling cloud of bees surrounding Gerard.
Towards the end of the installation I received a reminder of why it's important to wear your veil when working bees. I got stung on the eyebrow. It hurt for sure but wasn't too bad. I had Shanna (who was standing back a safe distance) remove the stinger right away. This minimizes the amount of venom that gets delivered. Then I made a paste of baking soda and water to apply to the sting which soothes and counteracts the irritation. When I got home I took a swig of children's Benadryl for good measure to keep the swelling down.
I thought I had gotten off Scot-free and then last night I noticed some swelling. This morning I looked like I got socked in the eye.
I imagine that the swelling will be down soon but it's a great reminder to use safety gear. It's there for a reason.
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Political transition in Iran : the ideological struggle for power within the Islamic Republic /
Abstract (Summary)Over 20 years after the 1979 Iranian Revolution, the actors have changed, but the political institution and structure remains nearly identical. There is no genuine hegemonic consensus in the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI); basically, the same political tensions that contributed to the revolution are prevalent today. The only drastic difference is the shift in anger from the majority of the population demanding democratic reforms from the West to the ruling clerics. Similarly, state structure, political, and socioeconomic policies from 1979 to the present have been consequential in producing an ideological conflict between the ruling clerics who seek power and authority and the reformists who seek to implement policy reforms. The outcome of this political dilemma will dictate domestic politics as well as foreign policy in Iran. This thesis argues that pressure on Iranian foreign policy and domestic politics comes from the need to reconcile international concerns of Iranian interests with domestic concerns of Shi'i Islam and revolutionary ideology, which limits the policy options available to the Iranian government. This thesis examines the ideological struggle for control within the ruling elite and the decisive constraints it places on the range of economic and political options available to the ruling ulama.
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There are no legal technicalities involved in becoming a ghostwriter. You simply hang out your shingle. As a ghostwriter, you are basically a surrogate writer for someone—often an expert or celebrity—who does not have the time or talent to do the writing themselves. They (or often their publisher) will hire you to do the actual writing. They have total control over the content and you simply write what they want the way they want it written. Depending on the type of book, you often must write it from their point of view—or as if they were telling the story themselves. In ghostwriting you will not have your name on the book and may or may not be given credit inside for "editorial contributions."
Once you have agreed to accept a ghostwriting job, you may need to have a contract between you and the subject, that lays out how and when you will be paid. Such a contract may not be necessary for articles, especially for customers you have worked with before, as long as they have agreed to your estimate or quote for payment. When the job is completed, along with the finished manuscript, give them an invoice for the work done, based on your agreement.
However, with a book project, you will need a contract with the source person or their publisher. If a publisher is involved from the beginning, it may be a good idea to meet with both the source and the publisher before starting to be sure you are all in agreement as to what kind of book you are to produce and how/when you will be paid. Ghostwriters are generally paid a flat fee—rather than a percentage of the royalties as you might get with a co-authoring contract. When the publisher is paying, your fee may be all or part of the advance. If the source is paying you, be sure the contract indicates that you will be paid whether or not the book actually sells. Generally, the amount you will be paid is based on your experience, credentials, and the length/difficulty of the project. Know what it will take to make this a viable project for you before entering into the negotiation process. If the source/publisher cannot or will not meet that amount, and attempts at negotiating fail, then be prepared to turn down the offer.
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text: This is a short documentary about Toby Ott, a man who was born with Bilateral Anopthalmia, or in other words, without eyes. This didn't stop him from discovering the medium of video games, and his childhood interest grew into a lifelong passion. This is a whole new perspective on video games, from the imagination of someone who has never known what it is to have sight.


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Retired prominent educator, Dr. A. Blaine Huntsman, Sr., died Saturday, June 23, 1990 at 11:59 p.m. after a long illness in Salt Lake City, Utah. He was 79 years old.
Dr. Huntsman was born in Fillmore, Utah on October 5, 1910 to Alonzo and Nellie (Melville) Huntsman. He attended the University of Utah and earned a B.S. degree in education, with minors in music and business from BYU. In 1934 Dr. Huntsman married Kathleen (Robison), his loving and devoted wife who bore him three sons: Dr. A. Blaine, Jr., of Salt Lake City, Utah, banker and university dean and professor; Jon M., of Salt Lake City, businessman; and R. Clayton, of St. George, Utah, lawyer.Dr. Huntsman is survived by his three sons, 18 grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren. His wife, Kathleen died of cancer in 1969. He remarried in 1971 to Helen Rockway, who died in 1987, from cancer. Dr. Huntsman is also survived by a sister, Florence Meeks, of Altadena, California and a brother, Scott, of Toquerville, Utah; preceding him in death were his parents; brother, Harold; sisters, Afton (Schwartz) and Merodean (Bunker); and brother Clayton William, a pilot who died in World War II.
A lifelong educator, Dr. Huntsman began his illustrious career in 1935 teaching in small Idaho schools. He quickly rose to become an administrator at Pocatello High School. He built a comfortable home there, before volunteering his services as a naval officer in World War II.
Following the war, he earned an M.A. and Ed.D at Stanford University. He was the recipient of many prestigious awards, grants, and internships there. He then became assistant superintendent of the Los Altos, California Elementary School District, and in 1958 was selected as Superintendent of the Los Altos-Mountain View Union High School District. He distinguished himself by his progressive vision and competent administration during a 12 year period of explosive growth and social change. The district consisted of 5500 students, over 1000 faculty and staff, and multi-million dollar budgets. He fostered cultural and minority understanding, honors programs of national ranking, and community interaction. He retired in 1970, after the death of Kathleen.
An accomplished violinist, Dr. Huntsman soloed over KSL, and played first violin for the University of Utah Symphony Orchestra, predecessor to the Utah Symphony Orchestra. He was committed to Naval service, achieving rank of Lt. Commander in the Reserves. He attended the Naval War College. He was elected District Governor, Northern California (San Francisco coast) of Rotary International in 1970 and later served an LDS mission to Adelaide, Australia with his wife Helen. He was a devout but independent member of the LDS Church, and was active and effective in advancing many educational community, and charitable causes.
Dr. Huntsman was close to the earth. He took pride in growing prize peaches, corn, tomatoes, and other produce in California. An avid outdoorsman, he loved fishing, hunting, and camping in the wilds of Utah, Idaho, Nevada, California, British Columbia, and Alaska. He built, mostly by himself, two beautiful houses, including a large redwood shingle home in Los Altos, California.
He was a unique, multi-talented, and loving father, husband, educator, and human being. He will be greatly missed.
Funeral services will be held Saturday, June 30th, at 12 noon in the Olpin Mortuary Chapel in Fillmore, Utah, where friends may call Saturday one hour prior to services. Burial will follow in the Fillmore City Cemetery.


