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Wouldn't it be great if random strangers showed up and created dynamic, relevant content for your website? Without being paid?
Yes, that's a thing. And it's called a branded online community.
Establish a "home base" on your corporate domain where your fans and customers can rely on direct, two-way communication with you and your team. If that trust relationship is established, the magic happens. It's like a barn-raising, with everyone working together to build a reservoir of value.
Give them a way to share photos, videos, ask questions, answer each others' questions, share their opinions in polls, and get to know each other. All of that back-and-forth, and all of that meaty information feeds the search engines' hunger for useful, recent content.
And search engines hunger for content because humans hunger for information.
In the recently released book Absolute Value, authors Simonson & Rosen use the term "couch tracking," accumulating lots of information over time, even before the need for a product is identified. Marketers need to focus more attention on the couch-trackers, who frequent online communities and forums as they have a certain product or brand "on their radar," because they are likely to make a decision before marketers are even aware of them.
Gini Dietrich also recently wrote on this subject as it relates to brand journalism. Your PR team can leverage your guest bloggers, Q&A topics, and visual content to support their efforts.
If you want to leverage user-generated content, bring together your community in a space you control. Raise a barn together.
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I'd love to hear your thoughts here in the comments or come connect with me on Google+ or Twitter.
Today, we rolled out an update for Hoop.la, UBB Forum, and QuestionShark that adds two major new features:
1. PDF and Document Search
The content of uploaded documents (including PDFs, Word documents, spreadsheets, and more) will now be indexed, which means they will be searchable!
2. Search Engine Spider/Robot Throttling Option
Some sites get hammered by search engine robots trying to index their content, especially older sites that have lots of content. In some cases, a high percentage of overall traffic to the site can be attributable to these search engine bots.
Thus, we have added a new tool to allow you to tame these bots, if necessary. If your billable page views are getting close to your plan limit, this option may come in handy.
On your site Control Panel's Statistics page, you'll find the new Throttling option right below your billable page view stats. You can even see the current percentage of traffic attributable to these robots.
You have three choice- No Throttling (default), Standard Throttling (which limits the bots to approximately 20% of your overall page views, and Custom Throttling.
Most sites will never need to use the "throttling" option, but it's a valuable option for sites that need it.
Please note of course that throttling search engine bots will prevent your site from being updated as often, which may negatively impact your SEO, so definitely consider the pros and cons before you enable it.
Our friends at The Community Roundtable are conducting their annual State of Community Management survey, and you can participate.
Each year, they seek input from professional community managers across a wide array of organizations, in order to produce an inside look at how brands and businesses are advancing the practice of community management.
I did a summary of key takeaways from the 2013 State of Community Management here, and there were a lot of fascinating insights that emerged from last year's report. For example, community managers emerged as the silo-breakers within organizations, often pulling together resources across multiple departments to support community-building efforts.
If you'd like to complete the 2014 survey and share your experiences, click here: http://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/1490734/2014-SOCM. Note that the closing date is Friday, Feb 28, so don't delay!
The Community Roundtable also runs an amazing year-round program of members-only and free webinars and content. I highly recommend checking them out if you're interested in continuing education as a community management pro. And tell them Rosemary sent you
Warning: this post might make you start craving FROYO...
I recently had the pleasure of interviewing Richard Mills from the PR team at Orange Leaf Yogurt. He's responsible for heading up OL Insider, their thriving intranet community. He spilled his secrets for getting engagement going, measuring success, and communicating across a broad spectrum of corporate and franchisee participants.
Our community is called the OL Insider. I will describe OL Insider as the internal Orange Leaf intranet or community platform that brings everyone affiliated with the brand from an internal perspective together in one location. We have corporate employees on the intranet, franchisees, store managers, some store employees and even Reese Travis- the Orange Leaf CEO. Our community is private in the sense that it is integrated with our marketing portal. Our marketing portal is where we house all materials stores need, and we ensure that we monitor login credentials and reset them often. This means, if you don't have access to our marketing portal, you cannot access the OL Insider. No one can access it through the URL.
About a year ago, we really started looking into ways to improve our communication structure. My goal as the one in charge of corporate communications was to ensure that we weren't becoming one-dimensional
by just sending out mass emails to store operators. An essential part of brand success for franchises such as Orange Leaf is to establish a system where there is dialogue amongst corporate members and franchisees/managers at the store level.
People communicate in different ways, and it's not okay to send out communication without giving the receivers of the message an opportunity to provide feedback. Hoop.la provided the platform we were looking for. A community page where corporate can communicate and get instant feedback. It also allows store operators to communicate amongst themselves, share ideas and even ask questions and receive answers in real time. For those who love to communicate through visuals, the photo sharing aspect of the site allows them to do so. Need calendar updates? Hoop.la has all of that. It has truly been a great platform for the brand.
We currently use the Blog feature for communication coming from headquarters, and the Forum module mainly for store operators to start their own conversations. We also use the Clips and Calendar modules.
We haven't started using the Chat module yet. We plan on using that soon, but we didn't want to overwhelm community members when we launched the platform.
Our goal is to have 100 percent of stores represented on the platform. It is easy to get stores that opened after the launch of OL Insider signed up, but the difficult part is getting all stores opened prior to the launch
of OL Insider to sign on. The good news is that, we have over 80 percent of all stores represented on the platform in less than six months. This is a testament to our willingness to provide a platform that gives store
operators a voice and an opportunity to share ideas and get the assistance they need to make their stores successful. I think another key for measuring success is to ensure that the platform is being utilized and is active. Since launch, we have been able to maintain an average of 10,000 standard page views a month.
The engagement on the site has also been great as well. Our goal is to maintain this standard and keep the page active, fun and informative.
First of all, this is something our franchise system wanted. Our job was to listen to them and to find the best platform to meet their needs. Once the OL Insider launched, we used emails from our CEO, videos, and even hosted multiple webinars to guide store operators on how to use the platform. For the first few months after the launch, I don't think an email or video was sent to the franchise system without mentioning OL Insider. Once store operators started using the page, they loved it and helped spread the word.
Another tactic we used was to post exclusive content on OL Insider that you could only access by signing up.
We don't have a formal community manager, but I usually manage the site and stay on top of it. We have HQ members who are moderators and others who are super admins. We distinguish corporate members from store operators by ensuring that everyone has their title, department and contact information on their profile. Headshots also help store operators put faces to names. Store operators have their store and location on their profile to help identify where they are and has even led to new friendships for people in the same state.
The Orange Leaf Corporate staff love the platform because it gives us all great insight into how stores are doing and the great things store operators are doing in the communities. We also ensure that departments are keeping up with the content by placing the responsibility of answering questions directed at corporate on each department.
Communication was never intended to be one-dimensional, and unfortunately, some companies are unsuccessful because they fail to listen to consumers or their key stakeholders. The best part about OL
Insider for me has been wealth of information and feedback coming from store operators. I work at Orange Leaf because I want stores to do well and be successful. Without store operators, I would have no job.
I would be making a mistake if I didn't listen and learn from the people who are actually in stores selling yogurt. In less than six months, OL Insider has helped improve a lot of our systems just because of the ideas being shared on the platform on a daily basis. My advice would be to communicate through different channels, keep it simple and remember that the art of communication is not complete without feedback.
