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Nov 06 2012
Green Kid Crafts Kit – Review & Giveaway WINNERS ANNOUNCED!
The three winners of the "Green Kid Crafts Kit – Review & Giveaway" are:
#347 Coco and Isa: "We adore taking nature walks with a bird book to identify birds!"
#87 sarapete: "My husband just bought a book about bird identification so we can teach our daughters about the birds that visit our feeder."
#186 turtle: "We have used the girl guides girl scouts n mary janes farm badges to learn new fun things!"
Congratulations, winners!
With the holidays steadily approaching, I try to keep in mind that product reviews naturally begin pulling double-duty. Not only are parents looking for products that can complement their homeschool curriculum, but they are also looking for high quality, stand alone gift ideas to pass on to family members or friends shopping for their children.
The Discovery Boxes offered through Green Kid Crafts pack three creative and earth friendly craft activities in each box.
A mom-owned and operated green company, Green Kid Crafts has its own panel of experts who design and test all the earth-friendly projects. Inspired by their children and their own passions, the panel's goal is to foster creativity and confidence in children – delivering age-appropriate (ages 3-8) activities with the hopes of developing in each child a respect and love for the environment
Available by subscription, each month's Discovery Box introduces a new and exciting theme; we received the "Feathered Friends" box to review.
The "Feathered Friends" box included three separate craft kits and a Discover More booklet with additional suggestions for how to extend learning centered around the month's theme.
We selected two of the three crafts to complete for this review. Our first craft project was the birdhouse.
The wooden birdhouse actually snapped together easily enough, but younger children may need the assistance of an older sibling or parent to help them.
Once assembled, Emelie strung the pre-cut twine through the two holes punched into each of the two "roof" panels and secured it with a knot.
Green Kid Crafts ensures that every project is 100% earth friendly, right down to the wooden paintbrush and vibrant eco-paint selected for this particular project.
Before anyone points out the plastic painter's palette Emelie found when rummaging through our paint bin, that was NOT a part of this otherwise earth friendly project; they avoid plastic whenever possible. That said, the palette cleans up quick and has been used more times than we can count in the last several years – our own version of recycling.
The paint goes on smoothly enough and dries quickly (a big plus for projects for the younger crowd). In hindsight Emelie and I both agreed it would have been easier to paint the pieces, let them dry, and THEN snap them all together.
Just a short while later we hung the vibrant pink and green colorblock birdhouse in the backyard on a shepherd's hook.
While I realize there are any number of birdhouses kits available in supercenters and craft stores, they are not focused on providing safe, natural and sustainable materials. Part of the attraction of Green Kid Crafts is that all of their green crafts conform to their Healthy & Happy Child and Environmental Standards.
The second craft, the spotting scope, was mine and Emelie's personal favorite. This craft is made from a recycled craft roll (toilet paper roll), recycled paper, felt and ribbon. You will need to provide scissors and tape to complete this project. I would also like to note that the monster duct tape we used to decorate the craft roll, like the plastic painter's palette in the project above, is NOT sustainable and completely our idea.
I figure if you can integrate monster love into any project…you should.
Though the craft is basic in design, it does involve enough precision that it would not be a "do-alone" task for a younger child, though absolutely possible for a 6-8 year old to manage alone.
The green paper is loosely measured and taped to slide up and down the decorated (with monsters!) paper roll. And then, the loose paper is edged with the remaining foam to give it more durability as kids pull it back and forth to "focus" their scope.
Emelie strung and knotted the recycled ribbon through the two holes she punched on either side of the paper roll. This made for a handy strap to hang her spotting scope when not "in use."
The view through the spotting scope is just as you might think, but certainly a jumping off point for the delightful imaginations of young children.
After all, you never know what your budding ornithologist(s) may spot!
Just a few Kudos before I wrap up – Green Kid Crafts is certified carbon-neutral, a member of 1% for the Planet and a 2012 winner of the StartupNation Leading Moms Business Competition and Green America's People & Planet Awards.
Three (3) winners will win one (1) each 1-Month Subscription to Green Kid Crafts.
To enter the giveaway, just answer the following question in the Comments section below:
In staying with the theme of the Discovery Box we received from Green Kid Craft, what websites, organizations, and/or activities have you participated in to guide or inspire you or your children to learn more about birds?
» One entry per person, please.
» No entries after 6:00 PM (CST) on Wednesday, November 7, 2012.
» Winners will be selected at random and announced late Wednesday evening.
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About the Author: Tired of feeling overwhelmed, Heather Sanders and her husband Jeff faithsized their family into a 960 square foot lake cabin in need of renovation. She writes about faith and simplifying your desires so you can be content right here and right now.
523 Comments
Sherri L-M On Tuesday, November 6 at 9:14 pm
We live in a very beautiful wooded area so we walk around our neighborhood or we sit in our dinning room and look at birds then look them up in a book.
Min Sen On Tuesday, November 6 at 9:17 pm
I'm a grandma who only gets to see her grandchildren when I visit them in Australia or if they come visit me. They'll be coming this Christmas so it'll be wonderful to have something to do with them during this time!
Jen On Tuesday, November 6 at 9:18 pm
I have a family of western scrub jays that nest in the backyard each year. My nieces and nephew love to watch the birds build their nest and the babies learning to fly. We go on "adventures" and try to spot the nests. It's also a great opportunity to talk about families and how they share and take care of each other.
Sharon Lee On Tuesday, November 6 at 9:18 pm
Last year my granddaughters and I followed the Decorah eagles webcam and also the hummingbird webcam. We had so much fun watching, from the laying of the eggs to the hatching and the parents feeding and taking care of the babies. We are already waiting for this year's nest, the nest is built but not nesting yet.
Kallie On Tuesday, November 6 at 9:20 pm
We have a field guide and binoculars and walk through the neighbor and themountains seeing what we can identify!
Cassy On Tuesday, November 6 at 9:21 pm
National Geographic and the Discovery channel as well as observations during our daily evening walks through the park!
Anne Marie On Tuesday, November 6 at 9:26 pm
We love the outdoors……
Mirtha On Tuesday, November 6 at 9:42 pm
we painted a birdhouse a couple of years ago, which got ruined in the last rain. right now he is enfatuated with peacocks.
kate On Tuesday, November 6 at 9:58 pm
Hundreds of quail and road runners roam our yard daily….we can sit inside and watch them bathe and eat
Treva On Tuesday, November 6 at 10:00 pm
We have birdfeeders and we catalog the different birds that eat from them and look them up on the net to get more info about the birds.
amy h On Tuesday, November 6 at 10:02 pm
Nature walks at local state park with our handy dandy bird guide!!!
Elizabeth L. On Tuesday, November 6 at 10:09 pm
We walk and look at the birds. We have been having lots of pheasants in our yard lately.
Donna O. On Tuesday, November 6 at 10:17 pm
The one activity the Grandchildren could depend on while visiting
Pop-Pop, was to learn about the many species of birds. Pop-Pop
had many bird feeders within eyeshot of the kitchen table. There were
male and female Cardinals, Finch, Woodpeckers ( both sexes),
gray doves, humming birds and many more! The children and my Dad spent many hours
sitting at the table, armed with binoculars watching the delicate creatures and
learning their habits. The "lessons" learned turned into memories
being passed down through the Great Grandchildren. Priceless!
becky balli On Tuesday, November 6 at 10:31 pm
We have bird books, and feeders every where. I also took a class called "Project Wild" it is all about the out of doors and makes one think, create and write outside the box.
Ronda R On Tuesday, November 6 at 10:37 pm
Not really a particular website or organization, just a love for birds and the outdoors in general. Started feeding birds with my children when they were small. Now that I have a grandaughter, she too knows and recognizes the many species here in Western Ky. We fill feeders of different kinds in all seasons. We particularly love goldfinch, cardinals, tufted titmouse, and woodpeckers.
emily On Tuesday, November 6 at 10:39 pm
We have a nature preserve that does toddler bird walks!
stu On Tuesday, November 6 at 10:41 pm
We use the internet to identify "mysterious" birds.
Sue W. Bloomington, MN On Tuesday, November 6 at 10:43 pm
We haven't yet. But this is a great way to start! Looks like something my son would have a lot of fun with!
Kira H. On Tuesday, November 6 at 10:46 pm
I love this box idea!! So far with my 2 year old, I have taught her about birds we see outside and bird calls, and we also have studied them in a Kindermusik Class.
Sandra On Tuesday, November 6 at 10:55 pm
Our bird activities usually involve watching, listening and feeding them. That's the limit of my 3-year-olds attention span.
CourtneyH On Tuesday, November 6 at 11:15 pm
bird feeders & books
Solducky On Tuesday, November 6 at 11:30 pm
My mom actually gifted my almost 4 yr old last year a bird feeder, seed, and several books on birds so we have been using that!
MistyBee On Tuesday, November 6 at 11:43 pm
The Flying Wild curriculum is great and the National Aviary has some great activities as well.