text: Mother Earth: When you entered the earthly reality, you gifted your light and pure consciousness to me, asking me to protect and safeguard your light, grounding your truth into the Earth. The moment that you shared your light with me was many lifetimes ago; it was a moment of divine grace and blessings as we integrated creating such a deep bond of trust. I honour and hold this sacred experience with you in my heart and soul. I will honour and safeguard your light until you are ready to release yourself from the cycle of reincarnation within the earthly reality. In our moment of connection, so long ago now, I also shared my light and consciousness with you as a gift, you hold this even now within your soul. My gift to you at that time was that I would always guide you in your pathways of exploration and discovery upon the Earth, this promise still remains.………….Read More, Extract from, 'Mother Earth's Promise to You by Mother Earth,' Channeled through Natalie Glasson – 20th January 2017 – Original Source: Sacred School of OmNa http://ift.tt/2jPlcKH http://ift.tt/2jrmAiQReblogged 2 years ago from omnaschool.tumblr.com


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The Netflix US Twitter account – with 2.5m followers – has been compromised by a hacker group.
The group, OurMine, posted tweets promoting its own website and services.
However, the tweets were removed about an hour after the first one appeared.
OurMine has hacked several high-profile Twitter accounts this year, including those of Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales, Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg and Google chief executive Sundar Pichai.
It also hacked the Techcrunch and BuzzFeed websites, as well as the Twitter and Vine accounts of the social media platforms' chief executive Jack Dorsey.
"Don't worry we are just testing your security," read one of the tweets posted to the Netflix account.
The hackers told the BBC they still had access to the account, adding that they were still posting tweets, but these were being deleted "by Twitter Support".


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Druid Cloak "Sterling Thrones"*Bad Taste*
Following the release of his debut record for Symbols late last year, mysterious beatmaker Druid Cloak has continued to craft a unique sound away from the spotlight, and here, we're treated to a forward-thinking cut from the producer's Bastion of the Sterling Thrones EP. "Sterling Thrones" nods to the unsettling atmosphere of cinematic thrillers, but basks in its crunchy drumwork, eerie pads, and frenetic synth runs. The spacey tune unfolds as Druid Cloak paces his track handily, gradually revealing new FX, production tricks, and changing moods along the way. Before it drops on September 9 via Bad Taste, more of the Bastion of the Sterling Thrones EP can be previewed after the jump.


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First State Bank Center for the Performing Arts, North Texas Central College, Gainesville
SHERMAN -- A Texas junior college is suing an architect, mechanical engineers, structural engineers and roofing contractors for the poor design of its $ 5 million performing arts center, which was completed in March 2005.
North Central Texas College filed suit against Crandall Design Group, Frederick Crandall, Cuthbertson Mechanical Engineers, ZZ Consulting PA and Progressive Roofing Inc. on Jan. 26 in the Sherman Division of the Eastern District of Texas.
The lawsuit alleges that because of poor design and lack of adequate specifications and details in the plans, the building suffers from a variety of problems including water accumulation, excessive humidity and roof problems.
NCTC decided to build a state-of-the-art performing center in 2002. By early 2003, the college hired Arizona resident Frederick Crandall as the architect to design its performing arts center at the Gainesville campus.
According to the lawsuit, Crandall represented himself as a "specialist in the architectural design, planning and feasibility studies of monolithic dome buildings," and relies on consultants or subcontractors to furnish specialized mechanical, electrical, civil and structural engineering.
NCTC agreed to let Crandall and his "architect/engineer team" design and build the center using Crandall's monolithic dome-based design. The two-year construction of the building was completed in 2005 at a cost of more than $5 million.
According to the plaintiff, within a year the building was showing signs of "substandard design services."
The lawsuit states, "water began to gather, and pond underground beneath the theater's orchestra pit; water began seeping through concrete, dry wall and baseboards; mold began growing on interior walls due to excessive moisture/humidity; and the roof began leaking."
The college believes the defendants failed to address issues that include the soil around the building, management of storm water, specifications for roofing system, water barrier and detailing of drainage systems in the exterior walls, and the coordination among the various disciplines involved in the project.
Specifically, the plaintiff accuses Crandall and ZZ Consulting of improper drainage and foundation design.
The college states that it has spent and continues to spend significant amounts of money to fix the orchestra problem by removing standing water, waterproofing the pit and rerouting the drainage system. However, water continues to drain through the base of the exterior wall and into the interior of the building. NCTC states this is also due to the defendant's design and it has spent more money to create a properly designed wall barrier system with proper drainage.
Due to the poorly designed roof, NCTC has repaired and replaced carpet, floors and walls. The water problems have also damaged wood doors, four pianos and four saxophones and are causing issues with the HVAC system.
NCTC alleges the Defendants are liable for breach of contract and breach of express warranties by not providing a performing arts center that was free from design defects.
The junior college states that its damages currently exceed $500,000 and are expected to exceed $2 million.
The college is seeking exemplary damages by arguing the actions of the defendants constitute professional and gross negligence.
Jury trial requested.
The college is represented by McKinney attorneys Charles J. Crawford and Ross Wells of Abernathy, Roeder, Boyd, and Joplin, P.C.
North Central Texas College is the oldest public two-year college in the state of Texas and currently has three campuses located in Bowie, Gainesville and Corinth. As a public junior college, NCTC is a political subdivision of the state of Texas.
U.S. District Judge Michael Schneider is assigned to the litigation.
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The recent unprecedented onslaught of natural disasters has left already cash-strapped states with a record $36 billion in damages. Ten different natural disasters have struck in 2011. According to FEMA, damages from Hurricane Irene alone will cost at least $1.5 billion in disaster relief — and the hurricane season isn't over.
This disastrous year is also the year that many Republican lawmakers have also decided to break precedent and demand that much-needed disaster relief be offset with cuts elsewhere in the federal budget.
(Photo - Wildfire damage in Texas) Yesterday, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) vowed to quickly usher $6 billion in emergency disaster relief for states through the Senate. However, even as wildfires obliterate more than 1,000 homes in his state, Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) insisted that those funds be offset because "we can't keep spending money we don't have." Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC), whose state has suffered "millions and millions of dollars" in wind and flood damage from Hurricane Irene, simply demanded that "we've got to offset everything":
"We can't keep spending money we don't have," said Sen. John Cornyn of Texas, where deadly wildfires have charred tens of thousands of acres and destroyed more than 1,000 homes. [...]
"I think we've got to offset everything; anything that's not allocated has got to be offset these days. It shouldn't delay it," Burr told POLITICO. "There's hundreds of billions of dollars of waste, fraud and abuse that could be accessed like that."
This purist principle did not stop both Cornyn and Burr for voting to fund rebuilding efforts in Iraq without a single offset. Indeed, Cornyn voted against delaying $20.3 billion in Iraq infrastructure funds even though the late Sen. Robert Byrd (D-WV) noted that such a payment would increase the budget deficit. Overall, the U.S. has spent $44.6 billion in taxpayer funds on rebuilding Iraq through emergency supplemental bills — and not a penny was cut from elsewhere in the budget.
