10 Tips for Non-Profit Social Media Success | Business 2 Community

I had the pleasure of speaking at PodCamp East today. My talk was on ?Cultivating Zombies or Activating communities?. We covered quite a bit of ground, so, I thought I would highlight some of the tips we talked about in strategies for non-profits to consider when evaluating a social media presence.

Want to know more about the Zombies- don?t worry, I?ll cover that in the next post!

I will be putting up the complete slide share and additional notes and resources shortly! This might be a good time to sign up for my newsletter by email on the right, or download my mobile app this way you will get notified whenever something is posted !

To those who came to the presentation today, thank you! It was amazing to have the opportunity to share ideas into changing the world by getting more people involved!

(Notice getting more followers and likes on Facebook is not on here ? that?s for the Zombie post! )

1. Start blogging OR create a blog type site:

This allows you to tell deeper stories, a critical aspect of building relationships

Also an important tool for reaching others who will be looking for your services online or looking for causes to support in their local area. If you?re not showing up when they try to find you, how will you get the support?

Blogging provides a platform for you to use as a home base. Anything you post elsewhere, can be brought onto your blog.

***Tip: If writing a blog is overwhelming and your primary social media activities will be focused on other platforms like Twitter, Instagram or YouTube, you can always get resourceful and use a service like Overblog to pull it all together for you and display it in a blog format. It is very easy to set up and a very interesting option for non-profits. It will also allow for you to write blog posts when the need arises or you are ready to start.

Blogs also allow you to address concerns or frequently asked questions that you encounter daily in the public eye. It serves as a resource not only to support your projects but to reassure people about things they would otherwise be concerned about, for example, allocation of funding ? how much of what they donate goes to helping ? just one small example that can help bring more donors in!

2. Activate a Twitter Account
Your Twitter account can be used to reach new people, identify others who you might be able to collaborate with and find influencers and supporters to help you in your cause.

You can also use Twitter to have brainstorming sessions with others who share similar interests, or promote events through hashtag chat.

3. Sign up for a social media helper tool like Commun.it or Nimble -both have free versions. These will help you manage communication with your community.

Nimble is neat because it pulls all your social accounts into one place ? in an ?email style? interface. For people trying to make sense of the flow of messages from social sites, it pulls it together so you can read and manage all in one place just like email. I also like the feature of creating follow up actions and scheduling events around your online contacts. It helps keep track of the relationships you are building and future plans and actions.

Commun.it shows engagement opportunities, reminds you to respond to ?mentions? and also monitors who us talking about you, and identifies potential new relationships to pursue. It?s very user friendly, definitely a tool to check out!

For documenting events that receive online attention, you can also check out Storify, I covered it in a previous post here.

4. Tell your story

The most important aspect of gaining support in a non profit using social media is getting people and organizations to connect with you so they feel that they want to support you. Take the time to dig into your ?raison d??tre? (reason of being) and share this. Make sure to always connect your story back to your community, your sponsors ? they need to understand why they should care and why supporting you is important to them. Draw the connections.

5. Start using video ? YouTube, Google hang outs, or and easy mobile app like Tout give lots of opportunities to share moments, conversations, presentations and brainstorming sessions.

6. Activate an email campaign ? like Mail Chimp. Email is still important. Use this instead of traditional direct mail. It will not only provide you with an easy way to keep in touch, it will provide stats on who has seen it, clicked through on your links, etc.

7. Get out into your community and let people know about all this in person!

You have to supplement online activity with real life contact and events. Find people who are interested in your cause, and then share your message. Plan talks or events to raise awareness. Let people know how they can stay in touch and help online!

8. Send a media release about what you?re doing ? whenever you have news, or something new to say ? contact the local media. People still watch tv and read newspapers. Don?t forget this as part of our strategy and direct them to your social sites for more information.

9. Use pictures ? people do not have a lot of time. Sharing photos is a quick easy way to communicate messages and feelings. Use photos to recognize partners, volunteers, show results of people?s contributions. A great way to give results to the community that supports you and to entertain and recognize them!

10. Follow other bloggers and organizations that provide content focusing on the same goals as yours ? fundraising and sharing the story of their missions ? these will be your teachers.

These are 10 quick tips to make sure you?re moving in the right direction. In my next post, I will include the slides. Stay tuned and thank you for a great event today!

What tricks or tips do you use to keep community engaged?

Are you cultivating zombies, or activating community?

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A man to clear muddy water from his house, after heavy rain caused flash floods in the town of Villanueva del Rosario, Malaga, southern Spain, Friday, Sept. 28, 2012. Homes were destroyed and at least one woman was killed. Rescue workers are searching to determine if there are more victims. (AP Photo/Sergio Torres)

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BARCELONA, Spain (AP) ? A tornado swept through a fair ground in a Spanish town, knocking down a Ferris wheel and injuring 35 people, while the death toll from flooding in the same southern region of the country rose to 10, authorities said Saturday.

The Friday tornado damaged several rides and cut electricity in the temporary fair set up in the main square of Gandia, according to its town hall website. It said 15 of the injured were seriously hurt, all of whom were treated on site.

Local media reported the fair in Valencia province was closed to the public at the time of a thunderstorm and that all the injured were fair workers.

Just inland from the Mediterranean coastal town, five more victims of Friday's flash floods southwest of Gandia were found overnight. They included a middle-aged woman in the town of Lorca.