Yes – I have learned that the best way to get people involved is to give them a chance to talk about themselves or share their photos. I was surprised to learn from a recent OL Insider survey that the majority of the franchise system said that the photo sharing feature of OL Insider (Clips) is their favorite part of platform. I really believed the forums would rank higher because of the great ideas we all share on a daily basis. I was wrong. But then I thought about how boring the platform would be without some fun images from stores, and then I agreed with them.
~Thank you so much for sharing your experiences with us, Richard!
Orange Leaf Frozen Yogurt is a choose-your-own-topping frozen dessert chain with more than 285 locations across the United States and Australia. Orange Leaf was ranked one of the top new franchises for 2013 by Entrepreneur Magazine.
Anyone running an online community for business purposes should take the time to put together a formal business plan for the community.
Even if you never share it with anyone else, it will help you figure out (in advance, hopefully) how the community will be successful.
Keep in mind that all business plans are meant to be fluid documents; they need to be revised and revisited periodically. Set up a reminder to do a quarterly or semi-annual plan review.
This post will give you some tips for adapting the standard business plan format to an online community.
This is your "elevator pitch" for the community. In other words, what's your response when the C-suite says "why do we need to do this?" If you plan to share this business plan with others in order to get buy-in or budget, include a clear statement of what you need (resources, funding, staffing).
Show how much work you've done to find out about the landscape for your community.
Demographic information would be great in this section. Great sources of all types of community data include: The Community Roundtable, Leader Networks, and Feverbee.
This should be a brief description of how the community will work, and how it fits into your larger business operation. What components of your community plan will make it successful?
Describe who will be managing and moderating the community. Do you need internal staffing? Will you incorporate volunteers? What are the skills and experience of your designated community team? How will the community management team interact with the larger organizational structure of the business?
Summarize how you plan to bring in community members, beginning with the early founding members and proceeding through to the maturity phase. Put in place an ongoing mechanism for attracting and retaining members. How will you promote the community?
Do you plan to monetize the community directly? If so, what are the proposed revenue streams and how much do you forecast you will earn for each? What are the benefits from the community for the larger organization? What is your unique selling proposition for this community? Why would your target audience join your community rather than a competing one?
How much budget do you need to get the community up and running? How much do you need to maintain it into the future? Are there recurring costs? Consider time requirements from any departments that may need to be involved (do you need graphics from the marketing department? help with single sign-on from the IT department?)
Unlike a business plan for a startup, you probably can't include true financial statements for your community, but if you have access to any key financial metrics, you can include them here. Perhaps your community is geared toward support, and you have determined that the community has prevented a certain specific number of phone calls (a cost savings). If you have directly monetized the community (with ads, premium memberships, or premium content), you could include those numbers in this section.
This type of formal plan may seem like overkill, but even if you run through the structure and ask yourself some of these questions, it will benefit your community in the long run.
Knowing the road ahead, and planning for results, will lead to a more coherent community strategy. And if you're trying to build support from C-level executives, this type of planning will present the community in terms they prefer.
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Our newest service is QuestionShark, a customer support platform that makes it incredibly easy for businesses of all sizes to collect and manage customer inquiries and feedback.
Support Topics
Customers can classify their support topics as questions, issues, suggestions, compliments, tips, or conversations. Support Reps can also post announcements.
Actionable support topics can be assigned to specific Support Reps and also have a status so everyone can see the state of each support item.
Customers can vote up suggestions, questions, and issues so the company can see the most requested ideas or hot button issues.
Each topic can be set as public or private. When private, only the author and Support Reps can view them. When public, other community members can view or post to them.
Real-Time Updates
We are so fanatical about support ourselves that one thing that used to happen to us frequently when assisting our own customers was that two of us would respond to a customer at the same time, since we had no way of knowing when each other was posting.
To solve that, we added support for real-time updates. Whenever you are on a support topic, you'll see if someone else is composing a reply or is there is new activity on the site.
This inspires confidence in customers and prevents support reps from stepping on each other's toes.
Whispers and Forwards
QuestionShark is about much more than setting a status on a support topic. It's about creating efficiencies though collaboration. Support Reps can pos private whispers on topics that only they can see. One rep can help another answer a question and the whispers are displayed inline on the topic so the context is always evident.
Reps can also forward support topics to each, which can be really handy when a tough topic/ticket has onerep stumped and he needs assistance.
Post By Email
QuestionShark supports both post by email and reply by email. With Post By Email, you can allow your customers to submit new topics anytime via a special email address. Those users do not have to register on your site in order to do so.
Similarly, customers can reply to topics directly via email.
QuestionShark has a mobile interface, just like our other services. Anyone accessing a QuestionShark site via a mobile browser will receive the mobile interface automatically.
Use widgets to call our recent support topics, your product list, FAQ, and/or documentation. These widgets can be embedded on outside sites if you wish to promote your support content elsewhere.
Special Lists
Prebuilt lists give both customers and support reps instant access to the content they care about. These lists include: Topics You Created, Topics You Follow, Open Topics With No Replies, and more.
As with our other services, QuestionShark is very easy to customize. From the headers and footer, to your own custom theme, to custom menus and profile fields and permissions, you are always in control of your site. It's your brand and your rules.
QuestionShark is a hosted service and pricing is based solely on the number of Support Reps you have. All plans include unlimited disk space, bandwidth, page views, posts stored, and members. Pricing starts at $99/month for 5 support reps.
Note that QuestionShark is also available as an add-on for our comprehensive community platform, Hoop.la.
We just rolled out a major software upgrade for Hoop.la and UBB Forum. We are calling this one the QuestionShark release because the bulk of the changes revolve around QuestionShark as both a standalone product AND as a paid add-on for Hoop.la.
QuestionShark allows organizations to provide awesome online customer support. Customers can post questions, issues, suggestions, tips, and more and the company can track each topic, assign tickets to Support Reps, and track status changes. It also supports posting by email and real-time status updates on topics.
We'll have more details about QuestionShark in a separate blog post later, but here is a quick rundown on all of the major changes in this software update:
1. QuestionShark now available as a paid plan add-on for Hoop.la.
If you are a non Pro customer, you can pay to add it to your account via the Your Plan page in your Hoop.la control panel. Prices start at $99/month.
Note that QuestionShark page views do NOT count toward your billable page views at all. All QuestionShark page views are unlimited.
2. Reply Forking
For any forum topic or support topic, admins/modersators can now fork an individual reply to start a new topic. The forked topic will remain in the original topic, with a link to the new topic.
3. Reply By Email
We've added a new setting that allows your community members to reply directly via email when they receive a content email notification. This applies for all content types- blog posts, forum topics, clips, calendar events, and of course support topics.
By default, this is enabled for all sites. To turn it off, go to your Member Settings and disable the feature.
4. Settings to Control Profile Wall and "Stuff I Love"
We've added two new settings in Member Settings that allows admins to disable the Profile Wall sections and the profile "Stuff I Love" box.
5. Enhanced Member Snapshot and Profiles
We've added much more detail to the Member Snapshot (the popup window that appears when you click on a member's gingerbread man icon). This includes more administrative links, which groups the member belongs to (if your Hoop.la site is using Groups), and which permission circles the member belongs to (that info is only available to Super Admins).The Member Profile page has also been enhanced with more info. That includes more "action" links- including links to start a dialog and block the member, and more administrative options. Any admin with the "Manage Members" permission can also view a new "Dossier" section that provides confidential information about the member. See example below.