Cornyn and Burr's position — first espoused by House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) — is so callously out of touch that even fellow Republicans are slamming the idea. After enduring serious bipartisan backlash, Cantor is now gun-shy. Calling Reid's emergency funds bill "unprecedented," he is not clearly taking a stand against it.


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Sharing ideas and information about scrapbooking and other areas of interest as they arise and as I get around to them!
Thursday, May 7, 2009
I visited my family in Arkansas around Easter. One of my favorite things to do is spend time with my niece and nephews (who are all now adults), so now my Auntiness is directed toward my grand-nieces (11, 7, and 2.5) and -nephews (9, 3, and 6 months). They are all such adorable dolls!
This is Anastacia - she was a preemie, weighing only 1 lb 6 oz when she was born. She is now 2 1/2 years old and runs around like the Tasmanian Devil - wish I had just a fraction of that energy! My parents' house is across the street from the elementary school, so I took Anastacia and one of my grand-nephews, Michael, over to play on the playground after we had our Easter egg hunt. They both LOVED the slides, and I had a grand time shooting as many photos as I could, hoping a few would turn out well. This turned out to be my favorite of Anastacia! You just know she is having the best time ever!
I've had this package of Daisy D's papers for a while now, and thought this was the perfect opportunity to use up some of those bright, funky colors! I used Heidi Swapp alphabet masks and Pebbles Inc. paint for the title. Everything else is miscellaneous embellishments I had in my flower, button, and ribbon jars up on the shelf.
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An Incredible Story of a Life Devoted to Dance and So Much More
This time, everything was going my way in Leavenworth, Kansas. My husband had risen in rank and experience and was delighted with his new position as Chief Executive Officer of the installation. Our house was absurdly large, mainly furnished with "Quartermaster" elegant, traditional furniture. It had maid's quarter's downstairs and a large attic reaching back to the preceding century.
Amongst the new neighbors, there happened to be a former ballerina, Phyllis. When we met at the first scheduled "welcome" coffee, I learned that she was teaching ballet through the Army's recreation program.
I was uncertain how the first class would go—couldn't find my dancewear—but need not have worried. She was a very good teacher and gave a solid standard class. And… I remembered "how" as soon as I began to move. It felt as if I had never been away from it. After the class, she suggested I take classes from German trained Renate Edwards who had a studio in town and connections with the Kansas City Ballet and the University of Missouri in Kansas City. Meanwhile, I had joined the Theater Club and quickly performed in Blithe Spirit, an Oscar Wilde humorous play and the musical The Boy Friend.
Renate Edwards recommended that I go into Kansas City to see Tatiana Dokoudovska, the Russian Kirov Ballet trained ballet mistress. I went to Kansas City via the University of Missouri where Dennis and Kathy Landsman taught. They were husband and wife who had each danced with the celebrated Robert Joffrey school and company, performing all over the United States and abroad. They had also founded the Kansas/Missouri Youth Ballet, which had attracted a positive following. I studied with Dennis for a semester. He introduced me to Madame Dokoudovska, and I began taking classes from her.
Madame Dokoudovska was a tyrant out to break the will and spirit of any "new" dancer, which I was. From our first encumber, she ridiculed and demeaned me, asking me repeatedly to demonstrate how "not" to execute the art from. I learned over time, after training with the Russian pedagogues, that this was the "Russian way." It was such punishment that for the first time in my life, I wanted to give up.
Tatiana was in her mature middle years with grey hair pulled into a severe bun, thin lips, aquiline nose, and a pinched expression. She began every class getting in front of the class in an upright chair scanning the unsettled dancers, looking for fault. She always used a stick for rhythm and dynamic emphasis—and occasionally to tap an offending body part while making a specific correction. It must have been a relief to the class members when I seemed to be the singular focus of rebuke. She would stand right behind me while I was working at the barre and offer instruction in a harsh Russian accent. The class was way beyond my skill level, and I struggled. She knew my first name and used it harshly rrrrolling her rrr's—"Brrrrrendah"— a guttural rebuke accompanied by thumps of the stick. It was a physically exhausting class characterized by enough repetitions of an action to defeat the strongest members.
I was rebuked for a stray wisp of loose hair and sent back to the dressing room to fix it while the whole class waited. I was singled out to demonstrate a fault and pivot the faulty design as if on a pedestal, so everyone could see it clearly and learn an important lesson. "Let us watch Brrrrrendah show us her leaning tower of Piz-za," (not Pisa, unfortunately), and I would have to demonstrate my faulty arabesque with the torso incorrectly aligned.
I vowed after every drive home, sobbing, that I wasn't going back. And every next time, I walked robot-like to the car and drove the 40 miles into town.
One day, without exploration she asked me to attend a company rehearsal the next Saturday morning. I did so, and she had me understudy a role for an upcoming ballet set by a visiting choreographer for performances at the Kansas City Music Hall. I shadowed that dancer, enjoyed the role, which was like a character or peasant style ballet dance, and felt that I could do it well.
On Saturday, a week before the scheduled concert my "model" dancer showed up with a broken arm. Before I could take in the full significance of it, I looked toward Tatiana, and she gave me an inscrutable smile and a nod. Suddenly, it was possible to actually dance with the company at that very special stage before an audience of knowledgeable ballet enthusiasts.
The company members showed me how to do the proper makeup, and I joined them in company warm-up before the performance. I belonged. And I know I fulfilled that role. Afterward, both Dennis and Mme. Tatiana were generous with approval. My cup ran over.
If I had ever needed a confirmation that this dream that had inspired and driven me all my life, through frustration and humiliation, was right, it was that gesture of approval from Mme. Tatiana. I felt that I had, in a sense, arrived at last!
The American ballet was founded by Russian immigrants from St. Petersburg, Russia where the Vaganova system had evolved as the ultimate training system. Impresario Lincoln Kirstein brought Mr. Balanchine over to establish the New York City Ballet, and others followed founding the Pacific Northwest Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, and so on. I felt that in a very small way, I was a beneficiary and a proponent of that ongoing process.
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The 53-hour closure of L.A.'s -- and America's -- busiest freeway from July 15 to July 17 is becoming somewhat of an Internet sensation. (We should have known: Combine end-of-the-world jokes with catchy traffic hashtags, and you've got viral gold.) Two different Twitter accounts and at least one Facebook page have been created to track every painful moment of the gridlocked nightmare. But best effort so far goes to a group of young business professionals in Santa Monica making a cute entrepreneurial project of the drama. It's almost as if they're... proud of Carmageddon.
Car-mageddon.com (motto: It's just "the price you pay to live in L.A."!) has begun an archive of bars on the Westside -- mostly Santa Monica, at this point -- where, instead of drinking fumes in the Sepulveda or 101 parking lots, you can knock 'em back at O'Brien's or South. Here's what's on the menu:
Irish car bombs and Cadillac margaritas, $5, at Harvelle's. Domestic bottled beers, $3, and well drinks and wings, $5, at O'Brien's. Gridlock shots, "Road Ragers" and Bud "STOP" Lights, $3, at South.