Last summer Lorca was hit by Spain's deadliest earthquakes in more than 50 years, leaving nine dead.

A spokeswoman for the regional government of Andalucia told The Associated Press on Saturday that the heavy downpours and resulting high waters had claimed the lives of five people in the province of Murcia, three in Almeria and two in Malaga.

The spokesman, speaking on condition of anonymity in keeping with government policy, said that a 52-year-old British woman was missing in Almeria as well as one homeless man. Five people originally declared missing had been found alive.

Local media reported that hundreds of citizens had to be evacuated throughout the region.

The flooding disrupted high-speed train service between Madrid and Valencia and various regional lines, while bridges and roads were also made impassible.

The heavy rains which started on Friday morning are expected to continue throughout Saturday, with the front moving north toward Catalonia and the Balearic Islands.

Associated Press

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Notes on ?The Poetics of History? | Savage Minds

Metahistory (1973) is a remarkably prescient text. One of my projects this summer was getting to know Hayden White and I thought I might share some of the notes I took on the introductory chapter to his best known book. What brought me to the work initially was my interest in history and memory studies. Although the author?s intent is to address historians, Metahistory can be read as a comprehensive framework for thinking about how anthropologists construct representations through ethnography or how a community comes to relate to its past through the composition of historical narratives.

With the author?s focus in on poetics it?s hard not to perceive connections to Writing Culture (1986). It?s kind of amazing really, to read this early seventies work that references all the same theorists anthropology starts talking about fifteen years down the road. White?s work contrasts with Writing Culture by virtue of being anchored to old school structuralism (my pet theory). White seems to have anticipated a lot of the later theory, only Metahistory is a much clearer read.

White is offering us a theory of theory that teaches us how to read for rhetoric in social science. Metahistory is about the problem of historical knowledge and White sees himself as working towards a theory of the structure of historical thought. This is a uniquely modern/ post-modern problem. In antiquity the question of what it means to think historically was debated by philosophers under the assumption that ?unambiguous answers could be provided for them.? But, of course, theory since the ?60s has concluded that ?definitive answers may not be possible.?

One particularly popular and persuasive theory of history, which might be dubbed the literary critique of power, can be summarized as follows:

The historical consciousness on which Western man has prided himself since the beginning of the nineteenth century may be little more that a theoretical basis for the ideological position from which Western civilization views its relationship not only to cultures and civilizations preceding it but also those contemporary with it in time.?

In contrast to this White offers his own perspective of poetics, with its focus on issues of representation and realism:

I will consider the historical work as what it most manifestly is ? that is to say, a verbal structure in the form of a narrative prose discourse that purports to be a model, or icon, of past structures and processes in the interest of explaining what they were by representing them.

In an extended footnote he name checks Auerbach?s Mimesis (1946) as his role model, for raising ?the whole question of the ?fictive? representation of ?reality.??

So White?s objective is not to discover the most correct approach to historical study. We?re not chasing authenticity here, but looking at diachronic patterns that can be found within the set of historical literatures. Who is right and who is wrong is besides the point because we?re looking at their rhetoric in order to draw conclusions about the role of literary technique in structuring the way we think about the past (what White calls the ?explanatory effect? of history).

In my view, the whole discussion of the nature of ?realism? in literature flounders in the failure to assess critically what a genuinely ?historical? conception of ?reality? consists of. The usual tactic is to set the ?historical? over against the ?mythical?, as if the former were genuinely empirical and the latter were nothing but conceptual, and then to locate the realm of the fictive between the two poles. Literature is then viewed as being more or less realistic, depending upon the ratio of empirical to conceptual elements contained within it.

?The Theory of the Historical Work?
How is it that historians manage to explain anything at all? Like us anthropologists they work their magic by telling stories. White says that by composing stories about sets of events they are ?motifically encoded? and are now transformed into a ?completed diachronic process.? But as scholars of history we can interrogate them as if they were a synchronic structure.

White reminds us that when he brings critical theory to a reading of history that it cannot be equivalent to literary critique of fiction in that ?historical works are made up of events that exist outside the consciousness of the writer.? It?s about things that are, in some sense, real and the historian?s challenge is to represent reality through narrative. Whereas the novelist creates from the imagination, ?the historian confronts a veritable chaos of events already constituted, out of which he must choose the elements of the story he would like to tell.? Just a hop skip and a jump, and we?re talking about ethnography.

In the sections that follow I will outline White?s three explanatory strategies: explanation by emplotment, explanation by formal argument, and explanation by ideological implication. Then in two concluding sections White attempts to synthesize these strategies into different ?styles? that are associated with competing political agendas.

?Explanation by Emplotment?
White tells us that, ?Emplotment is the way by which a sequence of events fashioned into a story is gradually revealed to be a story of a particular kind.? Among the ?particular kinds of stories? White identifies are Romance, Tragedy, Comedy, and Satire. Although White does go into detail about the specific qualities of each of these genres, it is not the case that writers consciously select them based on their individual virtues. He writes, ?Historians in general, however critical they are of their sources, tend to be na?ve storytellers.?

I found his description of the different plot types to be very interesting for my research, especially the history-as-tragedy and history-as-comedy. Both of these forms really resonate with representational themes in American Indian studies.

