Thursday, July 8, 2010

A CALL TO SALVATION






Have you ever seen a butterfly? Or watched an early morning sunrise? Have you ever seen a flowing river? Or caught a peek at a rainbow?

The Bible says in Romans 1 vs. 19: 20 "...because that which may be known of God is manifest in them, for God has shewed it to them. For the invisible things of Him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse: ".

All the works of creation reveal the glory and power of God and speak a message so clear you cannot fail to hear. God went further and revealed Himself to us through His Son Jesus Christ. The scripture declares Him to be the very image of God, and the brightness of his glory. Jesus himself said "He that has seen me has seen the Father."

Through His Son, God showed us His love by making Him an offering for our sins to reconcile us to Himself.


Through His death He showed us the way to fellowship with Him, and now He wants us to receive the divine life which Jesus made available so that He can reveal Himself in us, and through us.

Today, you can receive the life of God into your spirit, and become a brand new creature in Christ, so that God's beauty and power can be seen in you. All you have to do is say this prayer and mean it with all of your heart; and God will hear you.

O Lord God, I believe in Jesus Christ, your Son who died for me and was raised from the dead for my justification.

Your Word says in Romans 10 vs. 9 & 10 "...that if thou shall confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shall believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shall be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation."

Therefore I confess Jesus Christ as Lord of my life from this day forth. I receive remission of sins for my soul and I receive eternal life into my spirit.

I am saved! I am born-again! Thank you for making me your child.



A CALL TO SALVATION

Have you ever seen a butterfly? Or watched an early morning sunrise? Have you ever seen a flowing river? Or caught a peek at a rainbow?

The Bible says in Romans 1 vs. 19: 20 "...because that which may be known of God is manifest in them, for God has shewed it to them. For the invisible things of Him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse: ".

All the works of creation reveal the glory and power of God and speak a message so clear you cannot fail to hear. God went further and revealed Himself to us through His Son Jesus Christ. The scripture declares Him to be the very image of God, and the brightness of his glory. Jesus himself said "He that has seen me has seen the Father."

Through His Son, God showed us His love by making Him an offering for our sins to reconcile us to Himself.


Through His death He showed us the way to fellowship with Him, and now He wants us to receive the divine life which Jesus made available so that He can reveal Himself in us, and through us.

Today, you can receive the life of God into your spirit, and become a brand new creature in Christ, so that God's beauty and power can be seen in you. All you have to do is say this prayer and mean it with all of your heart; and God will hear you.

O Lord God, I believe in Jesus Christ, your Son who died for me and was raised from the dead for my justification.

Your Word says in Romans 10 vs. 9 & 10 "...that if thou shall confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shall believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shall be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
Therefore I confess Jesus Christ as Lord of my life from this day forth. I receive remission of sins for my soul and I receive eternal life into my spirit.

I am saved! I am born-again! Thank you for making me your child.

SOCIAL NETWORKING SITE

Social networking is a must for all businesses. All the different platforms aren't just for gossiping or playing games any longer. Social networking is in fact a way for you to market your business to your community for free. Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, Youtube, Blogs and many other social sites will allow you to personally connect with your community. Your customers are online now chatting, tweeting and posting about everything. As a successful business owner in the area you need to become part of the conversation and it all starts with having a presence.

Social media will allow you to:

1. Share with your customers and prospects anything new about your company. Give them valuable information and they'll share it with their friends and family - instant referrals!

2. Build Stronger Relationships with your customers. The easiest way to loose a customer is the one you don't speak with. Build a relationship with them and start that communication!

3. Share a viral message or promotion that will encourage your followers to forward it to a friend. Possibly a funny video of your surface, coupon only for follower's friends, contest, giveaway and many other possibilities.

4. Build a strong brand in your local community with a consistent message.

It's extremely easy for anyone to participate. Decide what type of platforms you're going to participate in, such as:


Forums - other people possibly in your field asking and sharing information
Social Networks - Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, Twitter
Blogs

Business owners should consider starting with creating a Facebook account, Twitter and LinkedIn. It's simple to tie the sites together to have your posts on Facebook also tweeted. If you have video of your business, work or educational content include it and upload it to Youtube. Video is extremely powerful and shows well in search results as many business owners aren't using this feature yet. Buy a flip camera and you'll be amazed how simple it is. Lastly create a blog to inform the community about information related to your business, also very easy. Make sure that each of these are linked and linking back to your business website.

