Comments on: Blogging for Change http://www.netprofitstoday.com/blog/blogging-for-change/ Author of the best-selling affiliate marketing training book shares free money-making affiliate tips. Sun, 14 Mar 2010 21:43:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Cindy http://www.netprofitstoday.com/blog/blogging-for-change/comment-page-1/#comment-81299 Cindy Mon, 30 Jun 2008 15:24:05 +0000 http://www.netprofitstoday.com/blog/blogging-for-change/#comment-81299 way to go ros! when i was 17, i'm 47 now, our city baseball leagues used to leave the lights on at the park closest to my parents house. my brother and I would go ovver there when i got off work around 10pm and "pretend" play tennis right behind the field. we had to turn the tennis lights on an off, so i figured the baseball lights were pretty much the same. i would always stop and turn them off because they were always on! i'm surprised i didn't get electrocuted! to top it off, the field was right behind the fire station. i had a police stop once while i was turning them off one time asking what i was doing, i told him i was paying for those lights and nobody was playing so i was turning them off. he told me he would get the fire station to keep an eye on it and they did. i grew up in a house with solar panels on the roof for hot water and my dad would go for walks and pick up cans and bottles and put them in a bag for recycling. my mom would tease him for looking like a homeless man with his bag of goodies. it's in my blood... as you can tell i'm behind on reading my email. just had to share my baseball lights story. thanks for all that you do to help all of us aspiring to work from home. you are an inspiration. Cindy SC, USA way to go ros! when i was 17, i’m 47 now, our city baseball leagues used to leave the lights on at the park closest to my parents house. my brother and I would go ovver there when i got off work around 10pm and “pretend” play tennis right behind the field. we had to turn the tennis lights on an off, so i figured the baseball lights were pretty much the same. i would always stop and turn them off because they were always on! i’m surprised i didn’t get electrocuted! to top it off, the field was right behind the fire station. i had a police stop once while i was turning them off one time asking what i was doing, i told him i was paying for those lights and nobody was playing so i was turning them off. he told me he would get the fire station to keep an eye on it and they did. i grew up in a house with solar panels on the roof for hot water and my dad would go for walks and pick up cans and bottles and put them in a bag for recycling. my mom would tease him for looking like a homeless man with his bag of goodies. it’s in my blood…

as you can tell i’m behind on reading my email. just had to share my baseball lights story.

thanks for all that you do to help all of us aspiring to work from home. you are an inspiration.

Cindy
SC, USA

]]> By: mustapha http://www.netprofitstoday.com/blog/blogging-for-change/comment-page-1/#comment-80605 mustapha Mon, 05 May 2008 10:22:20 +0000 http://www.netprofitstoday.com/blog/blogging-for-change/#comment-80605 dear rosalind i thank you very much for all your effort and for this information. happy to meet you !...i wish you so much luck yours...mustapha dear rosalind
i thank you very much for all your effort and for this information.
happy to meet you !…i wish you so much luck
yours…mustapha

]]> By: Codrut Turcanu - AdSenseProfitTips.com http://www.netprofitstoday.com/blog/blogging-for-change/comment-page-1/#comment-80594 Codrut Turcanu - AdSenseProfitTips.com Sat, 03 May 2008 21:38:39 +0000 http://www.netprofitstoday.com/blog/blogging-for-change/#comment-80594 Thanks Rosalind for sharing such a nice piece of information. You have proved that one should never underestimate the power of Blogging. And we must have certain responsibilities towards our community too. On the whole it’s inspiring for all of us. Cheers, Codrut Turcanu - "Succeeding Against All Odds!" Thanks Rosalind for sharing such a nice piece of information.

You have proved that one should never underestimate the power of Blogging.
And we must have certain responsibilities towards our community too.

On the whole it’s inspiring for all of us.

Cheers,
Codrut Turcanu – “Succeeding Against All Odds!”

]]> By: Gina http://www.netprofitstoday.com/blog/blogging-for-change/comment-page-1/#comment-80593 Gina Sat, 03 May 2008 15:25:19 +0000 http://www.netprofitstoday.com/blog/blogging-for-change/#comment-80593 Hi Ros! Thanks so much for this post - one person definitely can make a difference! I'm so glad to spoke up...it drives me crazy when lights are on when no one is using them! Reading your post is great timing for me: I've been debating forever whether to push forward full steam ahead with my environmental blog and this post was the little kick in the butt I needed to realize that change can happen through blogging! Thanks Ros. You continue to inspire me every day. Gina Hi Ros!

Thanks so much for this post – one person definitely can make a difference! I’m so glad to spoke up…it drives me crazy when lights are on when no one is using them!

Reading your post is great timing for me: I’ve been debating forever whether to push forward full steam ahead with my environmental blog and this post was the little kick in the butt I needed to realize that change can happen through blogging!

Thanks Ros. You continue to inspire me every day.

Gina

]]> By: Jan Tallent http://www.netprofitstoday.com/blog/blogging-for-change/comment-page-1/#comment-80585 Jan Tallent Fri, 02 May 2008 22:21:43 +0000 http://www.netprofitstoday.com/blog/blogging-for-change/#comment-80585 That is great, Rosalind and thanks, Sharon for sending me the link to this blog. I am wondering if it would do any good to blog about the 30% rate increase on our electric here that is keeping most of the residents of my tiny town broke just paying the power bill and have some of them even shut off coz on fixed incomes they cannot pay! Heck, that is also the main reason I had to retire my real-world general store, no one could afford to shop when the electric rates went up and I could not pay the electric bill for my store! anyway, great job, Rosalind! Jan :-) That is great, Rosalind and thanks, Sharon for sending me the link to this blog.
I am wondering if it would do any good to blog about the 30% rate increase on our electric here that is keeping most of the residents of my tiny town broke just paying the power bill and have some of them even shut off coz on fixed incomes they cannot pay! Heck, that is also the main reason I had to retire my real-world general store, no one could afford to shop when the electric rates went up and I could not pay the electric bill for my store!

anyway, great job, Rosalind!