More evidence of the prescience of Metahistory: the undercurrent of doubt and Nieztche that comes with the study of poetics. His description of Satire, reminded me of cultural anthropology too, in the way we take pleasure in mocking the civilized. ?Like philosophy itself, Satire ?paints its gray on gray? in the awareness of its own inadequacy as an image of reality. It therefore prepares consciousness for its repudiation of all sophisticated conceptualizations of the world.?

Here?s a precis of the four types. Brilliant stuff, this:

Tragedy and Satire are modes of emplotment which are consonant with the interest of those historians who perceive behind or within the welter of events contained in the chronicle an ongoing structure of relationships or an eternal return of the Same in the Different. Romance and Comedy stress the emergence of new forces or conditions out of processes that appear at first glance either to be changeless in their essence or to be changing only in their phenomenal forms. But each of these archetypal plot structures has its implication for the cognitive operations by which the historian seeks to ?explain? what was ?really happening? during the process of which it provides an image of its true form.

?Explanation by Formal Argument?
I?ve mentioned in past blogs how, as an undergrad, one text that had a profound effect on me was Clifford?s Predicament of Culture. The same semester, the same professor gave me Kenneth Burke?s A Grammar of Motives which became another touchstone text for me through grad school. So it was a treat to see Burke (lit crit I had actually read!!) pop up among all the hyper-literate references White was name checking.

An explanation that uses formal argument is one that explains, ?what happens in the story by invoking principles of combination which serve as putative laws of historical explanation,? or utilizing some other, ?putatively universal law of causal relationships.? This type marks protoscientific history and our classic example here would be Marxist super-structure/base type explanations.

Just as there were four genres of emplotment, White goes on to develop four paradigms of argument. Borrowed, he tells us, from Stephen C Pepper, World Hypothesis. (Maybe this means something to you? I have not read it.) The four arguments types are: Formist, Organicist, Mechanistic, and Contextualist.

The Formist argument is like a cabinet of curiosity in that it features the aesthetic arrangement of unique, precious things. ?The uniqueness of the different agents, agencies, and acts which make up the ?events? to be explained is central to one?s inquiries, not the ?ground? or ?scene? against which these entities rise.?

Formism is essentially ?dispersive? in the analytical operations it carries out on the data, rather than ?integrative,?? tends to be wide in ?scope? ? such historians usually make up for the vacuity of their generalizations by the vividness of their reconstructions of particular agents, agencies, and acts represented in their narratives.

The Organicist argument sounds anthropological in a Boasian kind of way. It seeks, ?To see individual entities as components of processes which aggregate into wholes.? Here White ranks the nationalists and Hegel. The Organicist eschews the search for universal laws and focuses instead on the folk, the nation, and the culture.

An Organicist argument is one in which the ?consolidation or crystallization, out of a set of apparently dispersed events, of some integrated entity whose importance is greater than that of any of the individual entities analyzed or described in the course of the narrative.?

The Mechanistic argument is inclined to be ?reductive rather than synthetic,? and it is here we find scientific history.

To put the matter in Kenneth Burke?s terms, Mechanism is inclined to view the ?acts? of the ?agents? inhabiting the historical field as manifestations of extrahistorical ?agencies?? the search for the causal laws that determine the outcomes of processes discovered in the historical field? He considers individual entities to be less important as evidence than the classes of phenomena to which they can be shown to belong.

The Contextualist argument also seems very anthropological. Explanations are found ?by the revelation of the specific relationships they bore to other events occurring in their circumambient historical space? the aim of explanation is to identify the ?threads? that link the individual or institution under study to its specious sociocultural ?present?.?

Contextualism seeks to avoid both the radically dispersive tendency of Formism and the abstractive tendencies of Organicism and Mechanism. It strives instead for a relative integration of the phenomena discerned in finite provinces of historical occurrence in terms of ?trends.?
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And, if the historian who is inclined toward Contextualism would aggregate the various periods he has studied into a comprehensive view of the whole historical process, he must move outside the Contextualist framework ? toward either a Mechanistic reduction of the data in terms of the ?timeless? laws that are presumed to govern them or an Organicist synthesis of those data in terms of the ?principles? that are presumed to reveal the telos toward which the whole process is tending over the long haul.

For White real history, what is accepted and expected by professional historians, is Formist and Contextualist, while works that are better described as philosophy of history tend to be either Organicist or Mechanistic. Moreover the professional historians reject the philosophy of history clique for precisely this reason. White concludes that behind this move are ethical and ideological choices.

Here these choices seem to be framed as history-from-the-right versus history-from-the-left:

Commitment to a particular form of knowledge predetermines the kinds of generalizations one can make about the present world, the kinds of knowledge one can have of it, and hence the kinds of projects one can legitimately conceive for changing that present or for maintaining it in its present form indefinitely.

?Explanation by Ideological Implication?
Throwing down the political gauntlet makes for a smooth segue into White?s examination of ideological explanations. The role played by ideology in a historical account reflects, ?the ethical element in the historian?s assumption of a particular position on the question of the nature of historical knowledge.?

Following Mannheim, Ideology and Utopia (hadn?t read that one either), White outlines four basic ideological positions: Anarchism, Conservatism, Radicalism, and Liberalism. In a foot note, White states that Mannheim also included Fascism. He writes, ?The four basic ideological positions identified by Mannheim, however, represent value systems that claim the authority of ?reason,? ?science,? or ?realism.?