We're no experts, but this sounds like the beginning of the best viral apocalypse party since hipsters took on the Rapture. It even combats post-party DUIs, by nature!
"It's good for the locals, because we're giving cheaper prices. And it's good for the businesses, too," the owner of O'Brien's told ABC7 last night.
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Soon enough, other business owners across L.A. will catch on to the cash-cow potential of this epically clogged mid-July weekend. Especially because, unlike native Angelenos, thousands of visitors either remain unaware they booked their West Coast vacay on the worst weekend in traffic history, or they scheduled their itineraries before CalTrans made its surprise announcement last month. So tourists will be stuck, Getty-less, in the immediate area of their hotels with traveller's checks burning big fat holes in their khaki cargo pockets. Cha-ching!
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Mind, Money & Marketing Show – Episode #7 – Optimizing Your Hangouts with Ronnie Bincer
I always enjoy interviewing Ronnie. He's so easy to chat to and generous with his information.
As a gentleman who has been involved in Video Optimization and SEO for years, hangouts were like a dream come true for Ronnie!
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Jo: We're on air and we're live.
Ronnie: Most excellent.
Jo: Ladies and gentleman, hello there [no audio 00:07]. Hello, Jo Barnes
here and welcome to this week's episode of Mind, Money and Marketing, where we talk about the clues in the title. Anything to do with mind, money and marketing and I am honored and very happy to be joined today by somebody who is going to be correcting me as we go along because he is none other than the guru when it comes to exactly what I'm doing right now, which is a Google hangout. I would like to introduce you to the very lovely, Ronnie Bincer, the hangout helper. Hello Ronnie.
Ronnie: Hello, Jo. Thanks for introducing me that way although my correction is only when it's wanted. I don't try to come in and take over. I promise.
Jo: Literally, two seconds ago, just before we went live, I'm saying how do I do that? How does that work and how do we end that?
Ronnie: In that case, I jump in there when it's urgent.
Jo: Absolutely. You're phenomenal. Ronnie before I get into the meat and potatoes of how to use hangout and the best way to use hangouts, and I particularly want to talk about optimizing videos today. That's going to be one of our main subjects. I'd like to know a little bit more about you. I'd like the audience to know a little bit more about you.
I know that your history, prior to Google Plus and hangouts, you had a big, long history in teaching people different things. I think you use Adobe products and Photoshop sometimes, but you also had a big history of SEO, didn't you and video marketing, as a whole?
Really, moving into hangout helping was a nice natural move for you because, essentially, that's what hangouts are, video optimizations. If you could just tell us a little bit about your history and what's led you to becoming the hangout helper today.
Ronnie: You bet and I'm quite impressed you remember those things about me. I'm flattered. Here is the deal. One part of my life is, I did a lot of traveling all over the world, but primarily in the U.S., training people how to use software and it was focused in the print world and so I did a lot of Adobe training and eventually, I focused on what's called Photoshop. That was my primary program. I did that for 12 years.
What I did was I developed a way or a skill to stand in front of a group, this was before webinars. I'm a little old. These were called seminars. You would go and stand up in front of a group of people, anywhere from 50 to 400 and tell them how to use a program and guide them through the process. In doing that, I learned the skill set where I had to cover the entire rooms' skill set. People that were brand new, as well as, people that had been using the program for years.
I had to try to keep the old timers entertained sufficiently and the newbies, I couldn't go over their head, so I had to do a mix of everything. I refined the skill of trying to turn technology into something that people can digest and understanding. I did it for 12 years. It was a skill I learned and developed.
Fast forward a few more years, I got involved with video, search engine optimization, which was a transition from regular search engine optimization, but we're just sort of jumping around here. I got into video search engine optimization and then, out comes Google Plus and to me, it's a natural transition. If you're doing anything in SEO, search engine optimization, then Google is where you look.
That's where you pay attention.
I got right onto Google Plus when it first came out and paid a lot of attention and then, the hangout tool came out and it was an obvious no-brainer for me. Video and SEO can be combined quite well inside your hangout or your hangout on air, when it's made a video. Here I am.
Jo: As somebody who did all of that over those years, you must find all of the changes quite interesting now. Even myself, from a few years ago, the thought of maybe, being able to build a webpage or being able to record and upload a video was way out there. It was such a massive learning curve that it was almost impossible. Nowadays, the tools that are being given to us online, everything seems to be moving towards simplifying it to make it so easy for the normal user, if you like.
Ronnie: I love that you did an air quote. I love those. Yes, I do believe it's getting easier and at the same time, it's speed of change is increasing rapidly. To me, that's one of the challenges. It is getting easier, but it keeps changing. You come in after two weeks and all of a sudden, everything's different. That will happen.
Yes, it's easier, but the speed at which it's changing has increased dramatically and I think that brings another level of concern for some people. Others that are learning how to roll with the punches, learning how to learn quickly are embracing it and getting a great amount of value out of it I think.
Jo: Just talking about hangouts, specifically, I am hearing all over the place and I have to say, I've kind of followed the trend a little bit with my advice, if you like, a lot of people are saying how you got to use hangouts. Hangouts is really going to help you with your search engine optimization. Hangouts are going to help you get ranked.
Certainly, when I've read lots of stuff on Google Plus, I'm certainly seeing, we'll get to this later in the interview actually, that a general presence on Google Plus is really going to start to help you with your searching records, provided, of course, that presence is backed up by social signals and all of that kind of stuff.
Hangouts in particular, Ronnie, is it true, is actually doing hangouts on Google Plus going to help businesses with their search engine optimization?
Ronnie: Yes and no. I don't believe that hangouts, in and of themselves, are the magic bullet. I do believe that the fact that it's a Google product and it ends up making a YouTube video, now you've got the two biggest search engines in the world paying attention to some degree, that that's going to help a little, but it simply makes a video by the time you're done and it's a video. It's not a special, hangout juiced up video. It's a video.
If you do this well, in my opinion, well and you get interaction because it's a social environment and you get people sharing and complimenting and interacting with your video, that is what helps search engine optimization.
That's what helps it show up in the search because there's activity around it. In my mind, it's not just because it's a Google Hangout. It's the fact that you've done a good job promoting it, getting interaction with it and having people help share it, that tied in with the fact that it's live, that's good and that it's fresh content, that's good. All these pieces together give you value in the search engines.
Technically, is it because it's a Google Plus hangout? I don't think so. I think it's the fact that all these parts and pieces play together to give you value and if you could get that same amount of value out of a recorded video, except for the live part, you would have the same push than if you did inside of a hangout
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Jo: Do you think Google is giving hangouts a little bit extra love, just because they are hangouts and they are on Google? Do you think Google just give them a little bit of an extra push?