Sandy Manning On Tuesday, November 6 at 11:43 pm
Shamefully, the only thing I can think of is the Old Farmer's Almanak site which has a lot of info on birds including bird sounds you can listen to.
Jenn T. On Wednesday, November 7 at 12:23 am
We are studying (state) birds this year for science, to go along with U.S. state history/geography, and have been having so much fun! We love the site http://www.whatbird.com/ to identify the birds we see at our nearby lake, on walks, or just in our backyard. It let's you identify North American birds by size, body shape, color, etc., as well as listen to their songs. My 8 year old loves trying to figure out which birds we've spotted. Last week we saw a blue heron catching fish and then being chased by what we think was a muskrat. That was fun. We've made pinecone birdfeeders, visited a local park that rehabilitates owls, and observed hummingbirds at our feeder.
Val V On Wednesday, November 7 at 12:29 am
We are currently using the Memoria Press bird study….tons of info and activities.
Rebecca W On Wednesday, November 7 at 12:34 am
Simply installing a birdfeeder outside the kitchen window has opened my eyes to different types and varieties of birds. Their behaviour amazes me! They're so beautiful.
UlrikeDG On Wednesday, November 7 at 12:41 am
My 9 yo daughter is a member of Iowa Young Birders, and my whole family has attended their events. http://www.iowayoungbirders.org/
Beth On Wednesday, November 7 at 12:45 am
We have two big, beautiful, handmade bird feeders and a bird book! So fun for the kids!
wenders On Wednesday, November 7 at 1:12 am
We turn to National Geographics for info on animals. birds. etc.
Wendi On Wednesday, November 7 at 2:01 am
We are currently doing Apologia's Flying Creatures with our youngest son this year in co-op and we are loving it. It was great fun when we traveled cross country to his grandparents home and we got to take some of our feeders with us to test out feeders and different seed in that part of the country.
jp On Wednesday, November 7 at 2:06 am
My favorite is probably the myriad field trips we took, but especially the ones guided by Mr and Mrs Clifton – scrub jay habitat, manatees (we learned about red moss on that trip, too) and seining in a lagoon, among others. I think nothing is better than getting out and seeing the real thing for yourself – and nicer if you have a guide or guidebook to help out. Of course, the time spent w/a preschooler observing earthworms after a rain rank pretty high too – as does making leaf and twig boats and floating them in the gutters.
Becks On Wednesday, November 7 at 2:20 am
Our neighbor had a little bird watching club she did with a group of us young girls. It was always fun. My mom always hung feeders and we loved watching our feathered little friends. Now my boys hang their own feeders. I love hearing their excitement when the birds start coming.
Amy Brown On Wednesday, November 7 at 4:40 am
We go in our backyard during the spring and listen for the birds. I know the call of the male red bird, so we like to look for him especially. I also put up some bird feeders, and we'll quietly watch from the back door to see who's visiting.
Kel On Wednesday, November 7 at 5:49 am
Put up a feeder — we really enjoyed the hummingbirds this year!
Yvonne On Wednesday, November 7 at 6:13 am
Went to Kentucky Natural Resources site to find out what kind of snake was in our yard and ended up looking at native Kentucky birds.
Theresa L. H. On Wednesday, November 7 at 6:46 am
Our last activity was to take the kids to Fontanelle Forest in Nebraska. Hiking the trails and river trails we were able to make out many different species. There is also a glassed room with a courtyard full of bird houses and watering features. Microphones feed the bird song into the room. They have many books and resources in that room and the kids are able to identify the birds by site and song. It was fabulous!
Will On Wednesday, November 7 at 6:55 am
Our backyard and books from the library.
rhonda On Wednesday, November 7 at 7:07 am
we have made and put out several different kinds of bird feeders and we watch them close up and personal with binoculars. there is also a nature center near our home that we visit and learn from their bird watching program.
julie On Wednesday, November 7 at 7:33 am
hiking in our favorite parks, our yard, internet research.
Stephanie R On Wednesday, November 7 at 7:34 am
We have attended presentations by the local Raptor Center and master naturalists. It is amazing to see hawks and owls up close while hearing about them.
Joella On Wednesday, November 7 at 8:21 am
The backyard or the hunting leases. Also, my parents love watching birds and have tons of bird books. So when we visit it's always a bird learning time.
aaldridge On Wednesday, November 7 at 8:26 am
My granddaughter loves to come to BB's house cause there are so many bird sounds!
Linda W. On Wednesday, November 7 at 8:39 am
We live in the woods so always a large population of birds to watch with the grandkids. Cardinals are the favorite…woodpeckers not so much.
Rebecca Jacobson On Wednesday, November 7 at 8:45 am
We frequently walk at the riparian preserve in our neighborhood. It is one of our favorite activities.
MomofTwinGirls On Wednesday, November 7 at 8:50 am
We haven't gotten into birds much, but we should! Maybe I will start looking at activities this week! Thanks for the ideas!
JudyK On Wednesday, November 7 at 8:52 am
Love the Ranger Rick magazines. They are always filled with beautiful photos & have great ideas for nature studies.
lakemom On Wednesday, November 7 at 9:00 am
Our binoculars, field guide ,,, and our Apologia Flying Creatures textbook.
Sabra On Wednesday, November 7 at 9:01 am
My grandchildren love to sit on my porch and watch the hummingbirds at the feeders in the early evening.
Heather K. On Wednesday, November 7 at 9:11 am
Last year I visited Cornell University's "Celebrate Urban Birds" website and sent away for their free observation kit. I then collected data with my nieces and submitted our findings. From their website:
"Celebrate Urban Birds is a citizen science project focused on better understanding the value of green spaces for birds. This project connects people of all ages and backgrounds to birds and the natural world through the arts and fun neighborhood activities. We offer mini-grants, youth development opportunities, seasonal challenges, and much more. Watch birds for ten minutes and share your observations with us for scientific study. Watch anywhere-in a parking lot, a local Park, balcony, at work, or at school. Then report the birds you saw by mail or online. It's easy!"
Their website is great: http://celebrateurbanbirds.org
Stacey I On Wednesday, November 7 at 9:11 am
My daughter turns 3 next week – she is fascinated watching the birds at the bird house!
Phillis On Wednesday, November 7 at 9:15 am
Must not be a very good parent because I've done little in this area.
Leslie D. On Wednesday, November 7 at 9:17 am
My four year old daughter and I check out books about birds from our local library and watch for birds in our backyard.
Jen in TX On Wednesday, November 7 at 9:20 am
Books and more books. My favorite plays the sounds of the different birds' calls.
Karen McElhaney On Wednesday, November 7 at 9:23 am
I like to get the bird book out and go out into the yard and watch the birds and then look them up in the book to see what kind of bird it is!!
Patty W. On Wednesday, November 7 at 9:33 am
We went to Cornell University's Sapsucker Woods. What a great place to hike around and look at birds! They lend you binoculars and have all sorts of information and signage so you know what you're doing as you traipse along the trails through the woods. We highly recommend it, along with all the other great family stuff Ithaca, New York has to offer!
jilrubia On Wednesday, November 7 at 9:42 am
A real estate agent we did some work is an avid birder. His company has a kid's challenge…find 60 of the birds on this list, note where you found it, etc. and turn it back in to him for a prize. Well…the prize was a lovely set of binoculars and an awesome bird book (only our oldest, age 8, was motivated enough to do the challenge)! When we closed on our house with him, he gave us a beautiful bird feeder as a gift as well. Just shows how everyday people can be great motivators for learning!
Kristi T. On Wednesday, November 7 at 9:43 am
We use a great bird book..
JOSH On Wednesday, November 7 at 9:44 am
We use books and just go outside to watch..it's always interesting!!
abrianna On Wednesday, November 7 at 9:44 am
We have done the great backyard bird count. We also put out a hummingbird feeder.
Donna Marchlewski On Wednesday, November 7 at 9:50 am
Really just the backyard so far
Rebecca W On Wednesday, November 7 at 9:52 am
We participate in the Great Backyard Bird count. We also head to our local wildlife preserve and take pictures of all the birds we see and come home to identify them.
Barbara Ristedt On Wednesday, November 7 at 9:59 am
My grandson and I feed the birds together watch them while they fend off the pesky squirrels. I have a wonderful sunroom where we watch the winter garden that gives shelter to all critters, but the colorful birds have kept us smiling on the cold days as they scurry around the feeding stations.
Mickie On Wednesday, November 7 at 10:07 am
Our backyard is DNR protected land, so we don't have to go far to watch animals.
sheri singh On Wednesday, November 7 at 10:10 am
i do every thing for my kids to learn about nature and animals when i"m teaching my kids
ElisabethJoy On Wednesday, November 7 at 10:10 am
In NJ, the first weekend in May is World Series of Birding, where teams go out and count as many different bird species as they can see or hear in a 24 hour period. I took my high school interns out 3 years in a row and we would travel the entire state and end up at the southern tip, dog tired; but excited over the numbers of birds we were able to identify.
