My Current Projects
So amongst being unemployed, I am currently working on two unpaid internship gigs.
One with @CarrboroCoworking (http://www.carrborocoworking.com) and the other being the Kindness Cure Campaign(@kindnesscure) with @CJScarlet. Her page can be found here.
I am loving both of these projects and we’re already starting to see results with our SEO and SEM at Carrboro Coworking, and an increase in members at The Kindness Cure through our Facebook Page.
One of what I believe will be our biggest pushes for marketing is the “West-End TweetUp”. Being hosted by Carrboro Coworking on August 4th 7PM-9PM. This TweetUp we’re hoping to capture the Chapel Hill/Carrboro specific area to bring them together for a social meetup and a talk by @WayneSutton of Wayne-Sutton.com
To RSVP for the West End Tweetup in Carrboro please click here.
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Back to Normal
We’ve been hearing a lot that we’re in recession, and that the proverbial shit has been hitting the fan. However, a while back my Macro-Economics professor, Claudia Williamson,made the interesting suggestion that rather than receding or being in a depression, the economy is in turn, “going back to normal”.
To elaborate, that the economy was over heating, we were simply growing too fast for our own good. If you haven’t seen the slideshow “Shift Happens” check it out. I would have to agree with her and say that yes, the world was growing and way too fast. We needed to cool down for a bit or we would screw ourselves over. Producers produced much quicker than we could buy. We kept using credit to buy more than we could to keep up with them.
They should have turned the tides and producers kept up with demand rather than blowing up and worsening the credit crisis.
Credit is America’s Downfall
We believed that we could have purchased whatever we wanted without a worry. Now, we have credit debts we can’t pay (Even I am to blame for that) and it’s biting us in the ass with extreme rates.
So what needs to happen… Reduce loan rates, and increase return rates. Simple but deadly and damn near impossible to accomplish right now. We don’t need to spend to increase the economy, but with rates sky high we cannot spend on small wants to get small and corporate business back into action. It all boils down to watch what we spend and spend wisely with limited credit. Doable yes, but cautiously on parts of individuals and corporations.
Stop sending the small jobs that can be done here in America to increase the income of our own country to increase our spending. Then the key is do have supply follow demand, not have supply dictate our demand.
What do you think of this, leave your comments.
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Finally a Successful Upgrade
I will be 100% honest and say that I am not all that code savvy. So sometimes upgrading Wordpress is a pain. I was still running 2.6 for cryin’-out-loud. But I found the Automatic Upgrade Plug-in and pressed a few links -poof! 100% successful upgrade from 2.7 to 2.8!
So there lies my recommendation for anyone in my position looking for an easy upgrade!
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Do Something About It
I can’t count the times I have heard someone complaining about something they have control over but decide to do nothing about it. Understandably it is definitely hard to change things sometimes no matter how much control you have over it. But if you can and the means are within reach, why not?
Change happens, we all know it. I believe the best motive is to embrace it. Make sure that you’re comfortable with what is changing, take it in and use what you have to optimize the changes for your benefit.
This isn’t just social media, or businesses, it’s everything. Change happens, do your best to roll with it, and work it for your advantage!
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