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Did you know there’s wealth of good things right next door to you? It’s your neighbors. Get to Know Your Neighbor Week starts 6/19.

Start Where You Live is an online community promoting the power to change the world by starting right where you live. The national event is a great way to break the ice and get to know your neighbors.

By actively developing a friendship with your neighbor, you are tapping into a valuable resource. Every one benefits when neighbors join together in fellowship. The women may have chaotic and crazy lives but they do have the power of friendship. Hopefully, you’ll never have to hide a body, like The Desperate Housewives.

Perhaps you live in a neighborhood or extended community where you know your neighbors and connect with them regularly. Sadly, most people only know their neighbors with a quick nod as they pass on the stairs or a weak wave as they back out of the driveway.  Cultivating this resource takes EFFORT but I guarantee the rewards are bountiful.

From June 19th to June 30th, people across the nation are getting to know their neighbors over a BBQ, coffee klatch or pot-luck. It’s not too late to plan a block party. Potluck dinners or even an old-fashioned progressive dinner (where every course is at a different house) are great bonding experiences.

Here are just a few ways you’ll benefit from a strong neighborhood.

• Lower crime rates
• A save place for your kids to go in an emergency
• Welcome arms when tragedy strikes
• Sharing and borrowing tools
• Helping an elderly neighbor live safely
• Community fund raising
• Community protests
• Backup baby sitters
• Someone to feed the dog while you’re away
• Someone to share those extra zucchini with
• Someone who would notice if you weren’t around

 

Don’t miss out on this opportunity to change your life and the lives of your neighbors by building friendships.

You can learn more about building a conscious community at the Start Where You Live site.

Here’s my good neighbor story:

Thanks to neighborhood kids last  summer, my cat was rescued from being trapped in the garage door. Chase was atop my van when I backed out of the garage. He jumped on the inside of the open garage door. When I closed the door and backed out, I never noticed he had slid down and was trapped at the top of the garage door. It was a hot day and he was screaming loud enough that neighbor kids and soon their parents got involved in trying to rescue him. A young teenager took it upon herself to try every door and window to see if she could get into the house. She discovered a window I had not locked and was able to get into the garage to rescue my poor panicked cat! The neighbors stood vigil with him until I returned hours later to rush him to the Vet.

Looks like an oil spill to me even if Congressman Don Young (R) doesn’t think so. Our addiction to oil is spelling more heartbreak. Here’s a photo from a recent Move On email. Yes, it is a poor bird covered in the muck. And there is more to come.

 

A special thanks to Rose of Sharon Jewelry customers participating in May 10/10 sale. Helping find a cure for CF www.cff.org.

May was National Cystic Fibrosis Awareness month – but for thousands of children, young adults and their families they never forget. I would encourage you to learn more about Cystic Fibrosis and how you can be part of the cure at www.cff.org.

 

Thanks for all your kind words of encouragement for Sarah.

Facebook just announced that only fan pages with 10,000 fans can set their “home” page to a custom tab. All our calls to action Welcome pages created to increase your fan base will just be another tab that no one will ever look at.

Facebook just stopped custom tabs from being the opening to a fan page without telling us! Okay so we aren’t paying customers but we are a critical part of the Facebook business model – without such a big user base, all those paying ads would be worthless.

A Facebook Developers forum just had this post today -

Hello all,

We apologize for not messaging this earlier. Facebook recently made a change requiring that Pages be authenticated before enabling the ability to set a landing tab beyond Wall or Info. To be eligible for authentication, a Page must have greater than 10k fans or the Page admin must work with their ads account manager. If you are already working with an account representative, please contact that representative to begin the authentication process. If you do not work with an account representative, you can use this contact form to inquire about working with an account representative.

Also, for advertisers who don’t have a representative or 10k fans, and want to run ads and land users on a specific tab, you can still do so with standard Facebook ads by making their Destination URL as the URL incl. your tab.  Unfortunately, this currently will not work with "Fan"  ads.

Thanks,
Matt Trainer

Give me a Break!

