Marking a Good First-Impression
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Did you know that out of the total amount of first-time visitors that your blog gets everyday, only a percentage of it actually reads your blog and comes back for more?
First time visitors are those visitors who had just viewed your blog for the first time. The problem with this type of visitor is that, unless they have an initial interest in reading your blog, they won’t go into the trouble of browsing your blog to read it. Some of them would just look at your blog and would immediately leave if nothing interesting catches their eye.
So, what should you do? The solution is to mark a good first impression on your first-time visitors.
Speak Up About the Environment
Some years ago, while on a public utility jeepney (PUJ), I noticed how the environment suffered but I declined to speak up. This is what happened.
Moderation is the Key
Author’s note: Okay, so my blogs in my own domain are down (account suspended) but I won’t let that hinder me from participating from Blog Action Day! So here we go…
Recently there has been a lot of commotion and discussions going on about the real status of our environment. Some may argue that we’re going about the wrong way of protecting our environment by promoting extreme environmentalism but one just have to look at our surroundings and know that we ought to do something about man’s destruction of the environment. But it is also not correct to pursue all means of protecting the environment, while neglecting human progress. It’s a delicate balance, I guess, and we haven’t found the formula for it yet.
My belief in this is that we should exercise moderation. For example, I do not say that we stop using paper altogether, but rather we only be wary of indiscriminate use of it. Nor do we forego all plastic products, but rather we should be prudent in using these materials and not produce more than we could use.
Here are some other tips I’d like to share:
My Creed on Recycling – Blog Action Day
I have recently been to Hong Kong and what awesomed me more is surprisingly neither the night market nor Disneyland. Do you know that almost all their local companies and establishments strictly encourage and implement the recycling of PET (or Polyethylene Terephthalate) bottles? In our Hong Kong office, they have a separate bin for empty PET bottles. In Disneyland, all trash bins come in pairs where one is dedicated solely for PET bottle disposal as in the picture accompanying this article.
This consciousness for preserving the environment must come from each and everyone of us. True. But the initiative must really come from the government. I’m sorry for this hard sell, but Hong Kong’s Environmental Protection Department deserves high praises for making its citizens and visitors realize the value of recycling if only for the PET bottle recycling movement they had successfully implemented. Adults do it and so children follow suit and live the habit from example.
Read on my creed and the rest of this post at fritzified.com>>
It’s a generational thing
Cross-posted from my weblog.
DURING weekends, it has become a family tradition to motor to my hometown in Sagrada, Pili for our weekly worship and a visit at the old folks.
For about three months, the trips became an ordeal as the electronics of our 10-year old car that survived Reming’s wrath, though bruised and battered by flying purlins that twisted in the winds, suddenly conked out. But everything is back to normal now, our weekly pilgrimage even made better by the rediscovered versatility of the car CD player.
You see, that three-year old CD player can play MP3 tracks. If you can’t grasp the difference, think about this: while traditional CDs can only have 20 singles — my Ultraelectromagneticjam for instance had 17 — a blank CD can have around 140 MP3s on them. That’s more or less seven music albums in one serving.
Since I started burning MP3 songs and playing them the past three weeks, with all my seven kids on board, with their mom and grandma to boot, I noticed that if there is one other thing that binds our family together, it is our common love for music.
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I Want to Know More Bloggers
Hello there are you a Filipino Blogger ?, I would like to expand my reach to other bloggers and I would like to gather more friends in the web, specially Filipino & Filipina Bloggers.
World vs. Bank
Wanna know how the World Bank is either making your life better or worse? See here.
The Ten Commandments of Cheaters
Naturally, I’m a cheater. I am not proud of it nor I am ashamed of it, it’s just that I acknowledge it as one of my God-given talents.
One time I arrived to my Zoology class very early and saw a little portion of the whiteboard written with the 10 commandments for cheaters in permanent ink. It was a very good opportunity because it was our finals then.
I even copied it on a notebook.
Wanna know?
