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Texas Holdem is a great game. There is something drawing to the way it is played. Maybe it is the almost even playing ground everyone is on. Maybe it is the fact that the single turn of a card in poker can take someone who had almost no chance of winning to having the best chance at the table. In essence, Texas Holdem poker is a game of waiting for the next turn of the card.

In games other than Texas Holdem there is not near as much importance on that card flipping. However the results of the flop and river are an exciting and integral part of Texas Holdem. Imagine sitting at a table. In your hand are a pair of Queens. On the board is two fives. Right now you are sitting on two pair. Not a particularly strong hand. In fact general advice would say to pitch it. However for some reason you kept it. The next card flips and it is a seven. No help at all. In fact you might think about pitching this hand in now. Instead though, a little voice whispers in your ear. You decide to hold, the next card is flipped and it is a Queen. Now you are sitting on a full house!

That is why Texas Holdem is such a great game. It all comes down to the turn of a card.

We’ve all seen blogs with obvious commercial messages. They fool no one and annoy everybody so much they probably go out of their way to NOT buy the product or service the writer was pushing. This is because the marketer violated the basic idea of blogging - sharing information, and opinions in an atmosphere of trust. Bloggers build relationships and get to know one another as they discuss mutual interests, and give advice and opinions.

Anyone who wants a quick win, thinking they can convince a group of people they don’t know to do something they aren’t convinced is in their best interest is simply dreaming.

But if someone wants to have an influence on the members of a forum, they can possibly do so. In selling terms, this is called working the relationship, not the transaction. Find forums where your signature can include your website. Learn about the forum and its participants. Read pages and pages of entries. See what’s been said, done, tried and discussed to death before you arrived, Understand the tone and see who the authorities are. Ask a few relevant questions. Comment on something if you have something substantive to say. If you feel you have something worthwhile to share, do so, once a week or once every few days. Don’t start suggesting solutions until you really understand the problems.

After a while you’ll be considered a regular with good ideas. You will have earned trust and added value. People will begin to recognize your name, and some will click on your website to see what it is that you do. This will be the beginning of a relationship - and people buy from those they know and trust.

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I mentioned in my previous articles that RSS technology can be successfully used as an improved substitute for emails.

People simply subscribe to RSS feeds and they can use multiple RSS Readers to read those feeds. All major search engines - Google, Yahoo! and MSN now offer personalized “home pages” for their readers and the ability to subscribe to numerous feeds from those pages, and to read them right there. So they all now have built-in RSS Readers, so to speak.

What I didn’t quite realize before is that blogs can now also perform many functions of forums. In fact, forums in the future might give up most of their power of interactive two-way communications to blogs.

Why? Let’s look at forums closely. What are the main purposes of forums? To provide the place for people with certain common interests to hang out and to interact with each other and to interactively communicate with the host of the forum.

When the publisher of the newsletter sends e-mails to the list of his subscribers, it’s a one-way communication. If he really cares about his subscribers, he wants to provide them with the way to communicate back to him, to ask questions, to give their opinion, tell about likes and dislikes, request additional information on the particular subject, etc.

Emails are not really a choice anymore, many publishers receive so much spam that they simply delete e-mails from un-known sources.

So forum is a great way to create a community, to let people help each other and let them talk to other people and to the host of the forum.

Also, it’s a great way to create new content on auto-pilot. Hopefully you will have a few knowledgeable members in your forum and they will post thoughtful answers to other people questions. And those answers will lead to new questions, and on, and on, and on.

You just got yourself a constantly growing source of useful unique content, and search engines love fresh unique content.

However there are a few noticeable drawbacks in the forum structure. First, when you let people to freely communicate with each other, they unfortunately have a tendency not only to help other people, but bash them as well. Some are helping, others are bashing. You want your forum to stay a friendly place where people are willing to help each other, so you need to take some administrative steps - hire moderators, ban “bad apples”, etc.

Also, it’s not so easy to give forum a life. You need to get at least a few hundred people to subscribe to your forum in a short period of time, or it will slowly die. And you need to keep people active.

Even if your forum is thriving (which is of course a good thing), you have another issue. it’s hard to maintain control over the topics in the forum. You created it with a purpose of discussing certain topics, but in a while forum will start living the life of it’s own and you never know what other topic will pop-up. It may be a good thing, it may be a bad thing. But it certainly doesn’t help to keep this place in a line with your initial concept.

Ok, so let’s summarize the drawbacks of the forums: possible bashing posts and additional administration costs, forums are hard to launch, hard to keep the posts in a line with your initial concept.

