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With snow expected to arrive in the area Sunday, PennDOT is urging motorists to take it slow this weekend.
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A fatal crash involving an SUV in North Whitehall Township kills one person.
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Local soldiers stationed around the world recorded messages wishing a happy holiday season to their loved ones here at home.
With the 70th anniversary of Pearl Harbor today, learn 10 things about the surprise assault that catapulted the United States into World War II.
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Saxby Chambliss, citing gridlock, to retire at end of term
Republicans appear poised to scramble for Senate seat
Saxby Chambliss, the Republican senator from Georgia, said Friday that the "legislative gridlock and partisan posturing" had grown so impenetrable in Washington that he would not seek re-election in 2014,
"This is about frustration, both at a lack of leadership from the White House and at the dearth of meaningful action from Congress, especially on issues that are the foundation of our nation's economic health," Chambliss wrote in a statement announcing his retirement. He pointed to partisan haggling over raising the debt ceiling in 2011, and more recently to the bickering that transpired over a deal to avoid the fiscal cliff.
Those incidents "showed Congress at its worst," Chambliss argued, adding his forecast for future dealings between the White House and Congress was bleak.
"I don't see the legislative gridlock and partisan posturing improving anytime soon," he wrote. "For our nation to be strong, for our country to prosper, we cannot continue to play politics with the American economy."
A conservative voice in the upper chamber since 2002, Chambliss recently drew the ire of some activists to his right who took issue with his support for bipartisan compromise. He was a member of the "Gang of Six," which tried in 2011 to strike a bipartisan deal on reducing the federal debt.
Most recently, Chambliss broke with anti-tax crusader Grover Norquist by conceding some tax increases are necessary to solve the nation's debt problems, a move that sparked some Republicans to emerge as potential primary challengers in the 2014 election.
Chambliss said Friday those rumblings had nothing to do with his retirement.
"Lest anyone think this decision is about a primary challenge, I have no doubt that had I decided to be a candidate, I would have won re-election," he wrote.
Before becoming a senator, Chambliss served four terms in the U.S. House of Representatives, and before that practiced business and agricultural law in Georgia.
His last election, in 2008, was an unexpectedly close race with Democrat Jim Martin, who was boosted by high turnout among African-Americans also voting for Barack Obama in that year's presidential election. The race went to a runoff, which drew attention and money from national Democrats and Republicans. Chambliss won 57%-43%.
Republicans appear poised to scramble for Chambliss' seat -- several potential candidates expressed interest in challenging Chambliss before Friday's retirement news, including two U.S. congressmen from Georgia, Tom Price and Paul Broun. Two additional Georgia representatives, Tom Graves and Phil Gingrey, could also run for Senate.
Erick Erickson, the editor of RedState.com and a CNN contributor, expressed interest in Chambliss' seat last year before deciding against a run. Former pizza executive and presidential candidate Herman Cain has also been mentioned as a potential contender for Chambliss' seat, though he denied he was interested in the spot on his radio show Friday.
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who represented Georgia in the U.S. House, also said Friday he wasn't interested in running for Chambliss' seat.
Democrats said Friday that Chambliss' retirement offers "one of our best pick-up opportunities of the cycle."
"There are already several reports of the potential for a divisive primary that will push Republicans to the extreme right," Guy Cecil, the executive director of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, said in a statement. "Regardless, there's no question that the demographics of the state have changed and Democrats are gaining strength. This will be a top priority."
Democrats currently hold a 54-45 majority in the Senate. One independent senator - Sen. Angus King of Maine - also caucuses with Democrats. Thirty-five Senate seats will be open for re-election in 2014 - Democrats will be defending 21 of them, while Republicans will defend 14.
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This free RPG resource is a complete 28" × 20" map of the Alienage, the foreigners' quarter of the City of Cherafir. Descriptions of the locations on this map can be found in the complete Cherafir article. The PDF is layered so you can turn off elements such as location numbers or guard locations.
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This free resource contains keys and legends to the maps of HârnWorld, including the Atlas Hârnica area maps, the local maps that appear in many HârnWorld settlement articles, and the floor plans that provide GMs with details of individual buildings.