Every ideology attaches itself to a specific idea of history, we can read this in how they express their desire for social change, what they think is the optimal pace for that social change, and the temporal orientation of their political utopias. We can now use these criteria as means to read a history in order to determine what its ideological implications are.

All ideologies take the prospect of change seriously:

This is what accounts for their shared interest in history and their concern to provide a historical justification for their programs? It is the value accorded to the current social establishment, however, that accounts for their different conceptions of both the form of historical evolution and the form that historical knowledge must take.

White is not advocating for one ideology or another. Nor does he presume that there is some extra-ideological ground from which he could pass judgment on the ideology of others. Primarily his interest is to show how ideological considerations enter into historical accounts.

The questioning of the place of ethics in realist representation are strongly echoed in Anthropology as Cultural Critique (1986):

I consider the ethical moment of a historical work to be reflected in the mode of ideological implication by which an aesthetic perception (the emplotment) and a cognitive operation (the argument) can be combined so as to derive prescriptive statements from what may appear to be purely descriptive or analytical ones.

This one final long quote about ideology makes me think deeply about the politics of representation in settler narratives about American Indians, a genre which frequently constructs an apology for conquest out of the myth of the American melting pot:

?the kind of feeling engendered in the audience of a drama that has achieved a definitive Comic resolution of all the apparently tragic conflicts within it. The tone of voice is accommodationist, the mood is optimistic, and the ideological implications are Conservative, inasmuch as one can legitimately conclude from a history thus construed that one inhabits the best of possible historical worlds, or at least the best that one can ?realistically? hope for.

?The Problem of Historiographical Styles?
Now it?s time to put it all together. White moves to synthesize his poetic analysis into what he calls ?historiographical styles? that represent particular combinations of emplotment argument and ideological implication. I found this passage to be less useful than others.

White claims that there are ?elective affinities? among the various modes he has described that may be used in concert for explanatory effect, although it?s not necessary that the different pieces be arranged in this way.

Emplotment?..Argument??.Ideology
Romantic??..Formist???.Anarchist
Tragic????Mechanistic?..Radical
Comic????Organicist??.Conservative
Satirical???.Contextualist?.Liberal

I told you it was old school structuralism.

?The Theory of Tropes?
And now for some more Kenneth Burke, only by way of Levi-Strauss and Roman Jackobson. This section in particular has some very long footnotes that are full of interesting citations. Here?s the one?s that I pulled:

• Levi-Strauss, The Savage Mind, pp.205-44
• Jackobson, ?Linguistics and Poetics,? in Style and Language, Sebeok ed.
• ?The Metaphoric and Metonymic Poles,? in Fundamentals of Language, Jackobson and Halle ed.
• Lacan, ?The Insistence of the Letter in the Unconscious,? in Structuralism, Ehrmann ed.
• Benveniste, ?Remarks on the Function of Language in Freudian Theory,? in Problems of General Linguistics.
• Vico, ?Poetic Wisdom,? in The New Science of Giambattista Vico

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White comments on the problems of using figurative language in the social sciences and how they differ from those of, say, physics which is presumed not to have figurative language at all:

What formal terminological systems, such as those devised for denoting the data of physics, envisage is the elimination of figurative usage altogether, the construction of perfect ?schemata? of words in which nothing ?unexpected? appears in the designation of the objects of study? The fundamental problem of ?realistic? representation of those areas of experience not terminologically disciplined in the way that physics is, is to provide an adequate schema of words for representing the schema of thoughts which it takes to be the truth about reality.

If you don?t have your copy of A Grammar of Motives handy, I will remind you that Burke?s four tropes are metaphor, metonymy, synechdoche, and irony.

Irony, Metonymy, and Synecdoche are kinds of Metaphor, but they differ from one another in the kinds of reductions or integrations they effect on the literal level of their meanings and by the kinds of illuminations they aim at on the figurative level. Metaphor is essentially representational, Metonymy is reductionist, Synecdoche is integrative, and Irony is negationl.

More evidence of Metahistory?s prescience: metonymy goes on to become a very hot concept for the postmodernists and poststructuralists. It?s very interesting to see it getting defined so thoroughly here:

In Metonymy, phenomena are implicitly apprehended as bearing relationships to one another in the modality of part-part relations, on the basis of which one can effect a reduction of one of the parts to the status of an aspect or function of the other? an agent-act relationship? or a cause-effect relationship? the phenomenal world can be populated with a host of agents and agencies that are presumed to exist behind it? The ?part? of experience which is apprehended as an ?effect? is related to that ?part? which is apprehended as ?cause? in the manner of a reduction.

Metaphor, metonymy, and synecdoche are for White all ?na?ve? and against this he posits Irony as ?sentimental? because it is self-conscious. As a discipline that relies so heavily on self-reflection its easy to spot cultural anthropology intimate connection to rhetorical Irony:

It has been suggested that irony is essentially dialectical, inasmuch as it represents a self-conscious use of Metaphor in the interests of verbal self-negation. The basic figurative tactic of irony is catachresis (literally ?misuse?), the manifestly absurd Metaphor designed to inspire Ironic second thoughts about the nature of the thing characterized or the inadequacy of the characterization itself. The rhetorical figure of aporia (literally ?doubt?, in which the author signals in advance a real or feigned disbelief in the truth of his own statements, could be considered the favored stylistic device of Ironic language.
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It is therefore ?dialectical,? as Kenneth Burke has noted, though not so much in its apprehension of the process of the world as in its apprehension of the capacity of language to obscure more than it clarifies? They appear to signal the ascent of thought in a given area of inquiry to a level of self-consciousness on which a genuinely ?enlightened? ? that is to say self critical ? conceptualization of the world and its processes has become possible.

