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This seems to be the oposite of the common problem:
I'm unable to show a black screen on the computer I'm connecting to.
I can select "disable remote imput" - which works, and I can also select the "show black screen". Bu this does nothing. On the remote computer, the input is disabled but the screen shows everything.
I've also tried selecting the "enable black screen" option in the tw options on the remote computer, but when I do this the client cannot even connect to it: It hangs forever on "initializing display parameters".
Anyone got any ideas? I was about to buy a license for TW when I noticed this, and it's a complete show stopper for me. There's no official TW help to get either, since I haven't bought a license yet.
I've tried installing and reinstalling the TW monitor drivers on both machines, but TW doesn't even appear to be TRYING to black the remote screen.
Solved! Go to Solution.
There is no fix. I talked with the development team, sent them logs etc., and the conclusion was that it was a known issue with no scheduled fix. So, basically, the message was "We'll probably fix it sometime, but we cannot say anything about it. It might be in two weeks or two years. Or never."
Needless to say, I selected another software solution for my company.
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Hey Frank
Try updating to the latest version - I think they have fixed it now. It worked for me anyway so I am happy.
Sadly, not for me with recent NVidia drivers.
I have seen this option but never actually used it before today. It appears to work for me from my Dell Laptop to a Samsun All In One that I am setting up. I did need to install the driver you mentioned.
Have you tried it with any other computers in your enviroment yet? I wonder if it is something unique to that machine or that video card model/chipset?
I just tried connecting to the same computer with the Android app, actually. And the problem was the same there: The "black screen" option did nothing, but everything else worked fine. Can the problem be that TW isn't able to black the screen of this specific host computer? I'll try using another host computer as soon as possible to troubleshoot further.
I've now tried what I should've tried right away: Connected from A to B and B to A.
When connecting from ComputerA (Dell Lattitude) to ComputerB (HP ZBook), it doesn't work. Neither Actions->Disable remote input/enable black screen on ComputerA nor Advanced Settings->Enable black screen.
When connecting from ComputerB (HP ZBook) to ComputerA (Dell Lattitude), it DOES work. The moment I select Actions->Disable remote input on ComputerB (HP ZBook), the host monitor (Dell Lattitude) goes blank.
ComputerB (HP ZBook) has two external monitors in addition to the laptop monitor. I'm guessing this might have something to do with the problems? I didn't think about this at first, because I cannot remember the last time I saw a workplace laptop that didn't have at least ONE external monitor.
TW DOES detect the multiple monitors though, and when connecte I can switch between all three.
I am having a similar problem.
Remote computer, 3 screens -- all HDMI. Screen blanking worked fine.
Changed one screen to a 2K DisplayPort, and it's unable to blank it. The HDMI screens still blank fine.
Win10, Teamviewer 12.0.78313
This is definitely related to displayport/external monitors. I am having the same issue blanking a remote screen connected to a laptop via displayport. This same blanking on the same system and monitor works fine over an HDMI connection.
I see the problem too. dual monitors - display port.
I only found out because I was told that I could be seen working. So, I set up my camera to face the screen. Problem verified.
I just found that it's not blanking on my work computer either. HDMI input on this one.
Has anyone found a fix for this?
I got the prompt to install the driver, but I didn't restart my computer at the time.
My computer popped up that it stopped the download of the driver. Now I cannot get the computer to download the driver again. Each time I select to black the screen, it prompts to download the driver, but it never actually downloads. Even in the advanced setting, the install monitor driver is grayed out.
There is no fix. I talked with the development team, sent them logs etc., and the conclusion was that it was a known issue with no scheduled fix. So, basically, the message was "We'll probably fix it sometime, but we cannot say anything about it. It might be in two weeks or two years. Or never."
Needless to say, I selected another software solution for my company.
Thanks so much for the reply. This is really disappointing that they do not have a fix.
What remote software did you decide to use instead? I've been looking for other options myself.
I have the issue on at least 2 computers.
On one (HDMI), uninstalling the driver, then uninstalling TeamViewer, then reinstalling it all fixed it.
On the other with DisplayPort and 2 monitors, it did not help. I have a ticket in.
I have this problem too, and a colleague as well.
One screen goes blank, the other does not.
Might be a difference between HDMI / Digital input / SVGA ?
TeamViewer support has been good at working with me, but I did some testing on my own.
I decided to check my NVidia display driver. A new update was available - but it got me thinking. So after allot of testing... the later display drivers do not allow the black screen to work.
I have two DisplayPort monitors.
NVidia driver version and will black screen work...
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If I may ask, which other solution did you select? Because I'm having the same issue and it is driving me ever-so-slightly crazy.
I have the same issue. Windows 8.1 desktop with 2 dvi/hdmi monitors.
I also have the same problem with my notebook. MS Windows 8.1 and display port <=> HDMI connector. I didn't try to resolve it by disconnecting the external monitor because this is not what I want to. It stopped working since I started using version 13 of TeamViewer.
Not good enough - come on Teamviewer - you can (and do) do better than this!
Show them that they're losing customers by chosing not to prioritize a serious bug like this. For my part, they've lost a customer with 120-130 users.
What have you moved to Frank? I have about 10 users. Teamviewer has been very helpful but right now is no use.
How do we make them prioritize this?
Hey Frank
Try updating to the latest version - I think they have fixed it now. It worked for me anyway so I am happy.
@PaulB wrote:
Hey Frank
Try updating to the latest version - I think they have fixed it now. It worked for me anyway so I am happy.
Sadly, not for me with recent NVidia drivers.
The TeamViewer guys are complete, utter *bleeps*. The monitor driver is unsigned, making it impossible to install on Windows 10 unless you "hack" the security down a notch. And no intelligent administrator will allow that on a coorporate computer.
Once again: **bleep** you, TeamViewer. *bleep bleepity bleep*
The issue seems to be primarily with PCs running nVidia drivers. I've noticed it on my MacBook Pro as well (Late 2013, using nVidia 740M 2GB).
There could be some AMD instances, but I see many compliants about nVidia drivers, with specific mentions. I haven't noticed AMD complaints, I suppose because the nVidia compliants have stood out. I wonder how many people on this thread are running nVidia drivers?
I've also noticed on my PCs, my Intel Graphics and AMD graphics don't have this issue. I have a limited testbed, but it does seem to stand out. Doing some looking around it looks like TeamViewer and nVidia have had some trouble playing nicely together at least since TeamViewer 9.
Not to be rude sir, but this isn't helping troubleshoot the issue.
My driver signing is still enabled and I have no trouble installing or using Teamviewer 12 or 13. Are you running the latest version?
I'm running a mix of 12 and 13 (upgrading them all to 13 now), all on Windows 10 (x64), builds 1703 (Creator's Update, upgrading as well) and 1709 (Fall Creator's Update, fully patched), and I have had 0 issues with installation and not seen the behavior you're describing. I have it installed on 9 computers (personal use, 6 Windows boxes, 2 Macs, 2 CentOS). I have not have not had to lower or adjust a single security setting on Windows; only one setting for SELinux on the CentOS boxes.
Lowering a security setting isn't "hacking"...it is changing a setting. Unsigned drivers aren't necessarily dangerous either (though I've not had to do this experience with TeamViewer, like you say), it depends on where the driver is coming from and why you're installing it. Reasonable admins should carefully weigh these factors before installing such drivers, but signed drivers aren't a guarantee of security either. They just guarantee that Windows doesn't complain.
Perhaps you'll recall when Adobe dumped their private key onto the internet in September 2017? (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/09/22/oh_dear_adobe_security_blog_leaks_private_key_info/) Windows (regardless of version) would have never complained about malicious software signed with that key, but it still would have been a malware-related security event.
The developers at TeamViewer (none of whom I've ever had any contact with) work very hard on a complex software; they offer it free for personal use, and they have created it to be cross platform compatible. Good software is tough to architect and implement to begin with; and even harder to get right across every box every time. Microsoft has been in this game how long? And they break stuff all the time. Apple too. It is a fact of life, especially as tech becomes more complex (and hopefully more useful). Admins should use intelligence and reason, not insults or disparagements to choose which software they use, and why.
I appreciate your sentiment.
While it is free for personal use, I am a paying user.
My issue is that it this has been a problem since April of 2017. So, for nearly 9 months now, the black screen has not worked with recent NVidia drivers (after 378.92 3-20-17). I get better performance with recent drivers. It is getting more than a little old.
Lowering the security is very often not possible in a coorporate environment. In my experience it's allmost never possible. These things are controlled by securicy policies. So no - unsigned drivers are not very compatible with a coorporate setting.
As to the argument about it being free for personal use, it's invalid in every way. Whether the software is free or not is no excuse for not making it work properly. If you're not able to get a feature to work, then remove it. Or fix it. It's as simple as that.
