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Saturday, March 14, 2009

TNNW BULLETIN, MARCH, 2009, Week 3

Major Developments, Forward Motion, Events and Actionable Items.
March 16, 2009
Bulletin # 8
"PUTTING THE 'BULL' BACK INTO BULLETIN"
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I. LEFT JUSTIFICATION
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Greetings Friends, Colleagues, Featured Columnists, Bureau Chiefs (and their Bureau Indians), Subscribers, Members, Advertiser, Affiliates, Sponsors and Networkers.
We are delighted to announce that the Bulletin has been re-formatted to avoid centering headings, opting instead to put them on the left, where people are more likely to read and remember them. Interestingly, people also tend to prefer to see pictures and photos on the upper right-hand side of an article. This has to do with how our brains physically process and store certain types of information.
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No inference should be drawn about our politics, which are all across the board. We are all members of the International Networking Community, and our goal is to help each other to increase our financial and professional success.
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II. SPAM FILTER WARNING
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Our new Newsletter format will be featuring a greater number of illustrations, photographs, and hyperlinks, PLEASE...be certain to clear our mailing address with your spam filter so that we don't wind up in your spam box! I am constantly going through my spam box to retrieve important correspondence that people have sent to me -- but because of pictures and hyperlinks, these wind up in my spam filter. Even though I receive enough spam hourly to cater a VFW picnic, I comb through the filter to find these lost gems. Be certain that your spam filter settings allow us into your IN Box.
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III. CRUCIAL REMINDERS
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If you are have gotten a forwarded copy of this Newletter, please get your very own FREE subscription by 1) going to http://subscribetothenationalnetworker.blogspot.com/, and clicking a subscribe button, and 2) going to http://thenationalnetworkerweblog.blogspot.com/ and clicking on your choice of delivery by either RSS feed or dail EMAIL. You must choose one (or both) in order to get all of the news, opportunities, invitations and other communications between published weekly editions of the TNNW Newsletter.
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If you are already a Subscriber or a Member, PLEASE -- go to http://thenationalnetworkerweblog.blogspot.com/, and choose your delivery method immediately...RSS, EMAIL or both.
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IV. ADVERTISERS AND AFFILIATES
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Click on http://tnnw10.blogspot.com/ and have a look at what some of our advertisers and affiliates are offering. Their ads are posted here (with special terms and benefits for TNNW Subscribers), but will also be featured on every Newsletter, and on the revamped TNNW Website.
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These offerings are not to be confused with the services which we offer exclusively to our Members (see Site Index, which follows). It is worth upgrading from Subscriber to Membership just to take advantage of these amazing services...webcasts, broadcasts, podcasts, mini-interviews, press releases, publicity, text-messaging, and a host of others!
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V. ORIENTATION (SITES TO SEE!)
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TNNW now has in excess of a dozen (which is almost twelve!) blogpages and websites for you to be able to explore. Please save a copy of this BULLETIN on your heard drive, and explore each and all of our sites as soon as you have a moment. They are loaded with valuable information, newsfeeds (especially on http://thenationalnetworkerweblog.blogspot.com/), and service offerings to ensure your success. Don't miss out on a single one. The OMNIGADGET TOOL appears on many pages, and will help you to navigate about, in the event you get lost in the TNNW web. Here's a convenient site index tool:
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TNNW SITES: TITLES AND LINKS --

*INDEX/ SITEMAP http://tnnwindex.blogspot.com/
*ARTICLES, RSS FEEDS AND RELATIONSHIP CAPITAL TOOLKIT http://thenationalnetworkerweblog.blogspot.com/
*PRESS RELEASE, PUBLICITY AND PR SERVICES http://tnnw1.blogspot.com/
*TNNW MINI-INTERVIEWS SERVICE http://tnnw8.blogspot.com/
*ADVERTISEMENT AND ANNOUNCEMENT SERVICES http://tnnw9.blogspot.com/
*WEBINAR AND BROADCAST SERVICES http://tnnw3.blogspot.com/
*MEET OUR ADVERTISERS AND AFFILIATES http://tnnw10.blogspot.com/
*INTERNATIONAL AGENT/ DISTRIBUTOR SERVICES http://tnnw7.blogspot.com/
*MEMBERSHIP PAGE/ MEMBERSHIP BENEFITS http://tnnw2.blogspot.com/
*CUSTOM TEXT-MESSAGING SERVICES http://tnnw4.blogspot.com/
*CALENDAR OF EVENTS http://tnnw5.blogspot.com/
*TNNW IN THE NEWS! http://tnnw6.blogspot.com/
*TNNW SURVEYS http://thenationalnetworkersurveys.blogspot.com/
*WEBSITE http://www.thenationalnetworker.com
*WEBSITE/ INTERNAL BLOG http://thenationalnetworker.blogspot.com/
*THE TNNW OMNIGADGET http://thetnnwomnigadget.blogspot.com/
*LINK TO THE NATIONAL NETWORKER http://linktothenationalnetworker.blogspot.com/
*SUBSCRIBE TO THE NATIONAL NETWORKER http://subscribetothenationalnetworker.blogspot.com/
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Now go out and visit! Make yourself at home.
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VI. EXPANDING SUBSCRIBERSHIP - IT'S IN EVERYONE'S INTEREST

A copy of some recent correspondence follows. The part that seems to grab everyone's attention is the one that refers to "If you put a link to TNNW on your site, we'll put a link to your site on ours." That gets savvy ecommerce folks very excited. Here it is:

TNNW INVITATION TO MONETIZATION
This letter was sent to groups with collective membership in excess of 300,000.