No wonder this sounds so familiar! White?s definition of Irony describes the anthropological ideal of Writing Culture, ?It is, in short, a model of the linguistic protocol in which skepticism in thought and relativism in ethics are conventionally expressed?.

When you put it that way, skeptical in thought and relative in ethic doesn?t sound so bad, actually.

Matt Thompson is adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice at Old Dominion University. He was once cast as a soldier in Andrew Jackson's army in a theatrical production on an Indian reservation.

Source: http://savageminds.org/2012/09/28/notes-on-the-poetics-of-history/

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Voter registration problems widening in Florida

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) ? What first appeared to be an isolated problem in one Florida county has now spread statewide, with election officials in at least seven counties informing prosecutors or state election officials about questionable voter registration forms filled out on behalf of the Republican Party of Florida.

State Republican officials already have fired the vendor it had hired to register voters, and on Thursday took the additional step of filing an election fraud complaint against the company, Strategic Allied Consulting, with state officials.

A spokesman for Florida's GOP said the matter was being treated very seriously.

"We are doing what we can to find out how broad the scope is," said Brian Burgess, the spokesman.

Florida is the battleground state where past election problems led to the chaotic recount that followed the 2000 presidential election.

The Florida state party has paid Strategic Allied Consulting more than $1.3 million, and the Republican National Committee used the group for nearly $3 million of work in Nevada, North Carolina, Colorado and Virginia.

The company said earlier this week that it was cooperating with elections officials in Florida. It said the suspect forms were turned in by one person, who has been fired.

"Strategic has a zero-tolerance policy for breaking the law," Fred Petti, a company attorney, said Thursday.

An email request to the company seeking additional comment, following the company's instructions, was not immediately returned Friday.

In Florida, it is a third-degree felony to "willfully submit" any false voter registration information, a crime punishable by up to five years in prison.

The questionable forms have showed up in South Florida, including Miami-Dade, as well as northeast Florida and the Florida Panhandle.

Election officials in Escambia and Santa Rosa counties on Thursday handed over more than 100 suspect forms to local prosecutors. They did so days after officials in Palm Beach County also alerted prosecutors.

Ann Bodenstein, the elections supervisor for Santa Rosa County, said her staff started raising questions after an employee saw a form that changed the home address of a neighbor.

Paul Lux, election supervisor for Okaloosa County, said questionable forms in the Florida Panhandle appear to have all come from Strategic's effort based at the local Republican Party headquarters. He said his office has turned up dozens of suspect forms.

Lux said there have been forms that listed dead people and were either incomplete or illegible. He met with local prosecutors on Friday, but added that his staff was still going through hundreds of forms dropped off by Strategic employees.

Lux, who is a Republican, said he warned local party officials earlier this month when he first learned the company was paying people to register voters.

"I told them 'This is not going to end well,'" Lux said.

But Lux added that he did not blame the Republican Party of Florida.

"I can't place the blame on RPOF if they hired a firm and that firm wasn't following the rules they were given to follow," Lux said.

Lux also heard a complaint from the head of the local chapter of the League of Women Voters, who raised questions about Strategic employees.

Mary Blackwell said the league's Okaloosa County chapter held a voter registration drive at a college campus in Niceville and that a person who was registering voters told her he was "lucky" he only had applications from Republicans or independents. Blackwell said she was "distressed" by the comments and became worried that he may be discarding voter registration forms filled out by Democrats.

The state party filed the complaint against Strategic Allied Consulting with state election officials, who can refer the case to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement if it is found legally sufficient.

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Straight Up Startup?featuring Jonathon Ende, CEO Of bizodo ...

Jonathon Ende began his entrepreneurial pursuit and started his first company in Southern Florida. He is currently the CEO of his latest startup, bizodo. Based in NYC, Bizodo allows anyone to easily convert any document into an easy to use web form. The existing process of exchanging data and documents online is costly and frustrating. It involves lots of time, pens, paper and printers. Bizodo allows you to create, complete and sign any document via a simple link. Upon submission it automatically creates the doc, allows for eSignatures, creates a database of info and syncs it with your cloud.

Jonathon graduated from Emory University with a degree in business and a double major in philosophy. While he has the habit of working on many companies at once, after the sale of his last company to a publicly traded company he has set all his attention on bizodo. His mission is to turn bizodo into the easiest way online to not only collect information, but to manage it. Jonathon absolutely hates paper and looks forward to using bizodo to automate the paperwork process and save tons of ink.

A true master of multitasking, online marketer and serial entrepreneur, Jonathon Ende took the time to talk to the Rackspace Startup Program about what it takes to launch a web-based company that helps businesses optimize. He has built and sold over 15 companies and what follows is his expertise on how to extinguish challenges while building a business:

How did you brand bizodo online?
The name bizodo came from a combination of ?biz? which is a shortcut for business; we help make your business processes shorter, and ?odo? which is not only an acronym for online document optimization, but also is the name of our adorable orange mascot.?Everybody loves Odo! We wanted something that was professional yet unintimidating. Paperwork automation or creating forms for a small business owner can be intimidating. We wanted something that was welcoming. We did a ton of user polls and the unanimous adjective was ?inviting? (?awesome? was runner up).

