Archive for January, 2010

 Advertising and Online Reputation Management

Methods and outlets for advertising are always growing and changing. And a struggling economy is the perfect opportunity to look over that advertising/ marketing budget and make some much-needed changes that will grow with it. Billboards are probably one of the oldest forms of advertising. They began as big posters hung on the sides of [...]



 Family Fun in Dallas at Bahama Beach Water Park

Jason had never seen such a wondrous sight as the week he spent in Dallas, Texas with his mother, father and older sister Denise. The family spent six nights in one of the glittering Dallas resort hotels to make a vacation out of a trip his father, Mike, had to take regarding a job interview. [...]



 Luckies in New York

It’s always great to be working on an assignment, any assignment.  These days, I don’t look a gift horse in the mouth. When I’m asked to write, I don’t even ask how much it pays or how many words, I just want to know if I can have my deadline cut short.  I like the [...]



 Online Reputation Management for Everyone

Regardless of your station in life, your reputation is one of your most important assets. Whether you are a high-ranking business man or a blue-collar working man, a crafty politician or a stay-at-home mom you have worked hard to establish and maintain your reputation. You have made a name for yourself. However, with the Internet [...]



 The Harlem Renaissance in New York

New York is the largest city in the United States. It is also one of its historical cultural and political centers and has played a prominent, frequently essential role in the development of this country. In addition to the significant personalities that have lived and or been born in this city, it has also given [...]



 New York City is a Nutty Place

I woke up very early yesterday, which is a new for me, and took the subway to 6th and 14th to do a bit of sightseeing. I didn’t realize I was walking the wrong way for about 20 minutes. The only point of interest when I realized my error was the First Presbyterian Church, well [...]



 Hop-On Hop-Off is Best When Visiting New York

My flight arrived after 5am and despite arriving an hour early, the first thing I noticed in the airport terminal was just how humid and muggy it was. At 5am! I felt like I was arriving at a tropical country outside the US. I caught the Air-Train to first Howard Beach, where I would then [...]



 Foster Farms Dairy in Modesto

Billy loved dairy food and all things that could be derived from milk. Interestingly, he was also a vegetarian and loved to work with cows. He had grown up on a small organic farm spent much of his early childhood out in the pasture playing with the cows. There was a calf that had been [...]



 The Score on Tennis Scoring

It would seem strange that there would controversy over not necessarily tennis scores but how to keep them, yet there are two completely different ideas on how to keep tennis scores.  The strain of thought about how to keep tennis scores comes to us from the medieval time period.  Because superstitions ran high in those [...]



 Early U.S. History

The state of Georgia was one of the first thirteen colonies that put their fists up to British rule. It was the last to be established but it happened in 1733. It accepted the U.S. Constitution in 1788 and was the forth state to do so. Later, it became one of the seven confederate states [...]