Lisa Marz On Wednesday, November 7 at 10:31 am
We visit a nature center near us and always stop in at the bird viewing window. They have mics outside and speakers inside, so that you can hear all of the different birds, and binoculars for closer viewing. Always fun!
Susan On Wednesday, November 7 at 10:37 am
We use a field guide book and take to hiking. We also feed birds homemade bird food out of nature.
jackie On Wednesday, November 7 at 10:43 am
Watch the eagles soar over the lake!
Melody McCabe On Wednesday, November 7 at 11:01 am
We go to the aviary at the zoo and try to match the printouts from the zoo with the birds.
Sandra On Wednesday, November 7 at 11:01 am
We love to go on nature walks. My kids love to see the difference in the trees and leaves and identify them.
Kathy Bennett On Wednesday, November 7 at 11:05 am
We just go outside on our property with an identification book I have. Many birds here that change with the seasons.
Ella On Wednesday, November 7 at 11:06 am
My son is just two, but we have been utilizing sites like http://www.yardfairy.com, http://www.birds.cornell.edu and http://www.nwf.org to build a garden that will attract local birds and butterflies. So we can observe and help them out. Our son loves the birds and helping to take care of them.
Sarah K On Wednesday, November 7 at 11:17 am
My son is 4 and just starting to notice all of the animals that flit in and out of our yard. I'm excited to allow him to explore, learn the different bird calls and put out a birdhouse next spring for (fingers crossed!) daily viewing.
felecia On Wednesday, November 7 at 11:30 am
We look at the book National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Birds: Eastern Region, Revised Edition. We also spend a lot of time at our window watching the birds feed in our backyard.
adina On Wednesday, November 7 at 12:00 pm
Living in the city I try to point out whatever wildlife we can see in the parks and (sometimes) on the streets
Heather M. On Wednesday, November 7 at 12:04 pm
We haven't really done this yet so I look forward to all the wonderful suggestions!
Cindy K On Wednesday, November 7 at 12:08 pm
We bought a Peterson's Field Guide to Western Birds but just need to get out and use it!
Brenda Linn On Wednesday, November 7 at 12:22 pm
This would be for my two little grandsons….5 and 2…they love Ranger Rick and they feed the birds and squirrels every day….they keep water in the bird bath in the summer and in winter daddy hooks up a water heater for the bird bath. They have 4 bird feeders and they put out corn for the other wild life.
tristanschmit On Wednesday, November 7 at 12:29 pm
We go to the botanical gardens to their classes on animals!
Andrea On Wednesday, November 7 at 12:31 pm
I am an avid bird watcher, and I share that with my daughter whenever possible. While she is only three years old, I do what I can to encourage her love of nature. Through my bird watching books, bird call computer program, websites and our daily walks, she can now identify several birds by sight and song. She also helps to fill the bird feeders and bird baths.
Andrea On Wednesday, November 7 at 12:35 pm
We in the country in the middle of a lot of forest, so we look at which birds are nesting in the yard, and then look them up at http://www.audubon.org/
Andrea Allen On Wednesday, November 7 at 12:42 pm
bird feeders, hiking, binoculars and google!
Lynne On Wednesday, November 7 at 12:45 pm
Our wildlife conservation center offers all sorts of classes–one was about Owls in our part of the country. We were able to learn about the different ones in our area, what they sound like and then we went on a short owl hunting tour. They said our class was the first one that got skunked–as in no birds calling–not the stinky guy. But we were able to take the calls to our house and have "chats" with the birds behind our house.
Mary On Wednesday, November 7 at 12:47 pm
I happen to not like birds, so it's kind of funny that both of my boys love them. They have learned about them through seeing them outside, bird field guide books, which they always check out from the library, as well as a really nice resource called Bird Songs: 250 North American Birds in song. Inside are great recordings of all of the bird calls.
rebecca On Wednesday, November 7 at 12:51 pm
The local Audubon bird count is amazing! We have our handbook and notebooks ready to go this year!
Ellie On Wednesday, November 7 at 1:04 pm
our local nature center
Julia On Wednesday, November 7 at 1:10 pm
We are lucky to have several wonderful nature centers close by (Philadelphia area) with excellent staff and programming. But one of the best activities we have participated in is completely free and accessible to everyone throughout the US: the Project FeederWatch – Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Awesome!
Jean On Wednesday, November 7 at 1:12 pm
My daughter and I go on lots of nature hikes. I like to point out the different animals and birds we see along the way and we go home and research.
Lolisse On Wednesday, November 7 at 1:16 pm
We have built bird houses and have bird feeders and bird baths to watch the birds.
Marianne O. On Wednesday, November 7 at 1:24 pm
We have a natural pond off the river that runs through our land. My girls love to crouch in the big trees around the pond and "spy" on the Night Herons and other birds roosting there!
Sydney Gines On Wednesday, November 7 at 1:31 pm
I have been a member of the National Audubon Society since I was a teenager. I also had canaries and finches for several years. They were so fun and so beautiful. Throughout the years, I have collected bird books from whatever area in the world we happened to live. We have loved trips up north in Michigan where we still walk the same nature trails and admire the birds from the Nature Center huge outdoor window….where current spottings of birds are kept updated each spring through summer on a board. I have shared these passions with my children who are nearly grown. We frequented the library to know more about animals (birds) and have made a number of bird feeders for our feathered friends. I am now passing along this passion to my grand daughter, as she helps me fill bird feeders when she visits and travels up north with us.
Angie S On Wednesday, November 7 at 1:35 pm
We have a local Forest History Center that has had some free classes offered. Last year we went to Bats Everything you ever wanted to know, or didn't want to know, about bats. It was fun. They have many other events there as well that are educational and really fun for the whole family!!
Bonni On Wednesday, November 7 at 1:37 pm
Books and backyard.
shauna On Wednesday, November 7 at 1:38 pm
We live in a beautiful area surrounded by nature so we simply observe the birds who frequent our yard and look them up in our birding books.
Barbara M On Wednesday, November 7 at 1:38 pm
Always on the lookout with my grandsons' for hummingbirds in our backyard, they love them and it's such a treat to find them. Was planning to buy them a book about birds for Christmas this year.
Jennifer On Wednesday, November 7 at 1:43 pm
Absolutely none, which is why I need this!
MelissaS. On Wednesday, November 7 at 1:46 pm
Local parks and their "birds in the wild" adventures.
Joy Sondag On Wednesday, November 7 at 1:55 pm
My son gets Ranger Rick magazine and loves reading about the birds in there.
Jennifer m On Wednesday, November 7 at 1:55 pm


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Filmmaker Interview #14 – David Lumsden
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David Lumsden is a director/editor based in Edinburgh who is creating some really exciting and innovative work. He was first brought to my attention through the savvy marketing he got for his latest short film Boat, the image of Edinburgh's Princes Street flooded in a postapocalyptic world is going to make anyone stand up and take notice. Doing some research I realised I had seen a lot of David's editing work, most namely the feature film, A Spanking n Paradise.
David's work history is full of interesting projects; he edited the "web diaries" for the feature film Atonement, directed the behind-the-scenes videos on New Town Killers and edited a promo for Keannu Reeves new Kung-fu movie, just to name but a few.
I'm delighted to feature David on the blog. I'm extremely excited about seeing his short film, from the making of videos (see below) it looks epic.
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How Do I Wub Thee? Let Me Count the Ways
I am the first to admit when I'm wrong about something, and God knows I'm not perfect or always right.
So, about three or four years ago at Bead Fest, while showing a student how to make a bail for a pendant, I said, "Let me borrow your pliers." She handed me her pliers; I took them and, without paying attention to them, started bending the 10-gauge wire for a bail. Well, the pliers just tweaked and wouldn't bend the wire. I looked at them, and cute as they were, I said, "Sorry, you need to get some REAL pliers." (I don't think I was that rude, but if I really did say that, I apologize to that student.) I borrowed her neighbor's pliers and completed the large loop for the bail. I then picked up the offending pliers, saw they were Wubbers, and thought, "Cute name, too bad they don't work." That was it. For several years. End of story. Until . . .
Bead Fest Santa Fe, March 2013--yes, just a few weeks ago--and I was teaching "Bunches of Bails" class. I was honored, and a bit intimidated, to see Patti Bullard's name on my roster, because I knew she is the inventor of Wubbers. And oh wow, she was taking my class. I also knew she had some great bail-making pliers, and I knew many of my beading friends and wire-wrapping friends loved and owned Wubbers, but too bad they didn't come in large sizes.
My adrenalin was still flowing at 2 a.m., so I was looking for something to read. I grabbed the Wubbers brochure. I had written an article on pliers for Lapidary Journal Jewelry Artist several years ago and noticed that everyone made round-, chain- and flat-nose ones. Some were good, some were bad. Some were so rough around the edges that they scarred your metal. But these looked so well made. I was impressed. I also discovered that I had been using the Baby Wubbers to do an adult Wubbers job, those three years ago. I read that now there were big Wubbers!
