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• How to get ahead in ... fostering

  
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  What opportunities for training and education can foster carers expect if they decide to take on the role? Foster care agencies and organisations estimate at least another 9,000 foster families are needed in the UK this year to find homes for looked-after children. The figure reflects the increasing number of ...
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• Navjote – an important Talismanic Ritual

  
  Parsis, Iranis, Zarathushtis - ALL Under One Roof — Authority: 118
  Navjote is a very important Talismanic Ritual – Jehangirji Sohrabji Chiniwala  Second  Tarikat  is the performance of the  Navjot  ceremony in the morning only and not in the evening. The child born is a  Mazdyasni  and then by the  Navjot ceremony it becomes a Zorastrian i.e. the child is enrolled as a ...
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• NRG Assets: From Our Case Files

  
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  On behalf of our client, Lemberg & Associates recently filed a complaint in U.S. District Court, Southern District of Texas, against NRG Assets. Our client alleges that NRG Assets began to make phone calls to both her home telephone and place of employment in an attempt to collect a $700 debt. She told the ...
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• The Big Brand Theory: Nissan Builds a Car and Its Social Community

  
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  In 2012, Nissan tapped into their social communitys passion for rebuilding classic cars by introducing Project 370Z, the first ever social media build of a classic car. Over eight weeks, Nissan gave its community a choice of the car to restore, the parts to use, and the colors to paint it; together the community built ...
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• Breaking the cycle of addiction through social investment

  
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  A research project is exploring how social investment can be used to fund substance misuse services Parental substance misuse is a huge problem and we are keen to expand our services so we can help more people. However, doing this at a time of commissioning budget restrictions is a difficult prospect and we need to ...
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• Prayers for the Journey

  
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  This week’s collection of prayers on the  Light for the Journey   Facebook page. God my heart has heard you say: Come and talk with me. And my heart responds: Lord I am coming. Be my light for the journey, Lead me along the right path, Show me your love, Teach how to live. (inspired by Psalm 27). Christine ...
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• WordPress Plugin Repository Maintenance : Version Retention

  
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  As a developer with several WordPress plugins hosted at the WordPress Plugin Directory, I often have questions on how I should be maintaining those repositories.   This past weekend I was having multiple problems with publishing an update to the Store Locator Plus plugin.   That plugin repository has been around ...
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• June 16, 2013

  
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  Parallel Keynote: 8 Lines of Code Greg Young is an independent consultant and entrepreneur. He is always involved with many concurrent projects, currently these include building out a distributed event store and mighty moose (a continuous test runner). In this InfoQ presentation, he discusses eight lines of very ...
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• How Do You Find an Innovative New Vendor? (Repost)

  
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  Last summer, Brian Sommer over on ZDNet ran a great post on how to easily identify the up and coming innovative vendors in the space. All you have to do is look at who the big established players are trash talking! After all, if the company isnt innovative, they have nothing to fear from the competitor, and will say ...
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• Social Commerce: I Know Youre Selling Me Something

  
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  A new study looks at both consumers and marketing executives in consumer product industries in order to analyze the effectiveness of different marketing channels. The study finds some initially striking information about purchasing decisions and preferred marketing channels.
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• How Brands Are Using Instagram: Advice from Die-hard Users

  
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  nstagram is still in its infancy, despite its massive network of users. Perhaps the future will enable brands to advertise directly on the network, reaching far more users than their followers. But before the ads, brands have a real chance to boost awareness and ROI. Most of them opt for remaining active, and engaged, ...
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• Who Owns the Creative Agenda?

  
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  Democratisation requires differentiation to stand out, and in this saturated landscape, how does a brand differentiate itself from it’s competition? What is that difference that makes all the difference?
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• Do You Own Your Content? MySpace Pulls a StumbleUpon ~ Big #FAIL

  
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  Major Fail: Myspace Deletes Users Blogs If you ever needed an example as to why you should be publishing content you care about on a platform you 100% control, look no further than MySpace. In the latest attempt to pivot, MySpace removed the blog feature from the site. Why they would do this knowing full well that ...
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• Study: Digital Advertising Found "Annoying and Invasive"

  
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  Even in the ad world content plays an important role. 68% of UK users responded that ads should tell a unique story which mentioned John Lewis and Guiness as good examples. One of the main ingredients should be the humour factor of the story. Funny is the driver for happiness, and outplaces “sexy” ads.
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• Raise Your Content Marketing Game

  
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  High-quality content marketing is required to succeed in today’s competitive business world.  Whether you are a large corporation, a small or big business, or an educational or non-profit  organization, your website visitors crave captivating, information-rich, high-impact and insightful content.  We are in the ...
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• StorageCraft Cloud Services Best Practices

  
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  StorageCraft Cloud Services is quickly growing to meet the offsite retention needs of many StorageCraft Partners.  As partners have adopted StorageCraft Cloud Services, several helpful items have been identified and we’d like to share some recommendations with you today.  Below are best practice suggestions and a ...
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• Demystifying The Inbound Marketing Sales Funnel

  
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  The concept of sales or marketing funnels has been around for almost as long as people have been selling. It’s a powerful image. A big, wide opening scoops up hoards of unsuspecting prospects who by some combination of gravity and the proper lubricant make their way to the tiny opening at the bottom, ready to ...
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• Facebook Attempts to Gain Cool Points With Roll-out of Hashtags

  
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  Rumors of Facebook hashtags began to circulate in March, but now that they’re finally here we will begin to see whether they enhance user experience and functionality on Facebook, or indicate that Facebook developers are losing their creative edge and should quit copying other platforms and get back to leading ...
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• Disruptive Selection: Natures Way of Weeding Out the Average Business

  
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  Disruption! It’s everywhere. I live in Silicon Valley where many say that the terms disrupt and disruption have become buzzwords. Pundits believe that the word is losing its promise and impact through the acts and examples of entrepreneurs and businesses that misuse the word to describe intentions rather than ...
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• What does PRISM mean for Social Media? Notes from our #SMTNews Tweet-chat

  
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  Storify transcript of #SMTNews tweet-chat on the impact of the recent revelations of the NSAs secret PRISM analytics program for social media.
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