6. Post By Email
For QuestionShark, we've added support for posting new support topics by email. Of note, users do not have to be registered on the site to post by email. This required us to support the notion of a LITE registrant, someone who becomes registered when they post, but who does not have a password. As such, member privileges are only granted when they click on links in the emails they receive from the community.
7. Invite User to Permission Circle
We've renamed permission "groups" permission "circles" to avoid confusion with Hoop.la's Groups feature. And now, you can invite people to join your site AND add them to a permissions circle simultaneously. Use the new "Email Addresses" tab when adding members for the permission circle. The invitees will receive an email to join your site and when they accept they will also be added to the permission circle you specified.
As usual, there were numerous other minor upgrades, tweaks, and bug fixes.
Did you know that community managers, those hardy souls who tirelessly answer questions, invite conversation, and toil in the trenches of social engagement have their own day?
In 2010, Jeremiah Owyang proposed that the world set aside the fourth Monday in January to honor community managers. Since then, lots of organizations have stepped forward to join in the fun. Using the hashtag #CMAD or #CMGR, folks have organized in-person meetups, Tweetups, Hangouts, and individual random acts of gratitude.
Last year, the gang at MyCMGR.com hosted a marathon Hangout to honor the day. It was co-hosted with Hootsuite and lasted for 12 hours!
This year, it's a 24-hour Hangout, and I'm honored to be joining the panel on Delivering Beyond Expectations.
Be sure to check out the whole schedule--there are topics for everyone in every industry throughout the day (and night).
When will we see the first Hallmark card for #CMAD?
If your online community is a "labor of love," or perhaps for a non-profit or charitable cause, you can collect donations (either one-time or ongoing) by using a Paypal widget.
Hoop.la makes it easy to add custom widgets, so all you need to do is go to the Paypal site and follow the instructions.
Note that you can also put the Donate button in your header, footer, or on a custom page within Hoop.la as well.
If you're building a thriving online community, chances are you've already planned your outreach, invited some people who fit your target audience, and prodded your core members to invite their friends.
Once you've exhausted that resource, how do you attract new members?
Hint: it involves something that rhymes with Shnoogle (or Shming).
Yes, search engines can be a source of new members if you play your cards right. Rather than beating the bushes to find people interested in your niche, why not make it easy for them to find you?
Do you have any special tricks for attracting the attention of your core audience?
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On January 3, 2014 at 4:00 PM Eastern Time, we will be having a live chat event here on this site that seeks feedback from our users about improvements you would like to see for FeePod, our premium membership system.
Everyone is invited to participate! We're using Hoop.la's chat feature, so no special plug-in or download required--just go to the link below and join in.
Chat Event Bookmark: https://www.socialstrata.com/c...um-membership-system
One of our most popular feature suggestions was for liking individual comments/replies. Today, we are rolling out our "You Like Me" release, which includes that and more, for both Hoop.la and UBB Forum.
Here are the highlights of this software update:
1. "Like" Comments and Replies
Sometimes posting an actual comment or reply is overkill and all you want to do is give a quick thumbs up. You can now do so with our support for comment/reply likes. Such likes will appear in the site and profile activity streams. In addition, comment authors can be notified about the likes, if they prefer.
2. New Theme Settings
You can now set an outside border on shaded content areas, providing more definition to those areas. In addition, we added support for styling the side navigation menu differently from the top navigation item. By default, however, the side navigation menu will match the top navigation menu styling. Finally, we added support for a new "Private Content" section. This will be used more for our upcoming QuestionShark service, but it will also be used for errors and warning messages.
3. One-Click Suspend Notifications in Emails
We have fundamentally changed the way we send content notification emails and this allows us to add support for un-subscribing from all content notification emails in one click from the email. When a user clicks on the link to stop email notifications, he will not have to sign into your site, making the process extremely quick. The action is equivalent to checking the "Suspend All Email Notifications" link on the member notification settings page.
4. Hoop.la Premium Memberships is now FeePod
Now that we have more than one service using our premium membership service, we realized we needed to re-brand our premium membership service so that it is not tied directly to Hoop.la. Thus, while the premium membership system itself has not changed (or changed ownership), we are now calling it FeePod (as in, FeePod Premium Memberships).
FeePod is a service of Social Strata and again, aside from the name change, nothing has changed in terms of the way the service operates. Premium membership purchasers will now see FeePod as the billing entity.
5. Stock Avatars For member avatars, we now support both user-uploadable avatars and/or stock avatars (avatars that you upload and that your members can choose from). Some sites do not want their members to upload their own avatar images, so supporting stock avatars gives you another way to control the experience on your community.
6. Parental Consent Option If you site is targeting children, it's important that you follow the COPPA laws in the United States. With our new Parental Consent option, you can set a flag on underage accounts to require parental consent before the account is authorized. You set this in the Profile Settings section of your control panel (under the "Birthday" field). When enabled. you will see a new Parental Consent Queue under your Manage Members control panel section. That is where you would mark pending underage members as approved so that they can become authorized members of your community. 7. UBB Forum- Choose Powered-By graphic UBB Forum customers can now choose from a selection of powered-by images, rather than having to use one hard-coded image. (Hoop.la has always had this option.)
As usual, there are numerous bug fixes and other improvements, as well, in this release.
For a long time now, our corporate site has been running on an instance of Hoop.la and that site was completely separate from our support site, which was running our custom help desk software (which we called "QuestionShark"). However, we have been working on porting that help desk software over so it can be both a standalone product AND available as an add-on for Hoop.la sites.
Today, we took a giant step closer to that reality by migrating our old support content into our corporate Hoop.la site, which includes a beta version of QuestionShark. Now we have one consolidated corporate site! (If you happened to be registered on both of those sites, we combined your account into one.)
Thus, when you visit our new support site, you'll be getting a sneak preview of QuestionShark. We still have more features to add before we officially make it available, however. Needless to say, we are very excited about consolidating into one community and even more excited to be that much closer to finalizing QuestionShark itself.
I'll be talking much more about the features and benefits of QuestionShark when we get closer to launch of the product.
For those of your accustomed to our old support site, note that you can now:
-- Post a general conversation topic.. perfect for when you don't have an issue or question and just want to talk to others about one of our services.
-- View topics by product/service
-- Like individual replies/comments
-- Follow specific services or even particulat topic types within a service
Here's a screenshot of a sample topic in QuestionShark:
We've got some major product enhancements coming your way soon, but we also have some superficial changes to announce- new service logos!
Here are our new logos for Hoop.la and UBB Forum, which you should see in effect sometime this week:
UBB Forum customers will also be pleased to know that (very soon) they will be able to customize the powered-by logo on their sites, just like Hoop.la customers always could before.
All of our websites will be getting refreshed this week. Stay tuned for news on new products features available this week, as well!
Google Analytics is like a lot like Disneyland. It's huge, somewhat intimidating, and you get to decide exactly how much fun you want to have on each visit.
Today, we're going to just scratch the surface. It's as if we're running in to ride Splash Mountain and then going back to our hotel to loll by the pool.