What was your go to market strategy?
Bizodo is a very dynamic tool with a wide array of use cases. It was difficult to say we are a human resources tool or a legal tool.?We assessed multiple industries and chose the ones that are the most paper intensive.?We then found potential beta customers within each vertical and measured their interest in regards to the value to them, the potential sales cycle, pain it was relieving and market growth.?We ended up choosing human resources because of how vast the industry was with tons of paperwork and no actual solutions that allowed a company to automate their existing docs and no guidance for a small business to know which docs to use.?We are excited to be helping companies, getting great feedback and then starting to automate the rest of their business!

What business lessons were learned launching bizodo?
MVP!?Whether you are just getting started or planning the next feature or tool for your existing software, it is incredibly important to create a Minimum Viable Product.?Put together a wireframe or diagram of the entire product and then go through and take away as much as possible.?Then go through and take out more.?Finally set a reasonable timeline, set to-do lists of small actionable items and then create your goals for getting it done!

What business challenges have you run into?
Where to begin?being an entrepreneur, by definition, includes having to deal with challenges. You have to constantly be coming up with solutions and think on your feet. In business, there will always be mistakes and there will always be challenges, but what separates the good (or dead) companies and the great ones is how those challenges are extinguished.

What business wins have you achieve?
I sold my last company to a publicly traded company.?It was a great feeling to hustle and build up a company and then be able to sell it.?Another win was when bizodo was ranked by PC Magazine as a Top Small Business Web App of 2012. When you start a company on an idea, it is a leap of faith, so it is always nice to get an affirmation of your concept.

What are the ?to-do?s? and ?not-to-do?s? while building a business?
Do find something that you are passionate about.?When you are passionate about it, not only does it show, but it will shine through with your product or service.?Do NOT rely on other people to help or follow through.?Yes, there are plenty of people that can help, and will help, but remember the ball is always in your court.

What was the ?Good, the Bad & the Ugly? of establishing bizodo?
The Good: Learning.?As an entrepreneur you never stop learning.

The Bad: Long Nights. Get ready for plenty of nights when you work until dawn only to go home and pull out the laptop in bed.

The Ugly: Bad Business. Unfortunately in business you will come across people that are not looking for the win-win in a situation.?I always try to find the win-win in every business arrangement and avoid anyone that is not looking for the same thing.

What stumbling blocks did you experience while establishing your business?
I have had over 15 companies since graduating college, all with varying success.?From selling to a publicly traded company to ones with over 75 employees to ones that never even got fully off the ground.?There will always be stumbling blocks and, if you are smart, pivots. It is essential to evaluate and validate often and honestly.?It is not easy to say that an idea ?sucks? but it will save you tons of money and sweat if you admit it early.

From a serial entrepreneur, what straight up business advice would give to a startup?
Use bizodo for exchanging all your documents and data online, obviously! Ask people before you start and create a free bizodo questionnaire and see if they will validate your assumptions. Don?t give up; you haven?t failed until you quit.

The Rackspace Startup Program thanks our favorite Emory Eagle, Jonathan Ende, for taking the time out of his busy schedule to enlighten us on the fact that as an entrepreneur you never stop learning. For more insight on hosting your startup on the Rackspace open cloud platform backed by Fanatical Support?, contact the Space Cowboys today.

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Open Season on Salt: What the Science on Hypertension Really Shows

Shedding pounds may be a better way to promote cardiovascular health than avoiding the saltshaker

By Melinda Wenner Moyer

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The latest news reports about salt are enough to make a parent ponder a household ban on pizza and cold cuts. A study published last week in Pediatrics found that children eat, on average, 3.4 grams of sodium daily?more than twice the amount recommended for adults by the Institute of Medicine (IOM). News outlets, including the Associated Press and USA Today, explained that, according to the study, the quarter of American kids who eat the most sodium are twice to three times as likely to develop high blood pressure as the quarter who eat the least. The take-home message from these stories is clear: kids need to cut down on salt or they will suffer serious health consequences.

It's a compelling argument. Problem is, it may be wrong.

The study that these articles reference, which was published by researchers at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), did not actually find a statistically significant association between salt intake and blood pressure in kids. And the doubling or tripling of risk described by some outlets isn't an accurate portrayal of the findings either. As lead author Quanhe Yang explained to Scientific American in an interview, high salt intake doubles the odds that kids have hypertension or pre-hypertension (and again, this doubling is not statistically significant), but odds and risk are two very different things. "I am not sure the best way to convert this odds ratio into a risk ratio," Yang says, but if he had to guess, the risk would probably be lower than the odds.

Yang's study does provide compelling insights. It shows that among obese or overweight children, increased salt intake is linked to higher blood pressure, an association that is statistically significant. Scientists have long known that obesity increases hypertension risk in adults and kids, but the CDC's study suggests that being overweight might also make kids more sensitive to salt's blood-pressure-boosting effect.

