Can't remember who it was, but on tonight's show someone mention negative feedback after they posted on a forum. Remember folks, showing up once, dropping a link and running, IS spamming that community. You'll lose. Refer back to Ed's video: http://www.youtube.com/watch...
'TO Ed Dale, Bob, Dan, Caro and the 30DC Team' . . . Everybody here, 'Like' this comment if you appreciate the team and everything they are doing for us. 30DC Team, YOU ROCK! and we are your loyal followers. We all Thank You, for everything.
I have to second what Jamie has stated! Ed, Dan, Bob, Caro, Nez and all the members of the 30DC Challenge team who have brought this together as well as the Marketing Samurai Guys and WordPress Direct Crew, what you have given in the way of your time, knowledge and own expense has been to quote a phrase, "Totally Awesome!" Thankyou so much for giving a me (us) such a wonderful opportunity in learning so much for so little! You All Rock! No word to describe except Thankyou Thankyou Thankyou Thankyou THANKYOU
- Tim
Agreed, its hard to ignore the negative, sadly the usually shout (complain) the loudest. You're all doing a sterling job, thank you sincerely.
- Paul King
from twhirl
I am constantly amazed at the selflessness and generosity shown by the 30DC Crew. I've learned a tremendous amount that will help me with my business going forward. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
- Roxanne Ravenel
I cant agree more with all of you. The 30DC and the whole team are awesome. Too bad there will always be that small portion who must spoil everything they touch and those for whom even breathing is too much of an effort. Don't let them worry you. Please keep up the good work.
- Frans
Thanks to everyone who has come together to provide us with such complete, thorough and ridiculously awesome training...I have learned more from this challenge than I ever would have had I continued to try to market on my own. You guys rock. Thank you on behalf of myself and every other participant in this challenge.
- Shariyf Clark
from twhirl
I must agree the 30 day challenge is incredible and so are the people partaking. Every one is extremely helpful.
- Claudia
When you come to the edge of all the light you know and are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing that one of two things will happen: there will be something solid to stand on, or you will be taught how to fly. --- Sorry to hear of Randy's passing --
- Ron Rink
Cant add anything, i too am a tigger
- Frann Leach
What an awesome person! Watch full lecture here http://www.youtube.com/watch... and then read his book. The Last Lecture does make you think of what we do here on this planet.
- Gideon Fouché
yep... i wouldn't have known mine were gone had not I seen people talking about it in the stream..
- Allison
Hey, perhaps this latest TwitterSlap is a good excuse to pare down one's "Following" list...? Just a thought...
- Sam Sotiropoulos
I don't know what this slap is, and I have only been on twitter a short while, but MOST people who follow me I DO NOT follow back. I agree with this, because I agree with the way Twitter was designed to be used. Simple!
- Greg Martin
From the New Yorker article: "A lawn may be pleasing to look at, or provide the children with a place to play, or offer the dog room to relieve himself, but it has no productive value. The only work it does is cultural. In Downing’s day, the servant-mowed lawn stood, eloquently, for the power structure that made it possible: who but the very rich could afford such a pointless luxury? As mechanical mowers enabled middle-class suburbanites to cut their own grass, this meaning was lost and a different one took hold. A lawn came to signal its owner’s commitment to a communitarian project: the upkeep of the greensward that linked one yard to the next."
- Ginger Makela Riker
from Bookmarklet
I hate my yard. It's overshadowed by 4 giant maple trees that kill just about everything beneath them. I take no joy in the yard, and I spend very little time maintaining it. I guess that means I'm non-conformist?
- Nathaniel Payne
Really glad to see this getting some mainstream attention. I don't have a problem with people owning a bunch of land (to a certain extent, I guess) but grass? Plant a garden instead - make it productive and enviro-friendly.
- Ray Grieselhuber
I grew up on acre, and mowing that acre with a push mower was almost an every day thing. I loathe the lawn, but we have a good sized lot that is nice for the kids, I just hire someone to mow it.
- RAPatton
As is typical for Texas (and as seen on King of the Hill) most of the people in my neighborhood spent a lot of time and money maintaining their lawns to perfection, even without HOA requirements. I would love to zero-scape it somehow, though. I hate maintaining a yard.
