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We’re Moving Back Home!
As many of you know we’ve been moving our Blogs around a lot lately! (Sorry for the Inconvenience)
Due to the 777 Ifrme Virus causing problems with our old Blog System we moved here to WordPress. In fact we’ve fallen in love with WordPress and want to continue using it.
However, we’re aware that WordPress does have a “No Advertising Policy” This means that even things like our free announcements for non-profits, artists, community groups, etc., stood on shaky ground. Although WordPress has been very generous and not yet told us to move it, we’re moving back home to YarmouthCounty.com.
The good news is we’ll still be able to use the WordPress System, just on our own Site. This move should be pretty seamless for most of you. Likely the only thing most of you will notice is that we’ve changed our template and header image. However, if you’re subscribed to the RSS Feed for this Blog you may want to change it to our new feed.
We will be updating the RSS Feed on our Yarmouth County Toolbar and News Ticker. So, if you would like notification of our Blog Posts right on your desk top you can download out toolbar for free.
This move will allow us more control over our content, and what we are able to do for the promotion of Yarmouth County and surrounding areas of Nova Scotia, Canada.
So although we appologise for any inconvenince, we’re moving back home and we invite you to visit our new Yarmouth County Blogs at YarmouthCounty.com/blogs.
A final word for WordPress, I personally want to thank you for your wonderful system and the new Word Press MU that we’ll be using at YarmouthCounty.com/blogs.
In the famous words of Tony the Tiger, “They’re GR-R-REAT!!!
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So, for YarmouthCounty.com, this has been Brian Hurlburt, and I invite you to Make it a great day!
Sincerely,
Brian Hurlburt
customerservice@yarmouthcounty.com
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This Post was inspired by a recent article at The Nova Scotia Business Journal.
Acted upon due to my, and I believe our, growing frustration at Bay Ferries ever changing schedule and growing list of excuses.
Oh how we lament: How many lives can the CAT have left!
Loosing our precious Bluenose and those precious people who served us for so many wonderful years was more of a blow than we ever thought possible!
Reading this you may think that it’s impossible for us to loose even more! Yet, I predict that if something is not done, it will happen!
Though we strive to make Yarmouth County a true destination we have to put up with those who just don’t understand.
The fall and spring tourism seasons are growing in most places as the Baby Boomers age and retire. They are the biggest bubble to flow through in the past hundred years and now they are Grand Parents who often baby sit their Grand Children in the summer and travel during the spring and fall seasons.
As for winter their are many winter sports and other activities that would draw people to our area if they had reliable transportation and infrastructure to get here!
Yet, all we hear is the CAT whining that their are fewer and fewer people coming and so they continue to shorten the season.
It is really all quite easy to figure out!
If people have a reliable means of transportation and improved infrastructure to support their habits and that they can depend on year after year they will come more, and more often!
However, if every year the schedule changes, shortens, and becomes less efficient, then the would be travellers learn they can not depend on the service and stop using it. If it continues they’ll stop using it altogether!
How many lives can the CAT have left!
How many more lives will be affected if they don’t stop their whining and provide some real service.
How long will they continue to promote a short seasonal sub tropic vessel that can simply not handle our North Atlantic waters!?
When will we get a real boat? A company who understands the local economy, what it takes to become a real destination, and the marketing skills to survive!???
Oh how we lament! How many lives can the CAT have left!
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So, for YarmouthCounty.com, this has been Brian Hurlburt, and I invite you to Make it a great day!
Sincerely,
Brian Hurlburt
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The CanWest CanSpell National Spelling Bee was held April 14, 2007 and all the contestants were amazing. Drawing stiff spelling competition from across Canada meant all who participated deserve to be congratulated. Spellers described watching their competitors with mixed emotions. Describing each other as friends and although happy to see the others eliminated, it was also difficult to see their friends have to leave the stage after being eliminated. when all was said and done the top two contestants were from Ontario and Nova Scotia.
So, we want to especially congratulate first place champion speller Soohyun Park of Toronto, ON who took first place while representing the National Post. As well as Amrit Sampalli of Hammonds Plains, Nova Scotia, who took second place. Both spellers did a wonderful job and are to be commended.
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Soohyun Park – Toronto, ON
First Place Champion Speller
Won the CanWest CanSpell Spelling Championship
April 14, 2007
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Amrit Sampalli – Hammonds Plains, NS
Second Place Champion Speller
Won the CanWest CanSpell
Spelling Championship
April 14, 2007
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The CanSpell website is full of exciting information and activities for teachers, parents and spellers.
Complete details can be seen at the CanSpell website.
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So, for YarmouthCounty.com, this has been Brian Hurlburt, and I invite you to Make it a great day!