I love quality, I mean QUALITY tools, so now, wide awake and really excited to see and touch these pliers, I promised myself to cruise the Bead Fest vendor room first thing next morning, just to check out Wubbers. Does it surprise you to know I am now the extremely proud owner of a number of Wubbers? I couldn't wait to get home and play with them.
Make Artisan Jewelry Bails and Bezels with Pliers
What I absolutely loved first was the quality and craftsmanship of the finishing on the pliers. Second, it was exhilarating to use the bail-making pliers and to be able to make the same consistent sizes of the little "question mark" bail for which I have become known. Also, the round and extra large round pliers have been a huge help in beginning soldering classes where my students need a mandrel to make a ring. The barrels are sturdy enough to hammer on with a rawhide mallet. In addition, I've just used my new Wubbers to make half-inch-wide hoop earrings. Soooo cool!
These earrings are William Morris rug patterns I etched on copper and then formed using round Wubbers.
So what I'm trying to say is, when you're making handcrafted jewelry, you have to have the right tool for the job. The Baby Wubbers are great for wirework and beading, but don't send a baby to do a big girl's job (or to you men readers, a real man's job). There are different tools for different needs. My huge duckbill pliers do a very messy job on forming 22-gauge French wires, but the Baby Wubbers are great for that. Try the classic flat-nose because they come in both wide and narrow--and you need both for bending sheet metal. Use the large round Wubbers as mandrels, so now you don't have to carry that bulky ring mandrel around to class all the time.
I'd like to thank the genius of Patti Bullard for her insight to know exactly what was, and is, needed out there. You've made jewelry artists' lives so much easier!
Remember: Always use the right tool for the right job; just any tool won't always work. And besides, Wubbers is just fun to say! Wubbers...Wubbers...Wubbers.....
Off to play . . . uh, work . . . yeah, that's it . . . work hard in my studio, with my Wubbers!
P.S. Wubbers are now available in the JMD Shop! Try them; you will fall in love as I have.
Wubbers are a great crossover tool for folks who work with wire but want to start working more with metal. Without a huge investment, you can create small metal jewelry projects using these pliers instead of the heavy-duty mandrels and stakes that more advanced metalsmiths often use and get, as Lexi shows, great results! If you're interested in expanding into introductory metalsmithing, the newest series of Beads Baubles and Jewels is a great way to make that transition. Order this four-disc set (with 13 episodes and over six hours of instruction) to learn to make and mix metal components with wire, stringing, and other jewelry-making techniques like resin or stamping, from some of your favorite jewelry artists! --Tammy
Just purchased a pair of bent nose Baby Wubbers Saturday without being aware of this brand. What a "coincidence"! Thank you for the article as it is so informative. I cannot wait to get my pliers and try them out! And, yes, please ask Patti to let you do more!
Lexi, could you please post some pictures of square bails and earrings you talked about in this article. I'm so visual and have tried using the square pliers soo, soo, many times without success. Please, Pretty Please.
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One Stop Shopping Centre and Retail Park, Perry Barr, is the bustling destination for all your essentials and is just three miles out of Birmingham city centre. With over 60 exciting stores for you to explore - including some specialist unique stores and popular chains such as M&S Outlet, ASDA, New Look, Dorothy Perkins, Burton, Currys and Argos Extra you won't need to look anywhere else.
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text: Potential Measures for Clinical Community Relationships A Supplement to the Clinical-Community Relationships Measures Atlas Appendix Table A-4. CCRM Atlas Measure 1: Patient recall of referral to local agencies (Safety Check Parental/Guardian Post-Visit Survey)Domain:Referral processElement/relationship:Clinic/clinician-patientInstrument:Safety Check Parental/Guardian Post-Visit SurveyPurpose:Clinicians in the Pediatric Research in Office Settings program were trained on providing violence prevention related community referrals. This measure tracks patient recall of referrals to local agencies.Format/data source:Patient/Individual SurveyMeasure type:ProcessDate:2006Preventive service/ USPSTF:Other – Mental Health*Clinical practice:Primary care – PediatricsDenominator:Number of respondents to parent/guardian post-visit survey (Q2)Numerator:Number of respondents who selected "Yes" to local agency referral (Q2d)Development & testing: Past or validated application: Citation(s):Barkin, S., Ip, E. H., Finch, S., et al. Clinician practice patterns: linking to community resources for childhood aggression. Clinical Pediatrics (2006) 45:750-756.Notes:Please be aware that this measure is using only a selected section of an entire survey instrument. Therefore, this individual measure may need to undergo further reliability and validation testing to ensure that it can be applied in a clinical-community relationship setting.* This is a measure that was originally applied in a mental health setting, but it could be adapted for a primary care setting. Page last reviewed October 2013 Internet Citation: Potential Measures for Clinical Community Relationships: A Supplement to the Clinical-Community Relationships Measures Atlas. October 2013. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://www.ahrq.gov/professionals/prevention-chronic-care/resources/ccrm-atlas-suppl/ccrm-apptabA-4.html


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Yes, I know abysmal spelling in the post title is very unlike me but I was just trying to emulate how the guys in Baseball usually shout this phrase out in cartoons.
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Obviously, the title is connected to my hatred against sports. I've been meaning to write this post for quite some time but I got the boost needed to get me off my lazy ass when I stumbled upon this blog in which there was this post. Yeah, that dude has some serious talents where sarcasm is concerned. Go ahead, read that post first so you'll know I didn't copy his views but rather, echoed them in a different manner.
I've been on this planet for 21 years. I can tell you without any fear of being biased that men follow sports more ardently than women. This is for 2 reasons – a) It's a mandated stereotype that masculinity and sports are connected in every which way, and b) Most men actually like watching sports. But there is a difference. Some people play sports and some people … simply watch them while bitching about how world class players can't do things the said people (presumably) can go about doing routinely … blindfolded and with hands tied behind their backs.
The Chennai stereotype for a sports fan is a fat dude, most plausibly adept at quizzing, who can rant off about players from every team in Football, Cricket, F1, Basketball and what-not. He can tell you their statistics, past players from the team and their statistics, team/club statistics in the sport since the beginning of time, how bad/good a particular player is/was, rare events that happened in the sport etc. I have always played around with making a Fat Chennai Quizzer Dude meme.
Anyway, random bitching part, here is a comprehensive list of things I absolutely hate about commercial sports, stylised with numbered points for your viewing pleasure.
I am going to be addressing some random dude (obviously, Srinivasan) who is the Fat Chennai Quizzer Dude in question or just addressing people generally through the rest of the blog post.
1) They're Commercial:
Dude, if you point out to me that money is the cornerstone of capitalism, I will bitchslap you from here to Valhalla in one backhanded motion that would shame Federer. Just because a nation is mad about something, you must make money from it, is it? No, more than that, it is the fact that such huge money goes into cricket that it is telecast all over the place and influences the younger and more naive generation. Hockey, our supposed *national* sport might as well not exist.
But more than the fact that such blatant commercialism exists, it is pissing off to see that my generation *wants* it to exist. Really? You want them to make obscene amounts of money while you sit at home and watch people playing against each other? I fail to see the logic behind this. But I fail to see the logic behind the whole *viewing sports* thing. They pit 2 sets of 11 people against each other, while making exorbitant amounts of money from stadium tickets, adverts, investors (and probably bookies), franchise material like T-Shirts, mugs etc. and by selling broadcasting rights. Meanwhile, you sit there watching these players fight it out and in doing so, helping this whole money chain move along. Imagine, just by sitting there, you are helping other people rake in more money than you'll probably make in your entire lifetime.
2) You *see* them:
You do *not* play them. That was my point. I am not able to comprehend the euphoria you get from watching 11 dudes battle it out against each other for one ball to hit one place. I find it utterly stupid. I understand the whole point of sports. Be it football or cricket, you run around like mad and it is good exercise while you have fun.
I give concession to people who see chess games. Why? Because if you can sit through the longer version (not rapid fire that Anand just won), you are really engaging your brain. You're probably an interested player if you're watching the game in the first place. How do you benefit from seeing Football or Cricket? Do you try to imagine strategies that would help your team win? If you are a serious player, I can understand seeing some awesome footwork or batting on field and learning from it. But you're a FCQD. You have probably never held a bat in your entire life. Remember that.
3) You are not the winner:
Somehow, you blithely ignore this fact. There is some sort of endorphin release when the team you support wins the game. Dude, unless you have put in too much money with your bookie or have a personal relative playing in the game whose change of fortunes will reflect yours, you shouldn't care. I've seen football maniacs have a conversation like this:
Dude 1: Fuck you, I am a <random FC> fan. We are gonna win this season.