Also, many of us are paying customers, which makes the argument about "free for personal use" double useless.
I agree with MichaelG here.This is getting more than old. They have clearly not even attempted to fix this issue; If they had, things would've happened in the last year or so. It's not a priority for them, which means that they'll lose at least some paying users.
We are a paying customer of Teamviewer.
We mainly use the host module so we can support our customers PCs.
In the last years TV lost several of the features that made us chose it in the first place: The ability to use our own logo is gone (now it requires the download directly from TV, which is not allowed for many of our customers), and most important the lost of the ability to black and lock our customer screen.
Yesterday we installed 6 new PCS at one of our customers. It absolutelly requires that for certain operations the screen should be not visible to the user - since we can not support this anymore, we are banned to use TV with this customer - so we have a remote support solution that force us to go physically to our customer to do some operations!!!
A few days ago we received an email from TV asking for our feedback how TV has made us "greener" by reducing travels - We'll be glad to share our experience on how TV has made our face "greener" from rage and despair from the need to GO to the customer.
The ONLY reason that make us still use TV is our base instaled - we have a few customers whose laptops are away, and the change of remote solution we'll have a cost in time and money for us - but we're closer to that decision.
Unfortunately, I am forced to agree with the previous speaker. Maybe I don't have such complicated situation but I also suffer from lack of possibility to working with the blank screen via DisplayPort and DVI on my laptop (I didn't explore this topic on direct laptop screen but I assume that it doesn't work also). I must admit that the attitude of the TeamViewer team is regrettable and gives no support for this problem except emails in "marketing" style "we'll do our best to make TeamViewer better and blabla...".
I bought a corporate version of TeamViewer.
Same here... my situation isn't complicated, but the black out screen still isn't working.
The pop up shows to install the software everytime I log in and check to black the screen.
Are there any free or low cost alternatives to Teamviewer others are using?
Please fix the black screen functionality in WIn 10...
Thank you
I also have this on 2 new dell monitors, windows 10, nvidia quadro card.
Please fix it!
There is no fix. I talked with the development team, sent them logs etc., and the conclusion was that it was a known issue with no scheduled fix. So, basically, the message was "We'll probably fix it sometime, but we cannot say anything about it. It might be in two weeks or two years. Or never."
Why is the post marked as a solution.
Is it a solution if they say, there is no solution?
Needless to say, I selected another software solution for my company.
If TV not willing to fix this, I have to tought about it tooIngo
What alternative program have you identified and where can I get it ... since Teamviewer do not seem to care any more @frankhovin?
Congradulations!. This probelm has now surpassed it's 1 year anniverasry.
Still not fixed.
Believe it or not I found something that worked for me. This after spending hours on the phone with TV and no resolution.
This worked for me, your MMV. My symptom was the monitor driver refused to install on "some" of my client devices. My hardware is always Minix Z83 Atom-powered and thus my solution is applicable to using integrated Intel HD Graphics.
Go to Computer Management and set the Display adapter to MS Basic VGA - sometimes the option to Roll Back the driver is present and sometimes it was not for me. Either way, use Roll Back or the Have Disk method to set the display driver to basic vga. Reboot.
Half the time or better I got the yellow exclamation point saying the driver had a problem--ignore that, continue and reboot.
Go to TV and now "install" the monitor driver and it will work.
Download the Intel Driver and Support Assistant. Let it detect your system and for me it offered a 211 MB Graphics/Controller update. I installed it per the instructions and rebooted.
Works now - the monitor driver stays "installed" from before. I even tried uninstalling and then installing and it works all the time now.
I realize this may only help those using integrated graphics and/or Atom-powered devices on W10 Ent, but I spent a lot of time reading solutions today and I tried a bunch of them but no luck.
If this method helps maybe one person...
We are using the latest version 13.1.3629 and the option show black screen is not working. My laptop is connected with display port (using 3 monitors).
I have this issue since a while... I rencently upgraded my operating system from windows 8.1 to windows 10 and it was not working in both version.
I had this problem when I was using Sophos Firewalls and AV. I have since completely removed Sophos and replaced it with Avast and I have no more issues.
I hate to suggest it, but try completely uninstalling both FIREWALLS and AV on both command and client computers and see if it is still happening ... then reinstall both. Suspending them for a short while is not the same as deletion and reinstall as sometimes there are TSR parts left behind!
Which solution you found for your company?
I have similar problem, TV said it was caused by Windows 10 1803 update,. and no update will be released to version 12. Only version 13 will receive the update to fix the problem.
I am not a fan of service subscription, therefore I will not upgrade to version 13. Therefore I am looking for alternative solutions. Any idea could be shared with me? Thanks.
Indeed, since we are facing this problem and nobody from Teamviewer gave us a solution (remote suppport is vital for us) we started to look into alternatives. I can tell that there are plenty of other tools around which do a good job just google it.
The TeamViewer GmbH code signing certficate expired Saturday, March 3, 2018 4:59:59 PM. That is why Windows cannot verify the digital signature for the monitor drivers and will not install the driver..
I have their lastest version and I am still having the problem.
Did TeamViewer release new driver with new signature?
Working fine now for me
Unfortunately, it's nearlky 1 1/2 years since I reported the exact driver change that caused the issue, but it's still not fixed.
My company has stopped using TeamViewer because of this. Whether it's because they're not able to fix it, or that they just don't think it's important, is no longer a relevant question.
Still an ongoing issue i see. Pathetic from TeamViewer!
Today I open another case about this issue with TV support - more than 1 year after my first case about the same issue!
Current version is 13.2.14327H and this issue is not yet solved.
Worst technical support ever!


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"The staff will report on issues that the editor feels need coverage."
Would you kindly show me how to R-K "the editor feels"?
Thank you.
I think I got that right. It was fun. I have always had a particular fondness for adjective clauses, complete with their relative pronouns. They are so amazing in what they do.
The staff will report on issues that the editor feels need coverage.
There is only a relative pronoun there. Otherwise it would read...
"The staff will repot on issues that the editor feels that should have coverage. " In this example, the second "that" would be a "function word" introducing a noun clause.
I THINK this is right. Maybe Corum would weigh in with his opinion.

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Professional Community for Car Dealers, Marketing, Advertising and Sales Leaders
First of all, I want to thank Mr. Bryan Armstrong for posting a link and article snippet on the Google+ Community titled "Automotive Social Media Marketing" which led me to an article... which referenced and led me one step further to the AT&T Networking Exchange Blog that I am re-posting for the benefit of ADM Professional Community members below.
My goal is to get our community of automotive marketing practitioners to think about where the car business is heading with our use of social media marketing strategies and tactics, in the hope of stimulating some valuable discussion and commentary.
For example, take a look at Jeff Bulas' (#3) prediction (more of a projection?) where he describes what sounds like car dealers connecting the dots between search engine marketing strategies and how they will begin to understand the correlation between sound content creation and publishing programs as part of their overall marketing strategy. There are few areas within the very large world of automotive digital marketing that has more effectively captured the attention of car dealers than taking action to ensure having their websites and published information show up in the Google Search Engine results which appear for their customers making automotive related inquiries... To Jeff's point, as more and more dealers grasp the connection between publishing "User Generated Content" as part of a daily Content Marketing and Earned Media strategy, their perspective on Social Media Marketing and how it delivers a Return On Investment (ROI) will evolve and become a lot more sophisticated.
All 14 of these predictions are well worth carefully reviewing and considering in your dealership's 2013 marketing strategy, but take a close look at Margie Clayman's (#4) predictions. Her words make a lot of sense and sound very likely to occur, at least to my admittedly biased ears... Here's a quote from Margie predictions:
"I predict that in 2013 small businesses will start seeing social media more as a tool and less as an entity unto itself. Instead of asking what social media is, they will ask how they should be using it and why."
What Margie says under the guise of a prediction makes a lot of sense, and is just plain good guidance, whether or not labeled with the "Predictions for 2013" moniker or not. As you read through these 14 so-called predictions, you will find that most of them should be considered good advice, and brimming with opportunity for competitive advantage.
All of the renowned and highly respected writers, speakers and practitioners whose "predictions" are listed in the article below are knowledgeable and obviously put serious thought into their answers to Cheryl Burgess's questions. I found that reading the predictions caused me to think and consider many of my own strategies and tactics, so as to be positioned for a competitive advantage in 2013... When it really comes down to why any of us would bother with social media and the marketing, engagement and communications capabilities it offers to car dealers; if there were no opportunity for competitive advantage, then why would we bother with it?
