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Month: May 2014

  • Why ads now after 15 years without

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    short version: this website needs an upgrade, and that means extra monthly costs for web hosting. long version: I’ve been blogging since June 1999, having started journaling online before it was blogging. I’m an early adopter like that, love experimenting with new things that are free. I think it’s, at least in part, inspired by…

  • How to reset Prius C maintenance required light

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    Here’s how to turn off the error message on the Toyota Prius c dashboard that says: MAINTENANCE REQUIRED Reset the maintenance data (U.S.A. only) After the required maintenance is performed according to the maintenance schedule, please reset the maintenance data. To reset the data, follow the procedures described below: Vehicles without a smart key system…

  • Counseling for Asian American Pastors and Missionaries

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    Recently got word of this most valuable resource that provides great help for Asian American pastors, missionaries, and their families to receive mental and emotional health care through biblical Christian counseling. Excerpt of the announcement: Announcement: Ministry Counseling Subsidy for Pastors and Missionaries We have great news! Asian American Christian Counseling Service (AACCS) was awarded…

  • List of the Best Blogs on New gTLDs

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    Best way to answer the question “What’s going on with new gtlds? I’m finding it very difficult to get any decent information about the new gtlds that are being released” is to keep up with the bloggers that are good about posting frequent updates with current news and information about new gTLDs, aka the Internet…

  • God created you to love you

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    This simple truth touched my heart and soul profoundly recently: “God created you to love you.” I heard Pastor Rick Warren say it during a sermon a couple months ago, and it’s been simmering on the back burner of my mind. Then it gripped me one morning. Whoa. (as only Keanu Reeves can say it.)…

  • What is Boba Royal Milk Tea? At Lollicup anyways..

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    Lollicup is a franchise boba tea cafe in SoCal and a bunch of other locations nationwide and going international; formally known as Lollicup Coffee & Tea according to the corporate site. Here’s how 2 Yelp’ers describe what their Boba Royal Milk Tea is:: [Jen T] … Royal Milk Tea: Im a fan! Not as heavy as the regular milk tea,…

  • Where to get free photos: Creative Commons + stock photography

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    Photo Credit: Brandon Christopher Warren via Compfight cc List of popular free photo websites Flickr Creative Commons — also searchable via Compfight or  photopin [photo count: 85M+] freeimages [407k+] (was sxc.hu or Stock.Xchng) morgueFile [225k+] stockvault [46k+] openphoto [est. 20k+] picjumbo [##] freerangestock [##] imagebase [##] Oversimplified explanation of photo use licensing — Creative Commons = use photo with link to photo credit for…

  • When will more new gTLD websites go live?

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    Thousands upon thousands of domain names are being registered with new gTLD extensions, 746,000+ new domain names at the time of this post, with endings like: .guru .berlin .club .photography .email .link .today .tips .company (gTLD stands for generic top level domain) – but I’m finding less than 1% (guesstimate) of them have real websites up-and-running…

  • What’s a good CTR? Click through rate benchmarks.

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    Short answer = it depends. Click-through rates (CTR) may be different depending on what kind of an online ad is being used, whether a banner ad, text ad, video ad, animated ad, email links, or whatever else. For managers and executives that don’t mind having an simplistic inaccurate answer, an overgeneralized good CTR is ~…

  • unblink launching: starting with the why

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    The internet is changing. In case you didn’t know it. Most people don’t. That’s okay. The namespace is getting 100s of new domain extensions, like the one used here at unb.link and as the dust settles and more websites and blogs use this, a lot of things will change. Where it goes, nobody knows for…

  • A Better Gospel for Chinese People and Asian Cultures

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    Have you noticed there are 4 Gospels about Jesus Christ in the Bible, the Christian Scriptures? Why wasn’t one more than enough? One reason it’s so valuable to have these multiple presentations of the life of Christ is to make it more understandable and meaningful to particular people in specific cultures: Matthew for the Jews. Mark for the…

  • iMinistry 2014 is coming October 14-16

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    The best (and the only) social media church conference for advanced practitioners is coming again this October 14-16, 2014. It’s the kind of place that Social Media Church podcast listeners would love to gather around in-person and in real-time. The website is coming soon. This is all I can say about that. // [update 6/20/2014] the…