With the SEO Ninja Hoop.la release we added search engine friendly URLs (which can also be customized). It's much easier now to see which community content is resonating with your community members.
Use this data to write followup blog posts that will be of interest to your audience, or spark forum conversations that will get traction.
All of the other rides are still there if you're not tired (go ahead, check out the Matterhorn), but it's OK to start small for this visit.
How often do you check out your analytics? Are you applying data to make your community better and more useful for your members?
Most online communities that include forums have put together community guidelines for forum behavior. These types of guidelines usually include rules about self-promotion, signature use, civility, and other rules of the road.
With the advent of communities that encompass both forums and member blogging, we need to consider adapting our guidelines to deal with blogging etiquette.
This post offers some ideas to bring your community guidelines up to date. Feel free to use these guidelines if they suit your community (or tweak them as you need).
Do you allow your community members to blog on your site? If so, do you have any guidelines or expectations in place?
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Can you believe it's November already? I thought it would be fun to share some inspiration and ideas for ending 2013 on a high note in your online community.
How are you preparing for the end of 2013? Did you accomplish your goals this year? Bragging is totally allowed here.
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When it comes to blogging, is it "the more the merrier," or do you need to worry about "too many cooks in the kitchen?"
That depends on the purpose of your site, the composition of your community, and the resources you have available. Many blogging platforms (including Hoop.la) will allow you to decide who is able to contribute your blog.
Blogging options can include:
This post will review some of the key considerations when you're deciding what type of blogging to choose for your site.
Everyone Can Blog
Specific Members Are Authorized Bloggers
Featured Bloggers
Single Blogger
Blogging can be a valuable component of a community site, and taking time to review some of the options above will make it even better.
Do you include blogging in your community? Who's on your blogging team?
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Online communities are scattered around the web like stars, many of them humming along for 10-15 years now.
If you've been lucky enough to be part of a community with longevity, then you know what a rare and beautiful thing it is, full of strong relationships, obscure traditions, inside jokes, and metric tons of information stored. Some of these communities belong to corporations, some are hobbyists, and some can't even remember why they were started in the first place.
For anyone seeking to create an online community that stands the test of time, I'd advise checking out some of these long-standing communities, many of them forum-based. It's not accidental that they're still going...it's due to the smarts and devotion of the members, moderators, and admins who run them.
Here are some of the key observations I've made of the most enduring online communities:
Provide value to the members - Build a solid foundation with something valuable to your members. It might be answers to their questions, it might be moral support, or it might be a creative outlet.
Build in reminders - You need to have a mechanism for reminding members to participate, especially in the beginning stages. Make it customizable for members with different preferences, but alerts and notifications are very important.
Make it habit-forming with recurring events or traditions - Consider a Friday chat event, or a running topic with a word game, or a monthly pet photo contest. Create a relevant, recurring draw that builds history.
Involve the members in running the place - Yes, let the inmates run the asylum as much as you can. Having a strong sense of ownership, or a stake in the outcome, is the most direct path to longevity. Remember when the members of The WELL actually bought it back?
Create insider status - You don't want to intimidate new members away from joining, but you need to create an "insider status" for your key supporters. Give them special titles, send them t-shirts, intentionally record and share community history/memories over time. Consider in-person events to strengthen the bonds even more.
And finally, always remember the community is people, not technology.
Any grizzled veterans want to share their own insights on what has made their community last?
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There's a secret feature in Hoop.la that will help you radically change the look of your home page, with almost no effort. We call it the "billboard," and it allows you to control the space directly beneath the navigation bar.
To add your billboard, go to your Hoop.la control panel, click Modules, and then click Home Page.
Notice that you have a nice big HTML-ready space here. So why not have some fun with it?
You could add a big, beautiful photo that illustrates your latest blog post, like this:
That space could be used to promote your upcoming events, advertise new products, or invite entries for a contest. Because it includes HTML, you can include links or dynamic content too.
Have you used the billboard yet? Want to share your ideas?


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Achieving the possible..using the Foundation Strand Strategy to get pupils to really think. How do we go about "creating" principles for teaching thinking? Phil Smith Foundation Strand Consultant Bury LEA In the next 50 minutes we will What are the How can I develop principles the skills of for teaching independent thinking? thinking in my pupils? Isn't this a bit new? No not really…the National Curriculum has been referring to this issue for a while. "The school curriculum should….promote an enquiring mind and capacity to think rationally." "The key skill of problem solving involves pupils developing skills and strategies that will help them to solve the problems they face in learning and in life." "By using thinking skills pupils can focus on "knowing how" as well as "knowing what"-learning how to learn…." But there is also lots of reference to it within your own subject! How do their brains work and stating of objectives Three brains for the 1. The reptilian brain price of one! (brain stem) deals with the 5 F's (i) Fight (ii) Flight (iii) Flock (iv) Freeze (v) Sex Think of the intelligence of a newt..stay alive and try to have sex….or an undergraduate! How do their brains work? 2. The limbic system Three brains for the (emotional brain) deals price of one! with emotions (i) Long-term memories (ii) Experiences emotions How do their brains work? 3. The neocortex (Thinking Three brains for the Cap) deals with price of one! (i) Speech (ii) Processing new information (iii) Abstract thought and reasoning How do their brains work? Why is this important? •Unless the emotional brain registers what the neocortex learns then it is not really believed….so when kids can't cope with what's going on in the classroom they go "reptilian." •Brain starts to think of ways of avoiding or confronting the situation All learning has an emotional base Plato How do you set your tasks? If you put the emphasis solely on winning people will first try to cheat. And secondly, they will try to win with the minimum of effort because that shows that they are even better." Professor Cary Cooper…clearly seen those lads at the back of your classroom! What does David Beckham have in common with Albert Einstein? Einstein Beckham Answer… He is just as intelligent! Flaws when we come to teach pupils… Their intelligence is fixed…. Tends to put C.A.T. scores in their place! Their intelligence is a single factor, something they either have or don't have to varying degrees Foundation Strand materials counter this by…. Helping teachers to teach memory strategies to some of the most intellectually challenged students…through helping pupils think about their thinking. Isn't this a bit new? No not really…the National Curriculum has been referring to this issue for a while. Warning…BEFORE we look at these FIVE areas have YOUR subject at the forefront of your mind. (i) Information-processing skills (pupils locate and collect relevant information, to sort, classify, sequence, compare and contrast, and to analyse part/whole relationships) (ii) Reasoning skills (pupils give reasons for opinions and actions, to draw inferences and make deductions, to use precise language to explain what they think, and to make judgements and decisions informed by reasons or evidence) Isn't this a bit new? No not really…the National Curriculum has been referring to this issue for a while. Warning…BEFORE we look at these FIVE areas have YOUR subject at the forefront of your mind. (iii) Enquiry skills (pupils will ask relevant questions, to pose and define problems, to plan what to do and how to research, to predict outcomes and anticipate