You’d think that after the recent privacy uproar that they would put more thought into how they are evolving Facebook. I’ve long felt that they are slowly moving to a pay-for-service model so perhaps if they piss off the little people – only those left will be willing to pay.

This sounds like a book topic – How Facebook Got Arrogant and Greedy, The rise and fall of a social media giant.

I don’t want that to happen but a few years ago who would have thought that MySpace was going to wither away and experts are already sharing that Twitter isn’t nearly as powerful and useful (as a marketing tool) as we’re lead to believe.

My Advice

Start a blog and make it the center of your social networking world. You own it, you control it and the Constitution protects your freedom of speech. Just use sites like Twitter and Facebook for a part of your outreach – not the basis for building a business.

 

Sorry if there are typos or errors in this rambling post. I’m just mad and you should be to if you use Facebook to promote your business.

 

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I’m really enjoying the new blog editorial calendar. I get to dig deep every day to find something new within myself to share. I am returning to the gutsy, bold, take no prisoners Sharon during my activist period.

I start out in high school as the school’s newspaper editor, student council member and organizer of one of the first Earth Day celebrations. I managed to get people talking about ecology, birth control, water pollution and all because of I just sat down and typed out letters!

Yeah! I like that Sharon!

Thankful Thursday blog posts are the perfect antidote to Tantrum Tuesday’s rants. It’s all about balance in life.

I’m a firm believer that gratitude (a close cousin to thankfulness) is the key to happiness.

Today’s thankfulness is pretty simple (simple is often the best but the hardest for us to notice) – I’m really grateful for the friends, fans, followers, customers and acquaintances  I’ve gathered around me through being online.

You’ll find my original work at -

Rose of Sharon Jewelry

A.F.F. Jewelry collection

New Life Jewelry Art 

Rose of Sharon Jewelry Facebook fan page 

I’m a stay-at-home wife, mother, grandmother, artist and business woman so the connections are an important part of my day. Also some days it’s the most adult conversations I ever get. 4 year olds aren’t too interested in what I have to say! LOL Arden (hubby) is a road warrior so he is gone more than he is home.

I have found compassion, anger, truth, empathy, well wishes and humanity from the people who email, comment, tweet and reply.

During our recent influx of new Rose of Sharon Jewelry Birthday Club membership drive, I have been reading the comments.

I see everything from a simple thanks to a women sharing how tough life has been for her on disability to a woman wishing her family was not lost to her.

So thanks for the connections (and Happiness) you bring me every day!

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Wealth is more than money is message I’ll be sharing every Wednesday with my blog readers. I’ve been brainstorming on thought-proving conversations we can share. Beyond financial wealth, Wednesdays will be filled with ideas on increasing your physical wealth (health), emotional wealth (mental health, faith, soul searching) and relationship wealth (family and friends.

Please let me know on topics you might like to see addressed on Wealthy Wednesdays.

Facebook friends and Twitter followers know I’ve been dealing with some unexplained chest pain and shortness of breath so today’s post is about physical wealth.

I’m doing fine but a diagnosis still eludes the doctors.

The facts are:

1. Heart disease is the #1 killer of women.
2. 1 in 3 women will die from heart disease.
3. 2/3 of women who die from heart disease had no prior symptoms.
4. You can change your chances by
   1. Lowering your blood pressure and cholesterol
   2. Control diabetes
   3. Lose weight
   4. Exercise
   5. Stop smoking

I know most of you know these facts but knowing and doing are to different things.

Pledge today that you will learn more about heart disease prevention from the links below and most importantly MAKE ONE CHANGE in your life. Because it does mean your life!

• WomenHeart Organization
• American Heart Association
• The Heart Truth

 

Testing new themes can be hazardous to your blogs health. In reviewing a nice pink theme, the blog crashed. When the crash was resolved, you suddenly were taken to a spammer movie site. The real Rose of Sharon Jewelry blog is back with limited functionality. My web guy and I will be testing and making changes to the current theme over the next week until it sings and dances again! If you notice something malfunctioning, please leave a comment below. Thanks for your patience! Sharon