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This free RPG resource is a complete 11" × 11" map of the Pamesani Arena in the City of Shiran. Descriptions of the locations on this map can be found in the City of Shiran article.
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An elderly Jarin toymaker from Leriel comes to Geldeheim, carrying sacks of toys which he hopes to take aboard ship to Thay and sell. The party helps him to realize that he will not get to Thay before spring, and maybe not at all. King Alegar has imposed "temporary" punitive taxes on Jarin goods in harsh reprisal for a recent brawl. The old toymaker decides to give all his toys away to local ch... [click here for more]
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In addition to the necessities of food and shelter, inns and taverns are centers of socialization for the community. News and gossip, songs and storytelling, gambling, boasting, and a wide assortment of games occupy visitors and local patrons alike.
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The HârnMaster character generation system gives players a rich Hârnic experience. Characters may start the game with a wide variety of interesting occupations, and at various levels of experience.
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Hârn is a relatively barbaric region but no civilized society can function without a legal system. Even on Hârn, the administration of justice is surprisingly complex. This article outlines the various types of justice that exist on Hârn: family law, vendetta law, feudal law, royal justice, forest law, and town law. Information is provided on trials and law ... [click here for more]
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The Pamesani Games are bimonthly events held by the Agrikan orders of the Octagonal Pit and Demon Pameshlu the Insatiable. In addition to contests between gladiators, individually and in teams, the games offer combats involving wild beasts, judicial duels, and spectacles of a depraved and perverse nature.
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HârnMaster MagicThe Ancient & Esoteric Orders of the Shek-Pvar have existed on Melderyn, the Wizard's Isle, and in other locales of Hârn for at least two thousand years. The six orders are members of the Guild of Arcane Lore.
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A compendium of spells, lore, and experiment notes assembled by Theron of Yisgaraen during his ill-fated expedition with Bognor of Barth to the Anoth Delta. Theron was the sole survivor of the journey which has come to be known as Bognor's Folly (see HârnPlayer). Contains 11 new Fyvrian spells. THERON'S LARDER (I) LURE OF THE FALCON (II) BEASTLY BURDEN (II) LOVE PERFUME (... [click here for more]
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Hârn is home to many clerical orders devoted to Agrik, the dark god of war and violence, but none is more mystical than the Order of Herpa the Mace, whose priests are known for their ability to foresee the future with remarkable clarity. Although village soothsayers may claim similar prophetic talents, the Herpans are reputed to gain their powers by feeding the appetites of the V'h... [click here for more]
The Order of the Red Shadows of Herpa is a religious fighting order devoted to Agrik, the dark god of war and violence. Righteous war and devotion to Agrik's demonic servants, the V'hir, are the hallmarks of the order, which traces its lineage to the bodyguards of the astrologer-priests of the Corani imperial court. Today they are politically powerful through the sponsorship of the cler... [click here for more]
The Irreproachable Order is the clerical order for men in the Peonian Church. Its basic mission is to ease hardship in the lives of the poor and afflicted through agriculture and healing. The Irreproachable Order also seeks to combat the mental and spiritual causes of illness, a specialization that addresses the needs of those who are soul-sick, accursed, or possessed. In addition to covering t... [click here for more]
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Mariners oft tell tales of ferocious beasts they have faced, whilst plying their trade. It is rumored that terrors such as the wrecan and daranog guard the skeletons of sunken ships.
Gigantic whales are killed for their ivory, blubber and oil but, occasionally, the hunters are the victims. The smaller dolphins are dashing friends of all sailors since... [click here for more]
Bears are powerfully built. They are covered with long, rough fur, usually of one color, although some have white marks on the chest or face. A bear paw has five digits, each ending in a strong, curved unretractable claw.
Bears have an excellent sense of smell, but their eyesight and hearing are not as good. A bear can smell at 100 feet what a human can s... [click here for more]
Birds are ubiquitous across Hârn and familiar to all. They are found in cities and keeps, in fields and hedgerows, in the wilds, forests, mountains, and shores. They range in size from the small wren with a wingspan of six inches to the northern eagle, which reaches nearly 20 feet tip to tip.