consequences, and to test conclusions and improve ideas). (iv) Create thinking (pupils can generate and extend ideas, suggest hypotheses, to apply imagination, and to look for alternative outcomes). (v) Evaluation skills (pupils evaluate information, judge whether the value of what they read, hear and do, to develop criteria for judging the value of their own and others' work or ideas, and to have confidence in their judgements). Edward de Bono's six hats ideas Fact-gathering Gut reactions (white) and feelings (red) Negative Positive points points (black) (yellow) Creativity and new ideas Organising the (green) thinking (blue) Edward de Bono's six hats ideas TES 15th November 2002 "Pupils colour their thoughts" A school in Surrey used this idea to develop their pastoral system. "It is difficult to say this is the reason why standards have gone up: it is part of the whole raising standards package. But it just sits so well with the key stage 3 strategy, is easy to use, useful, and you get feedback straight away." Robin Pellatt (Assistant head teacher) Edward de Bono's six hats ideas These strategies were used to discuss (a) Whether parents should be allowed to sit in on lessons (b) To develop thinking about science work/experiments (c) To handle "discuss" style questions in exams (d) Some Year 11s took in 6 coloured pencils to remind them of the process and help them apply it. Outstanding performance. What might it look like in your subject? Be subject sensitive and rigorous. For example (i) What will a Year 9 pupil produce in their History lesson that is outstanding in terms of evidential understanding? (ii) What will a Year 9 pupil produce in their Music lesson that is outstanding in terms of listening and applying their knowledge and understanding? (iii) What will a Year 9 pupil produce in their Geography lesson that is outstanding in terms of completing an enquiry on "Tourism-good or bad?" Outstanding performance. What might it look like in your subject? Subject Areas for pupil development over their three year Key Stage 3 course 1. Art and Exploring and Investigating Evaluating Knowledge and Design developing and making and understanding ideas art, craft and developing design work 2. Design Understanding Designing Using ICT Using control Making and materials and Technology producing in quantity 3. PE Acquiring and Selecting and Evaluating Knowledge and developing applying and understanding skills skills, tactics improving of fitness and and performance health compositional ideas Outstanding performance. What might it look like in your subject? Subject Areas for pupil development over their three year Key Stage 3 course 4. History Chronological Knowledge and Historical Historical Organisation understanding understanding interpretation enquiry and of communication events/people/ and changes in the past 5. Religious Learning about Learning from Investigation Education religion religion Interpretation (beliefs/practic (responding, Reflection es and forms of evaluating, religious applying own Empathy expression) experiences, Evaluation sense of Analysis meaning and Synthesis purpose, Application values, commitments) Expression Outstanding performance. What might it look like in your subject? Subject Areas for pupil development over their three year Key Stage 3 course 6. Geography Vocabulary Knowledge of Geographical Investigation Fieldwork places thinking Map skills Patterns and Geographical processes explanation 7. Modern Grammatical Skills progression Foreign progression (i) Application Languages (i) Nouns and of pronouns knowledge (ii) Adjectives (ii) Study skills and verbs and (iii) Structural learning features strategies (iv) Other (iii) Dictionary features use Outstanding performance. What might it look like in your subject? Subject Areas for pupil development over their three year Key Stage 3 course 8. Music Controlling Creating and Responding and Listening and sounds developing reviewing applying knowledge and understanding Outstanding performance. What might it look like in your subject? Information-processing skills Create thinking Generate and extend ideas? • Collecting relevant information? Suggest hypotheses? • Sort, classify and sequence? To apply imagination? • Analyse part/whole relationships? To look for alternative outcomes? Reasoning skills Evaluation skills • Give reasons for opinions and Evaluate information? actions? • To draw inferences and make Judge whether the value of what they read, hear deductions? and do? • To use precise language to explain what they think? To develop criteria for judging the value of their • To make judgements and own and others' work or decisions informed by reasons or ideas? evidence? To have confidence in Enquiry skills their judgements? Ask relevant questions? To pose and define problems? To plan what to do and how to research? To predict outcomes and anticipate consequences? To test conclusions and improve ideas? What is outstanding performance? Some "generic" responses Seeing patterns in data Making links with other topics or areas* Thinking laterally Being creative Generalising Solving problems Checking and refining solutions Seeing different viewpoints Using existing knowledge Knowing a lot Having a good memory Fast processing of information Working with others The crucial planning stage Key Stage 3 and cumulative resonance Aristotle on teaching and learning at Key Stage 3 "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit." or in other words having cumulative resonance at Key Stage 3! Where to start? Creating the BIG picture for developing pupils thinking 1. Planning for knowledge resonance and knowledge building E.g How will we use the series of RE lessons which focus on "Where do we look for God?" to make the following series of lessons "What does justice mean to Christians?" more accessible, more enjoyable and more rigorous? E.g. How will the series of Geography lessons which focus on "Where is our place and what is it like?" make the following series of lessons "How is our place connected to other places?" more accessible, more enjoyable and more challenging? E.g. How will the series of Art and Design lessons which focus on "Objects and viewpoints" make the following series of lessons "Animating art" more accessible, more enjoyable and more challenging? Where to start? Creating the BIG picture for developing pupils thinking 2. Create challenging benchmarks e.g. By the end of Year 7 all History pupils will be able to explain how "Parliament" is different from "Government" using specific examples •e.g. By the end of Year 8 all Geography pupils will be able to use the organising words-"Political", "Social", "Economic", "Religious", "Cultural", "Demographic", "Technological"-with ease Understanding some of the generic principles of teaching thinking..how did go about solving this problem? 1. Adults are holding children, waiting their turn. The children are handed (one at a time, usually) to a man, who holds them while a woman shoots them. If the child is crying, the man tries to stop the crying before the child is shot. What's really going on? 2. A cabin, locked from the inside, is perched on the side of a mountain. It is forced open, and thirty people are found dead inside. They had plenty of food and water. Understanding some of the generic principles of teaching thinking 3. A dead man lies near a pile of bricks and a beetle on top of a book. 4. A man marries twenty women in his village but isn't charged with polygamy. Using starters to raise the level of thinking 5Ws Who? What? When? Where? Why? Understanding some of the generic principles of teaching thinking Design a mammal Understanding some of the generic principles of teaching thinking Design a mammal Handout 11.1 Characteristics Characteristics 1. Can swim 2. White fur 3. Thick fur 4. Can hibernate 5. Can eat huge amounts 6. Digging claws at one time 7. Looks beautiful 8. Can close nostrils 9. Sharp incisors 10. Can hold breath for 30 minutes 11. Good swimmer 12. Stripes 13. Good sense of smell 14. Migratory 15. Eyes that look forward 16. Fast runner 17. Lives in large groups 18. Wary of humans 19. Good eyesight 20. Can swerve on the run 21. Prehensile tail 22. Long legs 23. Can eat fruit and leaves 24. Can get fat Understanding some of the generic principles of teaching thinking What came into your minds when starting this task? How did your group operate? What stages did your individual and collective thinking go through? The "Design a mammal" and thinking skills One model of memory describes the difference between immediate, short and long- term memory. The sheep metaphor…. (i) You round up the sheep-(capturing them in your immediate memory). Information enters and exits at high speed. Since these can enter and exit at high speed, that's why the activity comes with the instructions written down so that the brain cannot hang on to all that information The "Design a mammal" and thinking skills By reading some of the cards you start to chase these details into your short-term memory. But the gates of the pen open and close and memories can be lost since the gates are insecure The "Design a mammal" and thinking skills The short-term memory does have a limited capacity before things