Dude 2: Dude, we are <random FC>. We own your ass every time.
Dude 1: That's ok man. Wait and see this season. We have <random player>.
Dude 2: Macha, we have <random player>. Your <random player> can kiss my tushy.
Dr. Phil: What we see here is a very advanced form of delusional detachment. Both subjects (herewith referred to as "dude 1" and "dude 2") are talking about sports teams as though they were a part of it or they had some stake/ownership of it. Bringing them back to reality may already be a lost cause but I suggest Lobotomy as a final recourse.
You are at home, far far far away from where the EPL or whatever is going on. You will, in NO way influence the players' victory or defeat. No, that random gust of wind you blew will not travel all the way to the stadium and affect the ball so as to make it miss the target. No, there is no way. Do the math. Go ahead. I didn't bother doing the math because I believe I cannot comprehend such small numbers as the answers might be.
On a side note – I shit you not when I say this but 2 gangs of juniors (of different ethnic groups .. hence supporting different teams in the IPL) actually got physical in an argument concerning superiority of the team they supported. Can you imagine that? About 20 people trying to knock sense into each other about how one set of 11 entirely, completely and totally unrelated people are better than another set of such 11 people. Seriously?
4) You are not Mr. Perfect:
Coming from me, that may be misconstrued as cynical but yes, it's true. So the next time you have heated up debates about which sports team is better and about how some random captain should have made a better team line-up/formation/called up the better player, use your brain first.
You're a fat dude sitting on a couch. That guy is a blood, sweat and tears hardened veteran who has played so many games that he is appearing on national TV and there are a bunch of advertisers ready to sponsor him for his awesomeness. Are you so fucking retarded that you think you'd have been better in his shoes? Bitch Please. Stop criticising him and try doing something more useful like … I dunno .. Go cure cancer or something.


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As surely as Fridays follow Thursdays, large lottery jackpots attract two things in abundant numbers – occasional players persuaded by the eye-popping monetary award to buy a ticket and patronizing warnings from financial writers that lotteries are a sucker's game and only fools play them. Though I'm a pretty hardcore value investor, I'm going to change things up and give some praise to lotteries.
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Fairness demands that the negative aspects of lotteries get some air time. For starters, the odds of anyone winning a major American lottery like Powerball or MegaMillions is vanishingly small – one in at least 100 million, typically. As pointed out in some anti-lottery articles recently, your odds are much better of being hit by lighting (1 in 1,000,000), killed by lightning (1 in 2,320,000) or, if you're an American male, being Tom Cruise (1 in 150,000,000).
Playing lotteries also runs the risk of people developing, perpetuating or re-awakening a compulsion to gamble. Many people also willingly convince themselves that their financial condition is hopeless, prudent financial discipline is pointless and the lottery is a valid way of fixing their problems and/or saving for the future.
Last and not least, winning a lottery isn't the golden ticket to a great life that many people expect it will be. While many lottery and sweepstakes winners happily cash their checks, disappear from the public eye, and their lives quite happily, others squander their winnings and end up flat broke. (For more advice on how to increase your financial stability, check out How To Reduce Volatility In Your Portfolio.)
Good for State Revenue
All of those problems aside, I dare say lotteries are not the horrible things that many financial advisors and writers portray them to be.
For starters, considerable amounts of lottery revenue go back into state budgets. Oregon claims that "97% of every dollar played" goes back to the state and is used to fund projects like job creation, education, and state parks. Likewise, the North Carolina Lottery claims that 58% of lottery revenues go to prizes, 30% goes to an education fund, 7% goes to retailer commissions, and 5% goes to expenses and marketing. Powerball and MegaMillions are a little different insofar as they are operated by multi-state associations, but the same principle basically holds. There are also the much-publicized historical examples of how the Continental Congress used lotteries to fund the Revolutionary War.
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DURHAM – A 43-year-old Durham man was arrested Monday and charged in connection with the stabbing of a 17-year-old boy in the 2500 block of South Roxboro Street.
Police got the call about 8:50 p.m. that an argument inside an apartment had turned violent. Gregory Donnell Whitted of Todd Street was charged with assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill, inflicting serious injury.
The teen was taken to a hospital for injuries that did not appear to be life threatening, said police spokeswoman Kammie Michael.
Whitted was held in the Durham County Jail under $500,000 bond.
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- Nicole Leigh Riley, 33, of Snowcrest Trail in Durham was arrested Monday and charged with conspiracy, conspiracy to obtain property under false pretenses, uttering a forged instrument, forgery of an instrument and identity theft. She was held in the Durham County Jail under $10,000 bond.
- Jamilla Arrel Verbal, 31, of Fidelity Drive in Durham was arrested Monday and charged with robbery with a dangerous weapon, conspiracy to commit robbery with a dangerous weapon, assault and battery and communicating threats. She was held in the Durham County Jail under $251,000 bond.
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Lee Collins poked home 20th-minute opener when he raced on to Darren Carter's free-kick - Northampton's first away goal of the season.
Stuart Dallas made sure of Northampton's second league win of the season with 16 minutes remaining as he scored a fine solo goal to double the visitors' lead.
Matt Duke made a fine save to deny promotion-chasing Wimbledon's Harry Pell an injury-time consolation, but the Dons slipped to their first home defeat of the season.
"We played well, had loads of opportunities, loads of crosses, but never looked like we would get on the end of it," Ardley said.
"It's not so much creating chances that's important, it's about getting in the box, timing runs and getting on the end of it. It didn't matter how many we got in, we weren't going to get any in.
"We switched off, the same players have done it a couple of times this season, it's cost us a goal. It's not good enough.
"I don't mind losing games, we're not going to go through the season without losing games. When you do lose, it's about how you bounce back. I thought for 20 minutes we fought back quite brightly.
"Next week is going to be tough, they're all tough. There's no givens. The coupon buster is always there."


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After what is expected to be a bright and mostly sunny morning, it will turn mostly cloudy this afternoon, with a slight chance of showers and thunderstorms, according to the forecast from the National Weather Service.
Highs should be in the mid 80s, with southwest winds around 5 mph, increasing to 10 to 15 mph in the afternon. The chance of rain today is 20 percent.
Tonight should be cloudy with a chance of showers and thunderstorms and lows around 70. There will be southwest winds, 5 to 10 mph. The chance of rain tonight is 50 percent.
Sunday is forecast to be mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and thunderstorms and highs the lower 80s. Northwest winds around 5 mph, becoming southwest in the afternoon.
Sunday night should continue to be mostly cloudy with a chance of showers. There'll be a chance of thunderstorms, mainly in the evening.
Lows should be in the upper 60s, with southwest winds around 5 mph, becoming north with gusts up to 20 mph after midnight.
The chance of rain on Sunday is 50 percent.
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This year's CodeJam
Friday, October 27, 2006
What took 6 weeks, required sizzling brainpower, and drew a global audience of programmers? The fourth Google CodeJam, that's what. More than 21,000 coders from 100 countries registered in early September and have competed two rounds (they could code in Java, C++, C#, Python or VB.NET). Today was the grand finale, which just ended at our New York City office. The 100 finalists convened in New York to play this last round together. Screens glowed, fingers flew, and gears spun. Our top three winners are:
Petr Mitrichev, Russia - $10,000Additional cash prizes went to all the finalists, who represent 24 different countries. (Here's the full release.) This is the fourth annual Global Code Jam, which we produce in conjunction with TopCoder. Our best wishes, congratulations and thanks to everyone who celebrates the joys of coding.
Ying Wang, China - $,5000
Andrey Stankevich, Russia - $5,000
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FORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP) — The Department of Defense is planning a mission change for Indiana Air National Guard's 122nd Fighter Wing in Fort Wayne.
An area newspaper reports the wing's A-10 jets will be replaced by MC-12 aircraft, a medium- to low-altitude, twin-engine turboprop aircraft with a primary mission is providing intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance support directly to ground forces.
Five bases that fly the A-10 Warthogs, including Fort Wayne's, are slated to lose those squadrons as the Pentagon transitions to the new F-35 Joint Strike Fighter.
Indiana congressmen sent a letter to Gen. Norton A. Schwartz on Friday expressing concern about the move. They say in the letter the 122nd Fighter Wing is essential to the Indiana National Guard and any cuts would have a deep impact on northeast Indiana.


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Campus Management Corp., a leading provider of enterprise software products and services for educational institutions, announced today a partnership with StarRez, a world leader in student housing software. Together, the partners will offer customers using the CampusVue® Student software system integration to StarRez's comprehensive student housing solution. StarRez delivers a range of housing functions for student self-service including online room and roommate selection, electronic housing contracts, staff administrative functions, billing and reporting.
Clients currently using CampusVue Student Housing Management now have the option to move to the StarRez housing system. The StarRez software, in use by more than 300 customers world-wide, allows colleges and universities to simplify and streamline administrative housing processes, as well as deliver a complete online self-service housing solution to students. The solution requires minimal IT department oversight and is easy to learn and easy to use. Campus Management will continue supporting its CampusVue Student Housing module.


