Ten Toxic Foods for Bird Owners to Avoid
Because birds are such social creatures, many owners allow their pets to be included at mealtime. While sharing food with your bird is a lot of fun - not to mention wonderful for your pet's emotional health - there are many common human foods that can be harmful or even fatal to your bird. Owners need to know which foods are fine for sharing, and which pose a serious risk. Read on to find out the top ten foods that are hazardous to your bird's health. 1. Chocolate
The art of self defense against brand-jacking - iMediaConnection
With the swift rise in social software enabling a global audience to broadcast multimedia messages to one another, companies are being challenged to use social tools to protect their brands, retain their messages, monitor their reputations and cultivate trust amongst consumers. The threat of brand-jacking -- through such efforts as activist videos, masquerading social accounts and harmful direct-to-consumer fraud -- demands that companies be both ever-vigilant of their online presence and that they respond quickly, creatively and honestly. Meanwhile, there is also opportunity in brand-jacking -- the opportunity to adapt messages to new technologies and create meaningful dialogue with consumers. Let's explore the emerging challenges of third-parties using a company's brand against itself, and look at the steps companies can take to communicate better with their customers, which can mitigate the risks of brand-jacking. What is brand-jacking? How can a brand protect itself?
How to Slash your Writing Time in Half
As a blogger, I need to write a lot of articles. Fast. Not only do I need a flow of good ideas, I also need time to turn the initial ideas into useful blog posts. It’s sometimes a struggle. Do you want to write faster – without losing quality?
ZooBorns
The Denver Zoo welcomed the first Steller’s Sea Eagle chick to be successfully reared at the zoo. Because only a few United States zoos exhibit or breed these raptors, the chick’s hatching is a rare event in the U.S. The first two photos shown here feature the chick; the third and fourth photos show an adult Steller’s Sea Eagle. Photo Credit: Denver Zoo The unnamed chick, whose gender is still not known, hatched on March 4.
6×6: branding « Adam Westbrook
The first in a series of 6 blogs, each with 6 tips for the next generation of freelance multimedia journalists. Even as far back as 2006 , the likes of Andrew Neil appreciated the journalists of the future will need to brand themselves well. “The journalist of the future…will have more than one employer and become a brand in his own right” he wrote. With full time jobs in well staffed newsrooms becoming more sparse, but opportunities outside traditional/mainstream journalism becoming more plenty, this prediction is coming true.
10 Latin Abbreviations You Might Be Using Incorrectly
by Mark Nichol Abbreviations deriving from Latin terms and phrases can be troublesome for us non-Latin speakers. Here’s the long and short of the most common short forms adopted into English from the classical language: 1. e.g. This abbreviation of exempli gratia (“for example”) is not only often left bereft of its periods (or styled eg.), it’s also frequently confused for a similar abbreviation you’ll find below.
“Tasty Nectar” Makes Tasty Profile Sites For Your Personal Brand
Tasty Nectar is a new startup focusing on, as they put it, “selling you’. Rather than helping businesses with their sites and promotion, Tasty Nectar have launched a service designed to make creating a beautiful personal profile site, a piece of cake. Created by the team at Texas based creative agency Fuor, your new personal site will include a gorgeous design (supposedly well optimized for search engines) and a basic lifestream.
25 Writing Competitions You Should Enter
by Mark Nichol Have you completed one or more short stories, poems, or nonfiction pieces? Perhaps you’d like some motivation — or to take the next step with them.
The Rise of Personal Branding
Are you a leader or a follower? A huge trend across the spectrum of professional industries is personal branding. Thanks mostly in part to blogs and social media, there exists an exciting new landscape to easily see who the all-stars are in every field. Simply handing someone a resume is already dated.
