Twitter digest, week of 2012-05-07

Twitter digest, week of 2012-04-30

Dolly Parton Talks about Medicine During her Childhood

I have watched many interviews with Dolly Parton from various people.

This set of interviews is probably some of the best I have seen lately.

Dr. Steve Salvatore a board-certified Emergency Medicine Physician that has served as the health expert on PIX11 Morning News since 2005.

Dr Steve interviewed Dolly and talked about many stories I have never heard about Dolly. Like the story of their family pet rooster Henny Penny and that she has a scar on her leg.  She told the story of  having only one nipple in the house. Urine being used to cure an ear ailement and many more. Well worth the minutes to view these videos.

The last part of the third video Dolly shows off.  She tells Dr. Steve how hot she thinks he is. Dolly at 66 years old is never at a loss of words.

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Video Segment 2

Video Segment 3

Twitter digest, week of 2012-04-23

American Queen to visit Henderson KY

On Monday, April 30, 2012, the American Queen will be docked on our Henderson KY riverfront (my front yard) . They will be arriving around 10:00 am and departing around 4:00 pm.

The American Queen will return to Henderson KY again on Saturday, May 12, 2012 from 8:00 am to 1:00 pm.  Since this is a Saturday this would be a great opportunity to come downtown Henderson KY.

The  Downtown Businesses that are normally closed on Monday (Memories Past & Present, The Gold Mine and The Tea Cafe & Gift Shop) will be open and of course our businesses that are always open on Mondays will be open to welcome our guest. See a list of downtown Henderson KY stores and restaurants.

So make plans to come down to the riverfront and view the beautiful riverboat, and make your way into our stores and restaurants! Enjoy the day in Downtown Henderson.

For a list of all the shops and places to eat in downtown Henderson KY, see the Downtown Henderson Project’s new brochure.

Sending Emails to Multiple Recipients

Have you ever received an email, and your name and email are listed among several hundred others? I have and it seems that I just automatically hit delete in disgust.

Some just don’t know that it is bad email etiquette to do that.  Etiquette is not about doing things right or wrong but positively affecting the others they impact.

I strongly suggest that the habit of using the BCC field when sending out an email to a mass audience. Below is the text from a website about this very issue.

Another reason for doing this is if you are trying to read the email on a mobile device it is very frustrating on such a little screen, one has to scroll past all the email names to the meat & potatoes of the emails intended message.

If you find yourself sending group emails often you need to invest in services like Constant Contact or Mail Chimp. Both services specialize in sending mass emails and are very inexpensive and give recipients the ability to remove their email address from the various list.

Let me know if you have any questions about this. We all want to present ourselves well when we send emails – especially to large groups.

This blog is for you Sarah A Courtney, you asked yesterday on Facebook what our pet peeves were.

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How to Send an Email to Undisclosed Recipients

I’m sure you know these emails that were obviously sent to a group of people: everybody’s email address is in the To: (or the Cc:) field, forming a long, long list.  This not only looks odd and unprofessional, it also exposes the email addresses of people who may have wanted to keep them private.

Bcc Means Privacy and Efficiency with Group Email

Fortunately, you don’t have to send individual emails to avoid this embarrassing exposure of email addresses. In addition to To: and Cc: recipients that show up in the email’s headers, you can insert Bcc: recipients.  Bcc: recipients get a copy of the email, but their email address is automatically deleted at delivery. Nobody except you and the Bcc: recipient will know that they got a copy, and their email address will not be exposed.

Send an Email to Undisclosed Recipients

To send an email to undisclosed recipients, select your email program or service, or follow the general instructions below.

  • Create a new message in your email client.
  • Insert “Undisclosed Recipients” in the To: field, followed by your email address in “<,>” braces.
  • The To: field should look like: “Undisclosed Recipients <me@example.com>“.
  • If you send emails to undisclosed recipients frequently, you can add your own email address to your address book with “Undisclosed” as the first and “recipients” as the last name. Instead of filling in the To: field manually, you can then use the address book entry.
  • Put all the recipients’ email addresses in the Bcc: field, separated by commas.
  • The Bcc: field could look something like: “my.first.friend@example.net, my_second_friend@example.net, stillanotherfriend@example.com”.
  • Compose your message.
  • Send it.

Twitter digest, week of 2012-04-16

Twitter digest, week of 2012-04-09

Social Fixer for Facebook

socialfixer

If you talk to me much about Social Media, I probably will tell you that I really don’t care for Facebook. I find it annoying and still check it multiple times during the day. It becomes a total time waster, and I continue to check it.

I suppose you could say I am addicted to the information it provides. I honestly believe that it is Facebook’s intention for us to only need and use one URL – that being Facebook.com!

If you have a business or a not for profit -don’t put all your pictures and information on Facebook’s use Facebook to point people to YOUR websites. Do everything you can to transport viewers out of Facebook to your respective site. Some not for profits and businesses don’t get this at all.

I use Facebook to get information, much I could live my life without, but it is especially good for business purposes. I use it as an online phone book to find peoples phone and email addresses or to identify who someone is. After all it is called Facebook.

Recently, I became familiar with a tool called Social Fixer for Facebook. “Social Fixer for Facebook” (formerly known as Better Facebook) is a free browser extension that improves the Facebook site by eliminating annoyances and adding lots of great enhancements and functionality. It runs in most browsers and installs in just a minute.

For those of you who do not like the new timeline feature Social Fixer allows you to make some adjustments to it.

I like the Tabbed News Feeds, Advanced Feed Filters. Hiding Posts you have already read, Friend Tracker (un-friend finder) and many more. For a complete list of Social Fixer for Facebook’s features see their features page.

I find that it works best in my preferred browser Google Chrome.

I have found it very easy to use and easily configurable. I liked it so well that I sent the developer Matt Kruse some money via PayPal.

Install it and let me know what you think.

BTW . . . Really want to know what’s up with me, read my Twitter Feed.

Why Federal Bicycle Funding Matters

Henderson KY could be a bicycle friendly community.  We are already making great strides in creating bicycling and walking trails in our community.  We have a lot of work to do however.

Talk recently includes extending our current bicycling and walking path from Kimsey Lane to join the Balmoral Subdivision.

For a list of Bicycle Paths in Henderson KY see our list of routes on Henderson County Tourist Commission website.

MapMyRide.com maintains another great list of bicycling opportunities in Henderson KY.

Watch this video by Streetfilms that show the importance of bicycling paths in communities and how they can advocate and enhance the overall health and economy of a community.

 

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