Think Outside The Box

Re: Think Outside The Box - Donna S

2/11/2007 2:09:18 AM

Hi Mary :) Great Forum! and who doesnt like learning, sharing and caring! Hope you weekend is wonderful :)

Re: Think Outside The Box - Mary Hofstetter

2/10/2007 7:58:51 PM

This forum helps us find new friends. They are impressed that we care about their holidays. It helps our new people to feel comfortable here in Adlandpro, as we not only build understanding but build new relationships.

Re: Think Outside The Box - Mary Hofstetter

2/7/2007 6:24:43 PM

Hey everybody,

Wayne has not posted on any of the holidays threads, but do you see that the forum still has value for him.

He uses it to promote his Adland business. So whether a person posts or not, there still is value.

The forum is getting lots of hits, even after the holiday is over, so that means lots of visitors to Adlandpro.

Re: Think Outside The Box - Wayne Ellis

2/6/2007 10:03:23 PM

Mary,

Will try to explain why the same link title gets repeated in the Squidoo module.

What happens is the RSS feed is actually designed to display new data as it becomes available. When the most recent threads are all (or almost all) referring to the same topic then the title gets repeated.

However by reading the brief excerpt you can see that they are different replies from various members.

I edited Squidoo to increase the number of links displayed from 7 up to 10. These thread titles will change as current entries are brought on stream. so some days it may display mainly for one holiday and other times it could list several different one. It mainly depends on how many new entries are replies to the same holiday.

I also put an explanatory note in squidoo above the listings. Currently it will not list more than 10 entries at a time. So as new ones appear at the top, the older ones will disappear at the bottom of the list.

Am willing to help if and when I can. Words of an old song says, If I can help somebody as I journey along, then my living has not been in vain.

Enjoy the Journey,

Wayne

Re: Think Outside The Box - Mary Hofstetter

2/6/2007 4:52:33 PM

Wayne,

That is truly amazing. I am wondering why you listed each of the Waitangi seperately when they open to the main thread post.

Everyone please send Wayne a personal pm and thank him. He has expanded our horizons. You too could do that if you build a forum of value and have his program---you know squidoo.

No one networks quite like you. I have learned so much from you altho we seldom communicate. Can I adopt you as my personal trainer?

Re: Think Outside The Box - Wayne Ellis

2/6/2007 4:35:30 PM

Mary, just a little follow-up here and I think it contains good news.

I did some more work on my Squidoo Adlandpro Lens today. Decided to try a few of your adland links. Let me know if you like them.

I showed a link to your Learning About Adlandpro Level One, and Thinking Outside The Box, and Celebrate Our Different Cultures.

But most importantly I suddenly realized that Squidoo could accept and display the RSS feed from your Cultures Forum. I added a new Squidoo module to display the most current threads from your forum. Squidoo viewers can simply click on a RSS feed link and be taken directly to your Adland forum for Worldwide Holidays

Also if you visit my Squidoo link below, you will notice two external links that may help in research. They are links to Earth Calendar and to The Free Dictionary.

Perhaps you are already familiar with these links, but if not, they actually show holidays for every country or you can browse holidays by date, etc.

Here is that squidoo link. Mary, and all viewers, please let me know what you think of it. I hope it helps someone in researching this fascinating topic.

http://www.squidoo.com/Adlandpro-com-builder99/

all the best,

Wayne

Re: Think Outside The Box - Mary Hofstetter

2/6/2007 3:52:02 PM

Hey this is great, you caught the mistakes and that tells me someone is reading this forum. That makes me feel good.

I want to add that an added value to the forum is provided by Jennie Dol Bello of New Zealand, where she speaks of remembering a past holiday. If our celebrations do that it brings value to our work on Celebrations. For a moment she was able to step back in time and reflect on a previous holiday experience.

Re: Think Outside The Box - Zvonimir Rakigjija

2/6/2007 3:07:50 PM

Hi Mary
In your answer to Natalya you have made a small mistake in context.It was not the "Russian" occupation.It was Napoleon - French occupation under general Marmont.
in 1806 the "FREE REPUBLIC OF DUBROVNIK"was halted.
Thanks
Zvonimir Rakigjija

http://www.zvorak.zoomshare.com

Re: Think Outside The Box - Wayne Ellis

2/5/2007 9:34:07 PM

Mary,

Just wanted to confirm that the new platform I mentioned is known as Squidoo.
Just think of the creature that lives in the ocean somewhere. (Squid)

The word that you used (squinto) apparently is a new product released maybe in November of 2006. Squinto is a todo list application according to a quick search I just did in google.

Whereas Squidoo is a growing Online Community of people eager to help other Squidoo members learn how to use this new platform. Just today I started to create a new Squidoo Lens like a mini site map of Adlandpro links.

Would you like me to put a link to this outside the box forum in it?

Wayne

Re: Think Outside The Box - Mary Hofstetter

2/5/2007 7:23:03 PM

Natalya, May I share how this forum came about. Another member Michael Caron had suggested that we never celebrate holidays other than American. He felt that our international holidays of all nations should be celebrated. That was thinking outside the realm of what a large percentage of Adlanders would think. What we experience, does not give us the full picture as you say. St. Blasius is celebrated all over the Catholic segment of our society but when a specific person like Zvonimir steps up and says, I live in the town where he was martyerd, I get goose pimples. Just think of the history he set out before us. Then we go and see actual pictures of the procession held for 1036 years until Russian occupation halted it. NOW ON FEB 3 it was to be celebrated again in Dubrovnik, Croatia. That is truly seeing the big picture. Thank you Natalya for opening the door a little wider to understanding.