Now once this is complete starting tweeting, posting and sharing information. Here are some best practices:


Participate in questions and discussions. Don't information dump or consistently promote your service as it will possibly diminish your creditability.
Make time to participate during your work week. If you're not active it won't be successful and remember to be relevant to your brand or service.
Stay true to your identity. Don't be fake or falsify information about your service.
Lastly have fun and build relationships

Social media is hot and only going to get bigger. Businesses with a local brand can truly take advantage of the viral aspects of social marketing. Have as much fun as possible with it and be active. Share good, relevant information and your business will bloom.

Mike Kawula is an owner of Discount Cleaning Products and 123BuyIt, America's #1 Online Retailer of Commercial & Residential Tools Cleaning Supplies & Office Supplies! Feel free to visit http://www.discountcleaningproducts.com or by email at marketing@123buyit.com Thank you! 888-233-0851



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FREE APPLICATIONS TO HELP YOU BUILD YOUR SOCIAL NETWORKING SITE

Thinking build your own social network, here is a list of free social network application that able to build online social network for you own online Community similar like successful website such as MySpace, Bebo, and Facebook features.


So, What is Social Networking Website ?
Social networking website has been a new communication ways to facilitate communication, collaboration and content sharing across networks of contacts among online community. Meanwhile, Social networking services allow users to manage, build and represent their social networks online. Services usually (but not always) include other individuals; they might also include the profiles of events, companies, and even political parties. They may let you add anyone in the network as your friend or contact, or they might ask both parties to agree all connections.

Plus more, any social networking websites is designated to serve regularly by millions of people via Internet.

So, I have gather some free social networking applications which are developed continuously, well documented & offer impressive functions like popular social networking website.

Free Social Networking Application to Build Own Online Social Network:

Dolphin - Open Source Social Networking Software



Dolphin is the most popular social networking applications to create an online community. This free social networking application is built from PHP / MySQL. Meanwhile, it has unique social network features like social video network, blogs, social music networ, social picture network and etc.

Plus more, Dolphin Smart Community builder has actively developed and frequently upgraded for over 6 years. There are many plugins, templates, custom support you can choose from to fancy your own online community website. Apart from the standard social networking features, it has an integrated billing system for paid-networks.

Elgg - Free Social Networking Application

Elgg is a free social networking platform builder, which you can build a flexible, unique and successful social network for your user with common web application and social networking functionality which similar like MySpace, and Facebook social networking features.


Elgg social network application is build based on PHP / MySQL & comes with a JSON API. Plus more, it have its plugin based system enables adding new features easily from a plugins database or creating your own.

Elgg Social Networking Application offers:

■Advanced user management and administration
■Social networking
■Cross-site tagging
■Powerful access control lists
■Internationalization supports
■Multiple view support (eg cell phones, iPhone)
■An advanced templating engine
■A widget framework and more
PHPizabi - Free Social Networking Script
PHPizabi is a free rich social networking platform that integrates everything you need to jumpstart your community, dating site, or social networking portal right out of the box. It is built from PHP / Mysql and the core structure coding has been well optimized and designated to be scalable, adaptive, and modular, in order to easily wrap around the application(s).

Besides every feature that can be thought for a social networking site, it also offers multilingual interface, mass mailing to users, creating blogs and forum integration & more.

Community Engine - Free Social Network Engine Plugin

Community Engine is a free, open-source social network plugin for Ruby on Rails applications. Drop it into your new or existing application, and you’ll instantly have all the features of a basic community site including authentication & user profiles, blogs with tagging, photo uploads, forums & private messages, friendships & activity feeds and more. Plus more, Community Engine is an open source plugin for Ruby on Rails applications

So, above is the free social networking application that you can use to build your own online community. If you know others social networking software should listed above. Let us know via comments and share with others