THE NATIONAL NETWORKER WANTS TO WORK WITH YOU TO MONETIZE YOUR NETWORKING EFFORTS AND INVESTMENT.

Dear Colleagues:

We are aggressively in the process of building our Subscribership to 100,000 by the end of 2009. Please help us accelerate this process -- we'll make it worth your while!

1. Become a Subscriber, if you aren't one already. Free signup: http://www.linkedin.com/redirect?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Emailermailer%2Ecom%2Fx%3Foid%3D22760i&urlhash=k6Z8&_t=disc_detail_link . If you have a blog, a website, a newsletter or an opt-in subscriber list -- then:

2. Place our subscription button on your website: Choose a button from http://www.linkedin.com/redirect?url=http%3A%2F%2FSubscribetoTheNationalNetworker%2Eblogspot%2Ecom&urlhash=RDY7&_t=disc_detail_link . We'll link back to you.

3. Place our button, blidget, OMNIGADGET, RSS feed or other link on your website, blog and on your newsletters. Choose them from http://www.linkedin.com/redirect?url=http%3A%2F%2FTheNationalNetworkerWeblog%2Eblogspot%2Ecom&urlhash=L11S&_t=disc_detail_link . We'll link back to you.

4. Comment on our articles, and place a backlink to your blog or website. Build some traffic on us!

The greater our readership, the greater the benefits to every individual reader! As always, thank you.

Faithfully,

Douglas Castle

DOUGLAS CASTLE ( http://www.linkedin.com/redirect?url=http%3A%2F%2FaboutDouglasCastle%2Eblogspot%2Ecom&urlhash=FDZS&_t=disc_detail_link )

p.s. We are always in search of new writers with fresh ideas, too.

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VII. THE AGE OF THE ENTREPRENEUR/ NETWORKER

Networkers -- this is your time! This is our time! Read what follows, if you haven't already read it!

THE NEW AGE OF THE ENTREPRENEUR/ NETWORKER
Monday, March 09, 2009, 3:12:07 PM douglas.castle@yahoo.com (DOUGLAS CASTLE)
THE NEW AGE OF THE ENTREPRENEUR/ NETWORKER. Originally published by Douglas Castle in THE GLOBAL FUTURIST (3/09/09)

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Dear Friends:

There is no avoiding the cloud that hangs over us. We are in a deepening global economic recession -- a condition that touches all of us financially and emotionally. It forces us to change our plans, to conserve limited resources, to become increasingly introspective...to feel the twinge of our own smallness in the confines of a giant universe, and to re-examine our values and our very mortality. We become more internalized, less robotic and more frantic, if paralysis doesn't seize us first.

The bulk of the world's non-agricultural workforce is dependent upon either conventional private sector (corporate, institutional or professional) employment, or government work. During the course of the last ten years, an increasing percentage of the G-8 workforce has been absorbed into the conventional or governmental works. This is not surprising, as healthcare and other costs continue to rise, retirement becomes an increasingly expensive proposition and the economies associated with larger employers make it possible for them to cover the needs of these individuals far more economically than through individual arrangements. Employee benefits constitute an increasing percentage of employee compensation, as well as motivation. It is increasingly the perception of the masses that entrepreneurship is too fraught with uncertainty, long hours, and very hard work to be a sensible calling. As commoners, we flock to the time-honored protection of the "conventional career path."

The conventional career path, by definition, creates apathy in the crucial areas of entrepreneurial skills and disciplines. As I write these words, an indolent, dependent, uncultivated layer of "middle management" and labor is being displaced as their former protectors scramble for the protections afforded them by bankruptcy or government aid (I think that this is a swell euphemism for other terms such as "bailout," "welfare," "subsidy," or "bridge loan," which last term has actually come to mean a unilateral capital infusion without requirement of guarantees, collateral, constraints on application of proceeds, accountability, a plan for repayment, or an incentive for change in the status quo.").

When I recently discussed the notions of "companies that are too big to fail," and "the government's systematic and expected rewarding of poor corporate conduct with 'free' money," with a friend, she explained to me (in a kind, but slightly condescending manner), "but Douglas, we have no options!" I disagree.

I believe that as long as we are alive we have options. The very perception of "no options" is either paralytic, or is apt to cause very poor, short-term decision making.

A world of displaced, emotionally devastated and fiscally insolvent "worker bees" have been let down by a system that had to fail. They do not know how to promote, to build, to innovate, to re-invent themselves, to run businesses and to network beyond their cronies at the office. These brothers and sisters are in deep trouble -- and no one can just bail them out. They must be re-tooled to be entrepreneurial, networking vital people.

As entrepreneurs and networkers, as globalists and futurists, we must help them to find new ways to survive...to restore their finances, to develop a sense of purpose and a successful attitude, and to rediscover and activate their skills.This is now the AGE OF THE ENTREPRENEUR/NETWORKER. We need to re-dedicate ourselves to be more entrepreneurial, more imaginative, more innovative and more efficient networkers and socializers than ever before.

Now is our time. And if we are kind, we are ethically obligated to help create hopes and opportunities for those less fortunate persons who fell under the thrall of the conventional career path. I am recommending (strongly), that we, each of us, forward this article to everyone whom we know.

Now is the time to spread the word, build membership, circle our wagons, and to come out fighting! As stated previously: THE FUTURE WILL NOT MAKE US -- WE WILL MAKE THE FUTURE.

Respectfully, and with best regards to all,

Douglas Castle

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