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Cattle are indigenous to Hârn and most parts of the Lythian continent. Domestic cattle are used for milk and labor and are slaughtered for hides, meat, and tallow. Herds of wild cattle roam the grasslands and river valleys in great numbers.
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A Chimera is a creature composed of the parts of multiple animals. This article contains details and statistics for two such species: the Griffin, half lion and half eagle, and the fiercely territorial Hirenu, half equine and half eagle.
Many varieties of deer can be found on Hârn. The Hârnic tribesmen hunt them as a source of food, hide, antlers, and sinew, while the nobles of the island's kingdoms also hunt them for sport.
This bestiary article includes descriptions and statistics for three classes of deer. The Northern Deer, the largest indigenous species, prefers the colde... [click here for more]
Dogs play an important role among all levels of Lythian society. They are companions, trackers, guards, shepherds, fighters, and friends.
There are four broad classes of Lythian dogs. Dogs are selectively bred by dog trainers to preserve and propagate the best traits. Most dogs are of mixed parentage; those specially bred to type are expensive and ra... [click here for more]
Dragons is a Bestiary article (expanded from the 2002 release).
Dragons are the fire-breathing fiends of a thousand travelers' tales, the most feared of the fantastical beasts said to roam the Hârnic wilderness. Legends tell of the Great Wyrm that emerges from its lair to devour an entire village or just one helpless maiden. While many such tales can be discounted as the ravings o... [click here for more]
Ghosts features rules for manifestations allowing ghosts to scare the life out of the living.
Goats were introduced to Hârn by the earliest Jarin settlers. They have adapted to the island very well and provide milk, meat, tallow, and horn.
This article describes the common uses, physical statistics, and economic data of the domestic goats common to Hârn. Also included are a detailed description and statistics of the wild moun... [click here for more]
Most kingdoms on Hârn rely on an elite mounted warrior class for protection and maintaining the rule of law. As a result the horse is by far the most popular form of transportation on the island for nobility, and its use in warfare is almost universally considered the pinnacle of martial achievement.
There are two indigenous breeds of horse on ... [click here for more]
Ivashu are creatures of Ilvir, known as the Fatherless Multitude by the faithful, or the Accursed Beasts of the Barren Circle by non-believers. Ilvir creates the Ivashu at Araka-Kalai, making use of a limited number of souls over and over again. Some Ivashu are fairly common, because they have proved most adaptable to survival, or because they are the easies... [click here for more]
Seals and their kin, the sea lions and walruses, are commonly found in the coastal waters of northwestern Lythia. These animals have tremendous economic importance along the coasts and in the fishing communities. This article details six species of seal, the practices used in hunting them, and the commodities they are hunted for.
Sheep are among the most common livestock on mainland Lythia and are particularly numerous on Hârn. Sheep thrive in almost any kind of terrain but are disease-prone and favored as snacks by wolves and gargun (Hârnic orcs).
This article describes the common uses, physical statistics, and economic data of the domestic sheep common to H... [click here for more]
Snakes are scaly, limbless reptiles. Snakes usually attack humans only when startled or injured. There are five broad classes of snakes known in Lythia and Hârn: adders, asps, myenae, constrictors, and harmless snakes.
Swine are born to die; the food value of a pig is far greater than all other uses. From the guildsman's hams and the legionnaire's sausages to the lard on a peasant's crusty bread, from the lord's succulent roast pork to the suckling pig of the wedding feast, there is no creature more honored in the kitchen.
This article describes the common use... [click here for more]
Many folk are aware of a fate worse than death. Anyone, whether noble or common, free or serf, strong or weak, good or wicked, can lose their soul to Bukrai. The servants of Bukrai are the soul-predators known to most folk as amorvrin (singular: amorvrus) and their undead slaves the gulmorvrin (singular: gulmorvrus).
Originally presented in HarnMa... [click here for more]
Zhura (pl. Zhuran) is the Khuzan name for mushroom, a staple of their diet. It has come to be used in human society as a general name for predatory fungi that require animal protein and/or minerals to reproduce.
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The Ilme are a strange race of mere-dragons, among the most unique and mysterious of the intelligent races on Hârn. The Ilme have an ancient culture with a complex language and a deep mythology. They bear some likeness to their great dragon cousins, and many a reported tale of dragonkind was almost certainly really an Ilme encounter, but there are signi... [click here for more]
Tournaments is a Military article.
