It seems everyone is hooked on Twitter the rapidly growing social networking site. It's the focus of television news, radio talk shows, and numerous print articles.
According to m/Think, Revenue Magazine's online newsletter,
"Twitter's growth has accelerated from 33% in January, to 55% in February and now 131% in March. At a growth rate of 131% a month, literally every single person alive on the planet will have a Twitter account by the end of this year."
That is an amazing growth rate.
Some of you may already use Twitter, but I am sure many are asking "What is it?" The owners say Twitter is a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent messages called updates, or "tweets".
These "tweets" are no more than 140 characters long and are posted to your Twitter profile, your blog, or sent to your followers via texting or IM and are searchable on Twitter search.
All you need to use Twitter is an internet connection or a mobile phone. After you join and set up an account you can type your first update into the web box. You can search for people by name or user name, import friends from other networks, or invite friends via email.
When you receive Twitter updates from someone, you are following them. When someone receives your updates, you are being followed. Every time they post a new message, it will appear in your Twitter home page. New messages are added to your home page as people post them, so the updates are in real time.
The folks at Twitter say their service is a way to communicate with others by providing quick and frequent answers to the simple question –"what are you doing?". Well, you can probably guess some people do limit themselves to asking their followers that simple question only.
I believe Twitter can be more useful than that. For example, you can develop a group of followers and send one "tweet" to let them know of a schedule or meeting location change instead of sending multiple text messages.
You can use it to maintain a to-do list or send yourself reminders. And because you can twitter via text messaging, it can be useful when you don’t have access to your computer.
At this point, I think Twitter is for those who have too much time on their hands. Personally, I don't think people are that interested in everything I am doing. (I'm looking at your message on my computer screen.) And I'm not all that interested in what they're doing.(They are looking at my message on their computer screen.)
The term for those who use Twitter is "tweeter(s)". I wonder if a more fitting term is NitTwit.
Regardless, I will open an account out of curiosity and see if I can come up with uses other than asking someone what they are doing. I will also explore using Twitter as a business productivity/marketing tool.
I will even open an account for the BTW68 Blog. Maybe "tweeting" the blog may provide more content for you from others. If you want to open a Twitter account go here.
If you use Twitter click the comments link at the end of this post and let me know of the ways you use that service, or just give your opinion of Twitter and why you do or do not use it. I will post them on the blog.
Thanks For Reading,
Edward West
P.S If you have changed your email address please notify us at:
btw68@aol.com and BTWCLASSof68BLOG@gmail.com A lot of our emails are not being delivered.
Saturday, April 25, 2009
Friday, March 27, 2009
Adobe Acrobat / Reader version 9 & USPS Rate Increase
Greetings everyone, I am well and I hope you and yours are too.
Here's some important info for those of you who use Adobe Acrobat and/or Adobe Reader version 9.
You should update to version 9.1 to repair a security vulnerability that could give control of your PC to hackers.
You can get more details here
Updates for versions 7 and 8 will out later this month. In the meantime, I suggest removing the risk by simply disabling JavaScript in Reader. Here's how:
Click: Edit -> Preferences -> JavaScript ...then uncheck Enable Acrobat JavaScript
That will keep your computer safe from the threat until the update is ready.
I leave JavaScript turned off in Reader all the time. I see no need to enable it.
U.S.Postal Service Rate Increase
I am sure you are all aware the U.S. Postal Service will increase it's U.S. Postage Rate Effective May 11, 2009.
Here’s everything you need to know.
On May 11, 2009, the U.S. Postal Service will implement a new postage rate increase for the majority of mail services
including First–Class Mail®, First–Class International®, Postcards and Special Services.
Here is a summary of the USPS 2009 postage rate increase:
The price for one–ounce First–Class™ stamps has increased to $0.44 from $0.42.
On January 18, 2009, the U.S. Postal Service increased pricing for shipping services by an average of 5 percent.
Prices were adjusted for Express Mail, Priority Mail, Parcel Select, Parcel Return Service and some international shipping products.
Click the image to enlarge it
According to the U.S. Postal Service, the average postage increase by class of mail will be at or below the rate of inflation (as measured by the Consumer Price Index).
The U.S. Postal Service also introduced Commercial Plus pricing for high–volume shippers.
Stamps.com customers who qualify as a high–volume shipper can receive a discount up to 14.5% off Express Mail retail pricing.
With Stamps.com you can print postage 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
I hope this info will be useful to many if not all.
Here's an inspirational message you can read, enjoy, and share.
An Explanation Of Why God Allows Pain and Suffering...
A man went to a barbershop to have his hair cut and his beard trimmed.
As the barber began to work, they began to have a good conversation.
They talked about so many things and various subjects.
When they eventually touched on the subject of God, the barber said:
'I don't believe that God exists.'