Still, the kids' blood pressure changes were not huge: The overweight children who ate the most sodium?an average of about 4.6 grams per day?had an average systolic blood pressure (the top number in the blood pressure ratio) of 112.8 millimeters of mercury (mmHg), whereas those who consumed the least?an average of 2.3 grams of sodium?had an average systolic pressure of 109 mmHg. (The two groups? average diastolic pressures, the bottom number in the ratio, were the same.) In other words, among overweight and obese kids, a doubling of sodium intake was associated with a 3 percent increase in systolic blood pressure. This difference may not be clinically significant for individuals, because "systolic blood pressure changes from minute to minute" by as much as 5 mmHg, says Michael Alderman, a professor emeritus at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and editor in chief of the American Journal of Hypertension.

An average systolic blood-pressure difference of 3 percent could, however, have consequences for overall public health. But Yang says that it's impossible to tell from his study whether eating more salt actually causes blood pressure to rise. "This is a cross-sectional study; we cannot say anything about causality," he explains. Although he and his colleagues tried to control for potentially confounding variables, it's possible that kids who eat more salt also have other habits that predispose them to high blood pressure. (For instance, research suggests that children who eat lots of salt also drink lots of soft drinks, which are associated with blood pressure increases, too.) Indeed, research doesn't always support the notion that salt causes high blood pressure: A large, multicenter study known as INTERSALT compared urinary sodium levels?an accurate indicator of prior sodium consumption?with hypertension in more than 10,000 people in 1988 and found no statistically significant association between them. In fact, the population that ate the most sodium had a lower median blood pressure than the population that ate the least.

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Total Recall: Bruce Willis' Best Movies

We count down the best-reviewed work of the Looper star.

He's been a television star, recording artist, wine cooler pitchman, and Idaho real estate tycoon, but Bruce Willis is best known for his films -- and his latest, this weekend's Looper, looks to be one of the most critically renowned of the year. Not too shabby for a guy who's been cranking out movies for 25 years -- and whose filmography includes some of the most beloved hits of the last quarter century. In honor of this latest achievement, we decided now would be the perfect time to take another fond look back at some of Mr. Willis' brightest critical highlights, and you know what that means... yippee-ki-yay, it's time for Total Recall!

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Willis might be most famous for his smirk, but he's made pretty good use of his voice, too -- scoring a Top Five hit single with "Respect Yourself," lending his pipes to the Look Who's Talking Movies, and entering the vocal booth for projects as varied as the Apocalypse video game and the Bruno the Kid cartoon series. Oh, and there's also Over the Hedge, 2006's star-studded adaptation of the syndicated comic strip about a crafty raccoon (Willis) who helps a group of woodland critters (voiced by Garry Shandling, Steve Carell, Wanda Sykes, William Shatner, among others) cope with their habitat being encroached upon by a suburban neighborhood. "Over the Hedge may be 'just' a cartoon," admitted Roger Moore for the Orlando Sentinel. "But it's also a biting and funny jab at SUV-MSG Nation."

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Willis' first few films offered viewers variations on David Addison, the fast-talking P.I. he played on Moonlighting, but in 1989, director Norman Jewison offered him his first major shot at a solidly dramatic role -- and he delivered, disappearing behind mammoth facial hair to play a haunted Vietnam vet whose young niece (Emily Lloyd) tries to draw him out of his shell in order to learn more about the father she lost in the war. "The movie is like a time bomb," argued Roger Ebert. "You sit there, interested, absorbed, sometimes amused, sometimes moved, but wondering in the back of your mind what all of this is going to add up to. Then you find out."

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A blackly cartoonish noir whose garish violence seeps into every millimeter of the frame, Sin City united a stellar ensemble cast (including Willis, Mickey Rourke, Elijah Wood, Clive Owen, and Benicio del Toro) on a journey into blight, corruption, betrayal, and death. Not exactly cheerful stuff, in other words, and plenty of viewers took issue with what they saw as the movie's misogynistic overtones -- but for fans of the genre, Sin City provided one of the most hard-hitting and skillfully crafted entries in years. "It's a hard, viciously funny little movie, one with all the subtlety of a billy club," admitted Salon's Stephanie Zacharek. "But there's artistry here, too."

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For awhile, it looked like 1995's Die Hard with a Vengeance would be the last time audiences got to see Willis saving the day as Detective John McClane -- but the lure of the beloved franchise (and its attendant paycheck) eventually proved too strong to resist, and in 2007, he finally returned with Live Free or Die Hard. Swapping out the earlier films' Everyman conceit for a tongue-in-cheek humor that wholeheartedly embraced the silliness inherent in the series, Live Free amped up the action to such a ridiculous extent that it might as well have been a non-Die Hard movie -- but the result was still entertaining enough to satisfy critics like Jonathan F. Richards of Film.com, who wrote, "Movie characters like McClane are the Paul Bunyans and John Henrys and Pecos Bills of our age, the stuff of tall tales spun with the technology of an age whose campfires are found in multiplexes with stadium seating."

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As the 1990s wore on, Willis tended to gravitate toward quiet dramatic roles that sublimated his famous smirking charisma -- a trend that reached its commercial apex with The Sixth Sense, the supernatural thriller that introduced writer/director M. Night Shyamalan to the world, turned Donnie Wahlberg into a character actor, and doomed Haley Joel Osment to a life of hearing people whisper "I see dead people" whenever he walked into a room. Some of its luster has been lost thanks to Shyamalan's downward career spiral, but Sense was one of the biggest movies of 1999, and for some very good reasons -- not the least of which was a Willis performance that helped inspired the San Jose Mercury News' Charlie McCollum to call the film "An intense, haunting, often beautifully crafted character study and meditation on the nature of death and life after death."

