January 18, 2008
A whole heaping pile of electronic equipment that won’t be eating up precious landfill space or poisoning the environment, that’s what!
Instead, we’re talking tons (literally!) of reclaimed industrial plastics, metal, glass and other components that will be re-used, rather than wasted.
E-Cycling Day, the event sponsored by our local Chamber of Commerce AND the one I’ve been fortunate enough to chair, has all the earmarks of a runaway success.
And we’re still nearly a week away from the public collection day!
Interest in E-Cycling Day completely skyrocketed! Statewide media outlets have been contacting us for interviews, quotes, whatever so that they can run stories about it.
The Tuscaloosa business community strongly supported E-Cycling Day from the very beginning. We received some VERY large pledges of equipment. Logistically, we found it easier to arrange for the processor to send a truck directly to those making large pledges, rather than having all that equipment showing up on the public day, potentially causing bottlenecks or delays.
Yesterday, the first couple of large pledges were picked up. And we received the tare weight of the load this morning.
27,000 POUNDS!
From just 2 companies!
Based on our best-guess projections, we are expecting to collect 200,000 pounds of electronic waste by the end of this event.
The very first time out of the gate.
So keep you fingers crossed for good weather for us on the 24th.
If you live or work in the West Alabama area, or know someone who does…PLEASE help us spread the word by telling them about it. Send them to the E-Cycling Day website for more information.
And if you’re interested in knowing how we did it, the kinds of things we learned while planning this event, and ways we found to almost guarantee our success…
Post a comment or contact me. We’d be happy to talk to folks who want to try to replicate what we’ve managed to do in their area.
And I can tell you this.
You think community involvement is for saps? That there’s no tangible benefit?
Being directly involved with this event has already quadrupled my business in 2008. I expect it to grow even more and faster, thanks to my involvement with E-Cycling Day.
I don’t care who you are or what you are doing…
No marketing-in-a-box toolkit, no matter how good the package looks, will do that for you.
I also get the added bonus of helping save the environment to boot.
Now that’s WIN-WIN baby!
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January 9, 2008
So Nathan, better known as the dude who ripped the covers off Windows Mobile 7 AKA Photon recently, asked…
I love the hover comments you put on links! Is that a plugin, and where can I get it?
I’ve heard from folks before that they dig the hover comments too, which also appear on pictures as well. I thought it was a good qestion, and that other folks might be interested in the answer.
Firstly, there’s no plugin required.
Secondly, the actual text of the hover comments for both pictures and links come from the ol’ noggin of yours truly. So the text isn’t auto-generated. That level of wiseacre is 100% natural.
Thirdly, it’s a very simple bit of HTML code. For each link, I add a title attribute, which comprises the text of the hover comment. It only works that way because most browsers render the title attribute on mouseover as a hover.
Fourthly, BlogJet AKA The Parliamentary Funkadelic of Blogging Tools makes it dead simple to add the title attribute because, well…it’s right there in the box when adding a new link. Check it out…
Fifthly, for pictures it’s a bit different. Rather than using the title attribute, BlogJet embeds the alt attribute.
This makes a whole lot of sense, because alt specifies text that shows in place of actual graphics if the browser can’t or won’t support rendering them. If it does render the graphics, then the alt text hovers on mouseover the same way as the title attribute for links. Sexxay, huh?
Sixthly, here’s the actual HTML from a couple of examples in this very post. Here’s a link…
<a title=”Yo Nathan! This link’s for you, bud…” href=”http://microsoft.blognewschannel.com/archives/2008/01/06/exclusive-windows-mobile-7-to-focus-on-touch-and-motion-gestures/” target=”_blank”>
And here’s a pic…
<img alt=”You really didn’t think I’d pass up an opportunity to include a hovercar pic, did you? Notice the superfuture with the hovercars, but the dude is still using paper? How quaint.” src=”http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/graphics/jeanietakeamemo.png” border=”0″ />
Seventhly, some audio assist browsers and enhancements will actually read the title attribute aloud while rendering the page. Which rocks! And encourages me to become even more smart-aleck.
Eighthly, it seems to me that it would be even more helpful for the alt attribute to be read aloud. Well, maybe not my comments. I’m not sure they would adequately describe a graphic well enough to be of much help.
Ninthly, did I mention yet how I prolly wouldn’t have started doing this without the hypersonic assist from BlogJet?
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January 6, 2008
Only 3 Cardinal Rules by which you must abide…
- Get In
- Get Out
- Make Sure The Check Cashes
Slash put on a textbook-perfect example this evening.
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January 6, 2008
As in Version 7, that is.
You won’t find a better writeup than the one at InsideMicrosoft.
The 3 point thrust of Windows Mobile 7?
- Touch control
- Motion control
- Media features
Sounds a lot like…nope, I’m not gonna say it.
Oh…and you’re looking at a 2009 timeframe for this release, at least.
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January 3, 2008
A quick round of applause here at the Funcave for the latest and greatest SBS MVP to be named by Microsoft in the January round….
*drum roll*
Tim “Dr. Codec” Barrett
A FANTASTIC inclusion, in my not-so-humble opinion.
Tim has been one of those people who has done an immense amount of heavy lifting in the background of the SBS community, and hasn’t tended to get the attention or recognition he deserved for that work.
So big ups to Timmay!
You deserve it, man.
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