After you check these predictions out, please post a comment about which ones you found credible and ringing of truth, and which ones you considered to be more fantasy than fact... Finally, the question that Cheryl closed her article with, which I have boldened and highlighted in red font. I will echo to our professional network... What are YOUR predictions regarding social media and the way car dealers will use it in 2013?
Not The Same Old, Same Old Social Media
When Cheryl started this post, she wanted to share 13 Social Media Predictions for Small Business (including car dealerships) in 2013. However, for those of her readers who might be superstitious, Cheryl didn't want to jinx the New Year before it even began. So, she decided to go with 14 predictions instead. Cheryl suggests that there is no need to worry about doomsday prophecies from the Mayans or Nostradamus. As shown by their predictions for 2013, the experts Ms. Burgess consulted see only a bright future ahead for small businesses, car dealers and their ability to receive business benefits from social media marketing practices. ADM Professional Community members are encouraged to visit Cheryl's article on the AT&T Networking Blog for Small Business at NetworkingExchangeBlog.ATT.com/Small-Business.
1. Meghan M. Biro @MeghanMBiro – Founder and CEO of TalentCulture Consulting Group and the TalentCulture World of Work Community. "In 2013, for businesses small & large, I predict that the quality of online relationships and content will rise to the occasion in the vast sea of social media. Also, crowdsourcing will become a more active player in the mainstream social enterprise."
2. David Brier @DavidBrier – Chief Gravity Defyer at DBD International, Ltd. – "In 2013, small businesses will need to strengthen their ties to their customers as the world keeps getting smaller. So much more is available than ever before. Thus, the competitive edge will be built on those relationships and bonds. In addition, small businesses can become the official ambassadors of excellent customer service in a world that's going increasingly automated. As more and more "touch points" become "streamlined" at the expense of personal human contact, the companies with excellent personnel and live customer service representatives will outshine and outperform their competition."
3. Jeff Bullas @jeffbullas – Account Director- Infinity Technologies, Social Media Marketing Blogger, Speaker and Strategist – Author -"Blogging the Smart Way – How to create and Market a Killer Blog with Social Media" "Google has realized that people voting for content they like with Retweets, Facebook likes, plus +1′s and comments is important and increasingly relevant in what they serve up in Google search results. Google+ was launched just over 12 months ago to capture those social signals, and today the Google +1 button is used over five billion times every day. In 2013 you will see small companies starting to realize that social media is also important for Search Engine Optimization (SEO). Companies will begin to understand that social, content, and SEO are linked and more integrated than ever."
4. Margie Clayman @MargieClayman- Vice President of Client Services, Clayman Marketing Communications, Inc. "I predict that in 2013 small businesses will start seeing social media more as a tool and less as an entity unto itself. Instead of asking what social media is, they will ask how they should be using it and why. In the end, this will increase the effectiveness of their social media marketing efforts."
5. Jon Ferrara @Jon_Ferrara – CEO Nimble, Inc. "Nearly every small business is experimenting with or planning on using social media because they understand they need to go where their audience is. Listening and engaging and being discoverable online is critically important today in growing their businesses. 2013 will be the year Social Media moves out of Community Management and Marketing to Social Selling and Customer Engagement."
6. Sam Fiorella @samfiorella – Partner at Sensei Marketing and Author of Influence Marketing "Small Businesses in 2013 will tire of broadcast social media campaigns and messaging and invest in monitoring tools like Jungoo.com, Shoutlet.com or others to better segment their audience, effectively target influencers and accurately measure the impact of those efforts. Next, employees—the businesses' biggest brand ambassadors—will become trained and empowered to become actual influencers across social channels."
7. Mike Johansson @mikefixs – Lecturer in Communication at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) and Social Media Strategist for Fixitology LLC – "2013 is the year that small businesses finally acknowledge that social media needs to be part of the daily workload. Depending on whose numbers you believe, somewhere between 20 and 25 percent of small businesses use social media for customer engagement, customer service, community building and selling. In 2013 small businesses will realize they either get on that bus or they'll be waving goodbye to the opportunity to be in front of people … and some, if not all, of their business."
8. Wendy Marx @Wendy Marx – President – Marx Communications-"In 2013, for B2B small businesses it will be more use of content marketing, especially content curation, as a way of engaging customers. Small businesses will make greater use of LinkedIn as the platform continues to expand its offerings. Finally, the coming year will see a greater integration of social media into all marketing practices so it becomes a part of a small business' way of doing business."
9. Steve Olenski @steveolenski – Sr. Content Strategist at Responsys – "In 2013 I think (and maybe it's wishful thinking) that more and more small businesses will begin to dive into the visual side of social media, (i.e. Pinterest and Instagram). I have said this a million times, but you have to look at your computer/mobile screen the way you do a TV. People do not read TV, they watch it. Consumers want to see something—not just read it."
10. Tom Pick @TomPick – Digital Marketing & PR Consultant – Webbiquity- "In 2013, small businesses, and larger ones too, will get more sophisticated about their measurement of social media results. They will view social media marketing tactics within the larger framework of their overall Web presence—how it supports what they are doing in PR, website optimization, search advertising and other areas of marketing. Their measurement will be less about direct, linear ROI and more about how social sharing and engagement fits into and enhances their overall web marketing and lead generation strategies."
11. Alex Romanovich @AlexRomanovich – Managing Partner - Social2B, Inc, Adviser – The CMO Club – "SMBs will continue to test social media, while more aggressively increasing their budgets allocated to social media in any form. By now, the SMB community is seeing some positive results via social media and will continue to test the channel, conversions, ecommerce or social commerce, etc. For the first time, SMBs will start paying even closer attention to metrics and analytics—they will want to know more about their conversion rates and ROI, although they will continue to be challenged by the complexity and growing pains of the social environment. SMBs will also use more social networks—besides LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook, SMBs will continue to discover Google+, Slideshare, etc."
12. Gary Schirr @ProfessorGary – Assistant Professor – Marketing, Radford University - "In 2013 savvy small businesses around the globe will learn valuable photo and video-editing skills to help drive their social media marketing efforts. Using their own cameras, smartphones and tablets, small businesses will leverage newly found creative skills to create content that impacts their audience. They will also solicit visual content from employees and customers. Small businesses will develop an eye for visual content marketing opportunities while learning editing tools such as iMovie, MovieMaker, Photoshop and PaintShop to help energize their business marketing approach."
13. Deborah Weinstein @debweinstein – President & Partner, Strategic Objectives "2012 saw a major surge in mobile adoption rates, and 2013 will be all about the apps that lead to social sharing. Mobile is an effective brand building tool for small business given its powerful ability to geo-target consumers and promote local sales. In 2013, we will see a focus on quick, easy and highly visual apps, including Instagram, Viddly, Cinemagram and Keek. These apps are the '140 characters' of visual, social sharing. Small business can use these free, easy-to-use tools to get the message out to their audience on such a short, quick-consumption platform."
14. Patricia Wilson @brandcottage – President/Founder BrandCottage - "The biggest shift we will see is in content creation. It is relatively easy and inexpensive to create beautiful photos and videos for social media. Small business are beginning to reach their comfort level with social media and will employ more tactics with Instagram, Pinterest, Tumblr and other social nets."
Check out the original source of this post:
The following Automotive Social Media Infographic gives us some historical perspective on where the car business was with our use of social media back when we were headed into 2012... A lot has changed, so what will 2013 have in store for the ways in which automotive marketers seek to gain a competitive advantage via innovation and more effective use of social media channels?
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Great post, Ralph Paglia. It inspires me to want to make some predictions of my own :-)
Ralph, great post!!! I give it three exclamation points!!! I especially like the infographic and how it illustrates the brand within a brand aspect of social media with stand-alone Chevy, Buick, GMC, and Cadillac at once overlapping and in harmony within the whole GM platform.
I predict the same will happen within progressive dealerships with sales staff (and service?). As Sam Fiorella stated, "Next, employees—the businesses' biggest brand ambassadors—will become trained and empowered to become actual influencers across social channels.""
Thank you!
Interesting view points, I see a bunch of overlap and agreement, which is always good.
I like what Tom Pick @TomPick had to say. "In 2013, small businesses, and larger ones too, will get more sophisticated about their measurement of social media results. They will view social media marketing tactics within the larger framework of their overall Web presence—how it supports what they are doing in PR, website optimization, search advertising and other areas of marketing. Their measurement will be less about direct, linear ROI and more about how social sharing and engagement fits into and enhances their overall web marketing and lead generation strategies."
I couldn't agree more with Tom. SEO CRMs are already measuring social (sharing) signals and how they convert (also important, in fact most of these tools want you to import your Goals / Conversions from Google Analytics and the like). Shares, Like and Recommendations are being measured by Google in their index decision making. That's not going to stop any time soon and probably will overtake inbound linking in terms of importance.