Jan :-)

]]> By: Rosalind Gardner http://www.netprofitstoday.com/blog/blogging-for-change/comment-page-1/#comment-80580 Rosalind Gardner Fri, 02 May 2008 15:05:12 +0000 http://www.netprofitstoday.com/blog/blogging-for-change/#comment-80580 Way to go, Burke and what a worthwhile cause in your "Right to Dry" campaign. Because truly... how flippin' absurd is it to have bylaws that actually make best-practices illegal. BTW, bringing up my mom again... at 93, she still hangs her clothes outside (in the basment in winter) to dry. So, the added benefit is that work keeps one fit. What a concept!! Cheers, Ros Way to go, Burke and what a worthwhile cause in your “Right to Dry” campaign.

Because truly… how flippin’ absurd is it to have bylaws that actually make best-practices illegal.

BTW, bringing up my mom again… at 93, she still hangs her clothes outside (in the basment in winter) to dry. So, the added benefit is that work keeps one fit.

What a concept!!

Cheers,
Ros

]]> By: Burke Sisco http://www.netprofitstoday.com/blog/blogging-for-change/comment-page-1/#comment-80579 Burke Sisco Fri, 02 May 2008 14:52:28 +0000 http://www.netprofitstoday.com/blog/blogging-for-change/#comment-80579 Ros - What a great success story with your lights out blogging strategy. I am a bloggin' Real Estate Agent of Change practicing in the metro Atlanta area. My blog, EcoHomeGuy.com, is a great tool for me to educate, enlighten, empower and entertain my past, current and future clients. I am currently embarking on a "Right to Dry" initiative in Georgia. The idea is to reclaim people's freedom to use their own backyard to do something as simple and practical as dry their clothes outdoors. By doing so they can save up to 10% of their electric bill. The problem is that this is a real solution to energy-efficiency and climate change mitigation immediately available to scores of citizens-- BUT! -- is illegal in most areas of the country due to HOA covenants and zoning laws. A blog can be a super effective way to begin rallying support for change. Antoine de Saint-Exupery said "If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea." This is the power of the blog. Through the power of story and narrative and the voice of the common man, real change can be sparked. ~ Burke Sisco Ros -

What a great success story with your lights out blogging strategy. I am a bloggin’ Real Estate Agent of Change practicing in the metro Atlanta area. My blog, EcoHomeGuy.com, is a great tool for me to educate, enlighten, empower and entertain my past, current and future clients.

I am currently embarking on a “Right to Dry” initiative in Georgia. The idea is to reclaim people’s freedom to use their own backyard to do something as simple and practical as dry their clothes outdoors. By doing so they can save up to 10% of their electric bill. The problem is that this is a real solution to energy-efficiency and climate change mitigation immediately available to scores of citizens– BUT! — is illegal in most areas of the country due to HOA covenants and zoning laws.

A blog can be a super effective way to begin rallying support for change.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery said “If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.”

This is the power of the blog. Through the power of story and narrative and the voice of the common man, real change can be sparked.

~ Burke Sisco

]]> By: Ron Rink http://www.netprofitstoday.com/blog/blogging-for-change/comment-page-1/#comment-80578 Ron Rink Fri, 02 May 2008 14:14:52 +0000 http://www.netprofitstoday.com/blog/blogging-for-change/#comment-80578 Way to go, Ros! And, as you commented, the use of Google and YouTube are becoming much more effective in bringing about change. It's especially good when it's positive change!! Congratulations! Hope your evening on the patio are much more romantic! Be Well -- Be in Peace ... Way to go, Ros! And, as you commented, the use of Google and YouTube are becoming much more effective in bringing about change. It’s especially good when it’s positive change!!

Congratulations! Hope your evening on the patio are much more romantic!

Be Well — Be in Peace …

]]> By: Rosalind Gardner http://www.netprofitstoday.com/blog/blogging-for-change/comment-page-1/#comment-80577 Rosalind Gardner Fri, 02 May 2008 14:10:16 +0000 http://www.netprofitstoday.com/blog/blogging-for-change/#comment-80577 Absolutely!!! Absolutely!!!

]]> By: Rosalind Gardner http://www.netprofitstoday.com/blog/blogging-for-change/comment-page-1/#comment-80576 Rosalind Gardner Fri, 02 May 2008 14:10:01 +0000 http://www.netprofitstoday.com/blog/blogging-for-change/#comment-80576 Hi Dan, Ugh. Don't get me started on the topic of how wasteful we are in the first-world (particularly North America). Let's just say that you don't want to take a drive with me on garbage day... I do rant. Guess I'm 'lucky' that I was raised by parents who went through a depression and WW2. My mom, at 93, is still one of the best conservationists I know. So... what's it gonna take to get more people to 'stick their necks out' as you put it? Cheers, Ros Hi Dan,

Ugh. Don’t get me started on the topic of how wasteful we are in the first-world (particularly North America). Let’s just say that you don’t want to take a drive with me on garbage day… I do rant.

Guess I’m ‘lucky’ that I was raised by parents who went through a depression and WW2. My mom, at 93, is still one of the best conservationists I know.

So… what’s it gonna take to get more people to ’stick their necks out’ as you put it?

Cheers,
Ros

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