Ronnie: I know people really want to say that. In fact, I think there's a bunch of marketers saying that's the way of the future. I just don't see it. I'm an SEO from way back and when I try to document things, I can't see that it's telling me that. Anecdotally, I'd love to say it's true, but I just can't back it up with any research.
Jo: Let's say, this is a real crystal ball type question, here, but just brainstorming out loud. Let's say you recorded a video and you put it on YouTube and you recorded a video and you put it on Vimeo or somewhere like that, I suppose the question is, is YouTube going to give preference to the video that's on YouTube because it's YouTube part of Google, over the video that's on Vimeo because it's not essentially part of YouTube?
Ronnie: I would say yes. I do believe that YouTube favors its own network for surfacing, actually I know it does. You search inside YouTube, you're not going to get a video from Vimeo, period, but if you're searching inside Google, then it's been a pretty easy documentable fact that you're going to get more value out of a YouTube video than you would out of a Vimeo video in the search results. Primarily, again, it's not what people think. It's primarily because there's more people that are on YouTube than there are on Vimeo and, therefore, more likely, more interaction, more engagement, more of the juice as it were going on inside YouTube than there is inside Vimeo. Not because it's favoring one network over the other, but anecdotally, that's what it looks like, but I don't really think that's the reason. I think it's because of the engagement factor.
Jo: So, we've done a hangout and it's live on YouTube. The next step, Obviously, is to optimize the video, whether it be a hangout or any other video on YouTube. The key way is to now optimize your YouTube. Before I start talking about putting it on Google, what are the key ways to optimize your video on YouTube?
Ronnie: You're using a special word on purpose. You're saying key. There's keywords. In my mind, they're still very valid and important. Inside YouTube, they're called tags – a keyword or a keyword phrase. If you have an idea what people are interested in searching for and your video can be about that topic and use those words in the titles and the description and the tags, then you have optimized it to the best of your ability, especially because they're taking away some of the other options we've got with related videos and things like that.
You should use consistent tags. That's one of the keys that I tell my video SEO clients. For example, Jo Barnes has a tag called Jo Barnes. That's a tag that you should use on every single one of your videos, so that when one of your video shows up because of whatever reason, your other ones are going to be listed right next to it as other options because they're related because they have similar tags.
That one little tip right there can make a big difference. Just consistently use some of your marketing tags, even though they're not necessarily related to that specific topic, they are related to the video because you're doing it. You don't want to try to fake it out. You're putting in real tags that are consistent.
This is another tip. The first words are more important than the second and the third and fourth words. If there's a certain keyword phrase that you want, this is going to sound odd, but the branding of Jo Barnes should not be at the beginning. The topic that people are searching for should be at the beginning and then, further over to the end of the title would be with Jo Barnes. Unless, and you might be, because you're special, unless you're that famous that people are going to search for your name, I would put the topic that you think they're searching for first and then, any branding after that.
Jo: Not only that, but it's just so much more user-friendly as well, even on advertising, you advise people put your brand at the bottom. People are much more interested in what's your product or service going to do for me rather than who you are.
Ronnie: I think so. If you're big and famous and you're Coca Cola, you're going to stick Coca Cola right up front, but otherwise, you're an average person, I think the topic should be first.
Jo: Yeah. Coming back to hangouts. I've got a couple of questions and I'm trying to think of how to put them so they're not really complex. What I'm trying to figure out in my head and I'm hoping that my audience are thinking the same thing is, if I do a hangout like the one I'm doing with you now and automatically this goes live on YouTube. It's hangout on air.
What I'm now going to do is after the interview, if I was going to do my interviews this way, I would go over to YouTube, I would go into the title, the description, the tags. I would then put in the relevant information and optimize this hangout. Therefore, I would know how this hangout is being searched for on YouTube. How does that effect what's going on inside Google Plus?
For instance, one of the things I hear people saying is that you can really take advantage of the Google Plus network at the moment because it's still growing. So, depending on your industry or niche, there's not much competition yet in your industry or niche and you're doing hangouts regularly on something specific in your industry or niche, then you're more likely to get found if people are searching for you in the actual Google Plus network. Is that true? Is that the case?
Ronnie: I would say yes and again, it's not for the reasons many people think. It's not because you're doing a hangout, but it's because you have become known as someone talking about that topic. If they're interested in that topic, Google Plus is giving you what's called, authority or trust in that topic, because more and more people are interacting with you around that topic and that's why you get found, not just because you're doing a lot of videos.
If you do the thing you're supposed to do, it's become known for knowledge in an area and interacting with other people that are similarly knowledgeable in that area, you're going to get more trust and that trust translates to when someone's searching within Google Plus on that topic, you and your stuff shows up higher on their search results.
Think of Google Plus as another search engine and because it's based on the trust and the value that you brought to the community and that niche, that's why it shows up. Not just because you're doing lots of hangouts. If you are doing lots of hangouts and you are giving the video the right titles that are related to that topic and you're interacting around that topic, then it's a win, win, win and everything that you do starts to show higher up on the search results.
Jo: It just comes back to everything you do on social media. It's all about engagement. It's all about getting that interaction.
Ronnie: Yep.
Jo: Yeah. My next question then, Ronnie, is the way I'm doing these particular hangouts at the moment is I'm recording them live, but then what I'm doing is I'm actually making them unlisted on YouTube. I'm deleting them from Google Plus. I'm then, downloading, editing, adding my little intros and outros and I'm re-uploading. By doing that, am I losing any juice along the way by doing that?
Ronnie: Not the way you're doing it. If I did it that way, I would lose juice. The reason why it's different, you didn't tell anybody that you were planning on this thing happening. You're using the tool to record automatically for you and the amount of people watching live and interacting live is not part of your equation. Isn't that true?
Jo: Yeah.
Ronnie: When I do them, I make a big deal out of it. I make an event and I tell everybody, this is coming a week from now. This is what we're going to be talking about. Sign up and let's get going. Add your questions and your comments and I do this crowd interaction thing, live. That means the live activity is valuable, therefore, if I were to shut it down, edit it and put it back up again, I would lose some of the traction that I had built by doing all this pre-show promotion. It really depends on how you, what I call package, you package your hangout on air.
You're doing the hangout on air to simply make a video. You're not doing it to broadcast a live webinar session, whereas mine, I tend to do it that way. I make it an event and I have people come and get ready for it and before, during and after, we talk about it. That is going to have a bigger effect, whether I remove it and then, replace it, than the way you're doing it. You're simply making it as a video and that's a tool to make a video. There's really not going to be any impact on yours, where there would be on mine, type thing.
Jo: Okay. This is great. Basically, what's happening then is that all of my work, if you like, for optimization and being able to try and get a bit of a push is going to be in all of my post video promotions, so as soon as I re-upload it, all of my optimization, how I then share it, try to get engagement on it, try and get people to interact with it, all of that kind of stuff, that's what's going to push my video up the search engine rankings.
Ronnie: Correct.