The tournament is a martial sport that demonstrates the strength and skill of a knight in battle. In its present form, it comprises the Melee, in which groups of mounted knights engage in battle on a field, and the Joust, which is a contest between two mounted knights, armed with lance and shield.
Tournaments have been held for as l... [click here for more]
Hârnic Organization
Uthriem Roliri, Brotherhood of the Forest in the Sindarin tongue, is a covert brotherhood of human woodsmen intent on protecting the wilderness and its wildlife. The group was founded by followers of Siem in the foothills of the Sorkin Mountains in the second century TR as a reaction to the depredations committed by gargun.
The Uthriem Rolir... [click here for more]
Barbarians of Hârn
The deep forests of Hârn are home to eighteen tribal nations. Although civilized Hârnians look down on them as backward, most tribesmen have more freedom and leisure time than manorial peasants. However, much of that spare time must be spent sharpening spears and fletching arrows because the tribal wilderness is a more dangerous place than the man... [click here for more]
Arcane Lore
The Guild of Arcane Lore is a loose association of scholars whose study and practice involve esoteric knowledge. Some study magical phenomena, while others practice magic; many are only students in obscure but mundane fields. The differences are sometimes unclear. This article describes the origins and development of the guild and its organization, ranks, and subgroup... [click here for more]
Heraldry, also known as armory, is an art in perfect harmony with this flourishing age of chivalry. Among civilized folk, heraldry is strongly supported by the noble classes. This is partly due to the exclusive right of gentle folk to bear arms and partly due to the color and pageantry involved. On the practical side, military helmets tend to obscure the face, while ... [click here for more]
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Fishing has great economic and social importance to all coastal communities. The sea provides raw materials such as whale oil, mother of pearl, and ambergris.
Fishermen are unguilded and the majority a... [click here for more]
Color illustrations and descriptions of 36 different plants with special properties native to Hârn. Many herbs are thought to have miraculous medicinal or other properties. Characters who can properly identify, gather, preserve, and sell good-quality herbs can earn a good living, be respected in the community, and gain useful contacts among guilded apothecaries, physicians, an... [click here for more]


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Pope Benedict, the lark and the raven
I picked up something from Ignatius Insight which caught my eye. They posted an excerpt from Pope Benedict's autobiographical Milestones: Memoirs 1927-1977.
His Holiness recounted something that happened during his ordination to the priesthood, sixty years ago today as I write. … Continue reading
Gov. Cuomo talks to Maureen Dowd. What could go wrong? Dr. Peters explains.
The Canonical Defender, Ed Peters, has another post about NY State Gov. Andrew Cuomo, aggressive promoter of contrary-to-nature unions. Cuomo is, he claims, catholic.
Dr. Peters doesn't have an open combox on his excellent blog In The Light of the Law. … Continue reading
Dissent into Hell – Fr. Z rants
Lately there has been a sharp uptick in the media – even "Catholic" media – in open and cavalier dissent from the Church's teaching and the authority of her duly ordained pastors. Much of it seems to revolve around the … Continue reading
Irish "Catholics" and our future choices
A new video from Michael Voris.
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Card. Cañizares: Observe Corpus Christi on Thursday, not Sunday.
One can understand why people might think it a good idea to transfer feast days which fall during the middle of the week to a Sunday observance. More people can participate in them, right?
On the other hand, the transferal of … Continue reading
The Saintly Patrons of Rome
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Roses for a memory of a martyr
From a reader in London.
Yesterday was the feast of St John Southworth, [the English priest and martyr whose body may be venerated in Westminster Cathedral] but today was the anniversary of his execution at Tyburn (1654). I walked the bustle … Continue reading
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It is no secret that I am no big fan of focus group. This article does a really good job in listing some points why: Focus groups are prone to social bias and do not deliver findings that are giving you any deep insights. Focus groups are conducted in an artificial environment and emphasize rational decision making far more than you will see it happening "in the wild". Thus, focus groups are more like a less stringent survey done in a group, which is a very uncomfortable and dangerous hybrid between quantitative and qualitative methods. Instead, you might want to create deep consumer insights through long interviews or persona modeling, or get a better understanding of how consumers act through observational methods. Read the full article for a case study that tells you how persona modelling fared in comparison to focus group insights.