Additonally, I've found Gary Schirr @ProfessorGary comments to be interesting. "In 2013 savvy small businesses around the globe will learn valuable photo and video-editing skills to help drive their social media marketing efforts. Using their own cameras, smartphones and tablets, small businesses will leverage newly found creative skills to create content that impacts their audience. They will also solicit visual content from employees and customers. Small businesses will develop an eye for visual content marketing opportunities while learning editing tools such as iMovie, MovieMaker, Photoshop and PaintShop to help energize their business marketing approach."
Yes, it no longer takes a multimedia genius to go out and take a decent picture or find a stock image and edit it within Photoshop, etc. Most smart phones contain cameras, video and audio capture software with a one-click social share mechanism. There's free online image editors out there as well.
I'd love to see a take on this article, rather research: FORRESTER: Facebook And Twitter Do Almost Nothing To Drive Sales.
"Social tactics are not meaningful sales drivers. While the hype around social networks as a driver of influence in eCommerce continues to capture the attention of online executives, the truth is that social continues to struggle and registers as a barely negligible source of sales for either new or repeat buyers. In fact, fewer than 1% of transactions for both new and repeat shoppers could be traced back to trackable social links." - Sucharita Mulpuru at Forrester Research
I find it interesting that I don't see word-of-mouth or referrals on that list. I think you get the results you measure. If you are looking for direct measurable ROI from an action you took, you will get these kind of results. I think it lacks depth. Where did the direct visits and organic or paid search come from?
If someone told me (perhaps on Facebook) a certain dealer was great, might I search for that dealer or go directly to their website?
Tom, most of the research DOES REFLECT "Word of Mouth" but it is not described or specifically measured that way... Let me explain; When we were going through hundreds of pages of research into social media and reputation management provided by the Ogilvy Agency for Ford, I noticed that in many cases when customers cited "Their Father" or "A Friend", other customers, family and coworkers, when we looked at HOW those "word of mouth" communications were being conducted, it was via a wide range of media... Email, SMS text, Facebook posts, messages, Tweets, comments on posts, forwarded articles from mother to daughter, etc. In almost all cases, the respondent did not attribute the influence to the medium, they assigned attribution to the person who used the medium.
Here is what we learned... If you are somebody the consumer knows, regardless of how, or what tool you use to communicate one-to-one, and you identify yourself, then YOU get attribution by the customer NOT the medium used. When mom sends you an email telling you to never buy an Acura because the people at the dealership were rude to her, you do not say you received the information via "Email Marketing", you say you got it from your mother! Same for when she uses social media messaging or posts a comment on your wall.
However, when the communications are "senderless" such as advertising that is from a business, or blog posts not authored by a person, but instead by a business. Those forms of messaging tend to be attributed to the medium rather than the sender.
Let me give you another example closer to home... If I describe one of J.D. Rucker's blog posts, or I say "From the Trenches", we think of Tom Gorham... Or J.D. Rucker... Not Apple Chevy or KPA... We may not even attribute receiving the information from ADM, we will cite their names; we got it from JD Rucker or Tom Gorham. This is also an example of when there is a "relationship" between the sender and the receiver.
There is obviously a lot of value in communicating as a person instead of as a company or business with a logo and no face. I believe this is something that social media has accelerated and enhanced, and will continue to do so... In the future, each of our own personal brands will become more important as the brands we represent become less significant in deciding whether or not to do business with you.
Ralph, thank you! You illustrated my case perfectly. Studies that don't show attribution to Social Media miss the point. They are not measuring it. They are measuring direct ROI from media rather than from the source. In other words, as I said, they lack depth.
In the real world in which I live, the salesperson doesn't probe when a customer says they were referred or that they heard good things about the dealership. "It doesn't matter where they heard it or what medium they heard it through."
It matters to me! I want to know the thread that led ultimately to the purchase. Call it big data, or call it whatever you want, it is the road to sales.
If you're referring to the graph, it's showing the effectiveness of driving sales through email marketing, paid searches, etc. versus social. Word of mouth and referrals aren't on there, because it's a measurement of digital marketing, specifically. I believe they are tracking whether a potential lead or customer bounces from a social media outlet to a website. The entire path analysis.
The entire point of Forrester's research, social isn't driving sales. Direct visits, organic search, PPC, E-mail marketing, etc. are pushing it. Granted, the entire E-commerce approach is much different in the automotive industry and much more difficult to measure than a digital download (simple). Very few people go to a dealer website and actually purchase online. They look, detail their potential purchase and then come in to the dealershp, so you're right, it's hard to quantify unless you have a decent CRM in place with contributing, cooperative sales people (indicating which marketing method brough the customer into the dealership for purchase).
Here's an interesting white paper from the same group, based upon social maturation and measuring it's value: http://success.adobe.com/en/na/programs/products/digitalmarketing/o...
Interesting report, Alexander. However in the appendix, there is another Forrester report listed that looks very interesting:
Thanks Joe! Will indeed give this a read.
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SHIMAO, China, Oct. 29 (UPI) -- City ruins found in northwest China's Shaanxi province covering more than a thousand acres are the largest ever found dating to neolithic China, scientists say.
Archaeologists studying the 4,000-year-old Shimao Ruins in Shenmu County measured the exact size of the ancient stone city, China's state-run Xinhua News Agency reported Monday.
"The city has magnificent stone walls and we've unearthed a large number of carved jade, which hint at the city's core status in north China's early civilization," Zhang Zhongpei, head of the Archaeological Society of China, said.
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The U.S. Forest Service's Wayne National Forest in southeastern Ohio announces the opening of more than 100 miles of designated motorized trails, the largest trail system of its kind in Ohio.
To celebrate the occasion, the Wayne National Forest and the Pickerington, Ohio, based American Motorcyclist Association (AMA)/All-Terrain Vehicle Association (ATVA) renewed a five-year agreement to promote safe and legal use of off-highway vehicles.
"Really the message is to act responsibly, to ride safe, and ride responsibly with respect for the environment. Stay on the trail," said Rob Dingman, president and CEO of AMA/ATVA.
The agreement was signed in the Dorr Run Off-highway Vehicle Trail Area north of Nelsonville, near Haydenville in Hocking County. Shortly after the signing, Dingman and other members of AMA/ATVA were among the first to ride the Wayne National Forest trails for the season.
Motorized trail riding continues to be one the most popular recreation activities on the Wayne National Forest. In 2013, The forest sold more than 7,500 trail permits; a large majority of permits sold were to motorized trail riders. Based on 2013 trail permits sales, it is estimated that the Wayne's motorized trail system receives 20,000 to 30,000 visits annually from motorized trail use.
In addition to motorized trails, the Wayne National Forest also opened 78 miles of horseback and 94 miles of mountain bike trails. Trail permits are required and are available online, or at several participating vendors. Over 92 miles of designated hiking trails are also available without a permit.
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He wants to stay on until the next elections, which even he now acknowledges should be sped up from their scheduled date in September. I'm … reasonably sure that's a non-starter for everyone at this point. So why even propose it? Four possibilities. One: Losing control has led him to lose touch with reality, i.e. he sincerely believes he can hold on. Two: The pride borne of 30 years of absolute power means he's not leaving on anyone's terms but his own. Three: It's worth a shot, no? The protesters are almost certain to reject the idea, but if you're down by three touchdowns with a minute to play, why not go for the end zone and see what happens? Maybe enough of them will find this a palatable compromise that the crowds will shrink and eventually lose steam. Four: He wanted to screw Obama after the U.S. started nudging him towards the exit. Mubarak surely understands that The One is in a bind, not wanting to shove him too hard lest the Saudis and Jordanians get even more nervous about the White House's commitment to them. Now that he's offered a "reasonable solution" — one which follows the advice leaked by the White House to the press — isn't Obama required to support him?
"I have spent enough time serving Egypt," he said.
Earlier, President Barack Obama told the Egyptian leader through a special envoy not to run again, according to American diplomats…
"In all sincerity, regardless of the current circumstances, I never intended to be a candidate for another term," Mubarak said…
"This is my country. This is where I lived, I fought and defended its land, sovereignty and interests, and I will die on its soil," he said.
He also said pledged to implement a series of reforms, including calling on the judiciary to combat corruption, one of the complaints of protesters…
Mubarak wanted to stay in office and continue to make small changes, touting them as progress, a senior U.S. official told NBC News, but [White House envoy Frank] Wisner reinforced the point that the Egyptian president cannot hold on until the next election.