Jo: You're talking about is if you actually host a live event and you get lots of interaction on that event, then essentially, you're beginning your SEO campaign, if you like, even before you've recorded the event itself because you're beginning to get reaction on the whole thing as opposed to just the video.
Ronnie: That's exactly correct.
Jo: The pros and cons for the guys watching. Here's the pros and cons. The
reason I'm doing it my way is because I'm trying to interview people
from across the globe and to be able to create these interviews and it's
pretty difficult to try and organize people at specific time every
single week, especially when they're right across the world; however,
you can see that there are significant benefits to hosting a live event.
What would you say, once a week? Once a month? Does it matter? Just
consistently hosting a live event every so often? Do you think that will
assist in your profile on Google Plus and help you in the search
Ronnie: I know it's helped me. That's all I can say. I think it really does.
Consistency is something YouTube has been harping about for years.
Having a consistent show is beneficial. It's kind of like a TV show.
Everybody tunes in at a certain day and time.
The other thing, the live interaction, I think, is what really, really
tips the scales in favor of a live event because if I bring the comment
of a person that's watching it live, right onto the screen, that is
massively impactful because what it means is the person, even though
they're not even in the film strip, the thing down as part of the
hangout on air, they are able to be part of the show because I brought
their comment right there onto the screen.
What that does socially is it simply allows someone else that's not in
that show to be in the show and, therefore, their comment was honored by
being visible and we answer it and that's going to make other people
want to ask questions so that they can get their comment and question
answered and that brings more and more interaction and then, the next
show, you get more people saying, Jo did it last time, I'm going to try
it this time and on and on.
It grows and the fury causes the activity to grow, which means
next time, those friends are going to share it with their friends
and say, come to the show. I got my question answered last
time, you can get it this time and it spreads. That's the
interactive element of this live interaction that, unfortunately, if
you're doing it, you don't have for this method, but some of
the ones that you might be able to do, you could take
advantage of that.
Jo: Absolutely. I've seen you talk before about the importance of
doing an event. It's not just to hang out on air. You do actually
create the event and you go out and share the event. Can you
just share a little bit about why it's so important to do it in
that event feature inside Google Plus?
Ronnie: Let me explain a little bit about, I meet with people on a regular basis
and we do consulting. That's how I make my living. One of the first big
things people ask is how do I make this found? How do I get my hangout
on air active and found and interacting with and all that stuff. I try
to ask them, who is your target? They're like, I just want to know how
to do it. No. What's your target audience? Who cares about what you do?
If they tell me it's all on my website, that's where they are, then
I tell them great, let's do your hang out on air on your website and
they say, but that's not how you do it, Ronnie. I said, that's right.
They're not my target. My target is Google Plus users because I talk
about a Google Plus tool.
That's why I specifically focus on the event tool inside Google
Plus because that's my website, if you can think of it that way.
That's where people are watching me.
Depending on where they're going to be watching or you think
the majority are going to be watching, that's a good place to
do your show. With that said, and it doesn't apply to everybody
this way, but with that said, I use the Google Plus event tool,
because it allows me to advertise before, during and after the
show. We can tell people this is coming at this date and time,
get the comments rolling, the questions coming in. While it's
live, I bring those right onto the screen. Once it's over, I go
back and I add more answers to the questions I couldn't get
live because I get too many and then, we get interaction and
people are sharing with other people, "Hey did you see the
show? Ronnie talked about this. Go watch it there. " Even after
it's over. It's before, during and after. It's a landing page, if you
think of it that way. The event tool I use is a landing page and
it works wonderfully for live shows.
Jo: Let's just talk about invites for a second. I went to Google Plus
this morning [inaudible 23:42] and I noticed I had an invite
from you for an event coming up. When you invite people to
your events, do you allocate specific circles? Do you have
specific circles, where you know those are people that are
essentially entrusted in your subjects? You do?
Ronnie: Here's what I do. It's going to sound conceited, but I do
Google Plus right. I spent two years learning how to do this.
I've gotten rid of some bad techniques and I have adopted, as
far as I know, all the good ones. The good ones mean this. I go
and I find people that are interested in my topic. I go watch
them. I watch them and I interact with their posts. I plus
mention their name. I add a comment. I reshare their post. I
interact with their stuff. That gets their attention.
Then, they start interacting with my stuff because we're talking
about similar things. There's a level of compatibility, let's say.
Then we eventually realize, we're both benefiting each other by
doing this, so let's keep it up. What I'll do then is I'll say, I'll
reach out to them. I'll say, I noticed that you shared my post
five times over the last week and you commented a lot. Would
you like to be in a circle that I alert about my hangout on air
activity? They'll say yes or they'll say no and I'll appropriately
add them to a circle.
I also go to my events and when I do an event, I might have
200 or300 people show up. I'll go through the comments later.
I was just doing that again today. This was for an event last
week. I went through and I saw this person's question seems to
be a legitimate one. They really do need to know or want to
know about hangouts, I'm going to add them to a hangout
circle. This is not often. This is me harvesting data based on
their comments.
I add them to a circle. I've got right now about 700 people that
I know because of their actions are interested in hangout and
hangouts on air. Now I've got different circles that are focused
on a topic. When I'm doing a show that's talking about
something that's important to the people that care about
hangouts on air, I invite them to the event because I know that
they're interested. I've already figured that out and as a result,
you'll get a group of people that, yes I'm going, maybe I'm
going to come, no I don't want to go and I just haven't looked
at it yet.
You've got four categories of people with the event tool. The
event tool, by the way, is a marketing dream because I can
send a different note to each one of those categories. If the
show's on Friday, on Thursday I can say, hey I saw you said yes,
you're coming, I just wanted to say thank you and tell you that
we're going to have a special deal if you make sure you show
up so don't forget. These are the people that said yes.
I'll send a different note to those who said maybe and I'll say, I
hope you can make it, but if you can't, it is going to be
recorded so don't forget, but I'd really love to see you there
live. You send a different message to each category of
attendance and that's one of the options what the event tool
has that you may or may not have in other environments where
you're just posting your show.
Yes, I definitely send invites or invite people to the show that I
know that are interested and here's another key. I tell them in
my comments or my description area. I say hey, if you know
someone interested in this, invite them. Feel free to invite
them. I give other people the option to invite other people. If
I didn't, it wouldn't be any near as much fun.
Jo: What's interesting, actually, are a few points there that you've
mentioned is very interesting. First one is that Facebook had in
their event tool, they used to have the ability to message
people that said yes, people that said maybe, people that had
not answered yet and then, they got rid of it. Quite frankly,
since they got rid of that, their event hasn't been, I hardly
use it anymore. That was one of the most powerful things
about it, being able to message the different people that had
wanted to come.
What I do find interesting there is how you are segmenting
your circles and it is a little bit like an email list. It's like
people are showing their interests to your content and then,
you are essentially segmenting them and putting them into
lists that you can then invite to certain things that you know
are going to be of interest to them.
