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Month: July 2014

  • 50% of Interbrand’s Top 100 Global Brands applied for new gTLDs

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    The Internet has already seen the launching of 250+ new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) this year and it’s estimated to be over 1,000+ new gTLDs by next year, 2015, even though a majority of people are not aware of them yet. Global brands may well be the biggest factor in changing that perception; .BMW has already launched. One…

  • Kindle Unlimited mean access to 23% of Kindle eBooks store

    Kindle Unlimited mean access to 23% of Kindle eBooks store

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    Getting a subscription to Kindle Unlimited doesn’t mean you won’t need to buy any eBooks again. Yes, Kindle Unlimited sounds amazing: “Enjoy unlimited access to over 600,000 titles and thousands of audiobooks on any device for just $9.99 a month.” But it doesn’t mean you get access to even half of the Kindle eBooks library. Which parts of…

  • How many Chinese churches are in the USA?

    How many Chinese churches are in the USA?

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    Statistics are useful for strategic planning for the future of churches and ministries, or any organization for that matter, even if they’re estimates. I had researched the number of Chinese churches in the United States and Canada 5 years ago in 2009 and they’re posted at: How many Asian American churches in the USA with sources footnoted.…

  • How to Get RSS Feed for CaringBridge Journal?

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    Short answer: you can’t. There is no way to get an RSS feed, and even if you were to build a script that converts the email notification into an RSS feed so you could get an alert via RSS, you would not be able to read the full text of a new journal entry without an Internet…

  • Update on NSA’s Proposed Brand/Name Change – National Speakers Association

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    — statement posted with video announcement by NSA’s Shep Hyken posted 7/14/14 — Thank You for Your Feedback. Thank you to all who have responded to us with phone calls, through social media, and especially the over 500 people who took the time to respond via e-mail with suggestions, comments and feedback about NSA’s proposed…

  • Does character and integrity still matter in the 21st century?

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    David Brooks unpacks a counter-culture to the pursuit of happiness, using rich words like: depth, soul, virtue, character, integrity, love, sacrifice, obedience, grace. David Brooks is a New York Times Op-Ed columnist, a journalist, and culture commentator. And thanks to Bob Buford‘s email update “Museletter,” he included (some of) his notes from Aspen Ideas Institute 2014.First, Bob shared his musings about that talks…

  • Community Bible Church Introduces Innovative Program to Develop New Online Churches

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    [press release] COMMUNITY BIBLE CHURCH INTRODUCES INNOVATIVE PROGRAM TO DEVELOP NEW ONLINE CHURCHES Free Online Church Leaders training platform provides step-by-step instructions to launch an online church, with a goal of reaching one million people each week by 2016 SAN ANTONIO – July 15, 2014 – In what is believed to be the first program…

  • Orange County is where many Asian Americans live

    Orange County is where many Asian Americans live

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    Orange County, California, affectionately known as the O.C., has the third-largest Asian American population in the United States. This statistic recently got some attention (in LA Times, NPR, Cal State Fullerton, press release) from the publication of a report titled “A Community of Contrasts: Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders in Orange County, 2014”…

  • Why is there so much low quality Christian stuff?

    Why is there so much low quality Christian stuff?

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    Sometimes I talk with people who are serious Christ-followers and they share with me their disappointment and frustration about how Christians produce work of average (or worse) quality. The work could be in the arts (movie, media, music, song, painting, drawing, t-shirt design, posters, signs); the work could be a non-profit initiative (community service, social…

  • What is going on with the brand Platform?

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    UPDATE 7/14/2014: NSA Drops the Platform Name, via MichaelHyatt.com —– original blog post below —— Michael Hyatt’s book “Platform: Get Noticed in a Noisy World” was published in May 2012. And his landing page, Why You Need a Platform to Succeed, ranks near the top of Google searches for “platform” and the book was a New York Times…

  • Looking for 2nd Generation Korean American or Chinese American Parents

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    Julie J. Park is Assistant Professor of Education at University of Maryland, with research interests in racial diversity and equity in higher education, religion, Asian American college students, affirmative action and college admissions, social and cultural capital. She is looking for Asian Americans that would be interviewed for this project below: Researchers at the University of…