Are you a dreamer?

Personally I’ve always been a dreamer. I’ve always kept the visual picture of my personal and business dreams and goals. But I’m also a ‘doer’. That’s the key that you need to keep in mind.

Go ahead and dream… but just make sure you are also taking action to make those dreams a reality.

Let’s Dream a Little Right Now!

Write down your dreams! Pull out a blank sheet of paper right now and spend a minimum of 20 minutes writing down your dreams.

What are the things that you are passionate about? Is it:

To be home with your kids?

Traveling?

Providing for your parents?

Helping others with medical debts?

Supporting charities?

Sending your kids to college?

Owning your dream car (or cars)?

Paying CASH for your dream home (or homes)?

Visualize your dreams!

Create a picture in your mind of already being in possession of what you desire!

If its your dream home, picture yourself walking through the home seeing the furniture, the doors, the rooms, the back yard. If you have a pool in the back feel yourself jumping in on a hot afternoon while everyone else is at work.

Turn your dreams into a reality in your head.

IDEA: You could even go a step further and Make a Dream Board!

Collect pictures that reflect your passions and dreams. Paste them onto poster board and create a collage. Hang it on the wall in your office or somewhere in your home where it can be seen daily!

Now that you can visualize your dreams- what are you going to do about it today to make them happen?

Keep Dreaming,

Rhonda

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Your comments are always welcome- Rhonda Crosby

Web 2.0 Exposed: Part One of Series

You witnessed, were a victim of or have at least heard about the bursting of the dot com bubble in the fall of 2001. Fortunes that had been made overnight were lost overnight.

The sky was falling. It was a very scary time for a lot of people. Some said that the World Wide Web was just a flash-in-the-pan idea that had been over-hyped and that the crash was irrefutable proof of that fact.

There were, however, some survivors of the 2001 dot com bust. The survivors had a few important commonalities and there were those who insisted that the World Wide Web was more important than ever and had a very bright future indeed.

One of those who saw the results of the 2001 dot com bust as a ‘glass half full’ rather than a ‘glass half empty’ was a man by the name of Tim O’Reilly. O’Reilly (of O’Reilly Media) met with Dale Dougherty of Media Live International in 2004. Out of that meeting the term ‘Web 2.0’ was born.

The definition that Tim O’Reilly gives for Web 2.0 is: “Web 2.0 is the business revolution in the computer industry caused by the move to the internet as platform, and an attempt to understand the rules for success on that new platform.

Chief among those rules is this: Build applications that harness network effects to get better the more people use them.”

Web 2.0 can be viewed as an upgrade to the World Wide Web. It is still the web but it is a new and improved version of the web.

New technologies such as blogs, social bookmarking, wikis, podcasts and RSS feeds are just a few of the technologies that are helping to shape and direct Web 2.0.

The Web before the dot com crash is often referred to as Web 1.0 now but only since the coining of the term Web 2.0.

Some of the more obvious difference between Web 1.0 and Web 2.0 are: DoubleClick replaced by Google AdSense, Britannica Online replaced by Wikipedia, Personal Web Pages replaced by Blogs, Content Management Systems replaced by Wikis and Directories replaced by Tagging.

These are only a very few of the differences between Web 1.0 and Web 2.0 but they are major ones.

You will notice, if you look carefully that the commonality of many of the differences between Web 1.0 and Web 2.0 is that Web 1.0 was driven and controlled by the ‘powers-that-be’ and Web 2.0 is driven by users.

That is a huge difference and the one that is making Web 2.0 more and more user friendly not to mention more and more profitable for just average people. You might even call it a power shift of seismic proportions.

Once the websites that could be accessed on the Internet were built and controlled by only a few and were certainly not ‘interactive’ but today anybody with an idea, a few dollars and just a little know-how can build a Web 2.0 website that is completely interactive and turn it into a money-making enterprise if they choose to.

The technology is there. It is easy to use. It is accessible and it is relatively cheap….some of it is even free.

Many websites that started out as static websites are now adding features like blogs and forums and propelling themselves into the future of Internet commerce. Those websites who continue be ‘old hat’ are falling further and further behind.

Just regular people now expect to be able to ask questions and get answers from websites and they expect websites to be at least somewhat interactive. The Internet has always been and still is a platform for information but with Web 2.0 is has also become a platform for participation.

Next in this series we’ll look at a few of the innovations of Web 2.0 and how these innovations have changed the way that all of use the World Wide Web: Blogging, Social Networking, Social Bookmarking, Audio and Video, Podcasting.

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Exciting trip planned ahead

My husband has a 2 week leave coming up soon and I’ll be meeting him at the Frankfurt Germany airport.

From there we plan to travel through Europe for 14 days. This will be my first trip to Europe. (hopefully not my last)
He scheduled his leave time around our anniversary so this years anniversary will be spent in Paris!

I’m packing extremely light- just one carry on bag period! So this means no room for my laptop. People have done it before, right? We’ll see how I manage.

I’m more excited to see my hubby after so many looong months than the trip to Europe

Rhonda

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Social Networking Video Tutorial

If you haven’t used Social Networking to funnel traffic back to your site or blog, then you’ve obviously been missing out on a ton of high converting traffic.

You see….Social Networking takes relationship building to the next level by creating a very interactive atmosphere for you and your future leads. People want to know who they are buying from and who they are dealing with, especially in business.

Video Tutorial: Introduction to Social Networking

In this video, You’ll see why you should use Social Networking and a more in-depth view as to why it allows you to gain your client’s trust at a deeper level. You’ll also get a brief overview of it before you dive into the individual sites.

==> FREE Social Networking Guide: ‘The Truth About Social Networking’- Go to AllAboutSocialNetworking.com

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