start to escape from it! That's why most people can only think of a certain number of cards at any one time. Many low attaining pupils will not be able to link many pieces of information together in the short-term memory. The "Design a mammal" and thinking skills (i) Everyone will have used knowledge in their long- term memory to do the task-knowledge of the Arctic and its animals, including episodic visual flashes from films, TV programmes and perhaps personal experience. Can we improve our pupils ability to think? Cognitive ability is related to three major factors 1. Genetic make-up 2. Time/maturity 3. Environment* Creating the right kind of classroom High The land of The place the NQT we all want Challenge the kids to be! Driving/ The land of Low OFSTED the word search High Low Stress The Design Mammal activity achieves this High Challenge Low Stress zone because Pupils have to justify their choice of features in the light of information about the environment Thinking about whether the six features actually fit together to make a sensible animal Being challenged with questions such as "How would your animal actually catch its prey?" or "How would it survive 3 or 4 months of permanent dark winter?" Presenting information about adaptations of its prey to avoid predation Hearing other people's reasoning Being asked "Would the animal survive in a desert?" The Design Mammal activity achieves this High Challenge Low Stress zone because Just a "fun" activity?.. or one which forms part of a bigger picture of learning in which these skills are revisited, warmed up and developed in different settings in future lessons over weeks, months and years? Good thinking is shared through talk (Vygotsky and his zone of proximal development…translated as two heads are better than one!) Metacognition..thinking about thinking…getting pupils to regularly step back from the task and review progress and strategies they are using Points for discussion of handout 11.2 What do you feel are the key points outlined? What type of thinking is common in your subject? What implications are there for your own practice? Time for a coffee break So what can we do to get them thinking together rather than just chatting? What are the common pitfalls? Planning frequently focuses on what teachers will teach and not on what pupils will learn? Pupil progress is characterised by gains in knowledge rather than deeper understanding or extension of skills Too often the context for extended writing is narrative or description There are few opportunities for pupils to analyse or interpret, compare and contrast, or to develop their own ideas Objectives To consider talk as a tool for thinking and learning To evaluate and understand ways that pupils talk together in joint activities To consider how pupils can be helped to talk and reason together most effectively Famous adults who could have done with the "Thinking together" module from the Foundation Strand The Evidence Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: "I would not live forever, because we should not live forever, because, if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live forever, which is why I would not live forever" Miss Alabama in the 1994 Miss USA Contest Famous adults who could have done with the "Thinking together" module from the Foundation Strand The Evidence..Part Two "Smoking kills. If you're killed you've lost a very important part of your life." Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal antismoking campaign Famous adults who could have done with the "Thinking together" module from the Foundation Strand The Evidence..Part Three and four "Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country." Mayor Marion Barry, Washington DC "It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it." Former US Vice President Dan Quayle Using talk to get pupils thinking? Everybody's talking at me I don't hear a word they're saying Only the echoes of my mind People stopping, staring I can't see their faces Only the shadows of their eyes What's all this talk about talking? •What's the point of talk? •Is it any good? •Is it making any difference? The expectations are certainly high Expectations for Year 7-9 when it comes to speaking and listening Year 7 Use talk as a way of clarifying ideas Listen for and recall the main points of a talk Identify and report the main points emerging from a discussion The expectations are certainly high Expectations for Year 7-9 when it comes to speaking and listening Then in Year 8 Reflect on their ability as a speaker and identify areas for improvement Listen for a specific purpose Use talk to question hypothesise, speculate, evaluate, solve problems and develop thinking about complex issues and ideas The expectations are certainly high Expectations for Year 7-9 when it comes to speaking and listening Then in Year 9 Use standard English to explain, explore or justify an idea Identify the underlying themes, implications and issues raised by talk, reading Discuss and evaluate conflicting evidence to arrive at a considered viewpoint But what can the Foundation Subjects add to this? Let's be brutally honest…. A. Unfocussed discussion can be mind-numbingly dull especially for the more able pupil. B. Weakly structured "empathetic" work can do more harm than good C. Can easily lead to more confusion But what can the Foundation Subjects add to this? A pupil's perception of speaking and listening in school "Talking things through helps us to understand. If you only say things in your head it does not help-you have to get them out." "Sloppy… chatter might be worse than none" Christine Counsell What kind of talk do we want? When you ask pupils to work and talk together, what sort of talk do you wish to take place? If you had to compile a list of up to five rules that pupils should follow in order to talk together effectively, what would your rules be? Exploratory talk In exploratory talk: pupils and teachers engage critically but constructively with each other's ideas; contributions build on previous comments; relevant information is offered for joint consideration; there is speculation; pupils give reasons for their views and seek them from others; Exploratory talk reasoning is visible in the talk. 'It is an effective way of using language to think …the process of education should ensure that every child is aware of its value and be able to use it effectively … However, observational research evidence suggests that very little of it naturally occurs in classrooms when children work together in groups.' Mercer, N. (2000) Ground rules for talk Everyone should: be actively encouraged to contribute; offer opinions and ideas; provide reasons for their opinions and ideas; share all relevant information; feel free to disagree if they have a good reason; ask other people for information and reasons; treat other people's ideas with respect; try to come to an agreement; and … change their minds if they are persuaded by good reasoning. Transcript 1: Writing a jingle In a Year 7 music lesson, Luc and Christina are composing a 'jingle' on the keyboard for an advertisement and writing it using musical notation. Luc is writing down the music as Christina plays it. Christina: Just write in the next note. Luc: You've got to get it on there. (Points to keyboard) Yes that's you. Let's just have a listen to it. Christina: You've got to let me get some ideas in sometimes. Luc: You're playing it! Transcript 1: Writing a jingle Christina: Well you can do some, go on. Luc: (Writing) In a minute. Christina: (Mumbles something under her breath) Luc: You're playing. (Hums a bit of tune) Christina: You can play that. Luc: Why don't you do it? Christina: No, because you should. Pre-course task using collected comments So what did the pupils use talk for in class? What is the potential educational value of talk amongst pupils? What difficulties are there in ensuring that their task is useful? Developing pupils speaking and listening Year 9 example Pupil 1: But if Hitler had still been in prison in 1929, the Germans would have had to have trusted their other politicians… Pupil 2: Yes, but he wasn't. They couldn't trust politicians who had been in power when their businesses went bust. They had to hold somebody to account, so they turned to Hitler's strong ideas. Pupil 3: So you're saying that they wanted somebody who they knew Jews? Pupil 2: I don't know. I hope not, but the more important thing seems to me that Hitler had ideas for giving people their jobs back. Wouldn't you have voted for him if you were broke? At least he knew what he wanted. Lessons learnt from the Key Stage 3 pilot Strategies for helping pupils develop subject specific concepts as well as their own concepts and principles (i) Sorting/classification activities (Why did Wilf Smith join the Durham Light Infantry?...History Est-ce que Paul doit commencer a fumer?...MFL Why is Simon going to Jerusalem? ….RE Why is Dai Williams involved in the building of a new Japanese restaurant in Bridgend?....Geography) Lessons learnt from the Key Stage 3 pilot Strategies for helping pupils develop subject specific concepts as well as their own concepts and principles (ii) Odd one out Useful as a