That last bit jibes with what Jackson Diehl of WaPo claimed earlier on Twitter, that Mubarak flatly told Wisner that he won't quit. A really good question posed by Max Boot at Commentary: Why on earth did Obama urge Mubarak to declare he won't run again rather than to leave ASAP? I get that the White House is trying to signal to other Arab regimes that we won't turn on an ally completely, even under intense pressure, but no one seriously believes this new proposal will satisfy the protesters. If Mubarak ends up being deposed or fleeing in terror in the next few days anyway, it'll make Obama's demand look lame and ridiculous. Boot:
[D]oes Obama really think that the vast throngs filling the streets of Cairo will stand for Mubarak remaining in office until September? That would have been a good demand to deliver a few months, weeks, or even days ago. Now it's been overtaken by events. Clearly nothing will satisfy the demonstrators other than Mubarak's removal from office.
The question is what comes next: who makes up the transitional government? One hopes that, behind the scenes, this question is consuming the administration and its best experts on Egypt, and that they are fruitfully engaging not only with the opposition but also with the army, which remains the most powerful power broker in the country. Liberal democrats are in a race with the Muslim Brotherhood to control Egypt's destiny. We need to help them. We need to get ahead of the curve. For once.
Protest organizers met yesterday and vowed that they'd make no concessions in negotiating with new VP Omar Suleiman until Mubarak was gone, and if you believe the Muslim Brotherhood, there are already talks between the military and the opposition to push him out. Since the army's sworn not to use force against the protesters and the Egyptian economy is crumbling from eight days of paralysis, I assume there are no options left realistically except a military coup sooner rather than later followed by some sort of transitional power-sharing agreement between Suleiman and the opposition. ElBaradei's allies claim he's been talking to the army too about possibly being named interim president.
Exit question: What's our next move? Start pushing Mubarak to enact specific reforms, and if he doesn't, use that as a pretext to formally abandon him? Knowing he's a dead man walking, the White House must be desperate for reasons to dump this guy quickly and salvage whatever tiny bit of goodwill still remains among protesters. Presumably, unless he does everything we ask of him going forward, there's going to be some sort of reckoning.
Update: Bad moon rising: Al Jazeera English is reporting clashes between pro- and anti-Mubarak protesters in Alexandria, with shots being fired. The hot rumor over the weekend was that Mubarak had ordered state police off the street in hopes that the resulting chaos would keep protesters at home this week. That didn't happen, so maybe we're at stage two of that strategy now — out-and-out attacks on protesters, with the army forced to choose between standing by or firing on the instigators.
Or maybe Mubarak has nothing to do with this and it's just tensions in the street boiling over. Stay tuned.
Update: We won't have to wait long to find out whether the Mubarak "I'm staying until elections" plan is still acceptable to Obama. Tapper's reporting on Twitter that he'll speak within the next hour or so.


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Education/Community Engagement Recommended Reading
Symphony Magazine Articles
- Journey of Engagement
by Chester Lane
Sharing the fruits of "Anglo" culture in New Mexico
- ACCESS for All
A Seattle Symphony program forges links to the community by answering the call from ethnic and minority groups to "come on over to our house."
- Joining Hands
by Chester Lane
Violinist Midori is as passionate about education and collaboration as she is about her solo career, building a network of activities that weave music into everyday life.
- Rally the Troops: Music Education Advocacy for Orchestras
by Karin Brookes
Here's how orchestras can get involved in music education advocacy on the local level
- Looking Forward in Pittsburgh
by Caroline Abels
By reaching out to young and old, by involving its community in both music and the activities that make it happen, the Pittsburgh Symphony builds for the future.
- Unfinished Business
by Polly Kahn
It's time we embraced our most loyal and inquisitive audience members.
- Learning Curve
by Heidi Waleson
To make an impact on students, "teaching artists" from orchestras go to classes of their own.
- In Concert With Kids
by Heidi Waleson
Sure, it's still a great excuse to get away from class. But today's youth concert, more likely than not, is also the culmination of a sophisticated educational curriculum.
- Voyage of Discovery
by Jack McAuliffe
Family concerts may be the lure that attracts young parents to a closer tie with the orchestra
- People
by Heidi Waleson
Learn how Teaching Artist David Wallace opens doors to music for young listeners, and teaches fellow musicians to do the same
Other Materials
- American Orchestras: Making a Difference in Our Communities
by Polly Kahn, vice president for Learning and Leadership Development, League of American Orchestras
- Beyond Tradition II
The "Beyond Tradition II" report is a study of promising practices in orchestra education as represented by the 2003 - 2007 winners of the Bank of America Awards for Excellence in Orchestra Education.
- Teaching Artists Research Project
Teaching Artists and the Future of Education found that their work is critical to the future of arts education and to improving the quality of schools. Read a report on a three-year study of teaching artists (TAs) who make teaching a part of their professional practice.
- Lucia Brawley Speech
Lucia Brawley delivers the keynote address at the biennial Music Educators Symposium at the Yale School of Music.
- Engaging Audiences
A recent Wallace Foundation conference gathered arts organizations that are responding creatively to the challenges of a difficult economic climate and building their audiences by using market research, re-branding, and drawing audience-building lessons from other sectors such as professional sports.
- Reaching a Broader Community
James M. Rosser, president of California State University, sets the tone for a better understanding of the role of the orchestra in reaching out to contemporary urban communities. Includes responses by John Gidwitz, executive director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, James F. Mann, general manager of the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, and Mark C. Volpe, executive director of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra.
- Community Engagement Programs: Suggested Evaluation Guidelines
The League has developed a set of suggested guidelines for orchestras to evaluate their community engagement programs. It's designed for any orchestra undertaking community engagement work, as well as for those applying to the MetLife Awards for Excellence in Community Engagement.
- Developing Community Partnerships
Thomas V. Chema, executive director of Gateway Economic Development Corporation, identifies the impact an orchestra makes on its community. Includes responses by Nicky B. Carpenter, chairman of The Minnesota Orchestra, and Bud Lindstrand, chairman of the Oregon Symphony.
- Researchers Design New Ways to Gauge Arts Spillover
Deborah Viadero describes how a handful of new studies are taking a different, and some say more productive, look at how to capture arts learning's full range of benefits.
- The Kids Play Great. But That Music . . .
A humorous description of a parent's experience attending a child's school concerts
- Three Rs Are Essential, but Don't Forget the A -- the Arts
Elliot Eisner describes the lessons that the arts teach.


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So I guess this is it. After four years, six blogs and countless, countless links, my time here is done. I was under the impression there would be ice cream.
Not to get too sentimental, but I do want to say that Nick Denton gave me a job at a time when I desperately needed one, and A.J. gave me another when he absolutely didn't have to, and for both of those things I am greatly appreciative. Despite its noted flaws, this is an awesome place to work and I can't imagine ever having this much freedom as a writer again. Thanks to Will for creating this particular place to type and thanks to Tommy and Rick and Ben and David and Lux and Jonno and Gram and Noah and Lock and all the other writers and editors I've known and worked with during my time here. (I'm sorry I didn't name you all, but I'm on deadline.) And thanks especially to the tech team, who no one ever thanks and you all hate, but that's only cause you don't know any better.
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Daily Slice: The Portobello, Pine Nut, and Dried Tomato Pizza from Star Tavern
A different slice profiled each day.
Finding myself near Orange, NJ last weekend with nothing to do (we'd come out to pick apples only to discover that Irene had already done picked all of 'em before we got there), I decided to take the only logical course of action: go to Star Tavern for pizza.
Ok, I'm not going to kid around: the thing to get at Star Tavern if you've never been is anything with pepperoni on it. Their pepperoni is fantastic. Small, thick-sliced disks that as they cook curl up into little crispy chalices of grease*. Now put that on top of thin, ultra-crisp crust with nicely charred edges, great sauce, and a good amount of cheese, and you've got a bar pie at its very best (read Adam's take on it here).
* See Grand Prize Pizza Haiku winner.
Of course we did get the requisite Pepperoni Pie ($11.50 and it was as glorious as ever, along with a White Clam Pie ($12.50) (theirs are made with plenty of garlic, and a clam-flavored bechamel-like sauce with just a few chunks of real clam—like no other clam pie I've had, but delicious in its own way), but this time I also opted for one of their specialty pies. Something about the high-low dichotomy of portobello, sun dried tomatoes, and pine nuts on a decidedly non fancy-pants bar-style crust seemed interesting to me.
I mean, they actually roast portobellos and have sun dried tomatoes back in that kitchen?
As expected, the pie was phenomenal. Crisply charred crust underneath, with a nice pliant and chewy layer of dough. The sun dried tomato was chopped up under the cheese and very subtle, adding some rich dried-fruit flavors to the otherwise bright sauce. Portobello and pine nuts dot the surface, but just like with all the other slices here, the predominant flavor is that of salty cheese-grease (does that sound gross? It's not).