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An infographic summarizing some of the latest research reports on tech startups. Why they start, quit, struggle & what keeps them going. Startup perso
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This Haiku Deck and ScentTrail Marketing blog post captures ideas percolating from launching one of the first crowdfunding cancer research platforms (http://www.curecancerstarter.org) l last week.
One of the big Should of Had A V8 moments last week was the realization that the way the new Google set the table does not favor a rebel Rat-Tag army.
Since climbing the latter to AUTHORITY and TRUSTED status now can take years and you will have a giant pissing our your head every step of the way, better to create conversations not website and then inject your conversation into their castles via widgets, apps and white label embedding.
Can a rebel army survive when the new Google swings the machine gun so deliberately and giants are trying to knock rebels to the ground? Yes IF they THINK WEB FIRST and this post should help with that.
What about you? Do you think web first already? How did you get there? What have you changed?
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The customer acquisition landscape is constantly in flux. The introduction of disruptive technologies and tools over the last few years has spawned enormous changes in online marketing.
Despite BIG changes in email such as MOBILE email remains #1 customer acquistion and converison tool for most online marketers.
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Not sure I understand this yet, but going to stay with it since Trendwatching is a great and trusted source. The promise is also intriguing. The ability to SEE and "unpack" a trend in one's favor is too promising to ignore even if the model takes a little getting used to.
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In a social mobile and connected time for profit companies should learn emotional storytelling from nonprofits. Nonprofits should learn viral marketing and SEO
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5 Social Media Analytics Companies You Need To Check Out
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We don't need to remind you on the importance of social media analytics for marketers and businesses.
Excellent post with "new to me" cool tools. Can we ever have enough great analytics tools? Nope :). M
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Think of the META DESCRIPTION TAG of each website page as an AD for your business. Click to see tips for writing good meta descriptions.
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Creating online scale is the hardest job you will ever love. This Haiku Deck shares tips learned from $30,000,000 in online sales and scaling CureCancerStarter.org, a new website to help crowdfund cancer research.
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These secrets are hard to share not because of how SECRET they are, but because of how automatic they become after Internet marketing for almost 15 years.
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* use WordPress Themes.
* Solve Brand Conflicts.
* Tease Clicks Don't Drown Them.
* Test Video Marketing.
* Align Website Nonverbals.
* People and Stories Sell not Cool Tech.
This last bullet is the hardest to convince #startups and #smbs. Real estate agents want to show their MLS widget, the same widget every other real estate agent has. Startups want to show their widget.
PEOPLE and STORIES are what makes great website content because we BUY with EMOTION and JUSTIFY with LOGIC.
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Owning conversations means curating related content without worrying over if competitors created it. Owning a conversation means you know that the conversation is happening.
We suggest using Scoop.it and Paper.li to help "spider" the social web. When you "own" a conversation curating realted content, adding your take via Scoop.it-like snippets and being creful with attribution and how you use curated content (to avoide dupe content penalties) you are acting like a Google Authority. Have to act like an authority for a long time before Google trusts and rewards you.
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How much time do you spend consuming information that you have no intention of taking action on or that you don't care deeply about?
Love this post as it reinforces why I'm so careful with my consumption of mainstream media. Once I heard "cancer" and my name in the same sentence I knew curating my head was going to be critical. "All energy to shields," was kind of how I thought of it.
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Circles of Concern are the things that you often waste time and energy worrying about, but that you have little to no control over. Meanwhile, Circles of Control are the things that you can influence in your daily life.
As an example, the vast majority of news stories — war and terrorism, the economy and stock prices, celebrity gossip and political scandal — fall squarely in the Circle of Concern. They can easily soak up your time and energy, but you have virtually no control over those events.
Other examples include getting angry about what someone posted on Facebook, worrying about what other people think about you, or wishing your kids would make better choices (a valid wish, but still outside of your control).
Agreed! Curate yourself!
"The world doesn't need more people who mindlessly digest whatever information is around. What the world needs are people who learn with purpose, who take action on the things that are important to them, and who seek out high quality information as a way to spark creativity — not as an excuse to consume even more."