Now let’s look at blogs. They have a fantastic feature called “comments”. That means any person who visited your site may leave a comment about your post (if you enabled comments in your blog settings, of course). They may tell you what they like, what they don’t like, ask you questions, etc.

Those comments could be followed by the comments from other people about previous comments, questions, answers, recommendations - and you get the ball rolling.

It’s up to you to decide, however, whether to post any particular comment on your blog or not. If the comment bashes another visitor or doesn’t add any value to your blog, why should you bother posting it? Simply delete it and the end of story.

And with blogs people tend to keep discussion close to the topic of the post, thus allowing you to maintain the theme in line with your concept.

Which of forum’s drawback haven’t I covered yet? Launch? Well, with blog it’s a breeze.
You’re not launching the place for interactive communication per se, you already have a blog. So you simply email your list and let them know that you provided them with a place to ask you questions.

You don’t have to bother whether you have a one question or dozen for this particular post. The blog won’t die as long as you’re posting new information on it. Some people will like one post, others will want to comment on another - and that’s how you get your interactive community, with little effort and no headaches!

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When I decided to join the rest of the world and start blogging, I went a bit crazy trying to decide where to blog. The only thing I was absolutely certain of was that I didn’t want my blog to be associated with the word “diary.” When I think of diary it conjures up an image of myself as a young girl writing her deepest secrets in a small pink book equipped with lock and key to keep out forbidden eyes of parents, relatives and friends. I preferred my blog to be a plain old blog.

Although I like the word “journal” it sounds too sophisticated. Writing in my journal would compel me to the point of obsession to make every entry a literary masterpiece. I decided I couldn’t handle that level of stress. A regular old blog would allow me to be me. After making the primary decision, I came to the hard part. I spent days creating blogs all over the web. Unfortunately, I wasn’t happy with any of them. Not that there was anything wrong with the blog itself, I’m just difficult to please, I suppose. I just couldn’t find a template I liked with some of the ones I tried. Although there is a feature with most that allows the blogger to customize the template, that’s pretty much useless when you’re html illiterate like me.

Some of the blogs wouldn’t allow a photo to be uploaded and if they did, I certainly couldn’t figure out the mechanics of it. I was very distraught when the FAQ’s had an answer for every question but mine. What irritated me the most was when I finally decided to delete all the orphan blogs I had created, I found that a few of them didn’t seem to offer me the option to do so and after hours of frustration I could find no possible way to destroy the monster I had created. The icing on the cake was when customer support didn’t even reply to my desperate cry for help.

I finally decided to give up and go back to my original blog. There are still a few things that I’m not completely satisfied with like the fact that I can’t put my photo on the front page of my blog. (You have to click on the link to my profile.)The only template style that I actually like comes in a color I detest - bright orange. I have actually managed to do a bit of customizing to make the blog a little more to my liking and that was not an easy task for me. I would be fairly content if only I could figure out how to remove the orange stripes from the side panels, that is even if they can be removed at all. But I guess I can learn to live with that. I can’t blame unimaginative templates for my lack of skill. Orange stripes and all, I’m happily blogging away.

Darlene Zagata is a freelance writer and author of two books, “Aftertaste: A Collection of Poems” and “The Choosing.” She is also a monthly columnist and editor for the print publication Moon Shadows Magazine. Visit Darlene’s website at http://darlenezagata.tripod.com or contact Darlene at darzagata@yahoo.com

If you are buying several different gifts for Christmas hoping that the person will like them, then this article is for you. It would be a great idea to get them a gift card and let them choose what they really want and then you can spend the rest of the day enjoying each others company.

Christmas gets more extravagant every year. Despite everyone saying that next year will be different, it seems like Christmas is spent cleaning up piles of wrapping paper and trying to fit stuff into cars. When we are gift buying for adults, do we really need to go bonkers? Kids get excited for gifts, but adults buy for themselves what they want to have most of the time.

No one can ever know what everyone else knows. According to theory, you increase the odds someone will be pleased when you buy a large amount of stuff for them. It it best to do research before you put the time and effort into going all out for someone. Inquire of someone who is aware of what they desire. Asking very specific questions throughout the year will aid you in finding the perfect gift. Hopefully, this will keep you from buying them useless trinkets and gadgets. When these ideas fail, there is nothing wrong with gift cards. You can personalize these with a few home-baked cookies or ornaments, or with a personalized card that lets them know that you wanted them to have the last say about their gift. Even if you get to spend all your time surrounded by gifts, the best gift of all is spending time with loved ones.