'Why do you say that?' asked the customer. 'Well, you just have to go
out in the street to realize that God doesn't exist.
Tell me, if God exists, would there be so many sick people?
Would there be abandoned children?
If God existed, there would be neither suffering nor pain.
I can't imagine a loving God who would allow all of these things.'
The customer thought for a moment, but didn't respond because
he didn't want to start an argument.
The barber finished his job and the customer left the shop.
Just after he left the barbershop, he saw a man in the street with long,
stringy, dirty hair and an untrimmed beard.
He looked dirty and unkempt.
The customer turned back and entered the barber shop again and he said
to the barber:
'You know what? Barbers do not exist.'
'How can you say that?' asked the surprised barber.
'I am here, and I am a barber. And I just worked on you!'
'No!' the customer exclaimed. 'Barbers don't exist because if they did,
there would be no people with dirty long hair and untrimmed beards,
like that man outside.'
'Ah, but barbers DO exist! That's what happens when people do not come to me.'
'Exactly!' affirmed the customer. 'That's the point! God, too, DOES exist!
That's what happens when people do not go to Him and don't look to Him for help.
That's why there's so much pain and suffering in the world.'
Please feel free to leave your comments.
Edward L. West
Here's some important info for those of you who use Adobe Acrobat and/or Adobe Reader version 9.
You should update to version 9.1 to repair a security vulnerability that could give control of your PC to hackers.
You can get more details here
Updates for versions 7 and 8 will out later this month. In the meantime, I suggest removing the risk by simply disabling JavaScript in Reader. Here's how:
Click: Edit -> Preferences -> JavaScript ...then uncheck Enable Acrobat JavaScript
That will keep your computer safe from the threat until the update is ready.
I leave JavaScript turned off in Reader all the time. I see no need to enable it.
U.S.Postal Service Rate Increase
I am sure you are all aware the U.S. Postal Service will increase it's U.S. Postage Rate Effective May 11, 2009.
Here’s everything you need to know.
On May 11, 2009, the U.S. Postal Service will implement a new postage rate increase for the majority of mail services
including First–Class Mail®, First–Class International®, Postcards and Special Services.
Here is a summary of the USPS 2009 postage rate increase:
The price for one–ounce First–Class™ stamps has increased to $0.44 from $0.42.
On January 18, 2009, the U.S. Postal Service increased pricing for shipping services by an average of 5 percent.
Prices were adjusted for Express Mail, Priority Mail, Parcel Select, Parcel Return Service and some international shipping products.
According to the U.S. Postal Service, the average postage increase by class of mail will be at or below the rate of inflation (as measured by the Consumer Price Index).
The U.S. Postal Service also introduced Commercial Plus pricing for high–volume shippers.
Stamps.com customers who qualify as a high–volume shipper can receive a discount up to 14.5% off Express Mail retail pricing.
With Stamps.com you can print postage 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
I hope this info will be useful to many if not all.
Here's an inspirational message you can read, enjoy, and share.
An Explanation Of Why God Allows Pain and Suffering...
A man went to a barbershop to have his hair cut and his beard trimmed.
As the barber began to work, they began to have a good conversation.
They talked about so many things and various subjects.
When they eventually touched on the subject of God, the barber said:
'I don't believe that God exists.'
'Why do you say that?' asked the customer. 'Well, you just have to go
out in the street to realize that God doesn't exist.
Tell me, if God exists, would there be so many sick people?
Would there be abandoned children?
If God existed, there would be neither suffering nor pain.
I can't imagine a loving God who would allow all of these things.'
The customer thought for a moment, but didn't respond because
he didn't want to start an argument.
The barber finished his job and the customer left the shop.
Just after he left the barbershop, he saw a man in the street with long,
stringy, dirty hair and an untrimmed beard.
He looked dirty and unkempt.
The customer turned back and entered the barber shop again and he said
to the barber:
'You know what? Barbers do not exist.'
'How can you say that?' asked the surprised barber.
'I am here, and I am a barber. And I just worked on you!'
'No!' the customer exclaimed. 'Barbers don't exist because if they did,
there would be no people with dirty long hair and untrimmed beards,
like that man outside.'
'Ah, but barbers DO exist! That's what happens when people do not come to me.'
'Exactly!' affirmed the customer. 'That's the point! God, too, DOES exist!
That's what happens when people do not go to Him and don't look to Him for help.
That's why there's so much pain and suffering in the world.'
Please feel free to leave your comments.
Edward L. West
Sunday, February 15, 2009
OUR NEXT MEETING WILL BE HELD ON FEB.22nd
CLASSMATES,
OUR NEXT MEETING WILL BE.....
DATE: SUNDAY, FEB. 22, 2009
TIME: 2:00 PM
WHERE: 4025 SARSFIELD ST.
