Twitter Etiquette

When do you say thank you? When do you take a bow?
With a TY, anytime, the more the better, but especially for shoutouts; when someone's mentioned you or RT'd (Retweeted) you even.
And sometimes its good to give your faithful followers an #FF, a Follow Friday. The day when your outstanding twitterer pals, who have wowed you with their links, the wonders of the world, or plain down-to-earth common sense - an #FF is a great way to say thank you especially if they've re-tweeted everything you've been up to to their world . That's a bit like saying 'I love you' in public when your drunk - you know the 'I love you so mush, I do... (hiccup) come ere an give us a kish' mwa, mwa. You can't help but be overly fond of such folk.
Then there's the time you get a direct message - often there are folk out there sending automated messages saying TY for following me - probably because they get thousands, yes thousands of messages every minute and also because they've set up an account so that when they follow you 'it' messages you. Personally I never answer to an 'it'.

Twitter is about conversations, sharing knowledge , making connections. You want to make real connections, live in the real world right. Well I do, but sometimes you can take things too far...

If you're talking about where you want to go to dinner tonight with your nearest and dearest, it's probably best to Direct Message them.

And then there's how you use Twitter, a lot of folk out there are folk who will interact like fiends, they'll answer ever Tweet they get, and follow up and hound innocent bystanders. Whereas other folk will just tell you what they had for breakfast and never ever answer your direct message once, or follow you.

The point is what do you want to get from Twitter and what do you want to give? What are you sharing with the world? 'Be-ing the change you wish to see', is as good advice as you can get (thanks Gandhi); so if you think someone is twittering balderdash at you - tell them and be on your way, and if they're helpful, share that too. Every one wants to be validated right?

Follow me on Twitter if any of this has been remotely useful, TY folks

Orphans helped in Haiti

What some good folk were doing in Haiti just in time for hundreds of orphans

http://www.cnn.com/video/?/video/world/2010/01/20/pkg.obrien.haiti.orphans.cnn

and more about Kevin Bronson's work here in his blog:-

http://operationnoah-jt.blogspot.com/search/label/EARTHQUAKE

they were originally there to set up food growing and irrigation scheme, but switched to search and rescue and aid when the quake happened.

They were $40 000 in the red as of the end of January because of the emergency maybe you can help here:-

'Thanks for your concern and help and again, remember the workers & their safety in your prayers!'
Reginald Bronson
9391 Lupin Avenue
Winton, CA 95388
Ph (209) 358-8577
reg@bronsonent.net

PS - Feel free to share the word with your friends and contacts

For more information on how you can help please contact:
Roger Jantz rvjantz@gmail.com
Reg Bronson reg@bronsonent.net

This is a quote from his blog about some of the saddest aspects of recovery:-

I thought a few days ago that a rotting body was the worst smell possible, but now I think it is somehow worse when it is attached to a living body. The medical team dresses the wounds, hands out antibiotics and painkillers, and decides who needs hospital care. We haul those that need care in the beds of pickups about two hours or more into the DR over bumpy roads. They are amazingly stoic, although hitting a speed bump or big set of ruts too fast usually brings a chorus of screams and groans. The supply seems undimishing.
Yesterday we hauled a man who had been dug out just a few hours, having been buried for 5 days. One load I had 3 patients on IV, so that kept us hopping.

Angels are a twittering...

Angels A-Twitter Week!

April 29th is Angela Shelton Day in honor of the the work of Angela Shelton to inspire and empower all survivors of abuse to heal and lead joyful lives. The day was given to Angela from the mayor of her hometown of Asheville, NC in honor of all survivors of abuse, violence and neglect.

Sunday to Sunday April 25-May 2nd we will be doing an
Angel A-Twitter Week.

Here is a video from Angela Shelton on how to twitter.

Angela Shelton Day is the time to share stories of healing and transformation. We will follow 3 powerful stories of male and female survivors for the whole week.

Angela Shelton will start us off during her live Sunday Show on April 24th and recap on the following Sunday.

We will be using the hash tags
#NEVERAGAIN
#ITOLD
#ASDAY10 for Angela Shelton Day 2010
#AOA for Army of Angels

Follow @angelashelton @survivormanual and @thearmyofangels

This event is free to be a part of Angela Shelton Day but to get an official Angela Shelton Day Twitter Ticket - give whatever you can to support the foundation. No need to buy a ticket if you don't have the money. Twittering is free!

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Thurs, the 29th, the official Angela Shelton Day, we will find out the outcomes of fhe stories.
Friday the 30th, we will share resources and respect for those who told their stories.
Sat, May 1st, we will celebrate the good stories with a dance party.
Sun, May 2nd, Angela Shelton will recap the week on her live Sunday show.

This is an event to raise awareness and money for the Angela Shelton Foundation that runs The Survivor Manual.

The Army of Angels are doing blogathons, marathons, vlogathons, and months of Joy to raise money for the foundation!

Do you have an idea on how to help inspire and empower more people to lead joyful lives? You can come up with your own creative way to donate to the Angela Shelton Foundation too! Go to First Giving and click "get started" on your creativity.