There's no fooling yourself into thinking that this is any sort of white tablecloth fare, fancy sounding ingredients or not. This is down and dirty, real bar pizza that just happens to be made for people who like well-roasted shrooms and pine nuts on their pies.
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Fire destroys building at St. Lawrence Seminary H.S.
Blaze destroys school's oldest building
A large fire has been reported at a Fond du Lac County high school.
The four-alarm fire was reported Saturday about 4 a.m. at St. Lawrence Seminary High School, 301 Church St. in Mt. Calvary.
VIDEO: St. Joseph Hall destroyed by fire
Father John Holly, St. Lawrence Seminary High School rector and president, said the fire ignited in the oldest building on the campus, St. Joseph Hall, which was built in the 1870s. He said the building was destroyed.
School officials said the building affected was primarily office space, and classes would be held Monday.
The fire was contained in St. Joseph, investigators said. Crews said no one was inside the building during the blaze, and are working to figure out what sparked the blaze.
VIDEO: 3 dozen fire departments battle school fire
Mt. Calvary is located northeast of Fond du Lac.
Firefighters from nearly three dozen companies were dispatched to the fire.
No injuries were reported in the fire, and representatives from the school said all students and staff have been accounted for.
"We're dealing with the kids right now," Holly said. "It's Saturday morning. Some of the kids are just getting up and beginning to find out what's going on and we're assuring them everybody is safe."
Holly said the 190 students at the school had a chance to call their parents Saturday to let them know they are OK. Some students missed a band competition Saturday because their instruments burned in the fire.
"Right now it houses basically our music department and offices and a couple of other classrooms," Holly said.
Holly said all those operations in St. Joseph's Hall will relocate when classes resume Monday.


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Planning The Year 2013 Updatestevejb68 on August 11, 2013 in Leadership, Program
Boy Scout Troop 68 now has a program plan for the 2013-2014 year. I talked to the scoutmaster at last week's troop meeting to ask how things went at the year planning conference. If you recall from the last blog article, I was a little concerned over an item or two, namely that he invited the entire troop membership to attend and that he also invited all the parents. Turns out that I did not need to be concerned.
The parent invitation is the one that bothered me the most. If too many parents attended the meeting I was afraid it would become a parent planned program instead of a Boy Scout planned program. I need not have worried about it. Not a single parent, other than the scoutmaster and assistant parent, came to the session.
Unfortunately, not many of the Scouts attended it either. Most of the patrol leader council either could not attend, or decided not to attend. Only three boys showed up. One was the senior patrol leader, who happens to be the scoutmaster's son during this term, and another was a new Scout who just joined the troop and does not hold an office. Talk about getting involved right from the start. Although not many boys showed up for the session they went ahead and planned the yearly program.
The scoutmaster told me he really did not want to reschedule the meeting since only a small group of Scouts attended. I had to agree with him. The boys and families had known about the session for over a month. If he would have rescheduled he would have had no guarantee that more Boy Scouts would have attended. And it would have pushed the scheduling process back another week or two or three which could have caused us to miss the presentation of the new schedule by the senior patrol leader at this month's committee meeting. If it would have been rescheduled for later in the month it also could have got in the way of this month's outing.
I think they did the right thing. If any parents or Scouts want to object about the new program, well, all we have to is ask them where were they on Saturday, August 6th. After all, everyone was invited to come and give their two cents at that time.


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The Supreme Court has made an important ruling on campaign finance.
McCain-Feingold required that [corporations] channel their campaign spending by creating a special fund, known as a political action committee, which can accept donations from employees, shareholders and other affiliates. Advocates argued that the law was a valid way to prevent special-interest funds from distorting elections.But Justice Kennedy wrote [for the 5-4 majority] that the effort to divide corporate political spending into legal and illegal forms chilled political speech. "When government seeks to use its full power, including the criminal law, to command where a person may get his or her information or what distrusted source he or she may not hear, it uses censorship to control thought," he wrote. "This is unlawful."
To understand the background, and to see why this is a bad, needlessly sweeping, decision, read these columns by Stuart Taylor: Campaign money and Chief Justice, and Campaign finance and corporations. Back in September, Taylor wrote:
The Supreme Court, especially Chief Justice John Roberts, is at a crossroads.The immediate issue is whether to demolish Congress's overly broad, 62-year-old ban on corporate spending in federal elections or, instead, carve out a sensible exception.
The broader question is whether Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito will aggravate the Court's polarization and give plausibility to charges of conservative judicial activism by providing the fourth and fifth votes for demolition of the ban, and of two important precedents as well...
Roberts and Alito would thereby be passing up a golden opportunity for principled compromise held out by liberal Justice John Paul Stevens. He credited a National Rifle Association amicus brief, by conservative lawyer Charles Cooper, with suggesting (as its second-favorite outcome) what Stevens called "the wisest narrow solution of the problem before us." That would be excising with a scalpel, not a meat ax, the one serious First Amendment defect in the campaign finance rules now before the Court.
The defect is Congress's decision in adopting the 2002 McCain-Feingold law to add to its justifiable ban on "electioneering" broadcast ads by business corporations an utterly unjustified amendment by the late Sen. Paul Wellstone, D-Minn., extending the ban to nonprofit ideological corporations. These include the NRA, the Sierra Club, the ACLU, Citizens United, and other large and small groups of like-minded individuals who want to pool their funds to promote their political views...The Wellstone amendment's transparent purpose was, as supporters made clear in floor debate, to muffle criticism ("negative attack ads") of themselves and other incumbents. The justices should strike down the Wellstone amendment, as Stevens suggested, while leaving intact the McCain-Feingold ban on "electioneering"...
They chose the meat ax.
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This Globethics.net collection gathers contributions, resources and perspectives on interreligious dialogue; in particular it looks at tolerance toward religious diversity and gathers theological texts that promote interreligious dialogue and social inclusiveness from different religious traditions.
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FG2 Sacred Texts (incl. Interpretation)
FG21 Torah and Tenach (Old Testament)
FG22 New Testament
FG23 Koran and Hadith
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FG32112 Pastoral Letters
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FG3212 Pontifical Council for interreligious dialogue
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FG54 Christianity and Islam
FG55 Christianity and Confucianism
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FG57 Christianity and traditional religions (incl. New religions, Paganism)
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FG62 Hermeneutics of interreligious dialogue and relations
FG63 Religious pluralism (Religious identity in a multi-religious society)
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Navigate with style and ease, turn your Volvo in to a mobile entertainment centre or use the parking assistance. With our Tech & Sound accessories you can get the full experience of sound and vision, safety and fun.
Rear seat entertainment
Rear seat passengers will enjoy their journey as never before with our new generation entertainment system, with LCD screens served by dedicated DVD players. Wireless headphones and one remote control are included, too.
Park assist camera, front blind view
There is nothing more challenging than trying to negotiate tight exits and junctions, which often have restricted visibility. We aim to make that easier for you with our Park Assist Camera, front blind view, which allows you to 'see around corners' with a 180° field of vision to the left and right in front of you.
Park assist camera, rear
Reversing into a tight parking space can be a stressful experience – wouldn't it be good to have "eyes in the back of your head"? Your Volvo can provide that kind of supernatural ability with a camera mounted in the tailgate, which dramatically increases your field of vision behind the car.
Sensus Navigation
Find your ways and connect with our cloudbased apps that will guide you to the closest points of interest or a free parking space. Select your destination with voice control or in advance by using your mobile phone. Map updates are included.
Pack and Load
Practical or elegant, why compromise? With these pack and load accessories you get the best of both and make your everyday life a little bit easier. To obtain your Volvo's good looks some of them can even be colour-coordinated to fit your cars colour perfectly.
Detachable towbar
The durable and versatile tow bar has been specially designed for use with your Volvo. It's easy to mount whenever you need it and when not in use it can be removed quickly and simply. And to maintain your Volvo's good looks, there is a colour-coordinated cover for the towbar opening.
Roof load carriers
These specially designed load carriers fit neatly and securely onto your Volvo's prepared roof rails. They're easy to install and to combine with additional holders if required.
Reversible and foldable load compartment textile mat
This mat allows you to maintain the elegant appearance of the load compartment even if you occasionally transport grimy loads. With folded rear seat backrests, just fold out the mat to cover the entire load compartment floor. The mat is reversible and waterproof, with colour-matched fabric on one side and plastic on the other.
Safety grille
This gas-sprung steel grille helps protect you and your passengers from unsecured loads when braking sharply. When not required, the grille – which is colour-coordinated with your interior – folds conveniently up against the roof.
Nothing is more important than the safety of you and your passengers. And as you'd expect from us, our child seats are among the safest you'll find.