Ronnie: I go above and beyond that a little bit because, just because
your interested in hangout on air, doesn't mean you care that
much about what I'm doing. If I see you and you're sharing my
stuff every single time I put a post out about hangout on air,
I pay attention to that and then, I reach out to you privately
and I say, "Jo, I see you really like my stuff it appears.
Would you like to be alerted only for the ones I think are really
important. I don't do this a lot. I will not spam you, but just
so that it's easier because there's so much stuff that goes on,
would you like me to send you an alert for the ones I feel are
the most important?"
If you say yes, you get added to my special opt in circle and I
also point out to people, anytime if you think that I'm giving
you stuff that you don't want and you want out, let me know.
No hard feelings. I'll remove you from the circle, you'll still see
my stuff on your own, you just won't be alerted by me. That I
found to be very valuable.
Jo: That's a great way of marketing. It's totally based on building a
great relationship with your potential customers, which is what
brilliant marketing is all about. Let's be true.
Ronnie, I just want to talk a little bit, before we go, I just want
to talk a little bit about Google Plus generally, just because
recently, I know you and I have spoken about this before, but
recently I have been asked,"Jo, is it really important right now
for me to be on Google Plus? Should my business be over there
on Google Plus?" I know what my advice is, but if I just asked
you that question, what would you say to somebody asking you
that question?
Ronnie: I may have said this before, so it's redundant, but some
people are hearing it for the first time. I will ask someone this.
I'll first start off by saying, "Is google.com (meaning search), is
that important for your business?" If their answer is, "No, I
don't think so," then I say, "Okay, we're done. Let's talk about
something else." If they say, "Yes, it's important for my
business, obviously it's important for my business," then I say,
"How do you spell Google Plus?" That's about all that I need to
do for most businesses to say, okay, I get it. Then they
understand a little bit more and if they want more verification,
I'll give it to them, but that basically is the bottom line.
Not everyone has time to work with every single environment
out there. You just don't. You've got to run your business. You
just don't have time.
The key is, what's going to give you the best bang for your
buck. I learned early, early on as an SEO guy, because that's
how I approach this, that the work I did on Google Plus was
affecting search results much faster, much more efficiently
than anything I had ever done before and I had done it for
seven years. I decided, okay, this is the place to be. It's obvious
for me. I don't necessarily care if my competitors don't want to
be over here. I'm okay with that. I'll find the new people. I'll let
them find me and we'll just have a party. It works out fine for
Jo: I saw a post a few days ago with somebody having a big old go
on Google Plus. It's getting complex, there's things they are
missing, there's things that are changing and I have to be one
of the first ones to put my hands up and say that on Google
Plus, I do find it complex to navigate. I find the notifications
challenging. I find the different columns a bit challenging and
as far as Google communities go, I never know if someone's
commented or they haven't. I do find them very challenging to
navigate and I do hope that as it grows, Google will listen to
its users and find ways. All social media, every business has
to grow and evolve and change in line with feedback from its
users, but one of the things, one of the comments was, it's just
getting like Facebook and it's getting way too noisy and there's
too much rubbish coming through.
And then, one of the other comments was, I'm just getting fed
up with all the bozos that are now finding Google Plus and
start to come on there and share all the rubbish. The memes,
the pictures and whatever. Do you think that people, certainly,
the earlier adopters of Google, I'm not wishing to upset
anybody here, but do you think that the earlier adopters of
Google Plus are a bit snobby towards people coming on board?
Ronnie: I think there's a degree of that. Yeah. Sure. I think it's just
human nature, but what I would say for anybody that's getting
concerned about what they're seeing and they don't like what
they're seeing anymore because it's less pure, I say you simply
need to go clean up your circles. Here's the deal. Google Plus
allows you to see what you want to see. If you are looking at
what's called, the home stream, that home stream is made up
of your circles. It's not the world. It's your circles. If you are
seeing garbage, take the people that are posting the garbage
out of your circles and then, you won't see it anymore.
That's one of the beauties of what's called the public stream.
It's not truly public. It's filtered around what you have in your
circles. If you're seeing crap, get rid of the people that are
bringing it in and you're going to have a cleaner environment.
Another tip. That's just the public home stream. Another tip is
if you focus in a certain niche, let's say you're focused in video
marketing. You find 600 people that talk about video
marketing. That's a circle.
You put them into a circle and you say hey, I want to just see
what the video marketing people are talking about. You view
your home stream based on that circle and that circle alone
and that's exactly what you're going to see is everybody talking
about video marketing. What are they saying? Then, you shift
and you're talking about dog biscuits because I happen to have
one right here. You have a circle about dog food manufacturers
or whatever and then, you just say, I only want to see what
they're talking a bout.
You actually control very, very accurately what the
conversations are that you're looking at. Really, when people
say it's getting too much like some other place that they don't
like, that simply means they need to modify who they've got in
their circles so they don't get the garbage that those people are
bringing in.You just take them out of your circle and you don't
see their stuff.
Jo: Where is the best place for people to go and learn a bit more,
Ronnie, about hangouts and about Google Plus? Where can we
find a bit more about you and what you're up to?
Ronnie: I just turned on what's called a lower third. I adjusted it so
that it shows you. I've built a new place called
thehangouthelper.com. That's not as much new, as the
membership portion of it. There's free stuff on
thehangouthelper.com, but there's also a paid environment
where we help people keep up. My expression is, sign up to
keep up, because as you're saying, it does change and it will
change and it will continue to change. I believe it's getting
better, overall. I know. I promise you. I know that I get more
interaction with the Googlers and they do listen and make
adjustments. There's certain things that I can't say, but bottom
line is they do make changes based on customer feedback way
more than I've ever seen in any other environment.
It is Google and they have a history of being Google, so little by
Little, you're going to see that when there's enough of an out-
roar or uproar about something that they end up making a
modification if it's not contrary to what their goals were and
I've seen things being reversed and upside down and changed
and modified back to something that worked better in
incredible ways. I'm not going to say they're perfect, but just
like anybody you really like, there's things about them that
you'd like to have changed. That's just the way it is. I've found
my time with Google Plus to be more rewarding and more
interactive with Googlers than I ever have before in any other
social environment, period.
Jo: Fantastic. I applaud you and I urge people to go to the
hangouthelper.com/members and find out more information.
Keeping up to date with social media is just, you really have to
applaud anybody who does it.
I much prefer to now highlight what other people are doing
because I don't want to record another social media course
ever because the minute you record them, they change.
Ronnie: That's one of the things and I think your viewers know this
already. They have their area of focus and if there's a tool
like the hangout tool is something that you need to help you
communicate your area of focus, you don't need to learn
everything about it. Find me, let me help you know what it is
and then, move on to get your message refined and
communicated and then, when it changes again, find me again
and we'll get you updated. That's the thing I do. I focus
primarily on the hangout tool because it's changing and I have
to keep up with it, so I help people understand what does this
change mean to you and do you need to worry about it? This
one doesn't matter. This one makes a big difference. That kind
of thing.