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#026: How to Lead in Turbulent Times [Podcast] | Michael Hyatt

It?s no secret that the last four or five years have been challenging from an economic, technological, and global perspective. In this episode, I discuss five actions leaders must take in order to lead well in turbulent times.

When I speak publicly on this topic, I call this presentation, ?Shift: Leading in Turbulent Times.? I use the word ?shift? for two reasons:

1. The world seems to be shifting under our feet.
2. We must also shift if we are going to lead well.

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While I was the CEO of Thomas Nelson (2005?2011), we experienced three significant changes:

1. Change #1: The Great Recession
2. Change #2: The Digital Revolution
3. Change #3: The Social Media Revolution

Your industry has probably gone through massive change as well. Over the last few months, I have spoken to a vareity of groups representing several different industries:

• The Telecommunications Industry has gone through a massive shift to smart phones and wireless communications.
• The Mortgage Industry has gone through a massive shift in federal regulation and lending practices.
• The Media Industry has gone through a massive shift to digital delivery and direct-to-consumer marketing.

And, of course, the phenomenon of social media has impacted every industry. And, if that weren?t enough, you are probably experiencing massive change in your own life.

• Maybe you?re going through a tough time in your marriage or dealing with the aftermath of a divorce or even the death of a spouse.
• Maybe you?ve been laid off and are struggling to find work. Perhaps you are under-employed or just launching a business.
• Maybe you had a health crisis and are dealing with the impact on your family and career.

Or maybe it?s quite so massive but still change?perhaps you are newly married, just had a baby, or received a promotion. Regardless, we are living in a world of unprecedented change. To lead well in this kind of environment, you must take five specific actions.

1. Action #1: Shift your perception. You must acknowledge reality. This is the new normal. We?re not going back. At the same time, you must remain confident that you will ultimately prevail. In his book, Good to Great, Jim Collins refers to this as ?The Stockdale Paradox.?
2. Action #2: Shift your intention. You can?t resist change; you must embrace it. This means taking the initiative?going first?and leaning into it. How you approach change as a leader will determine how your organization approaches it.
3. Action #3: Shift your direction. In turbulent times, it is easy to lose your vision. You just stop talking about the future. However, your people need to know there is a future and their actions matter.
4. Action #4: Shift your acceleration. You must recover a sense of urgency. Your responsiveness can be a competitive advantage, particularly if you are a small organization with big competitors.
5. Action #5: Shift your allocation. Unlike the federal government, you can?t fund new programs without defunding old ones. You have to shift your resources away from unprofitable programs to profitable ones.

Real leaders thrive in turbulent times. They come alive. Why? Because it requires them to grow. They discover abilities and resources they never knew they had.

Listener Questions

1. Tom Eggebrecht asked, ?How do you lead people who don?t want to be led??
2. John Bergquist asked, ?How do you handle the stress of change in a healthy way??
3. DJ Wade-O asked, ?How do you deal with change in an organization when you don?t agree with it??
4. Dean Brown asked, ?How do you manage well at work when your personal life is rapidly changing and things seem overwhelming??

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1. I am excited to announce the publication of my brand new audio course entitled, ?Everything You Need to Know to Get Published.? If you have ever thought about writing a book (or even if you have written a book) this course is for you.

   In 21 audio sessions, I cover everything I have learned about publishing in my thirty-plus years in the industry as a publisher, former literary agent, and two-time New York Times bestselling author.

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Mother accused of putting baby in dryer denied bond again | WTVR ...

Posted on: 10:59 am, September 26, 2012, by Rob Cardwell, updated on: 02:24pm, September 26, 2012

Henrico, Va.? (WTVR)? -? Henrico circuit court judge Richard S. Wallerstein, Jr. denied bond today for a Henrico County woman accused of wrapping her newborn baby girl in a plastic bag and putting the infant in a dryer.

Defense lawyer Nikki Clark tried to convince the judge that 39-year old Angela Janecka was not a flight risk, not a danger to society, and that she needed to be home to help take care of another child.? However,?Henrico County Deputy Commonwealth?s Attorney Nancy Oglesby argued that the only way Janecka could have done something so shocking was because she ?was mentally unstable, or cold, calculating and decisive in terminating the life of a child?.? In the end, the judge quickly sided with the prosecution, denying the appeal for bond.

During a hearing earlier this month, new details emerged about the case.? Henrico County Deputy Commonwealth?s Attorney Nancy Oglesby said Janecka and her husband traveled to Northern Virginia earlier in her pregnancy to seek an abortion. The doctor denied the couple because Janecka was too far along in her pregnancy for the procedure.

Janecka later convinced her husband the unborn child had died in-utero, Oglesby said in court. Oglesby added when Janecka delivered the child alive on August 25, she put the baby in a plastic bag, tied the bag and placed it in the dryer of her Henrico town home.

Janecka then called her husband and said she had delivered a still-born child. She said a doctor took the baby?s body away and told her husband not to come home from work because she had the situation under control, Ogelsby said.

Janecka?s husband did come home and discovered the child, alive, 15 to 30 minutes following the birth.

The child, a girl, is in good condition and being cared for by Child Protective Services.

Janecka is charged with attempted murder and felony child neglect. She is due back in court in November for a?competency hearing.

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