- James Clear
Hint: You want to focus on the Circle of Control.
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SEO Controversy
The SEO controversy seems to be understanding exactly what Gooogle has and has not killed with their algorithm changes. This post explains the history from the first time I heard "SEO is Dead" two years ago right up to present day where any marketing unsupported by social signals is a dog that just doesn't hunt.
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Branding opportunities don't have to be big to have impact. Take advantage of these 5 moments to reinforce your brand promise.
Small touchpoints, especially at this time of year, can make a huge difference in winning the post-sale advocacy we depend on (See David Edleman's new conversion funnel HBR post linked from my Atlantic BT post http://www.atlanticbt.com/blog/social-medias-magic-loops/
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If the first use of our magical global network was mostly about logistics the next web is going to be mostly about connection. Walmart and other big box retailers took advantage of the web to build logistics that would make Romans proud.
Problem is NOBODY LOVES LOGISTICS.
In fact the ONLY expression of logistics on the web is our kudos or complaints. Logistics are too far removed from places hearts and minds are won. Granted logistics can make it easier or harder to win hearts and minds.
This ScentTrail Marketing blog post and Haiku Deck demonstrates how two lines will cross. One line is the profits and power from logistics and it is significant but not growing. The other line represents gains from creating community via the social web and that line is growing rapidly.
When those line cross it will be clear that the next web is about people not logistics.
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As usual, a thought provoking scoop from Marty.
For a starter we are now in the Castle Construction Industry!!
QDF (Quality Deserves Freshness) is our fortress.
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Your ad server should do more than just serve ads. We built adOS to be the fastest, easiest to use platform for managing all your online advertising. It's free to get started!
Ad Serving is so much more than you think. If our we design future is a series of contingent creative modeled to display based on predictive analytics then the existing very close to that idea is sophisticaed ad serving.
Ad serving is knowing who is looking at what and how often they've seen it, but ad serving also forms the core of predictive modeling. When we show this ad to this person aor segment in this kind of environment it converts and that is exactly the way we will think of our content soon (as either converting or not).
The problem now is the top of our content marketing funnel insn't connected to our bottom so traffic generation isn't related to conversion. Traffic is such an interesting problem.
When I sold my house only one person looked at it. Traffic LOW but converison HIGH. When I was an Ecommerce director we needed 12,000 unique visitors a day to sell 400 or 500 customers. so Traffic HIGH but conversion LOW.
In our new GOOGLe world washing 12,000 uniques a day through for so few conversions would slowly lower your website's value. These days you want your heuristic measures (time on site, pages viewed, conversions such as downloading or signing up for something or buying something to go UP).
Better to move LESS traffic through your website and get more from them. Sales were interestingly tied to traffic. On the one hand traffic reduciton move the conversion needle down, but that was only because our analytics weren't sophisticated enough to know who to court and who to let go.
By "court" I mean use sophisticated ad serving to model and convert the visit. With Google's new thinking about value and content marketing any websites HEURSTIC measures must improve and in an ever increasing pattern, so can't we use sophisticated ad serving to focus the right content to the right audience and so move heursitcs up.
I can see a financial person doing the, "Sophisticatd ad serving costs X, what does it get us?" Thing and boy do I hate gatekeepers like that because we are on the BLEEDIG EDGE now talking about something that cost NOTHING in relation to its potential benefits such as:
* More Page Views Because More Relevant Content Presented.
* Lower Bounce Rates As You Model Out Crap Traffic.
* Faster pattern recognition on content (ads) that are working.
Last idea is very important because what is our content OTHER than long form ads? A: Our Content Is Exactly A Long For Ad. what DMers used to call "advertorial". The role of our content in an inbound marketing world is the same as advertorial. It doesn't look as "sell you a a used car", but don't kind yourself if your company is spending millions there better be some clear ROI somewhere.
Clear ROI is why I want to speak with ADZERK about sophiticaed ad serviing for http://www.curecancerstarter.com. I suspect we will find so many unintended benefits that building a ROI case won't be a problem. Stay tuned.
