Wear Red February 1 for Women: Raise Awareness of Killer Heart Attacks

Help raise awareness of deadly cardiovascular disease. 

It's reported that 1 in 4 women die of cardiovascular complications each year.

Continue reading to learn how to raise awareness of one of women's most-deadly diseases.

Did you know heart disease kills six times as many women per year as breast cancer? 

In comparison, we seem hardly aware that women have heart attacks! The reality is that women do, yet cannot identify the warning signs. Those signs differ from widely-disseminated information in the past, which pertained to heart disease as it affects the male physiology due to historically lagging studies on the effects of cardiovascular disease in women.

Researchers and support organizations have only recently begun to understand and work for improvements to women's health pertaining to heart disease. Now, greater awareness of the differences between male and female heart attack symptoms can help save lives, and the American Heart Association (AHA) has taken up the mantle in regard to raising awareness and funding via campaign efforts which target and serve the public.

Today, we're spreading the word. Don't miss the Friday fun that happens when everyone gets together to wear red!

On February 1, wear red for fun, raise awareness, and show support all year with the AHA "Go Red for Women" campaign swag for writers, including:

• refillable journal
• soft faux leather journal
• gorgeous red glitter-filled pen (black ink)
• ceramic mug

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There are other fantastic Go Red campaign items for your office, as well as other areas of interest.

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Thank You for Reading 

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Timeline Sharing and Privacy

Publish a public post on Facebook and "anyone can share it to their story" with your full name and a link to your post. Facebook stories are temporary updates that disappear after 24 hours.

You can change this setting under "Timeline and Tagging Settings" by clicking first on the drop-down arrow in the blue main menu at Facebook, and clicking again on "Settings".

There may be times you want to disable post sharing to Stories, or "enable" it. Another drop-down menu (shown above in blue) allows users to control this sharing tool from their accounts.

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On January 13, We Observe Public Radio Broadcasting

How has your life been enriched by public radio broadcasting?

Celebrate Public Radio Broadcasting Day today by writing about some of your experiences and memories pertaining to public radio.

Shortly after the Public Broadcasting Act was passed in 1967, the National Public Radio (NPR) network began syndicating public radio stations in the U.S. There are currently 797 such stations!

Check out NPR's list of shows and podcasts, and find your local station to save their schedule. You can support public radio here.

PD image by @johnpwarren via @openclipart

REFERENCES

NPR, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=NPR&oldid=877477589 (last visited Jan. 11, 2019). 

Brownielocks, https://www.brownielocks.com/b3bcalendar.html (last visited Jan. 11, 2019).

3 Keys to Chrome Browser Efficiency On Desktop Screen

Sometimes you're just looking for one thing on an immense webpage. There's a trick for that. Also, find your app store as easily on desktop as on mobile. Plus, configure your desktop Chrome browser to pull up the exact pages you want to see first.

Habitually using these three key Chrome browser features will streamline your browsing experience.

1. Search a web page you're on for terms by clicking on the customization menu in the top right corner of Chrome browser (three vertical dots: refer to number "3" for image). This works on desktop, and in the desktop versions of pages rendered on smart mobile devices.
2. Show your apps by clicking the multi-colored square grid at top left of the browser
   
   
   
3. Customize your starting pages by going farther into the customization menu (those three dots, top right) by clicking "Settings": 
   
   
   
   Scroll down to "On startup". Within this pane, you'll find the radio selector to enter the URLs for those pages that you want to see every time you open the Chrome browser. Change these as needed:
   
   
   
   Be sure "Open a specific page or set of pages" is selected, and click "Add a new page" underneath.

Regular utilization of these techniques could significantly improve your online experiences. Give them a try!

Prediction: Tumblr Retains its Edge Through Policy Change

Despite significant upset from some of its base, the social media and blogging platform is big enough and smart enough to withstand the immediate fallout and continue to offer a unique space for its users.

It has to do with the way Tumblr remains a distinct user experience among blogging and social media sites, and with general popularity. As of October 2018, Tumblr is said to have around 441.4 million blog accounts, "up from 373 million in the previous year".

Tumblr offers cool templates with attractive layouts and user-friendly blogging tools, inviting all users—the young, beginners, creatives and business—to have fun in an inviting workspace. The platform is always up-to-date, offering readers an attractive and easy interface whether they're using desktop hardware or mobile devices. Mobile devices represent 78% of Tumblr's user access.

Life is in the Details

Tumblr even goes ahead and places two fields on the log-in page, one being the password login option and the other: password reset link!

1. "Send me a magic link", or
2. "Log in with your password"

This dual option occurs on something like the third login page, but still cuts out the extra step usually found between the password page and the forgot password page. It's a slight, yet significant, improvement in UX over the typically-encountered scenario of the forgotten password.