- Phil G
Good read... also from the article: In “American Green” (2006), Ted Steinberg, a professor of history at Case Western Reserve University, compares the lawn to “a nationwide chemical experiment with homeowners as the guinea pigs.”
- nadim
I hate to mow grass. Lived in England for twenty years, where gardens reign supreme. When I moved back to the USA,in the burbs, I removed all the grass, put a 55 foot patio in the back, put 17 tons of gravel on the front, with lots of flower beds. The neighbors thought I was nuts. People used to drive by real sloooow.
- Henry Burger
@J.Phil. I learn something every day. I almost sent a link about xeriscaping, and discovered that zeroscaping also is a method.
- Henry Burger
Desert landscaping without lawns is actually mandatory now for new homes in Vegas (for obvious reasons). We have such a yard ourselves which I'm just lukewarm to. Eventually want to get a Fieldturf yard, which is the new artificial grass being used in football stadiums. Have a yard or two on the block that has it and it looks great...
- Chris Reed
Henry - my bad. What I meant to say is I would like to make it all pavement.
- Phil G
I have discovered that if you leave crab grass alone, it eventually turns into a excellent lawn. Except for pesky centipede grass that refuses to die .
- Moved to Facebook
People don't have lawns here in Phoenix (at least not the majority of people... those who do are either so starved for green that they are willing to pay for all the water, live in historic neighborhoods or they are rich). We have rocks. Lots of them. I do have a nice back yard though with trees and a few rose bushes and some flower pots/beds. I love my yard but it's still a freaking lot of work even without grass.
- Fa La La La Lindsay
Reminds me of some of Sayyid Qutb's observations about American moral decay in the 50s... obsessed with our lawns but no clue what we were cultivating inside our own souls.
- Anthony Citrano
We moved away from our 1/3 acre pristinely manicured lawns, perfect shrubs, roses, smooth weed free paved walks, ponds, etc.... left all that work, maintenance and non-sense for a simple *natural* yard that is teeming with life - very minimal maintenance, smaller yard (still 1/3 acre), but since it is mostly filled with trees, bushes, and native happy plants, like hostas and crown vetch we don't have to constantly maintain or water it.
- Susan Beebe
Can't believe the power of this tool! I am excited by what it can do - will totally overhaul my SEO optimization tactics! Great Job Guys!! Tutorials were excellent, clear and precise.
- Sharon Fleming
from twhirl
Interesting. I am surprised I hadn't heard of Posterous before and am definitely going to keep an eye on it. Worth doing some testing on for sure. Thanks for the heads up!
- Mindy Koch
yeah, I joined it the other day. Neat platform
- Will Ponder
I was user number 350 something so I'd guess this site is still too young and too small for all of 30DC
- Andy Roberts
Cool! just joined posterous, haven't heard of it until now Thanks
- David
Awesome! I got there in time to grab my keyword before it was taken - Thanks to you | Great tool
- Wendy J. Roan
from NoiseRiver
anybody notice any google love? Ill try it out - love feedback
- Ed Dale
just had a go, nice concept, found one little issue if you email a post with an incorrect link you have to go into the source to change it (I'm a developer so I go after these sorts of things :) ). I'm guessing that this is because its still shiny and new and out the box.
- Dave Pook
Thanks for the link to posterous! We aim to please. -Garry, cofounder, posterous.com
- Garry Tan
Does that mean it's cool to create 4,000 "How to ..." blogs ?
- Andy Roberts
I think I may have discovered a new addiction, its a bit like sending a private email to the world :)
- Dave Pook
Awesome, have just set up my own subscription link - now to get people to subscribe LOL - Really appreciate this info Ed, THANK YOU!!
- Sharon Fleming
from twhirl
Google Reader has a built in directory you can search by keyword. There's also a neat feature called "bundles" that has over a dozen themed groups of preselected feeds you can subscribe to at once. Adding one of these bundles organizes the newly subscribed feeds into a handy folder. - http://www.webware.com/8301-1_...
Love the screen capture Ed and it has nothing to do with the fact that that's my avatar at the top. ;-) The updated twhirl 0.8.2 rocks!
- Sharon McPherson