7 Ways to Make Your Local Newspaper Work For You
Published April 16, 2009, Classified News Blog by Daype Classifieds To many people, newspaper classifieds mean ink-stained pages and misprinted phone numbers. But most newspapers now have their websites, complete with original news content, aggregate content – and classifieds. Here are 7 quick and easy ways to make your local newspaper’s website work for...
Read More6 Ways to Make Your Tweets Stand Out From the Crowd
Tweet-tweet, tweet-tweet – sometimes it seems like everyone’s talking about Twitter. Here are just a few things you can do to make your tweets stand out from the crowd. 1. Don’t waste words Twitter has a 140 character post limit – make every one of them count. This can be particularly hard if you’re not good at self-editing, so take a minute or two to consider your tweet before posting. - Is it succinct? Simple? - Do the words work for you? Have you made a point, or just...
Read MoreSeven Teas to Aid Digestion
April 8th, 2009 Digestion is an issue for everyone – we all eat, therefore we all process food. But, while some people are lucky enough to never have digestive troubles (increased burping, reflux, abdominal cramping, flatulence, constipation), most of us, at some time in our lives, need a little help finding relief. There are lots of products on the market to help with digestion, ranging from prescription drugs (such as Nexium to relieve heartburn) to over-the-counter stool softeners...
Read MoreBaha’i Rights
April 17, 2008 Every morning, my husband makes a pot of coffee or tea and we sit down to check our email, messages, and catch up on the news. This morning, I stumbled upon The Muslim Network for Bahá’í Rights. Bahá’í s represent a religious minority in many parts of the world; believers are as far-flung as Iran, Egypt, Germany, and Australia (to name just a small section of their geographic reach). Moreover, the Bahá’í faith is one of the fastest-growing religions in the world,...
Read MoreA New Kind of Death Toll
May 29, 2008 We’ve all heard about the death toll in Iraq (~4,100 dead at the time of this writing), seen the footage of memorial services, the news reports about hidden casualties and the perceived unreality of what’s happening in the Middle East. But there’s a subset of war casualties we don’t hear much about—those returned soldiers who commit suicide, who attempt suicide, who suffer from post traumatic stress disorder, who suffer from any number of other mental illnesses...
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