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Brian Hurlburt
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Helpful Resources: SpellCheck.net
This weeks helpful resource is SpellCheck.net, which I use for checking individual words and passages, and much more!
Not only does SpellCheck.net provide free online spell checking, it also has the best collection of related links that I’m aware of online. Including links to mathematics tools, kitchenmath.com, calculator, tabulator, and language tools including text tools, encyclopedia, dictionary, thesaurus, as well as a number of other very helpful links and tools.
In my opinion there are few places online that offer so much under one roof so to speak.
Whether your a writer, mathematician, student, teacher, parent, business owner, or Blogger, or have other reasons for using proper language and mathematics tools you will definitely benefit from discovering SpellCheckn.net.
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So, for YarmouthCounty.com, this has been Brian Hurlburt, and I invite you to Make it a great day!
Sincerely,
Brian Hurlburt
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As many of you know that receive our “News from Yarmouth County” newsletter I’ve been having some health problem. First I hurt my back and then developed an ear infection! Fun, Fun!
You also know that in our last “News from Yarmouth County” newsletter I spoke about how it was making me think about who would carry on with YarmouthCounty.com if something serious would happen to me!
At least one of you wrote in to say, that although he hoped I wouldn’t to worry about that any time soon, he did think I had made a valid point. We all need to be thinking about what we’ll leave behind and who will take care of things when we’re not here.
Now, one would think that this is something that business owners would look after, and individuals would postpone. Well, I encourage both groups to make preparations for such a time as this. Live for today, plan for tomorrow, so to speak.
Then I discovered a survey that says succession plans are definitely lacking. According to a recent survey, nearly 40% of advertising and marketing executives surveyed feel uncertain that someone in their company could fill their shoes if they had to suddenly leave their positions.
The poll was conducted by an independent research firm and developed by The Creative Group, a staffing service providing marketing, advertising, creative and web professionals on a project basis.
Advertising and marketing executives were asked, “If you had to step down from your position tomorrow, how confident are you that someone in your agency/firm would be prepared to assume your responsibilities?” Their responses:
Very confident: 22%
Somewhat confident: 38%
Not very confident: 25%
Not at all confident: 14%
Don’t know: 1%
We hear a lot about disaster planning, yet although people know they should do it, they often put it off till it’s to late. Whether the head of a large private firm, or a family of one or two, we should all be ready for theinevitable. Although disaster may be avoided, I know of only one who overcame death, and He left a whole discipleship behind to carry on His work!
Creating a succession plan for our future, or for point when we’re no longer here, — whether public, private, or personal — has benefits that provide leadership for businesses, employees, andfamilies, to grow professionally and leads to increased loyalty, productivity, and peace of mind.
When developing our plan it is best to start early, taking time to prepare and train our replacement. Even if we doubt we’ll need a replacement anytime soon, preparing someone to assume our duties creates a safety net should we have to leave our post.
By not overlook anyone, we stand a greater chance of identifying the ability and skills necessary, and determine more easily who may show the greatest potential for acquiring them. By sharing our vision with others around us we may better find and develop leadership skills. Not to mention the feedback we’llreceive that may lead to broader vision and revision of our goals.
Then, once we’ve found those who may carry on in our place, we need to provide regular communication and open dialogue so together we can continue to develop and expand our shared vision. Offering ongoing incentives, developing a shared vision, and delegating moreresponsibility , will help keep everyone engaged and committed to the shared vision. I feel that allowing ourselves to open up to a shared vision is crucial to our own development and to that of our successors.
It may be a good idea to have trial runs during our vacation and other times away from our usual posts. Having potential successors assume responsibilities during these time will allow our successors to gain experience while we learn how prepared the person is to take on a greater role.
This is also the reason I’ve been seeking people interested in Learning New Computer Skills For Free. In exchange for working on YarmouthCounty.com, and helping us to promote Yarmouth County and surrounding areas, I’ll help these individuals not only learn computer skills, but to truly learn what it has taken me over ten years to learn and develop. Everything from Computer Skills, to Online Applications, to Sales, Marketing, and Customer Skills.
Some people have questioned if I’m giving away to much? I figure if these people stay with YarmouthCounty.com for the short or long term, or go on their own to promote Yarmouth County, or another project of their own, we all win and I’ve done my part to help continue my work in promoting Yarmouth County and to make the online world a better place in the process.
This has been reworked for our purposes based on information from a Nova Scotia Business Journal article and related information from the The Creative Group Succession Survey.
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So, for YarmouthCounty.com, this has been Brian Hurlburt, and I invite you to Make it a great day!
Sincerely,
Brian Hurlburt
customerservice@yarmouthcounty.com
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