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The Survivor Manual Warrior Workbook

I have to say this has really changed my life. I have Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and in December of this year really knew I had to do something about as my life had hit a real low point. It's one thing dealing with the world when your stress is at a regular level but with PTSD it can go off scale. You overreact to things that normally aren't considered stressful - suddenly making a simple phone call or dealing with paperwork can become completely overwhelming.

Anyone who knows me will know that I have been through some real difficult times in my life. I have been fortunate to have considerable help and support.

Trauma effects people in different ways. Often childhood trauma, particularly to children under the age of four years when their brain is still developing, can cause real physical damage to their development which may not show up until years later or as adults.

Progressively successive trauma can debilitate a person's ability to deal with life's usual hurdles in positive manner, they are literally worn down. After years of ill health, my father dying and being unable to work consistently I realised I had to address the root causes of my inability to deal with my life.

I joined an online support group which has been considerably beneficial and this led me to Angela Shelton and her Survivor Manual Workbook which literally teaches you to overcome trauma and heal yourself.

This powerful workbook is used as a teaching tool with therapists, support groups and community education programs. It was inspired by Angela's Removing the Sword of Trauma events. It is for survivors, warriors, advocates, loved ones and supporters ready to move past pain and suffering and reclaim joy and happiness. You can use the workbook in a group, on your own or with your therapist. This workbook is 117 pages long and is a DOWNLOAD.

Click here to view more details

Symphonic Thinking

I wrote this post for wiki -

Symphonic Thinking is a 'profound logic' demonstrated by the ability to gather and utilise a diversity of information, to find and build connections between various subjects, and finally to unite these singular sources into a unified whole. Symphonic is related to the word 'symphony', describing the work and role of a conductor or composer.

The origins of Symphonic Thinking in relation to music is possibly sourced from a famous conversation between the great Finnish composer

Jean Sibelius and the Bohemian composer Gustav Mahler in Helsinki in 1907, in which they exchanged their views on Symphony. Sibelius told Mahler that symphony was about the “profound logic that created an inner connection between all the motives" and that "the symphony should be like the world: it must embrace everything." Thus arose the birth of 'Symphonic' as a particular line of thought or 'profound logic'.

Symphonic Thinkers have the big picture, consider whole systems or systems theory and can draw useful information from many sources, genres and formats.

Typically artists, musicians, poets, authors and right brain thinkers are Symphonic Thinkers but Symphonic Thinking is related to all aspects of life. Daniel H. Pink has written about symphonic thinking in 'A Whole New Mind', particularly about its usefulness in an age when communication technology allows for the re-distribution of specialist skills around the world, creating a global economy where Symphonic Thinkers can fill the looming gap left by out-sourcing 'automative' roles.

Symphonic Thinkers can see connections easily, find effective solutions and create efficiency. The best Symphonic Thinker can utilize both right and left brain hemispheres, granting a multi-dimensional approach to solving problems. By these attributes, the great mathematician George Polya was a Symphonic Thinker, exemplified by his book ‘How to Solve It’.

Other Symphonic Thinkers who may not have been classified as such but are definitely forerunners of this type of thinking include Noam Chomsky, considered the father of modern linguistics; Bill Mollison, the originator of Permaculture 'Design'; Margaret Mead a Cultural Anthropologist and Gregory Bateson for Systems Theory; Joanna Macy, who combines Buddhism, general systems theory and deep ecology; Arne Naess for evolving Deep Ecology and Ecosophy; Amartya Sen, the Indian economist and Nobel winner; Martha Nussbaum the American philosopher; and Michael Reynolds the architect who has formalised Earthships. There are of course, many more examples, which may be added to this list.

More on Symphonic Thinking can be found in a paper titled "Creating Symphonic Thinking" by Merrick Furst and Richard DeMillo

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Find your way out of Trauma:- The Survivor Warrior Workbook

This powerful workbook is used as a teaching tool with therapists, support groups and community education programs. It was inspired by Angela's Removing the Sword of Trauma events. It is for survivors, warriors, advocates, loved ones and supporters ready to move past pain and suffering and reclaim joy and happiness. You can use the workbook in a group, on your own or with your therapist.

This workbook is 117 pages long and is a DOWNLOAD. Thank you for your commitment to healing BUY NOW $9.99

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Copyright 2010 Louise Brookes

Finding Angela Shelton

Angela Shelton’s first memoir, Finding Angela Shelton, is a groundbreaking, heartbreaking, joyous and sad, miraculous and a one-of-a-kind read.

Ellen Bass, author of Courage to Heal, says, “Though she takes on serious issues, Angela Shelton is joyous, irreverent, funny, and feisty.”

Finding Angela Shelton cleverly moves through the filmmaker’s life story, her dreams, her fears and her journals as her search of women in America leads her to finding herself.

Finding Angela Shelton is in stores nationwide and is mandatory reading in many Women’s Studies programs around the US.

Click here to visit AngelaShelton.