Dyslexia is a learning disability. It is not an intellectual disability. It has shown its ugly face to persons of various intellectual levels, even those considered to be ‘highly gifted’.

1 in 10 people have dyslexic tendencies. 4% are severely affected.

Children with dyslexia have difficulty with written language due to neurological problems. Things that we take for granted such as spelling and reading become a chore for these children (and adults of course).

Other difficulties that children with dyslexia may experience:

• Poor short term memory
• auditory processing disorder
• poor organizational ability
• spoken language problems

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Sometimes in a world of anxieties, workloads, run here, do this, do that, work, work, work we get caught up in such a way that it leaves us with very little time (or energy) to be fruitful for our environment.

We can’t all be “Greenpeace” or “The Nature Conservancy” volunteers/promoters, even if we’d really like to be.

Although this is true, it’s important to note that every tiny effort counts for something. Sometimes a tiny effort is huge because it can create a wave that you may not even know you created.

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Beth Kanter of “Beth’s Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media” interviewed Jonathon Colman of The Nature Conservancy.

Jonathon is the Associate Director of Digital Marketing for The Nature Conservancy. He has been actively using social media and networking in his endeavors to much success but still needs our help.

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Does marijuana use trigger mental health issues? Watch this video from 2007 NORML (National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws) Conference for a professional take on the matter.

Don’t stay in the dark. Get educated. This is your world too.

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Maddock Douglas, Market Researcher has a list of 100 ways to prepare a $1,000,000 idea. Absolutely brilliant.

You want in on it? Ok but Shhhhhh! If I tell you I’m supposed to kill you..

Here’s just the tip of the iceburg:

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With all of the negativity that circles around social networks with haters, rebels and criminals, this Stumbler stood apart from the wolves. This is the tale of Stumbleupons Cherie (Wordsword). A Christian, a mother, a wife, a friend, and woman in recovery.

WordSword is a 50 year old married woman from Pennsylvania, USA. Likes 1,038 pages, 56 videos, 66 photos • 121 fans • Received 49 reviews…Member since Jun 09, 2007

Her profile reads,

“In a nutshell, I was hooked on prescription drugs. I had gone into rehab to quit drinking alcohol, but had never really become sober in my mind and I eventually started abusing prescription drugs, such as, tranquilizers and amphetamines.

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Matt Ridout interviewed me along side of 4 other Social Bookmarking fiends (yes, without the R), Jeff Quipp, Shana Albert (TheNanny612), Jansie and SilentJay74.

Matt Ridout SEOUnique
Excerpt taken from SEOUnique’s Matt Ridout…
“Social media and social engagement is becoming more widely known to search marketers. Terms like “Power Users” and “Whales” are also part of the new age “lingo”. But what makes these top users any different from you and me? How much time is invested to get this status?”

Read more here

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There are a lot of people, especially in Stumbleupon, that seem to think that SEO is used only to make money, increase traffic, to spam, to promote selfish interests, and to reciprocate greed and one-way desires.

At my other site “Learning SEO Basics” I posted ways that SEO can be used to protect our environment.

Please visit, and tell me what you think about it.

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So it’s the great almighty Valentines Day.

This is supposed to be a day for lovers, friends, and companions of every walk of life to express their their feelings with the passing of hearts, chocolates, and sweet kisses.

A day for well wishers to spring forth like human Tiggers giving praise to the great St Valentine (which by the way, no one even knows who that is for sure) and to be on best behavior to get a little lovin’ tonight…

Just a thought…

Advantages of Valentines:

Talk of love, family, future plans with that special someone.

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When I refer to “Stumble Trolls”, I am referring to the SEO haters that have banded by the masses to terrorize and otherwise exhibit threatening and hateful behavior towards SEO’s.

This is a break down of the Stumbleupon “About” page. With some additional points of interest. I hope to bridge the lack of education within our Stumbleupon community as to what SEO is and does, and to show that you don’t have know you’re an SEO to be one.

First, let’s briefly address Wikipedia’s definition of Search Engine Optimization:

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