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America lost 533,000 jobs in November, according to the Labor Department's monthly jobs report released today. The unemployment rate now stands at 6.7 percent. The economy has shed 1.9 million jobs since last December.
That's not all. The underemployment rate hit a record high 12.5 percent. Moreover, more than 420,000 discouraged Americans took themselves out of the job market in November. If they had continued looking for work, the unemployment rate would be around 7.0 percent now.
The disastrous jobs report is just one sign of alarming economic deterioration. Oil, for example, is today trading under $42 a barrel, down from $147 in mid July. A Merrill Lynch report says it could be heading to $25 next year. The stock market panic and financial crisis that froze credit in the banking system is now affecting the underlying economy. President Bush started his short remarks this morning from the South Lawn by saying we are in a "recession." That's in line with Monday's official pronouncement of the National Bureau of Economic Research, which told us the downturn started in December 2007.
We are technically in a recession, but it is more precise to say we are experiencing the first stages of something more severe. This year, the Bush administration has tried all sorts of stimulus measures, including throwing previously unimaginable amounts of money at Wall Street and lesser sums at the rest of the country. The Fed, for its part, has continually cut interest rates this year. Ominously, nothing seems to be working. And nothing the Obama administration will be doing-including sponsoring a possible trillion-dollar stimulus package – will have much effect either. The imbalances in the economy appear simply too large to be unwound by superficial tactics like fiscal spending.
To see why government tactics are not working, let's look at the job-loss predictions for this month. Analysts believe the December jobs report could be worse than November's. Why? Businesses will be laying off staff simply because they do not want to be continually chasing the downturn next year. Deflationary psychology, therefore, is gripping Americans.
And not just Americans. The risk is that simultaneous economic failure around the world will exacerbate the situation everywhere. In good times, our trade and financial links to other economies propelled everyone forward. Now, the process is going into reverse. In July, we saw one nation-China-attempt to steal an advantage by artificially depressing the value of its currency to give an added boost to its exporters. On Monday, Beijing made the situation worse by driving the renminbi down almost one percent. At some point, other nations will retaliate with competitive devaluations of their own, and then we will find ourselves in another global trade war.
So, as nations squabble, a bad downturn will undoubtedly become something much worse. Although our elected leaders will not say so, we appear heading for a once-in-a-lifetime downturn. Call it a depression.


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I am passionate about all things strategy. On a practical level, that translates into a love for all things data because I believe in approaching strategy from a data-driven model. Having worked in house, with agencies, and now as a consultant, I've seen a LOT of really ugly data. So I've kind of made it my mission to help marketers learn how to both corral data and then make it sexy.
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Annie! Thanks for doing this.
What are the best resources to use for learning more advanced Excel functions?
I absolutely adore ExcelIsFun's YouTube channel. He has taught me most everything I know about Excel functions. He and MrExcel also do these dueling podcasts that are brilliant. They take a task and attack it two totally different ways. They're my faves. MrExcel doesn't make quite as many videos, but he's also freaking brilliant with Excel formulas.
Besides Excel, what's your favorite data analysis tool?
I just signed up for a statistics course with Coursera but have already started doing research on R. My understanding of it is very limited right now, but I have a strong feeling it's going to quickly become a tool I rely on heavily.
Is it the one run by the University of Toronto? If so, I found it very helpful since I come from a liberal arts background.
Princeton, actually. https://www.coursera.org/course/stats1
The curriculum looks totally different and much more relevant to web intelligence. Thanks!
Yeah, I've already watched the first video. I'm really looking forward to it.
Hey Annie! I love R, it's super powerful and was easier for me to 'get' then JavaScript. I learned it through this coursea class https://www.coursera.org/course/dataanalysis
R has tons of cool packages and libraries for every kind of data crunching and visualization. I use the ggplot2 library for all my data viz in R.
I've done some work with R before - nice to know I wasn't going into "overkill mode" as I thought at one point. Certainly has its uses!
If you had a time machine and traveled back to the "MS Office" meeting where they decided which default charts would make it into Excel, which one(s) would you tell them not to add?
Great question. The radar chart. I've found good use for it once, but most of the time it's too noisy to be valuable. Personally, I wish the pie chart would die a natural death, but too many people have an affinity for it. For better or for worse.
Yep, Pie Charts are the Nickelback of Data viz https://twitter.com/WaltHickey/status/345646754089291777
Hello, I am relatively new SEO and am trying to identify problems with our ecommerce site. I went through your site audit and found that we may have an index bloat problem. Only .12% of indexed pages generate at least 10 visits and any revenue. How would you go about trying to correct that problem?
Ah yes, this is very common. I'd run a Screaming Frog scan of it and compare those pages (broken down by top directories so it's manageable) to your landing pages report. Start using canonical tags, robots.txt, and/or noindex to get the junk out of Google and Bing's trunk.
Thank you! It's always a little hard to know where to start when you are teaching yourself. Always a joy reading your posts and learning from a female data master!
Google Analytics or Omniture, or does it all depend on the team setting up the tagging and categorization systems?
Omniture only if you need to collect personally identifiable info. Otherwise, I'm not a fan of its clunky infrastructure or its lack of support. Seriously, what company charges you extra to access their help tutorials?!? Especially for a product as expensive as Omniture's.
I definitely agree, but I was wondering if you're able to get similar functionality around page/site flow from Analytics that you do from Omniture. What are the GA workarounds (outside of the flowchart it provides)? Have you ever used something like event tracking to track flow between pages, and not just within pages?
thanks annie for doing this -
any tips for extracting / intrepreting / guessing <not provided>?
No. I think any attempts at this point is all junk science. However, I do highly endorse the approach I shared with Amir above (screenshot: http://screencast.com/t/R6BjUAlKDhY6).
Hi Annie,
Thanks for taking the time to do this!
I'm on client side of a company with a pretty good brand presence (retail locations, catalog, big e-mail program, etc) and we have an agency helping with our SEO. You were one of the first people I saw talk about how extrapolating provided data over the "not provided" isn't good practice, and in fact can really skew your data. You gave out some excellent solutions regarding how to uncover some of this missing data, but what I'm having trouble finding are good metrics to measure year over year success and putting a round number on the magnitude of SEO efforts - for now we're still using non-brand organic revenue. Any ideas?
Thanks again!
Hi Amir,
Yeah, at this point those extrapolations are about as reliable as divining rods. I think organic has to be approached holistically now. You can't segment out non-branded. But the best place to focus is on your organic landing pages. And if you want to look at keywords, look at them in the context of landing pages. I shared a custom report in my MozCon presentation that allows you to drill down from landing page to keywords.
GWT's Search Queries and Top Pages reports also help you see what landing pages are ranking for each keyword (SQ report) and vice versa (TP).
Between these two reports, I can assure you that you will find more than enough things to focus on to better optimize your site for growth.
Beyond a website's analytics set-up, are there any other interesting data sources that can be applied to an analysis? Third-party, APIs, etc.?
I love the data I get from SEMRush and Searchmetrics. Both show you your visibility in the search engines by showing you the keywords your site is ranking on the first two pages of Google for. You can even see the landing pages for each keyword. They both tend to show more short-tail keywords, so you're not going to see as much of your long-tail keyword visibility. But still great data to analyze, esp when combined with data you get from GWT's Search Queries and Top Pages reports.
I also really like GTMetrix for site speed issues. If you haven't seen it, I have a huge list of tools for marketers: http://www.annielytics.com/hundreds-of-tools-for-marketers/
Awesome!!! Several questions:
1) What's the neatest data visualization tactic for Excel that you haven't written about but think people should know?
2) Same as above but for data analysis and not visualization?
3) If you had to use one other analysis tool other then Excel what would it be?
4) Excel macros, worth learning or better to learn other data analysis languages like Python?
5) How is the book coming?
1) Seriously, the series I'm doing right now on dashboards at Marketing Land. I will eventually do a video that will show marketers how to replicate a Google Analytics report in Excel. It'll be crazy. But I have to build upon the basics, or people will get lost. And I hate to frustrate marketers.
2) R. I just have to learn it first! But when I do, watch out.
3) R and Python
4) Microsoft insists it's not abandoning VBA. And Python only works in Excel if the recipient has the plugin as well, making it unfeasible. So yes, I'm learning VBA.
5) Just got back into it this weekend after taking a break to get through all the conferences I [over]committed to.
Your Marketing Land series is amazing, every time you have a new post I break off a little bit of time to learn the visualization technique. Loved the interactive charts!
Would love to hear more about your decisions to learn R. I made it a 2013 goal of mine to learn basic Python and SQL so I can start diving into this book http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920023784.do. I would love to hear your thoughts on R if you dive into it a little more, after doing some research and reading some feedback from people much more knowledgeable then myself I felt like Python was a better way to go since I can also use it to automate some tasks, do some crawling etc.
