Video for Club Med Punta Cana

Here is a great example how, Debbie Maguire, a travel agent at tripcentral.ca, provides a review and commentary about Club Med Punta Cana based on her personal visit.

Apologies to all MyBlogLog Friends & Contacts

It’s my fault that I have lost some of my friends and contacts at MyBlogLog by thinking I could do a work-around, the submitting a web site or blog process.

It all started when moving a site to another url. Websailingdesigns.com (wsd) moved over to jackkennard.com (jk).

I finally came to the conclusion that I would not be a company with employees but self employed as a contractor or consultant.

WSD has been listed in MyblogLog for several years with about 60+ members and since the new site would have the same information & pages I thought it would be easy to just go into the Setting area and just change the url and the news feed url. An easy update that went through smoothly. However none of the new posts would come through to the Mybloglog feed.

Now it took about 2 weeks to figure this out and the wsd has already been pointed to jk so there was no way to post anything on wsd to notify any of the viewers of the changes.

So I hope I never have to do this again, not because of technical difficulties but it’s not right to keep your viewers guessing why you haven’t written. And I apologize to all my friends at MyBlogLog and anyone else who may have been lost in the transition.

Some ideas to make the transition work smoothly for everyone:

1. Let your viewers know 2 weeks ahead of time of the changes that will take place.
2. Of course make sure you have backups.
3. Let your viewers know how emails or rss feeds will change.
4. Once you have the new site up and running correctly, notify everyone with posts and emails from the old and new locations.
5. Give everyone the right amount of time to transition over before pointing the old site to the new.

If you have any other suggestions, I and everyone would like to hear them.

Hurricane News on your front page

Hurricane season is upon us, and noaa (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) believes it’s going to be another busy season.

The hurricane season is between June 1st and end of November. And the location is the Caribbean, the coast between Panama to even as far north as Maine.

Here is a great way to impress your co-workers and clients: Be up-to-date with the hurricane news. We all listen to the weather going into work and the news does like to report disasters, but here is a way to stay ahead of the news.

All the tv or radio weather departments get their reports from noaa and noaa has a great rss news-feed system that reports the hurricanes. You can always go the their site by why not add their news-feed to your News-reader or home page?

I personal use my.Yahoo as my home page and Google has made their personal home page pretty easy to set up and move stuff around.

There are also some desktop News-readers, but I like to be able to see my news from any computer, so I like to use an online service.

If you don’t have a news-reader or a my.yahoo account, try a Google front page, its pretty easy to start and will grow with your interest.

Now go to noaa’s hurricane feed page and find the right update for you. I like the Atlantic Basin Wide feed, but you maybe in another area of the country or may want to follow more than one area. Click on the area you’re interested in and follow the directions. Now everytime you go to your home page. you will see the latest weather reports.

If you use ie7 click on the area and in the address bar you will see an orange rss square next to the address bar, just click on that and follow the directions.

Google Gears

Google Gears coming to a browser near you, soon.