starter/full lesson to be developed later in the lesson Has worked very well in Design and Technology, art, music, RE and PE. More recent work has been done in MFL. (See Handout 11.1 for further details and FS video example Lessons learnt from the Key Stage 3 pilot Strategies for helping pupils develop subject specific concepts as well as their own concepts and principles (iii)Maps from memory Food technology and flattened individual cereal box All sorts of data maps e.g. a map of Rome demonstration See RE and Geography examples Maps from memory Each pupil comes up twice so that each group has eight visits The group are asked to plan their strategy and write it down Pupils look at the map for 10 seconds without pen or paper After four visits the group are given the chance to review and adjust their overall strategy After eight visits the class reflect on their strategies Maps from memory The teacher collates pupils' strategies on the board but also does 3 important things: 1. Suggests there is a pattern-to get the main outline of the map, divide it into sections and then focus on the detail 2. Suggests that this pattern is important in other contexts, for example in writing 3. Finally asking the class are asked to apply this new knowledge to another area, for example completing a sheet on how you get to know a map of a new area and what skills you need to pack when going on holiday Lessons learnt from the Key Stage 3 pilot Strategies for helping pupils develop subject specific concepts as well as their own concepts and principles (iv)Reading photographs and pictures, 5Ws See Inference Charts Telling/Suggesting word boxes Telling and suggesting The church dedicated to St. Grwst was built in the early 1400: next to the church is the Gwydyr This tells us chapel, built in 1663 as a burial when the main place for the Wynne family of part of the This suggests that Gwydyr castle. church was built the Wynnes were a In the centre of the chapel lies wealthy family the stone coffin of Llewellyn (the This suggests that welsh prince) who died in 1240. the wealthy people Llewellyn the great was originally of the valley took buried at Aberconwy abbey and care of the coffin then removed to Meanan abbey of the Welsh This tells us when until the time of the dissolution prince the chapel was of the monasteries when the built coffin was brought to the old This suggests that parish church of Llanrwst. when Henry VIII The tower was built around 1800. had the This tells us when monasteries (Topographical dictionary of Wales the tower was dissolved in 1844) built England, the same thing happened in Wales Investigating the site and the photograph in Geography for example Investigating the site and the photograph in RE for example Investigating Mozart's Symphony No. 40 in Music for example I can tell that this part of the piece is played with violins I suggest that the I suggest that one of mood this creates is the feelings Mozart …….because…… was trying to create was….. Lessons learnt from the Key Stage 3 pilot Strategies for helping pupils develop subject specific concepts as well as their own concepts and principles (v) Mysteries… The lost livestock of Loxley Coppice Farm Design and Technology "Why did the Tai Bridge collapse?" Lessons learnt from the Key Stage 3 pilot Spot the Dodgy Data Report Numbers employed (000s) in UK farming 1988-1999 1988 1993 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 672 634 626 620 616 611 615 Now look at the two statements on your table. Which may have been produced by the National Farmers Union and which may have been produced by the Ministry of Agriculture, fisheries and food? How did you work this out? Could you write a better summary of these figures? Ready for more? Build group talk into your lesson plans. Raise pupils' awareness of talk. With colleagues, plan a coordinated approach to talk. Use ICT as a resource for encouraging exploratory talk. Ready for more? Build it in don't bolt it on!
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or just the basic AL with the / and holes for the forgrip? | |
07-08-2011, 12:11 AM | #14 (permalink) |
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this thread is just all wrong...so many rules being broken. First, you have to list a price...thats a definite rule. Second, its not even in the right section! But I guess we can let that one slide. Mods...can you please do something about this travesty of a sale thread? oh...wait...you arent selling? damn |
08-12-2011, 04:36 PM | #15 (permalink) |
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So, how bout droppin one of these into a stock to make us MCB folk happy. That would be really cool. How I wish I was an airsmith so I could do stuff like this myself |
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Into a stock? Eh |
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i'd love to see you make a kit or give us more pics of the front block and how everything is set up
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He had the kit thaqt he based this off of for sale a while ago for a hundred bucks. And it was plug and play. I wanted it but didn't have the money. He may still have it. |
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Is that whats left of my old one?
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Growing up in the Missouri Ozarks in the 1960s and '70s, Wade Rouse was always a bit of an outsider. While some of his roughneck peers wore Wrangler jeans and had stylish crew cuts, Wade feathered his golden hair and sported a handmade leatherwork belt bearing his unfortunate childhood nickname, Wee-Pooh. Taunted by his classmates, Wade finds comfort in his offbeat but lovable family, but when a tragic motorcycle accident takes his brother's life, Wade buries his sexuality along with his brother, vowing to be the son he believes his family wants. America's Boy is Wade Rouse's tale of self-denial and self-discovery, and a tender tribute to the eccentric family that carried him through it all. Wade's battle with himself—and the long road back to self-acceptance—forms the heart of America's Boy, an arresting and utterly moving memoir about a boy learning to live (and love) in his own skin. Told with humor, courage, and boundless joy, America's Boy is a love letter to a singular time in America's heartland, to family, and to the growing pains that accompany self-discovery.
Wade gives an overview of the book:
"There He Is ..."
I AM five years old and standing as dramatically as a five-year-old knows how in the middle of the Rouse Family log cabin in the Missouri Ozarks. I am wearing the following handpicked items: my grandma Rouse's red heels (her "whore" shoes, she calls them); my mom's black-and-white polka-dot bikini (which fits surprisingly well after duct-taping it down, and it shows off my thin, tan body and blond hair); gold earrings that look like marigolds; a faux pearl necklace; a tinfoil crown embedded with glued-on red checkers; and a cardboard sash that says MISS SUGAR CREEK in red magic marker.
I am posing as regally as I know how—back razor straight, head slightly tilted, smiling brightly—while holding a tinfoil-covered Wiffleball bat I pretend is a scepter. I am breathlessly waiting for my family to come back from fishing off our beach on Sugar Creek. It is the Fourth of July, and every year on this holiday my family holds a mock Miss America pageant, complete with eveningwear, bathing suit, and talent competitions. I am always a judge but have never been allowed to be a contestant.
Until now, I have always thought it was because I am too young.
It has finally dawned on me that it's because I'm a boy.
So while everyone is down at the beach fishing and gathering kindling for our big bonfire, I am sneaking back up and officially entering myself in the pageant.
The moment my family comes in, I wave my scepter and graciously thank them for their decision. They stare at me, blinking in slow motion, trying to act like nothing is wrong, like it is perfectly natural for me to be standing there in a bikini and heels, like a tiny boy Phyllis George.
Then they walk past me and begin putting up their fishing poles, grabbing snacks, continuing with their routines. They do not know what to do with me, so they ignore me.
"I am Miss Sugar Creek!" I scream in my best Queen's English. "Lavish me with furs, cars, prizes, and scholarships!"
My family freezes dead in their tracks, like in a movie when the action suddenly stops and the actors are still and lifeless. Only my brother, Todd, a true country boy, moves toward me, shaking his head, grabbing the scepter from my hands and motioning with it for me to walk the length of the cabin.
"There he is, Miss Sugar Creek," he sings off-key.
I feel so honored.
I am Miss Sugar Creek.
Nine years later, however, I will reluctantly have to relinquish my title.
On the Fourth of July holiday in 1979, just a month after I graduated from junior high, a month after Todd graduated from high school, just as I was realizing I liked boys and hated my older brother, Todd died, and I quickly buried two things—my brother deep in the ground and my sexuality deep in me—and chose to remember neither one for a very long time.