Yeah, I wanted to learn Python and made the mistake of signing up for Coursera's Python course. It was a big bucket of horrible, if you're not already a programmer. But I also don't have access to a good deal of actual "big" data. And I like that R works in Excel with plugins. But we'll see. I do eventually want to do more with database-driven data analysis. I just don't have access to databases as a consultant.
Ugh, I tried a couple of Coursera Python courses and they were all types of awful. Luckily through a combination of Udacity (their CS 101 class is Python based) and CodeAcademy I feel like I have a better start. I haven't really heard about R plugins for Excel. That sounds really interesting, I will definitely be looking into that more. What resources are you planning to use to start learning R? Coursera?
Yeah, I'm trying Coursera again for their statistics course: http://bit.ly/163cZ3n. For Python, I heard the best resource to learn is the book/course Learn Python the Hard Way. I've heard nothing but good things about it. And the video course was cheap.
Hey Annie,
I have a script that I use to export Adwords stats directly into a spreadsheet report template that I made in Google Docs. Everything works great, but on one particular account I have certain campaigns that are separated by Labels. Is there a way to pull the stats by label?
Let me know if you need to see the code that I'm using. I didn't want to paste it all in here.
Hey Joey,
I'm not sure what you mean by separated by labels. Do you want to send the code to my email, annie(at)annielytics.com, with more of an explanation of your issue?
Hi Annie! I love your Excel Annielytics topics and have a strategy question for you:
When advising SEO clients on IA/UX, what do you believe is the single most important design element that can effect other metrics?
Wow, this is a toughie. If I had to pick one I'd go with having super clean, organized pages that break content into easy-to-digest chunks (as Jakob Nielsen calls them) and generous white space. If visitors come to your site and see the online version of a circus or a solid wall of interminable text, they're going to hit the Back button, regardless of how awesome your product or company is.
Hey Annie, being an Excel geek myself, I always love reading your stuff. I still have a rpinted copy of your article on stripping down URLs to their domain name within Excel because I always forget that formula!
Anyway... when it comes to reporting back to clients on SEO performance, are there any specific Excel templates that you use? If you don't have ones that can be shared, are there any specific charts that you would consider a 'must' to include within them?
Looking forward to your response!
Thanks for the kind words, Matthew! And I'm glad my posts have resonated with you. :)
Because I don't just report on SEO performance but more demonstrate how it fits in a client's overall marketing ecosystem, I tend to create reporting dashboards that include things like top mediums (both month-over-month and year-over-year) and historical organic and overall (with a scrolling chart to keep it from swallowing up the dashboard). But it's important to me that I find out what KPIs keep my clients up at night and report on those. And they're going to change pretty dramatically from client to client.
Thanks, Annie - good idea. I use a similar technique with my Google Analytics custom reports and then tie them in to the overall project objectives.
Hi Annie, thanks for doing an AMA here on Inbound.org!
What's the most naïve/ridiculous statement you've ever heard anyone make undervaluing the power of data-driven strategy? Any instances of people saying "let's just go with our hunch" - stuff like that?
Oh yeah. The whole "I follow my gut" is probably the one I hear most. I always translate it as, "I have no idea how to analyze data and don't even know where to get the data I would need to analyze anyway, so I go with what I do have and hope more spaghetti sticks than falls to the floor." :)
Hi Annie, thanks for this.
If there was one fictional or serious metric you could obtain from a website, what would it be?
I would give my eye teeth to know true bounce rate. The closest anyone will ever come to that is probably Google b/c they at least have their toolbar, Chrome, Android, and logged in user data to see which visitors to your site bounce back in under x seconds to the SERP page. But I'd love to have that data across the board. GA's bounce rate is an imperfect measure b/c even if someone comes and spends 20 minutes reading your blog post, it's going to register as a bounce if s/he leaves the site afterwards.
You can use JavaScript to fire off events even based on the amount of time spent on a page, but the data you get from them is pretty noisy.
Instead of just using time passed, you can fire GA events when the user is active, for example binding scrolls and hovers. This will let you understand if the user is engaging with the page and for how long, not just if they're keeping the page open in a background tab (which I do all the time).
Hey Annie,
what are the most useful custom excel reports you know, for webmasters especially of SMB sites, whether they be eCommerce, leadgen etc. (reason I ask: so much of what we put out as an industry is incredibly complex, and leaves 'the little guy' in the dark).
This is such a good question. If you check out Mirosoft's repository of custom Excel reports, you'll see that there is nothing (that I've found) for online marketers. But your question gives me an idea to actually ask my blog readers to send me requests for custom reports, and I could create them and explain how I created them. I wouldn't be able to do entire dashboards, but I could at least give SMBs some basic templates they could easily use by telling them, "paste your [whatever] report data here and select Refresh All." Something like that.
This is why we <3 you Annie! Look forward to seeing what your readers come up with!
Thanks for the idea, Martin!
Hi Annie,
I've got a question:
Why should new webmasters spend their time monitoring and analysing advanced analytics metrics instead of using the time for growing their brand, creating high-quality content etc.?
By advanced analytics metrics I mean things other than the most basic ones (pageviews, unique visitors, demographics, traffic sources, bounce rate, new vs. old visitors, page-specific stats, etc.).
Great question, Rohit. I think that, aside from forensic data dives, webmasters should only spend their time monitoring key performance indicators (metrics on 'roids) that they care about. So for one webmaster, this might be just the basics you listed. For another, they might be a brick and mortar who only cares about traffic from their sales regions, let's just say. That will require a custom report using some advanced(ish) metrics.
But I also think that when it comes to analytics, a reporting dashboard should be created that pulls in the data they need (preferably using the GA API), and then formatted in a way that helps key decision makers see what they need to effortlessly. But all too often marketers don't automate this process and do the same repetitive tasks week after week, month after month.
Awesome! :)
Ok my question is What will be Your Content Marketing Strategy for an App Development firm?
Since I take a data-driven approach to marketing strategies, I'd first take stock of what content the app dev firm already has and see how it's being leveraged and can be improved. Then I'd do extensive competitive analysis using the approach I outlined in this Moz video (http://bit.ly/14ubWJe). It allows you to reverse engineer your competitors' marketing strategies that you can take and improve. Or at least trigger other ideas for your content providers to take and run with.
hi annie, thanks for doing this
i know you've mentioned seo but i'd like to hear your thoughts on social media analytics - particularly when it comes to competitive analysis/intelligence. what are your favourite tools if you have much experience of using many? in general, what are the indicators you look for to assess strategy?
staying within the social spectrum - there's obviously already a lot of noise on what are worthwhile metrics and not and so on - so i want to ask you a slight tangent of that topic; how do you approach a client who only really wants visibility of top line/level metrics? by this i mean - how do you still offer insight while having one hand tied? if that makes sense..!
Hey Jerome!
A colleague of mine, Kristy Bolsinger, is my main go-to person when it comes to all things social media. So knowing that she's forgotten more about social media than I've learned, I asked her to contribute to the Social Media tab of my ginormous tools for marketers doc. You can see great social media tools listed there (http://bit.ly/18p4Ln2).
As far as reporting goes, this may sound a bit morbid, but I really take a bit of a sharp shooter approach to competitive analysis. For example, I had a client who provided [ridiculously delicious] fine chocolates. But they were having a hard time competing against the likes of Ghiradelli and Godiva. But when I pulled a host of social media metrics from their top five competitors, we found all kinds of kinks in their competitors' armors. So, although they couldn't compete with them on Facebook, they had HUGE opportunities with YouTube, Pinterest, and Instagram. Their competitors were asleep at the wheel with these networks.
So taking an approach like that might engender some renewed interest for you. Good luck!
thanks for taking the time to reply annie - appreciate it and i've seen your great list before, of course! i was just curious about your favourite - might drop kristy a line about that.
thanks again
Thank you for the reply. Now I'm going to implement it and will let you know the results. One more thing is What will your favorite Social Media Channel for this?
Good! I look forward to hearing about your experience. The best place to find me is Twitter: @AnnieCushing (https://twitter.com/anniecushing).
I'm already following you.. I meant which social media channel will you suggest to me for content marketing of App development niche.
Hi Annie! Thanks for taking the time to do this.
Can you recommend a good resource for an Excel/data analysis beginner?
Hi Michelle!
A great way to get a good comprehensive overview of Excel, without wading through a stack of books, is lynda.com. I used it a lot when I was first learning b/c there are so many classes, from general overviews to specific task-oriented courses. And it's only $25/mo, so what I'd do is sign up, check out a few courses, cancel. Rinse, repeat. Probably not what they would want to hear but it works. :)
I also know that Distilled U has an Excel course for marketers. TBH, I never checked it out, but all of the modules I did do were off-the-charts awesome. I think it's $40/mo now.