VA. BEACH, VA. 23456
(DOREATHA'S HOUSE..630-1226)
WE WILL FORM OUR COMMITTES AND BEGIN TO PLAN FUTURE ACTIVITIES.
YOUR INPUT IS VERY IMPORTANT BECAUSE BTW '68 IS YOUR CLASS TOO!!
PLEASE PLAN TO ATTEND AND BE ON TIME. WE WILL HAVE OUT OF TOWN
CLASSMATES WHO WILL NEED TO BE ABLE TO GET ON THE ROAD TO GET HOME!
AS USUAL, AN ENTREE WILL BE PROVIDED. PLEASE BRING DRINKS, SIDE DISHES
AND DESSERTS TO COMPLETE OUR MEAL!
AS ALWAYS, YOU ARE MISSED WHEN YOU ARE NOT WITH US AND YOU MISS OUT ON
A GREAT FELLOWSHIP!!!
DOREATHA
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I received this IMPORTANT NOTICE on Feb 14,2009.
Dear Valued Customer,
As an MVP card holder and as one of our customers who has indicated
a desire for e-mail messages from us, we are sending you this alert
regarding additional peanut products recalled today by National Raisin,
one of our suppliers. The recall is due to an inspection by the
Texas Department of Health at the Peanut Corporation of America's plant
in Plainview, Texas.
The following Food Lion and Bloom products are being recalled:
PRODUCT UPC/GTIN# Size
Food Lion Raisin and Nut Trail Mix 3582606484 6 oz.
Food Lion Fruit and Nut Trail Mix 3582606485 6 oz.
Food Lion Winter Blend Trail Mix 3582606486 6 oz.
Food Lion Nut Seed Bry Trail Mix 3582606487 6 oz.
Bloom Raisin and Nut Trail Mix 72543992166 6 oz.
Bloom Fruit and Nut Trail Mix 72543992167 6 oz.
Bloom Winter Blend Trail Mix 72543992168 6 oz.
Bloom Nut Seed Bry Trail Mix 72543992169 6 oz.
We are asking consumers to return these items to the store for a full refund.
At this time, a number of products containing peanut butter, peanut paste
or peanuts have been recalled; however, peanut butter sold in jars at our
stores is not affected.
Edward
P.S. If you like LANCE products they are not affected by the peanut butter scare. They make their own peanut butter for their products. Enjoy!
OUR NEXT MEETING WILL BE.....
DATE: SUNDAY, FEB. 22, 2009
TIME: 2:00 PM
WHERE: 4025 SARSFIELD ST.
VA. BEACH, VA. 23456
(DOREATHA'S HOUSE..630-1226)
WE WILL FORM OUR COMMITTES AND BEGIN TO PLAN FUTURE ACTIVITIES.
YOUR INPUT IS VERY IMPORTANT BECAUSE BTW '68 IS YOUR CLASS TOO!!
PLEASE PLAN TO ATTEND AND BE ON TIME. WE WILL HAVE OUT OF TOWN
CLASSMATES WHO WILL NEED TO BE ABLE TO GET ON THE ROAD TO GET HOME!
AS USUAL, AN ENTREE WILL BE PROVIDED. PLEASE BRING DRINKS, SIDE DISHES
AND DESSERTS TO COMPLETE OUR MEAL!
AS ALWAYS, YOU ARE MISSED WHEN YOU ARE NOT WITH US AND YOU MISS OUT ON
A GREAT FELLOWSHIP!!!
DOREATHA
================================================
I received this IMPORTANT NOTICE on Feb 14,2009.
Dear Valued Customer,
As an MVP card holder and as one of our customers who has indicated
a desire for e-mail messages from us, we are sending you this alert
regarding additional peanut products recalled today by National Raisin,
one of our suppliers. The recall is due to an inspection by the
Texas Department of Health at the Peanut Corporation of America's plant
in Plainview, Texas.
The following Food Lion and Bloom products are being recalled:
PRODUCT UPC/GTIN# Size
Food Lion Raisin and Nut Trail Mix 3582606484 6 oz.
Food Lion Fruit and Nut Trail Mix 3582606485 6 oz.
Food Lion Winter Blend Trail Mix 3582606486 6 oz.
Food Lion Nut Seed Bry Trail Mix 3582606487 6 oz.
Bloom Raisin and Nut Trail Mix 72543992166 6 oz.
Bloom Fruit and Nut Trail Mix 72543992167 6 oz.
Bloom Winter Blend Trail Mix 72543992168 6 oz.
Bloom Nut Seed Bry Trail Mix 72543992169 6 oz.
We are asking consumers to return these items to the store for a full refund.
At this time, a number of products containing peanut butter, peanut paste
or peanuts have been recalled; however, peanut butter sold in jars at our
stores is not affected.
Edward
P.S. If you like LANCE products they are not affected by the peanut butter scare. They make their own peanut butter for their products. Enjoy!
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