I decided, out of pain and shame, out of respect for my family, to change who I was. I would not allow my parents to mourn the loss of a second son in their lives. I decided I would be the son I should be, the son my family deserved, the son to bear them children. I would not be gay. I would be normal.
I would, however, spend years eating my way through my guilt and misery, downing food faster than I could twirl a baton (which I was going to do for the talent portion of Miss Sugar Creek). I would lie and hurt more people than I could even remember. I would eventually put a knife to my wrist and try to end my life.
But in the fog of that moment as I contemplated suicide, I remembered the summers of my youth, my grandparents, my family, those who loved me for who I really was, those who fought for me to have a better life. And I would choose to live.
And slowly, my fog would lift like the morning mist off Sugar Creek.
Growin' Up in Granby
YOU DON'T really have a say in where you live. It is predestined. Some people get Malibu, Taos, or Aspen; I get Granby, a tiny farm town in the southwest Missouri Ozarks.
My parents grew up in the Missouri Ozarks, in little places that don't even warrant dots on a map, places with deserted main streets and town squares, old bandstands and courthouses, and very little hope.
My family has hope. And that's what makes it all so very hard.
My mom, Geraldine ("Geri," for short), grew up in Granby with my grandparents, Viola and Wilbur "Web" Shipman, and my aunt Peggy. My dad, Ted, grew up in Neosho, the county seat, about eight miles from Granby, with my other grandparents, Fred and Madge, and my aunt Marilyn and uncle Roy.
Everything in Granby is white or off-white—the people, the cars, the clothes, the houses. It is like the black-and-white opening of The Wizard of Oz. When you finally see color, it's overwhelming.
Even the food in Granby is white or off-white. When I go to dinner at friends' houses, they eat only gray-looking meat alongside a potato. They snack on potato chips and vanilla ice cream. They drink milk or beer. "We don't like any food with color," a friend's mom said to me once, when I asked if there were vegetables. "They're weird."
And so am I. I like to wear starched pink oxfords, sweater vests, and shoes with buckles. I do not like to get my hands dirty.
There is not much to Granby, Missouri, a town where trailers outnumber homes and teeth. There is one gas station; one lonely, dirty little grocery store; a post office; and one restaurant—Rita's—which rotates its "fried buffet" daily. That's how Rita's publicizes it: "fried buffet." The food is deep-fried and all-you-can-eat; people wobble in—literally wobble—and eat until the steaming silver bins are empty. Monday night at Rita's is fried chicken with mashed potatoes and cream gravy; corn with mountains of butter that slowly melt until the kernels are actually floating; green-bean casserole; and apple pie, crisp, cobbler, and ice cream. Tuesday is fried fish and hush puppies. Wednesday is fried frog legs and french fries. Thursday is breakfast-all-day (fried eggs and hash browns), and Friday, Saturday, and Sunday repeat with the chicken, fish, and frog legs. There is, of course, a salad bar, but it contains only iceberg lettuce and four dressings: ranch, Thousand Island, bleu cheese, and creamy Italian; the rest is mayonnaise-laden "salads"—macaroni and potato—sitting next to bacon bits and chopped-up ham. My family eats at Rita's two or three times a week and always shows up for the Sunday buffet during the school year. I try to avoid the buffet—any buffet—but it is impossible in the Ozarks. When I ask for oatmeal, I am told that "oat" isn't a "meal."
Granby doesn't even have a stoplight—just a flashing light in the middle of town whose only purpose is seemingly to highlight the town's two deserted main streets. The town is so quiet that when you drive by with your windows down, day or night, you can actually hear the blinking light blink—the click, click, click of the yellow.
Granby does, however, have its own language. For instance, the word "nary," found only once in Webster's, actually has three distinct meanings in Granby: nary as adjective meaning "narrow" (That's a nary bridge, or Don't be nary-minded); nary as contraction meaning "isn't" (Nary a motel in town); or nary as a noun meaning "contrarian" (Don't be a nary).
Granby's claim to fame is trumpeted proudly on its lone water tower: THE OLDEST MINING TOWN IN THE SOUTHWEST. How true that is, I never know. Granby had been—for the briefest of periods—a buzzing ore-mining town. The town had swelled to about 5,000 people at its height. There were dance halls, bars, places to eat, and more bars. Men swarmed for the work, and women followed. One of those men was my mom's dad, Grampa Shipman.
The beauty of Granby, or of any small town, is its simplicity, its absolute nothingness, where you're free to concentrate on nature.
I love watching summer storms roll in from the horizon; they literally unfold in front of your eyes without obstruction and take their sweet time to reach you, winds whipping the hayfields and meadows, the temperature dropping in a matter of minutes. Clouds of unimaginable grandeur fill the sky like some grand painting, blocking the sun, its rays shooting out from the edges. I can see the rain begin to fall miles away. Long before you can hear it, you can smell it. "I can smell rain," Grandma Shipman says, sometimes before clouds had even formed—a sixth sense that always amazes me.
I love the sounds of the seasons: the crickets in the summer, red and yellow fall leaves in the woods falling heavily upon one another after a rain, the ground in spring actually talking as it comes back to life—grass growing, flowers springing forth—and the utter and complete silence that a heavy winter's snow brings. These are country sounds, uninterrupted by any other. In the country you hear everything, even these "sighs" from the earth; there are no distractions.
And I love our cabin on Sugar Creek, which sits on the Missouri border, about an hour south of Granby, just before you fall into Arkansas or trip into Oklahoma. It is where I come alive. The room to roam in small towns is limitless. However, the psychological room to roam, especially if you are different, is suffocating; there is not enough anonymity to try new things, to be different, to actually find who you are. You are, in many ways, like a shelter dog, tagged at birth: ABANDONED; COMES FROM A BIG FAMILY, DOESN'T NEED A LOT OF ATTENTION; AGGRESSIVE—JUST NEEDS LOVE; QUIET AND A BIT DETACHED, BUT SWEET. That tag is nearly impossible to shed; once it's latched on to your collar in your youth, you just can't tear it off.
I am different, and I know it. My whole family does. We all knew it from the moment I wore a crown and earrings, from the second I stared at boys and told my grandmas they were cute.
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Wade Rouse is the author of the critically-acclaimed memoirs, America's Boy, (Dutton/2006) and "Confessions of A Prep School Mommy Handler" (Harmony Books/2007). "America's Boy" was named by Border's as one of the "Best Literary Memoirs of 2006" (alongside Gore Vidal,...


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Its class c like most cold medicine. I haven't taken it. I have been taking the robitussin cough gels.
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It's a Class C, so it's not clearly safe. I had an awful chest cold and had to take it for a few days last month. Use a humidifier and hang out in the hot steamy bathroom to help break it up so you don't have to take the meds very long. I don't think a few doses are going to hurt. Oh- and guzzle water too.
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I think the regular Mucinex is okay, but the DM is a bit more iffy. I don't take the DM while pregnant, but a pharmacist gave DH the regular when I had a cold with my first pregnancy.
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Regular Mucinex is the expectorant (guaifenisin) Mucinex DM contains a cough suppressant (dextromethorphan) If your chest is congested, you need to cough so skip the DM.
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