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I started my career as a Sales Information Analyst at M&M/Mars. If that sounds like hours slaving over spreadsheets and using other tools (SAS) then you got it. Analyst work HARD and rarely get a cookie (praise they deserve).
I propose a special BI Expert and Data Analyst Challenge. RALLY and GIVE at least $1,500 to these three CureCancerStarter.org cancer research campaigns by this Friday:
Vitamin D & Lunch Cancer Research
Brain Cancer Vaccine
Personalizing Treatments For Colorectal Cancer
and here is how I will say THANKS to the hardest working bands in rock and roll (BI Experts and Data Analysts):
* Match your donations so $1,500 becomes $3,000.
* Write HERO stories about every BI Expert and Data Analyst who contributed (email me your contribution at either Martin(at)storyofcancer.org or Martin.Smith(at)atlanticbt.com).
* Enter every Analyst and BI Expert who contributed into a drawing for a personal digital makeover where three of my wizard friends provide notes on how to tighten up your personal branding.
* Be rewarded in our HEARTS and MINDS like BI Experts and Data Analysts rarely are!
Thanks and let's reach $1,500 from BI Experts and Data Analysts by Friday.
Remember, email Martin(at)storyofcancer.org or tweet to @CureCancerStart (http://www.twitter.com/curecancerstart ) or @ScentTrail (http://www.twitter.com/scenttrail )
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Martin's Ride To Cure Cancer just outside of LA PHOTO submitted to Cure Cancer Photo contst on Facebook. I can't win, but you can. Imagine what the day we cure cancer looks like and share that photo.
Easy to enter: http://on.fb.me/16b4hBG
Remember, together we cure cancer in our lifetime. What if your photo gives a cancer patient, threir friends or family HOPE today? What's that worth? Would make my day, week, month, year :). Marty
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First EVER views of CureCancerStarter.org (outside of our building) and MAN ON A WIRE MARTY starting at 11 and going until 2.
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metrics scan I've been espousing the need for predictive metrics in HR for over 20 years, so I am pleased that more talent leaders are now beginning to realize their value. Unfortunately, most of what is written on the subject ...
Fascinating and runs from the preschool easy to the double dutch complicated.
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Besa Cierro Pendant 6JC Vanilla Matte Bronze 6x100W A19
Besa Cierro Pendant 6JC Vanilla Matte Bronze 6x100W A19
Overall Dimensions: and has an overall height of 10"
Accomodates: (6 x Incandescent -A19) Incandescent 100W bulb(s)
UL listed for Damp locations
Energy Efficient Certifications: Title XXIV
Style: Matches D�cor
Finish Shown: Bronze Finish
Overall Height: 10"
Shade Dimension: Height: 9.375, Width: 5.735"
Number of Bulbs:6 x Incandescent -A19
Bulb Type: Incandescent
Wattage: 100W
Bulbs Included? No
Additional Info
Product Category: Island / Billiard
Glass/Shade Color: Vanilla Matte
Energy Efficient Certifications? Title XXIV
UL listed for: Damp Locations
Finish Shown: Bronze
Shipping Specifications
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About This Manufacturer
Manufacturer Info: Besa Lighting prides itself on four key components: design, function, quality, and selection. Over the last 25 years, they have built up a reputation that hangs on their hand crafted glass fixtures for residential and commercial purposes. Established in 1986, Besa began by importing their glass from Herner Glas in Germany, then expanding their glass business into Poland and Turkey and back into the US. While the variety is large, the vast majority of their products are heavily influenced by European styles in a contemporary fashion.
Besa offers an assortment of lighting fixtures from pendants to ceiling lamps to wall sconces and beyond. Probably the most unorthodox is the portable accent table lamp, consisting of a glass circle with no discernible base measuring roughly 14" in height and 13" in width with various color options, looking like some half orb placed on a desk or coffee table. Their new Palla 5 pendant lamp hangs from a series of wires that act like a pulley system for easy adjustment and lead to a sleek black dome atop cut glass adding beauty and functionality in one design.
Most well known for their pendants, Besa offers every type from mini to spotlight and beyond. Not to be completely outdone, they offer a rather vast selection of wall sconces as well.
Manufacturer Part Number(s): 6jc-4124vm


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