Jo: Actually, Ronnie just made an absolutely super important point
there. Your job is to run your business. Your job is to get out
there and service your customers and be the best thing you can
be. Your job isn't to have to learn every single, small detail
about the different social media platforms.
When you can, make sure you get connected and hook up with
those people that do spend 24 hours a day on these social
networks, learning all the different things so that they can give
you the stuff that's super important to your business.
When this video goes live, there will be links underneath the
video on my blog. One of them will be to the
hangouthelper.com/members. The other one will be to
Ronnie's profile on Google and I urge you to, at the very least,
go and connect with Ronnie and go and find him on Google
and start watching his posts and everything on your stream so
you can keep up to date with what's going on.
Before we go, Ronnie, I do like to leave this show with a nice
inspirational message. Something that's inspired you on your
journey, whether it's been a book or a film or a quote or a
person. Something that you can maybe share with our viewers
to help them and inspire them in their journey.
Ronnie: There's been a lot. Probably the first two things that's come
to mind and I'll just make them real quick. One is a book that I
wish I had read when I was younger, but I couldn't have
because he hadn't written it yet. It's called, "Rich Dad, Poor
Dad." Have you ever heard of "Rich Dad, Poor Dad?" It helps you
understand money in a different way than you might otherwise.
I think had I read that sooner, it would have been able to have
a bigger impact. It already did have a big impact, but there's x
number of years that you need to let that impact ferment or
happen. Anyways, "Rich Dad, Poor Dad," very good book. Really
simple but helps you think about money in a different way.
The second thing is hangouts. When they started happening, I
saw one person that impressed me like none other and that
was Sarah Hill. Sarah Hill is someone that you should follow,
just because she does such a wonderful job with hangouts. At
the time, she was working at NBC at a TV station. She was a
newscaster and she brought hangouts into the live newscast. I
was so impressed on how she did that. She had one ear the
producer, another ear the hangouts and in front of her was a
teleprompter. I was like, how are you doing all that? She's like
what? I don't know. Just do it.
She said this and I'm paraphrasing her, but she said I wanted
people to be able to yell at the TV and I could answer back.
She's a broadcaster saying something and she wanted to hear
the peanut gallery telling her what we thought of what she
said live. I was like, aren't I supposed to be quiet while you're
doing your show? She's like, no. I want you to actually talk to
me live.
The audience out there is not going to hear it, but I hear it in
my ear and it helps me know what your response is. I was like,
wow. This is new. I like it.
Jo: Impressive. Very impressive. Especially all the things she has to
think about in the studio. To have the viewers in her ear, as
Ronnie: She doesn't work at NBC anymore. She moved on to another
company and what she does, she's a chief story teller, using
what she calls human media. These are some of the terms that she
does. I think that she's a phenomenal seer of the future of what
hangouts are all about. Really cool stuff. Sarah Hill.
Jo: There you have it guys, so go and find Sarah Hill. I'll also put a
link to her profile and the link to this video, as well, so that
you can go and circle Sarah. Ronnie, what can I say? Thank you
so much. It's always a pleasure to speak to you and it's been an
absolute pleasure to speak to you again. It's opened both of
my eyes even more to some of the things that we can do with
hangouts and Google Plus. Thank you very much for joining us.
Ronnie: Fantastic. Thank you for having me.
Jo: All right guys, thank you for joining us on another episode and
I will see you next week.
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* This second post is in continuation with my Bali travelogue series. Click on the link to read Part 1 of the series - A Trip to Tropical Paradise : Bali
Day 3 : Climbing up an active Volcano
Today was going to be a very special day. Firstly because it involved trekking, secondly because we were not hiking up just any mountain but a bloody active volcano - Mount Batur, and thirdly because nature certainly knew how to catch me off guard.
A van picked us up from the hotel at 1 am in the wee hours of night. After 2 hours of drive with co-travelers being picked up on the way, the driver drops us off at the base location where we were assigned a guide who would be trekking it up with us and our group.
Things you'll need for the trek :
- Be ready for quite a hike of around 3-to-4 hours depending on your trekking speed. I would recommend wearing proper footwear, preferably trekking shoes.
- Also, no water source is available throughout the route, so make sure to carry enough water.
- It can get chilly at the top or during the night hike. Unfortunately, it might even rain at times. Carrying a light rain jacket which doubles up as a warm jacket is a good option.
- Have a head torch or a hand torch on you for trekking up tricky spots in the night.
We began the trek at 3 am making our way through guided trails. The volcano's silhouette could be seen, as thousands of stars lit up the sky, it was magical. Slowly but steadily we made our way to the top and thankfully before sunrise. Watching the sunrise from atop Mount Batur is even more beautiful than words can express.
Within minutes the sun began to peek from behind the island's tallest volcano - Mount Agung, and lit up the calderas. Tiny clouds were drifting away at the caldera floor and we were way up above the clouds. Villages cocooned in the region and heavy sedimentation of basaltic lava could be seen for miles around. Before we thought we had conquered Batur, our female guide interrupted our momentary sense of achievement to tell us that this was the view point for sunrise and not the topmost point.
Some people choose to trek only up to this point and return back from here. But we chose to move ahead and trek to the top. It's a good 45 min to an hour of trekking which takes you to the rim of the crater. With a good speed you can even circumnavigate the entire rim of the crater once you reach the summit point.
I was puffing and panting as the sun was up and was draining me out, but the summit kept calling out to me. I made it to the top with my forever supportive lady guide. Rest of the folks had already climbed up and down the rim and had even started descending from the sunrise spot. And here I was dragging myself to the top. My guide was constantly with me and assured me that no matter how much time I would need, she will be there with me throughout.
Finally making it to the summit, the panoramic views were mind boggling and I knew what I would have missed if I hadn't trekked up there. I could now spot Lake Batur, the fourth lake in Bali, in all its magnificence.
Suddenly dark clouds began to hover above and beyond me. I started feeling jittery for having trekked up to this point and for what? Ending up missing the views! I quickly turned around to look at the inner side of the rim to see the vent and source of the volcano, but all I could see at this moment was fog and clouds. Within seconds, from the other side the sun came out from its own cloud cover and shattered the fog right in front of my eyes with its rays, and there it was - a GLORY, my third surprise. My shadow formed at its epicenter and this is when nature swept me off my feet. I was awestruck and feeling blessed to witness such a rare phenomenon for a full 5 minutes.
The photographer in me was delighted for being at the right place at the right time and in such an unexpected scenario. It was indeed a "GLORY – ous" day.
This was my experience of trekking up Mount Batur. Definitely try this hike when in Bali, its a thrilling experience.
How was your trek experience? Share with me in the comments below.
A third and final blog post of my Bali travelogue series is here - 2 Weeks in BALI : Island Hopping Lombok and Gili
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