Change in Allowances, Not Quality, Leave Tumblr Susceptible to Backlash

Tumblr change of late, most notably their ban of pornography and "most nudity" according to an article at Washington Post Business, turned some of its users against it (at least temporarily). While many users will remain on the platform and may appreciate the decision, others reportedly log off in protest. 

While we support the move, legitimate users who benefited from the previous state naturally wouldn't receive the change positively. For those who won't be able to continue with Tumblr, Sean Captain takes time to broadcast some other options. 

Adapting to Thrive

When a platform makes such impactful changes, the question of feasibility begs our attention as it pertains to those platforms we utilize to share our wares and interests. It's advisable to seriously consider testing your methods and making permanent homing decisions around those results, rather than languish on platforms owned (and influenced) by others. Determine which projects can suffer such platform change through adaptation and which ones need more ownership protection. 

Across the board, the case may be that developments at Tumblr aren't as bleak presumed, judging from some clarifications issued by the company and some indication that the root of the change was reportedly related to the type of activities the elimination of which any artist would support. After all, it was when Apple "blacklisted" the Tumblr app from its app store that the decision was reached—and fairly quickly implemented.

Considering the great number of blogs on Tumblr, it's difficult to imagine the content change having serious detrimental effect. So while the platform may retain its edge, it's difficult to say the same about some of its users. Time will tell how any changes in 2018 may affect those numbers.

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Taking a Trip? Here's another way to shoot video, hands-free

Snapchat Spectacles Vending Machine at SXSW 2017, Austin, Texas.

Justraveling.com

Alternatively, get them online via Spectacles by Snapchat.

Photo by Justraveling.com via CC BY-SA 2.0 license & Wikimedia. 

Snooze Keywords: How to Gain More Control of your Facebook News Feed

The option to snooze keywords on Facebook represents a substantial leap in control over the news feed. Yea!

Since about the summer of 2017, when posts show up in your News Feed that you'd rather not see in the future, there is a way to adjust your experience (in many cases). Here's how:

How to Snooze keywords on your Facebook News Feed:

1. Find the upper-right corner of a post and click to pull down the menu and find the option to "snooze keywords". (It's possible that "more options" will need to be clicked in succession.)
2. Click on "Snooze keywords". When more than one option is available, another pop-up will appear
3. Choose the keyword/phrase you no longer wish to appear in your news feed
4. Click "Snooze"

Note that keyword snoozes are only "temporarily" offered at this time. After all, snoozing is something that people generally want to forget that they've done, and they may actually prefer to be reminded later no matter how they feel now. It's like an alarm clock: hit snooze and get back to sleep . . . but we still have to wake up at some point. 

Any figurative synapse firings going on in your mind right now are right on target. We could argue that the most advanced among us never need alarms, much less snoozes. (We're talking about snoozing current-event topics under some circumstances.)

While fans of a popular music culture magazine, for example, wouldn't generally want their content to be limited, it's been known to occur that certain types of posts will inflame a certain portion of readers—which makes it interesting to point out, for readers and publications alike, this ability to snooze keywords. Ideally, this allows miffed readers to maintain their usual pursuits in those parts of life that they like.

I've used the idea of "popular music culture" magazine as an example here due to the fact that a mag may sometimes be regarded as a niche music-only publication, thus beloved by fans of music; however, when they publish political stories [in social media] it sometimes happens that a number of fans will be turned off. You know the drill: offended parties create stink and threaten to Unlike (boycott) something that they have otherwise always appreciated . . . over a personal opinion or general report.

So now, instead of having no option but complaint, a reader can make a personal adjustment to the content they receive from the magazine. This seems a fair standard option [for a social media platform]. 

Readers now have the option, thanks to social media engineering, offers network users to continue following their favorite music mag while also directing the platform (Facebook) to stream less of the type of content they don't want to see - content that could be of a political nature, or specific a column perhaps.

A person may  not be interested in "chart toppers", for example, or any of a number of other keywords pulled from a publisher's text content area. They now have an option to choose, while continuing to enjoy their usual reads. 

Refer below to an image of the options presented when a reader clicks on "Snooze keywords" for a general weather report. It's easy to imagine an influx of bad-weather-day posts that seem to clog a person's news feed. In this case, they might choose to snooze "weather alert", "weather radar", and "snow flurries": this would likely change the look of their feed on such a day to something more in line with their needs.   

Great: What about snoozing Facebook ads?

The snooze option likely won't be available for ads, which have a different protocol for handling: either "hide ad" or "report ad", using the same top-right corner pull-down menu.

Also note that when a post doesn't include content in its text field that the snooze keyword option cannot be triggered as a tool for reader control, and it's also possible that a text content area might not contain a relevant keyword identifiable to the system, hence no option to snooze. Plus, any of your group posts that show up in your feed likely won't have the option, for now. 


REF:
Keyword Snooze: A New Way to Help Control Your News Feed,  https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2018/06/keyword-snooze-a-new-way-to-help-control-your-news-feed/ (last visited December 12, 2018).