Infant seat (up to 13kg)
Infants up to one year of age travel safely in this rear-facing seat. Side wings help protect in a side impact, and you can easily adjust the padded headrest and five-point harness. There's a canopy to block the sun, too. This infant seat is also easy to carry and can be used as a carrycot.
Convertible child seat (9-25 kg)
This advanced, flexible rearward-facing child seat is suitable for children aged 9 months to six years. It's fitted using the car's safety belt and is easily adjusted to help optimise comfort and safety.
Booster seat (15-36 kg)
Volvo's booster seat helps position a child at the correct height for the safety belt and is designed to optimise side impact protection. The headrest and width adjust easily to enhance comfort, and the backrest can be reclined when your child wants to rest.
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Our Innovation Brands
Everything we do is designed around people, so every innovation we make is designed to simplify and improve your life. We're especially proud of our advances in efficient power, connectivity and safety. We call our thinking in these areas: Drive-E, Sensus and IntelliSafe.


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Colorful Fondant Bow Cake
This was for a 10 yr. old b-day, her dad ordered it and said that she liked bright colors, he said that she liked hot pink, lime green, etc.....So this is what I came up with. Lime green, hot pink, orange, and yellow. I love the bow on this cake, I would like to get this for my b-day. Butter cake on bottom, chocolate on top with buttercream and fondant accents.


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King Stephen Báthory Primary School No. 5 in Łodz has been using the mozaBook software since August 31, 2017. After signing the Partner School Agreement to officially establish our partnership, gradually all 32 teachers and all the students registered their user accounts and were granted access to the mozaBook software and the mozaWeb platform. The software is installed on all interactive boards in the school and after a year of using these tools in our everyday work, we can definitely confirm that mozaLearn offers an integrated learning environment and provide our teachers of all subjects with various educational tools such as videos, animations, and 3D models.
An informal group of authentic enthusiasts of the new software has formed who use mozaBook every day in their work. Thanks to them, the school is perceived as an institution applying innovative teaching methods and promoting the use of ICT tools in public education.
Here are the teachers' reflections on the use of the mozaBook software.
1.) mozaBook in Biology and Science lessons - Katarzyna Kopczyńska - teacher of Biology and Nature
"The mozaBook world is my world now. I have been using its educational resources for about a year, during which I have become the school leader and coordinator regarding the use of mozaBook in our institution. I train teachers, I advise others and I am also learning a lot in the meantime."
"In Science classes we most often use 3D models that help us explore the secrets of anatomy or we show students videos illustrating a given phenomenon. A biologist shall greatly appreciate Microscope tool which contains a collection of images invisible to the naked eye that can be further enlarged with a slider according to the teacher's needs. LabCamera – the webcam-based laboratory of natural sciences is another real treat for the teachers who are responsible for all above mentioned Science subjects.
With the help of mozaBook, homework management has become a lot easier as we can assign exercises to selected students, classes and groups. After checking the homework online, students receive feedback in the form of an evaluation. Online homework is very attractive for a student who can use the Internet, and not only learn by traditional methods using a textbook or an exercise book. Students themselves ask for homework, due to its attractive form, created with the Test Editor. Thus, a test placed in the teacher's exercise book can become homework assigned to our students online."
2.) mozaBook in Polish, History, Art and Music classes -Anna Kułak-Kułakowska, Polish teacher
"Learning is not boring anymore, it becomes fun. C'mon, it is the 21st century and teachers should not only keep up with their students, they should be ahead of them!"
"I am a Polish teacher. When preparing my lessons with mozaBook, I make use of resources from the Media library. Unfortunately, there are not many typical tasks, exercises, or resources aimed at teaching Polish; so my strategy is to make use of the resources designed for teaching History, Arts, Geography or Music. Thanks to the 3D models, now my lessons about ancient Greece, ancient theater or mythology are actually interesting for students. We can visit the ancient Acropolis, take a virtual walk, take a look at each temple from all sides, read or listen to the most important information about each object and finally solve some exercises to test the acquired knowledge.
A rich gallery of photos helped me create a lesson on the architecture and art. The 3D animation covering the Greek architectural orders was extremely interesting for children who have not come across this type of architecture so far.
I also use the miniMap tool very often, for example in a lesson about the spelling of geographical names. Grammar becomes more interesting if we can see where a given country, continent or city is located on a map. I would also like to dedicate a paragraph to the demonstration tools (eg. Clocks, Calendar, the Scale tool) : there is, for instance, a Musical instruments tool with which students not only visualize different musical instruments, but also listen to them. I use often the Time machine as well – the tool that takes us back in time to present us people and important historical events in chronological order and show these in relation to important events from both science and history.
Furthermore, mozaBook allows me to pin various items of content to my exercise books, such as short excerpts of text and documentary, or animated films. With mozaBook I can use short, well-animated, funny films from the Media library to enrich my lesson and make it even more interesting while discussing Greek myths."
3.) mozaBook in English language classes - Małgorzata Pawełczyk - English and Early School Education teacher
"If you want to change your routine activities and try something new and innovative, give mozaBook a shot. A good lesson is interesting and the more varied tasks, the more information the students need to search and process, the better the results will be."
"mozaBook gives the teacher the opportunity to move away from typical textbook exercises. In my everyday school practice, I use short videos from various fields, audio recordings, 3D models with ready-made quizzes, and language games in my English lessons. I use the rich mozaBoook gallery of images, famous historical figures, avatars, pictures and word cards for a successful vocabulary practice. I often use Puzzle, Lan(g)ame or Word finder as well.
These tasks make learning more attractive and help students to master their vocabulary and grammar. In addition, they bring dynamism to the lesson and increase the involvement of my students."
4.) mozaBook in grades 1 - 3 (Early Childhood Education in Poland) – Anna Aleksandrzak – Early Childhood Education teacher
"At first glance, the materials available in mozaBook may seem a bit difficult or too "serious" for small children. This could not be farther from the truth. My pupils ask me every day when we are going to do something in mozaBook! They adore 3D presentations, like the rotated African elephant model which also appealed to kindergarten children visiting our school as part of the Preschooler's Academy. Kids were delighted at the opportunity to look at the "stomach" of the elephant, commented on the size of the heart and brain and so on."
"Personally, I adhere to the principle that it is better to show more, speak more, do as much as possible rather than not using some content because 'you will learn about this in more detail later on'. Therefore, I use all the materials available on the platform and in the software."
"At the beginning of the first educational stage, a set of ready-made tools built-in mozaBook works perfectly well. Children use their finger or a marker to practice how to write letters and this is definitely more attractive than a pencil and notebook which they use at home.
The software offers many simple, but powerful tools for Mathematics as well, which is great because these games can deepen the children's knowledge of ceratin topics (Chess, Othello, Connect 4 , Tangram).
The tools can diversify our everyday school activities as well. Group work can be summarized thanks to the Evaluation table in which we can write down the teams' achievements. When we're approaching the end of the lesson – well, sometimes we just play with games, like 3D puzzles or building blocks.
mozaBook offers a full range of didactic games – and most of them have a regulated level of difficulty. A popular choice is Number Hero, for instance – the game is based on the well-known arcade game, in which children have to make calculations to overcome obstacles.The software works well during classes for children with special needs, both in the classroom during school time and in afterschool common room sessions. You could argue that it's all somewhere out there on the Internet - yes, but what to look for?! In mozaBook everything is in one place, right at your fingertips."


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Austin firearms startup TrackingPoint has built its reputation around tech-augmented, precision-guided weapons, and its latest mod using Google Glass is no exception.
TrackingPoint's aim is to give its customers the most-advanced edge a marksman can have, and by implementing wearable tech into its latest concept, that now includes accurate shooting from "around corners, unsupported positions, behind the back, to the side, and around barricades" without exposing the shooter to potential crossfire.
The minute-long video explains how the scopes built into TrackingPoint rifles stream video via wifi to wearable devices like Google Glass, which can then project the live video for a user to see and aim with the weapon with while maintaining almost complete cover.


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Patrick to make NASCAR debut at Daytona
Danica Patrick will make her NASCAR debut this weekend at Daytona International Speedway.
The IndyCar star will drive the No. 7 Chevrolet for JR Motorsports in Saturday's second-tier Nationwide Series race.
The decision announced Monday to race at Daytona was made after team officials dissected her stock-car racing debut in the ARCA race at Daytona on Saturday. The team had left the option to race up to Patrick, who wanted to assess her first race before deciding whether to enter one of the most prestigious Nationwide races of the season.
Patrick overcame a midrace spin to finish sixth.
"Racing in the Nationwide Series race was my goal during this entire two-month preparation process, but we wanted to make sure it was the right thing to do," Patrick said in a statement. "The ARCA race was a blast, and I'm not ready for my first Daytona Speedweeks to end just yet. I want more racing."
