Sunday Goodies

Earth Hour Every Day?
Mellen-Thomas Clickbank Update
An Important YouTube Add-on
Pet Peeve--and How to Avoid It
An Odd Letter and a Silly Joke

EARTH HOUR DAILY?
Did you observe Earth Hour Saturday? I think we ought to do it every day--and even (gasp!) turn off lights as we leave rooms, etc. Why not save ourselves the money, as well as the energy? Just makes sense!

Apparently there IS a beginning of a daily Earth Hour....earthhour.org

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MELLEN-THOMAS UPDATE:Thanks to everyone who has written in and raved about the teleclasses--I agree! Mellen's information from the Other Side is some of the most uplifting, inspiring and unique information I've seen in a long time, and totally do-able.

My Hero Audio Wizard has edited and cleaned up and made crispy our latest teleclass audio with Mellen, The Future: From the Pyramids to 2010 and Beyond. And the transcript is done, looks great and is on the page all ready to download, thanks to my dauntless transcriber, Susan Denham. I'm so grateful to have them both on my team--what would I do without them?

I've added the two Mellen classes to my Clickbank account if you have your Clickbank account all set and ready to go (free), and you'd like to tell your lists, friends or whoever about them. I'm delighted that Mellen's unique and mega-valuable information is getting so much notice--I invite you to offer these MP3s, transcripts and bonuses to your people.

Here's where to get the audios: EFTBooks.com/mellen/html

And I invite you to sign up as an EFTBooks.com affiliate--do it here: eftbooks.com/affiliates.html

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YOUTUBE INFO: For those of you who use YouTube for your Marketing, this is important for you:

YouTube Feature Tells Video Creators When and Where a Clip Is Being Watched
By STEPHANIE CLIFFORD - Published: March 27, 2008

"In a move to provide better data to its users, YouTube formally announced late Wednesday that it had added a free feature that will show video creators when and where viewers are watching their videos. With this, the company hopes to turn YouTube from an online video site into a place where marketers can test their messages, Tracy Chan, YouTube product manager, said.

"This program, called YouTube Insight, provides a detailed view of a video’s popularity, both over time and geographically, broken down by state. (Internationally, YouTube Insight is not as insightful, providing only popularity by country.)"

from the article at: nytimes.com

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PRIVATE PET GRAMMATICAL PEEVE: I notice so many emails--and now, even website pages--that have copy with the hyphen used like this: word- word.

Example: You can have it, too- today!

If you must use the hyphen, please use it like this:
word - word (hyphen space hyphen)
or like this:
word--word (2 hyphens no spaces)

So it would look like this:
You can have it, too - today!
Or this:
You can have it, too--today!

"Officially," the hyphen "ought" to be an m-dash, but not only do most people not know what that is, they don't know how to type one. And worse, the m-dash doesn't translate into html--if you do use it in your original document, it only ends up mucking up the code.

People who use Microsoft Word to create their web pages often end up with a simple dash and a space (word- word), which looks bad, and makes the writer (you) look illiterate.

If that matters at all to you, choose one or the other:
word - word
or like this:
word--word
but not word- word
or even worse, word-word.

I used to use word - word, but I like how word--word looks, so am trying to remember to use that now.

ALSO: Copy on sites created in Word also tends to lose the possessive contraction punctuation. So, for example, a phrase like "the player's cup" will end up "the players cup," which, as you can see, makes no sense at all without that apostrophe.

Watch carefully for typos like these, because once you become well-known, you don't want to be a well-known illiterate.

In today's world, illiteracy = stupid, and most of us don't want to be seen as stupid, right?

MICROSOFT WORD: If you use Microsft Word to create documents and copy and paste the text into a web page or blog, you'll find that the hidden code embedded into Word will give you really odd symbols and errors. Find another document-creating source, like Open Office (free) or Simple Text, if you use a mac.

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REMEMBER: to check out the Mellen-Thomas Recordings. We'll be doing another teleclass soon!

Here's where to get the audios: EFTBooks.com/mellen/html

And I invite you to sign up as an EFTBooks.com affiliate--do it here: eftbooks.com/affiliates.html

If you have a question you'd like to ask Mellen, please just reply to this note and ask away (please be brief!!). I look forward to hearing from you.

aloha -
Angela Treat Lyon

p.s. I couldn't resist. This is part of a letter I got today. Usually I delete these--I mean, how thick do you have to be to realize they're scams??--but I was so amused by the typos and bad English I had to share it with you. Here it is [notes are mine]:
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GreAtings to you!

With Due Respect And Humanity, I was compelled to write to you under a humanitarian ground [hm. wonder where that is....].

My name is Charlotte Marie Lenas. I am married to Mr. Georges Lenas director J.C Industries Cote d'Ivoire. [right] He died after a Cadiac Arteries Operation [...a cadiac?].

And Recently, My Doctor told me that I would not last for the next one months due to my cancer of the lever and stroke. [hm, better grease up those levers for that one months].

Before my husband died last year he told me that there is sum of $4.8 Million Dollars that he deposited with a private bank here on his name [on his name. not off it. not near it. ON it].

It goes on, but gets boring. I hope you delete these as fast as I usually do.
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And one more....
SIGN in a farmer's field:
THE FARMER ALLOWS WALKERS TO CROSS THE FIELD FOR FREE, BUT THE BULL CHARGES.

Have a great Sunday! Watch for some very cool stuff soon....

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