Haha! I've actually been looking at lynda.com lately! I will check that and Distilled U out again. Thanks! :-)
Always a pleasure, lady! :)
What are some good alternatives to Google Analytics? I have noticed most others are pretty bad.
I've heard decent things about Piwik but haven't played with it. I would love to play with Unica. It offers a lot of customization for marketing campaigns, but its documentation is crap. Behind that I'd say Coremetrics and then Omniture. Unfortunately, the paid platforms have really lagged behind GA when it comes to innovation, but you need to use them if you want to collect PIP data.
Hi Annie -
Thanks for doing this! You're probably my favorite person to follow on Twitter. Do you have any good resources that explain the importance of social media for SEO?
Aww shucks! Thankeww!
I've been looking through my Evernote for a survey of Google and Bing done last year that asked about the impact of social media on SEO. It was the first time, I believe, both Matt Cutts and Duane Forrester both confirmed that they use social data in their algorithms. If I find it, I'd love to send it to you. What's your Twitter handle?
Thanks a ton! Sounds like it's exactly what I'm looking for. My Twitter handle is @HillsTwitts.
Great! I'll look for it. I can't figure out how I tagged it. Blerg.
Hi Annie- You can only have 5 metrics/reports/charts on your e-commerce Dashboard. What are they?
5 charts: Top Channels/Mediums, Top Landing Pages (segmented by medium), Mobile vs Tablet vs Desktop, Big Spenders (using custom variables), Visits w/ Transactions (to isolate the behaviors of visitors who made it to conversion)
Okay, folks. That's a wrap! A big thanks to all who participated!
what's the most surprising A/B test you've ever run?
what are your top 3 "web analytics" blogs or authors that you follow. (sorry i am late to submit these questions)
Two Random questions:
1. What is the best method you have used to track Social Media ROI from Analytic's (I know it is a hard one at times to gain accurate measurement from)
2. What are your thoughts on mid tier businesses trying Attribution modelling, I know most big business gives it a shot but what about mid tier?
Hi Annie,
Thanks for this AMA :)
That one person who helped you in learning this excel/analytics thing?
I'm finding difficulty in learning custom variables, regular expression etc in analytics. How can I learn & remember it easily?
Thanks for doing this, Annie.
What is your biggest/most impactful find/success on analytics?
do you read bh seo blogs like http://blackhatpwnage.com or http://agentblackhat.com or you stay with just 'white infos'? I mean do you look at the other side too or totally ignore it [information wise - not usage]
haha I love the name of your company very funny !!!!! very creative and different !! sure is a good choice !!!


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Birthday: September 10, 1979
At the mansion, Colby shows JR a box of their father's things. He secretly grabs a gun and puts it in his bag. Scott shows up with Adam's new will, which does not include JR. JR accuses Scott of having something to do with his being disinherited. Scott counters he's lost his dad's respect and money all on his own. JR declares no one will take anything from him again. He grabs his bag and leaves. Colby calls Adam and tells him how out of control and angry JR is about the will.
Tad panics when he wakes up and Dixie isn't in bed. He finds her downstairs preparing for AJ's visit. She assures him she isn't letting their second chance go. Tad leaves to see Jesse, but not before marveling over how normal it is that he can say, "See you later." AJ comes downstairs looking for a snack, as JR stops by. AJ runs into his father's arms and tells him he missed him. Dixie worries because Marissa isn't there to supervise, but JR appeals to his mother. She gives him a few minutes and leaves the room. JR tells AJ to grab his favorite toy because they're going on an adventure. Dixie returns and AJ tells his grandmother what JR just said. Dixie shoos AJ out of the room, as JR tells his mother he can't let lesbians raise his son. He's taking AJ, comparing it to how she fought for him. Dixie points out it was different. She adds that he can't leave with or without AJ because Babe could be alive.
Scott barrels into the mansion to confront JR about the mansion being in foreclosure. Scott tells him he can stay at the gatehouse, which is not part of the foreclosure. JR wants no part of it. JR loudly declares he will keep his house, his company and his son no matter what. Madison enters and JR leaves. Madison gives Scott a microwave as a housewarming present. As they head to check out the gatehouse, they run into Marissa. Scott warns her about JR's mood. She walks into the main room as JR returns. She tells him AJ wants to see him. JR remains bitter towards her as Colby enters. Colby knows the house is in foreclosure and tells him they have to be out by next week. JR becomes angry. Marissa knows he's not in the right state of mind to see their son, so she leaves. Colby wants to call their father, but JR grabs the phone out of her hand and throws it across the room. He thinks getting Adam involved would be a huge mistake. He vows to get everything back. Colby leaves the room as Dixie enters. Dixie finds her son who declares he won't give up on the house. She hugs him while assuring him she's there for him now. In the foyer, Colby calls Adam, but she gets Brooke. She tells her about JR and how scared she is. Adam gets on the phone and Colby says they really need him.
JR watches the sex video on the laptop at home. He doesn't want to use this to get his son. Dixie walks and is surprised to learn he's no longer running Chandler. He vows he'll get his son back no matter what it costs. JR is ignoring her so she demands to know what he's looking at. He tells her about the sex tape. Tad joins them and Dixie says it's so wrong. She shows him a photo of JR at AJ's age with his dad. She asks what he wants to pass on to his son? Tad reminds them of the horrid father he had. He doesn't want AJ to sense JR's anger. Dixie tells JR to pull his life together. They'll help him. JR storms out. Dixie and Tad think they did well. She reminds Tad that he's been the only constant in JR's life and JR will listen to him.
At the Chandler mansion, JR asks Scott to take a look at his computer. It's a video of Bianca and Marissa having sex. He needs blackmail to get and keep his son. Scott threatens to stop him from using the tape. Colby joins them and Scott suggests she ask JR what they were talking about. Liza comes in and is horrified that there are still copies of the tape around. JR says the deal is off. Colby wants to know what deal. Liza explains the deal is if she helped with AJ, JR would convince Colby to give her mom another chance. Colby is incensed. She and Liza both leave. Scott warns him not to use the tape and leaves. JR is sure his son is coming home.
Later, Scott re-joins JR at the mansion and says it's a good thing his father isn't around to witness this. Marissa and Bianca walk in to confront JR. They all argue. Marissa says if AJ asks where the video came from Marissa will tell him the truth. The ladies leave and slam the door.
At the mansion, Dixie calls Marissa to plead JR's case. She thinks he's turned a corner, so she asks Marissa to bring AJ over for a visit. Marissa says she'll talk to her son and if he's ready, they'll stop by. JR enters the room and Dixie tells JR what she just did. JR thanks her with a hug. After Dixie leaves, Marissa drops in without AJ. She tells JR she and Bianca are moving in together. JR is irate that after getting sober and staying that way, she won't let him see his son. He won't let two lesbians raise him. They argue and JR shows her the video of her with Bianca. He tells her if she doesn't give him his son, then the whole world will see the video and think she put it out there.
JR vows to Dixie in the mansion that he will prove to Marissa he is worthy of getting AJ back. Dixie tells him it has to be real and not just for show. JR assures her he's on his way back. The doorbell rings and JR signs for a package. He opens it to find a disc, which is a video of Bianca and Marissa having sex. He says to himself, "I wonder what the judge will say when he finds out you and your girlfriend made a sex tape."
Erica bursts into Krystal's surprising Bianca and Marissa. Opal also sees her friend and Erica gushes about her trip to France. Bianca tries to tell her mother about Marissa, but Erica hands out gifts and rushes out to see Zach. Alone, Bianca tells Marissa she has become more Erica Kane and less mom. She wishes Erica gave her the chance to tell her about the most incredible thing to happen in her life: Marissa. Later, Marissa shows AJ a house online, while Bianca asks Opal about posted real estate listings. Opal suggests she and Marissa take a walk by the park which has several houses for sale. After Marissa and Bianca leave, JR enters, disc in hand. He starts to upload the video of Marissa and Bianca on AJ's laptop, but Liza catches him. She tells him he will lose his son for good if he goes through with that. As they debate his misguided plan and his bigotry, Bianca and Marissa return after looking at houses. Liza points out they are happy, but JR doesn't think it will last once he gets AJ back.
At the mansion, JR spits out more hateful things about Marissa and Bianca raising his son. Liza angrily cuts him off and Colby jumps in to defend Marissa and Bianca. Liza tells JR if he continues to act this way he will lose any chance he has at seeing AJ. Through clenched teeth, JR asks what his next move should be. Liza tells him to find another lawyer. Colby pleads with her mother to help JR, as Tad and Dixie rush in. JR doesn't want their help or judgment. Liza and Colby leave, as Dixie and Tad appeal to JR. They urge him not to make the same mistakes with AJ that Adam made with him. After more pleading, JR says he missed Dixie and hugs her. He promises to make it right. Dixie boxes up all of JR's booze and tells him to grab on to her whenever he needs her. He vows no more distractions. It's all about AJ from now on.
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