If you are wondering why would anyone want refunds for purchases that they have made from the iTunes store, consider the following situations: A. You ordered an HD movie from the iTunes store but after making the purchase, you realize that it would take several hours to download that massive file to your computer. You can stop the download but your credit card will still be charged

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Getting Refunds for your iTunes Store Purchases

One of my favorite parts of the About.com Forum is that everyone there is just as crazy about Cross Stitch as me! It is nice to be able to let your hair down and admit just how much you like silk floss, Ink Circles designs, or fractals. We can talk about needles and beads and all sorts of things and no one rolls eyes or sighs from boredom (Like members of my family are wont to do)

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Focus on the Forum: Find Cross Stitch Friends

For those of you with a good memory and those that follow uber geek news you may recall an agreement about a year ago where the Microsoft Bing search engine would start powering the Yahoo search results. The driver behind the agreement is to release the burden of Yahoo competing head to head with Google in search technology, allowing them to focus on what they do best; providing a content portal and selling ads.  From Microsoft’s standpoint they are committed to making the investment in search technology and this provides another source of revenue and traffic for them

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Why You Need to Optimize for Bing

Today, VMware has over 50,000 VMware Certified Professionals (VCP) and 41+ VMware Certified Design Experts (VCDX). The VCP is VMware’s introductory certification

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How to Earn Your VMware Certified Advanced Professional (VCAP)

So I missed the last couple of freelance fitness posts. I’d like to say it’s because I was just sooooo busy hiking my ass off that there wasn’t time. But that would be a lie.

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Freelance Fitness: The Wonders of Workout Videos

The World Bank has been engaging a wide variety of policy advocacy CSOs on the issues of access, rights, and financing of urban water and sanitation programs over the past five years. Of particular concern to CSOs have been the issues of water privatization, cost-recovery approaches, and lack of affordable water services for low income populations in Bank-financed water and sanitation projects. For its part, the Bank has welcomed this dialogue because it clearly shares with civil society the goal of extending universal coverage to the poor in developing countries and improving delivery effectiveness

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Bridge over Troubled Waters: Navigating the Policy Divide

The BP oil spill has devastated the Gulf of Mexico, pummeled the oil company’s market value, and created a lingering problem for the Obama Administration, which has been criticized for responding too cerebrally, without sufficient forcefulness or authenticity . The spill has also provided an interesting historical footnote: during an interview with Matt Lauer on NBC’s Today Show last week, Obama declared that one of his goals during meetings on the crisis has been to determine ” whose ass to kick .” As profanities go, “ass” is a relatively mild one — it’s been commonly used on network TV shows for years now

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Should Leaders Ever Swear?

In five years only Deborah Ng has grown The Freelance Writing Jobs Network from scratch to one of the most important and powerful communities for freelance online authors. Deborah, @Debng, announced today that Splashpress Media, …

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Splashpress Media Acquires 'The Freelance Writing Jobs Network …

There’s a planned takeover of my radio show this Friday! The hosts of the Christian Work At Home Moms show here on the HerInsight Radio Network are my guest hosts this week. Jill Hart and Diana Ennen have over 30 years of work at home experience combined. In addition to co-hosting The CWAHM Network, they

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Guest Hosts for Friday’s Show: Jill Hart and Diana Ennen!

Congratulations. You’ve successfully attracted venture capital with your business case, your million dollar product idea, and you have a signed term sheet. But there is still one more hurdle to overcome before investors write the check: the dreaded “due diligence” process

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Investor Due Diligence Is Not Black Magic

“Your old road is rapidly aging,” Bob Dylan proclaimed to the powers that be in 1964. “Please get out of the new one if you can’t lend your hand.” Recent experiences have left me thinking often of that now-iconic line over the past few days; in this post, I want to encourage you to think about whether you are either standing in the way or offering a hand to those coming after you

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How Are You Developing Future Leaders?

From time to time I run into this situation: my schedule becomes so full of projects that I barely have enough time to market my services. While it would be easy to let this slide for a few weeks (or even longer) I know that marketing is the key to long term success.

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How to make Time for Marketing when your Schedule is Full

I am a part time full time Internet Home Business owner I always wondered what it would be like to write a post like this having seen quite a few of my blogger friends do it, albeit with different circumstances.  Yes June 3, 2010 became an important date to remember for me, much like if it’s your birthday, wedding day, your children’s birth dates etc. It was the day after my last day at the bank I worked for the last 3 1/2 years

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I Quit My Day Job…Now A Full Time Home Business Owner

The massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is now considered as one of the largest oil spills in the world. The leaking oil has spread over an area covering thousands of square miles affecting the environment, the marine life as well as the people who are in the coastline regions.

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What if the BP Oil Spill happened in your City..

I’ve never met a freelance writer who wasn’t at least a little bit of an injo-junkie. Whether it’s jotting down names and numbers in the line at the supermarket when you find someone who could be a great source or spending hours online reading web pages and copying great lines for your swipe file, a good freelance writer is always collecting notes and new ideas. Of course, if you don’t have some sort of system for managing all of that information, all of those notes could turn into a problem, rather than the resource they should be

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5 Starting Points for Building an Information System

Time to check in with one of our favorite former content mill writers, Stacey Abler . Here’s what she’s been up to during the previous week, and where she’s going this week: What’s Stacy Been Up To

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Weekly Coaching Update – Stacey Abler – June 13, 2010

INISHOWEN DEVELOPMENT PARTNERSHIP The Inishowen Development Partnership is inviting applications from Inishowen-based groups under its Local Community Development Programme as follows: SMALL GRANTS FOR COMMUNITY GROUPS Applications are welcome from community groups who are engaging in projects to promote social inclusion. Funding may be sought for project work, training and development. INFORMATION EVENINGS Monday, June 21st at IDP Offices, Buncrana 7.30pm Wednesday, June 23rd at IDP Offices, Carndonagh 7.30pm More information will be available at the information evenings.

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Grants

Last week I mentioned that I was moving away from more traditional construction DIY projects and focusing on those that could have an actual impact upon your freelance writing business. Starting with how to install a WordPress theme on your freelance writing blog last week, this week we’re going to take an introductory look into how to promote your freelance writing blog using 5 different social media tools. N.B.

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How To Promote Your Freelance Writing Blog Using Social Media

You may think you only need to learn about conversion strategies if you are creating & selling products. Or if you’re a super affiliate, or an aggressive email marketer. But that’s not the case.

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The 32 Most Powerful Conversion Triggers

The following is a transcript of the Copyblogger editorial meeting in Austin, Texas, on June 8, 2010. BRIAN CLARK: I’ve had it up to here with Johnny Marr

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Johnny’s Copyblogger Wrap-Up: Week of June 7, 2010