A lot of people feel that gift cards are not personal, but of you think about it, you realize that giving a friend something he or she doesnt like or need is not personal either. When you cannot determine the perfect gift through any means, gift cards are the ideal solution. Most of the time people don’t know what they want, or won’t answer if they do. This group can also be pleased in a variety of ways. Here is a great site for some gifts for everyone.

I’ve always had a bug in my ear when it comes to investing. I think I got it from my father who was always looking for the next ‘big’ deal to end all of his financial aspirations

So, after I got out of college, a friend of mine suggested I take a look into real estate investing.

His dad had made a fortune in it and he wanted to try his luck as well.

Lucky for us his father also wrote all his strategies in a short book he entitled, “Real Estate Investing Guide: A Primer For Success”.

We poured over that book, modified a few things based on the current market and started on another fortune.

When you decide to learn more about a subject you know little about, what are some of the resources you’d tap into first?

Would it be the internet? The local library? Or maybe even a class at the local college?

Whatever your decision, the options are available.

Take for instance real estate investing.

This is a risky venture indeed. And one that shouldn’t be headed into lightly.

For my time and effort, I would use as many resources as possible: The internet, a solid real estate investing guide, the local library, and maybe even a class or two.

You can never have enough information when it comes to investing.

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There’s something you have to realise about the way users
interact with articles. To put it simply, they don’t just want
to read them: they also want to print them out, and send them on
to their friends, family and colleagues. If you can make it
easier for them to do this, then your site will be a hit. But
how? Well, read on.

The Print and Send Links

At either the top or the bottom of your article, you should
offer clear ‘print this article’ and ’send this article to a
friend’ links. It’s up to you how you present them, but a
generally good place is underneath the byline and date, like
this:

Article Headline by Bob Smith January 1, 2010 Print this article
Send this article to a friend

If that looks messy, though, try moving the links to the end of
the article. You might even link to have the ‘print’ link at the
top of the page and the send to a friend link at the bottom.

You should also note that there are standard ‘icons’ (small
pictures) to represent printing and sending. Printing is a
picture of a printer (the same one used in word processors),
while sending is a picture of an envelope. Using these icons
will make it much easier for people to see what the different
functions of your website are. In many cases, you can even leave
out the text and just have the icons, or only have the text
appear when the user hovers over the icons - this saves on space
without sacrificing usability.

CSS for Printing

It’s an unfortunate fact of the web that many web pages look
simply terrible if you print them as they are. No-one wants ads
on their print-outs, or blue-underlined links, or navigation, or
many of the other elements of a web page. For your visitors who
want to print, then, it’s good to be able to remove these things
from your page when they press that ‘print’ button, before you
tell the browser to start printing.

How can you do this easily? Well, luckily, CSS has a built-in
mechanism for it. It lets you specify different styles depending
on media, with the default being media:screen - for printing,
you can use media:print, and add or take away different parts of
the style quickly and easily.

It’s not difficult to switch between the screen and print CSS
stylesheets when that print button is pressed - all you need to
do is add a second stylesheet underneath your first one. That
means that your stylesheet declaration (in your HTML head) needs
to look like this:

type="text/css"> href="mystyle-print.css" type="text/css">

The mystyle-print.css contains all the CSS that will be applied
to the document when it prints: nothing from mystyle.css will be
applied. Browsers should then apply this stylesheet
automatically when your document is printed - all that remains
is to link to javascript:self.print() for your ‘print this page’
link.

Sending Pages

The best way to handle the sending of pages is to provide three
input boxes for the person doing the sending: one asking for
their name or email address, one asking for the recipient’s
email address, and an extra box for any customised message you
might want to send.

All you need to do then is create an email from this
information: in PHP, for example, this is as simple as using the
mail() function. Include the information entered by the sender
in the message’s ‘from’ field, instead of the name of your
website, and keep your own words to a minimum if the sender
wrote a custom message: it’s much better for a message to look
like this:

Thought you might like this! http://www.example.com/article/101

than like this:

You’ve been sent an article from example.com! The sender said:
“Thought you might like this!” http://www.example.com/article/101

Basically, emphasise the fact that it’s from their friend, not
from your website, and you’ll get far more people clicking the
link. It’s also worth including the title and even the intro, as
well as just a link to the article, so the person involved is
more tempted to click it - after all, if their friend thought
they’d be interested, they probably will be.