Patrick had been hesitant to make her debut at Daytona because of the top talent that race attracts. Sprint Cup drivers have won nine of the last 10 Nationwide races here, and the lone exception was Martin Truex Jr., who won in 2005 in JR Motorsports car.
Patrick will be joined in the field by Dale Earnhardt Jr., her car owner. He has five wins and 10 top-10 finishes in 17 Nationwide races at Daytona.
Earnhardt will be driving JRM's flagship No. 88, while Patrick will be in the car she will drive in 13 previously announced races. Her schedule after Daytona includes the Feb. 20 race at California and the Feb. 27 race at Las Vegas.
"I think Danica proved to everyone that she can compete in stock cars at a high level, and right now seat time is extremely important," said Kelley Earnhardt, Earnhardt's sister and the general manager and a part owner of JRM.
"She has worked extremely hard during the past two months for this opportunity. Her dedication and work ethic is infectious."
JR Motorsports acquired the points from CJM Racing to ensure Patrick a spot in the field. CJM Racing finished 15th in the owner standings last season, but has suspended operations.
There's been slight backlash against Patrick for taking the Daytona ride because many believed her decision to race cost Kelly Bires a seat.
"As everyone can see I will not be running Daytona. Very bummed out about it!" he posted on his Twitter account.
But Kelley Earnhardt said Patrick's decision had no bearing on Bires, who is scheduled to drive the No. 88 this season.
A sponsorship agreement had Earnhardt Jr. contractually obligated to race in Daytona's Nationwide event, so he actually replaced Bires for this one event. The second JR Motorsports car, the No. 7, is Patrick's and Earnhardt said Bires would have only gotten that seat had Patrick elected not to race.
There was brief discussion of taking three cars to Daytona so that Bires could race, but Earnhardt said the sponsorship woes JR Motorsports is facing made the extra car unaffordable.
"I think it would have been different if we had sponsorship for the 88 for whole season, but at this moment we only have 12 races out of 35 with (sponsorship) contracts in hand," Earnhardt said. "We are looking to run the balance of the season on our own dime for Kelly, and we just couldn't make that expense to bring a third car.
"If Danica had decided not to race, then Kelly would have been the first choice to go in that car."


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OK. You are probably wondering what I'm doing writing on Surname Saturday about a surname that does not exist. This is a major problem for me, and I'm really hoping that someone comes up with an idea on how to deal with it.
William Severs, one of my direct ancestors, was born about 1797 in Tennessee, according to the 1850 and 1860 census records in Newton County, Missouri. His wife was Matilda, also born about 1797 in Tennessee, according to those same census records. None of the children lived until at least 1900 so I don't know where they may have said where their parents were born.
So, what is the problem? I would like to have Matilda's maiden name since she is a direct ancestor also.
A bigger problem is that all of the online trees either have her listed as Matilda Tolinda, with Tolinda as her maiden name; OR they list her as Matilda Tolinda with NO last name and Tolinda as her middle name. After contacting most of these researchers, they are unable to tell me where the name Tolinda came from other than an "ancestry family tree". These researchers aren't even sure which family tree. Many of these "researchers" have posted trees with no sources, no documentation, no notes, etc. and so they have no idea where any of the information came from.
Now, another problem. It finally occurred to me to see how many Tolindas may have been in Tennessee in the late 1700s and early 1800s. Well, you guessed it. NONE!!!! There are a few people with the last name of Tolinda in the 1885 Iowa State Census, and it states that some of them were born in Ohio. Well, 1880 census doesn't have any Tolindas listed.
So, do you have any ideas as to where to look next? Or what spelling variation I could try that would might help. I've used all of the normal ones, I believe, since this is not a new problem.
I would really appreciate any help. I'll be at Jamboree next week. So, if you have any suggestions, please send me an email, respond to this blog, OR catch up with me at Jamboree. Thank you so much.


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A Carl's Jr. franchisee in San Francisco offset the county's higher minimum wage—now $10.74—by using less shortening to make french fries. A White Castle in Illinois cut two jobs to match competitors' costs in nearby Indiana, where the mandated wage is lower. A California pretzel maker pays different...
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In today's Remainders: Empires. Apple tends to theirs at their annual shareholders meeting; Verizon reinforces their cellular empire for Spring Break action; and the Galactic Empire's graphic design team faces off with Ole Miss's new rebel mascot. And more!
It's a Mascot!
Ole Miss has been without a mascot since 2003, when its Colonel Reb was deemed offensive. A campus-wide vote was initiated to determine the new one, and the University has gravitated towards a Rebel of a different nature: Admiral Ackbar! Star Wars fans shouldn't get too excited; the Associated Student Body President said that the campaign is only "comic relief." Too bad, the thought of Red Squadron-replica football helmets running around on ESPN had me pretty excited. [Washington Post]
We All Live In An Autonomous Submarine
Today PopSci shares a report on Gulper, an autonomous submarine that can plan its own experiments. "Cool," you say, but in reality it's not quite as exciting as it sounds—Gulper basically just makes small decisions within the confines of a preprogrammed task to get things done more efficiently. Submarines have been zipping around on their own for a while now, so it's gonna take a little bit more autonomy to impress us. [PopSci]
The "Fancy Alpha" offers you the chance to disguise your unsightly HDTV antenna...as an unsightly picture frame. When there are so many striking, well-designed antennas on the market, why bother? [CrunchGear]
Spring Break Service
Pass the beer bong to Verizon—today the carrier sent out a press release confirming that their Florida network is ready for the Spring Break sexting onslaught:
When droves of college students from around the country hit Florida's spring break hot spots this year, they can count on the Verizon Wireless 3G network to handle their millions of voice calls, text and picture messages, downloads and more to stay in touch with friends at the next beach party or family back home.
Apparently service wasn't quite up to snuff last spring break, so in the meantime they spent $240 million on improving the network. Sign of the times if there ever was one. [
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Hummer Stalls
All over the world, pockets of the environmentally-friendly are partying like the end of Return of the Jedi. What's the cause for all the celebration? The shuttering of Hummer, of course. The brand, which has long been the most visible signal of everything wrong with our gas-guzzling SUV automotive culture, was supposed to be sold to a Chinese company but the deal fell apart. Eco-friendly and Ewoks alike: cheer on. [CNN]
Spotty Sales
For a while it seemed like the powers that be had agreed to let this Spotify thing happen, but a recent study is sure to make the Brothers Warner and their big-wig cousins raise an eyebrow. It found that on-demand streaming music sites, like Spotify, decreased paid downloads 13 percent. That's bad enough, but when you look at it in the context of streaming internet radio's influence on paid downloads—it can boost them up to 41%—Spotify's future with the big labels looks even dimmer. [CNET]
Apple's annual shareholder meeting was today, and it didn't generate much in the way of explosive news. Here's what was discussed: Apple is sitting on a gigantic pile of cash, something to the tune of $40 billion (this we knew); Apple plans to build 25 stores in China (this we didn't); some people are pushing for a more environmentally-friendly Apple (a greener Apple, if you will); and one shareholder thinks there should be women on the board (Tipper Gore was suggested). I told you it wasn't explosive. [Brainstrom Tech]
Loose Lips
Artist Cliff Chang created some adverts for the Galactic Empire in the style of World War II propaganda posters, and, as you can see, they are quite wonderful. I'm sure Palpatine had pro-Empire posters up in every spaceport, but I can't imagine the Empire's graphic design team had a style this impressive. [New Launches]


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NEW ORLEANS -- One day after Randy Moss proclaimed himself the best receiver in the history of the game, the San Francisco 49ers wideout responded to criticism from the other guy in this debate: Hall of Fame pass-catcher Jerry Rice.
Rice shot back Tuesday, saying he was "very surprised" Moss called himself the "greatest" of all time.
"You'd never hear me say I'm the greatest football player to ever play the game," Rice told ESPN, via Yahoo! Sports. "I let my body of work speak for itself, and I think I was able to be very productive on the football field."
Rice pointed to his own gaudy numbers -- 22,895 receiving yards and 197 touchdowns through the air -- and three Super Bowl rings, but Moss doesn't view the debate through that lens.
"What I said was what I felt," Moss said. "Like I said, I don't want to get in a shouting match with Jerry Rice or anybody. I mean that's my own personal opinion. I mean there's people that think just because he has the numbers, that he's the greatest, but I don't believe in numbers. I really don't."
Added Moss: "What I think, is what I think ... I changed the game. I'm not really trying to make it all about me. I just made a statement and I stand by my statement, so I'm gonna leave it at that."
Best receiver in NFL history? There hasn't been much debate here. Rice has stood as the clear answer for forever and a day, but Moss simply doesn't agree.