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GWA
Did you know that GWA provides you with a $20 credit toward your annual membership fee for each new person (or company) you bring to GWA? Bring in five members, and your annual fee is paid.
To top that off, during the month of March, the GWA member to bring in the most new members will receive three free books.
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Smithsonian
In most college-level literature courses, you find students dissecting small portions of literary classics: Shakespeare's soliloquies, Joyce's stream of consciousness and Hemingway's staccato sentences. No doubt, there is so much that can be learned about a writer, his or her craft and a story's meaning by this type of close reading.
But Ben Blatt makes a strong argument for another approach.
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Digiday
Commenters get a bad rap. At best, they're trolls. At worst, they hide behind their anonymity to toss stinkbombs of hate speech at well-meaning writers. But the Financial Times has a different experience with its commenters: After spending months analyzing the behavior of people who comment on its site, the newspaper has found that those who leave comments read more articles, spend more time on site and come back to the FT more often than those who don't.
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Enterpreneur
Anyone who has invested time managing and growing a social media following knows that it can turn into a time vacuum. Open up Instagram and suddenly you find yourself scrolling through beautiful photos from your friend's excursion to Iceland. Those ponies are so photogenic with their manes blowing in the icy wind! Logging in, posting and getting out without being distracted is a challenge even the most self-disciplined struggle with.
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Fortune
Facebook users have been able to stream live video via their smartphones or other mobile devices for almost a year; Now the social network power is bringing that Facebook Live capability to desktop computers, according to a company post.
The ability to stream video from a stable desktop camera makes it easier for non-techies to create video blogs (aka vlogs), tutorials and other content.
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Fortune
Social networking companies used by millions of people face a dilemma. They want users to post content freely, but they are also under growing pressure to block objectionable material like pornography, violence as well as bad acts like cyber-bullying.
This week, both Instagram and Twitter announced steps aimed at making their sites safer. The goal is to protect users from potentially objectionable posts while trying to avoid going overboard with censorship.
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American Nurseryman
Boxwood blight continues to spread throughout the U.S. The University of Illinois Plant Clinic recently announced its presence in Illinois. The clinic received two boxwood samples late 2016. Both were from northeast Illinois and were collected from recent landscape installations. USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service confirmed that both tested positive for BB.
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Did you know money really can grow on trees? Learn how trees cut costs and save energy from arborists at Davey Tree. MORE
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Greenhouse Grower
I doubt that I meet more "real" people than you do, but I do meet some diverse groups when I talk about this thing we call horticulture. From the Master Gardener to my gardening neighbor, the smallest garden center to the mega independent garden center owner, the beginning landscaper to the landscape designer, and from your friends to your daughters, these are just a few of the "real" people I talk to every time I go out who give me a good idea of what interests our true audience.
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Reader's Digest
Slugs are bound to crash your barbecue, since they love beer almost as much as humans. Fill an empty tuna or cat-food can with beer and bury it in your garden soil up to its rim. Overnight, slugs will move into the beer and drown. You can throw out the entire can in the morning and replace it with a fresh batch. The only catch is, each trap only attracts slugs within a few feet of it.
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Digiday
In February, Facebook hosted dozens of media company executives at its offices to show its content and product plans. Earlier, it had held roundtable meetings with 100-plus publishers while former TV anchor Campbell Brown, now Facebook's director of news partnerships, threw soirees at her Manhattan apartment with news and journalism bigwigs. News industry veterans have seen this before. To them, Facebook is borrowing from the playbook Google has been using for years.
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CBC News
Sharon Rowse was thrilled when, after years of trying, she finally landed a book deal with a New York publisher.
"It had always been my dream to be published," Rowse said.
Her novel, a historical crime story that takes place in her hometown, had been "a bit of a hard sell" for the American market.
But reality poured a big bucket of cold water on her dreams when the publisher was bought out, and its mystery section discontinued.
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Media Life Magazine
Native advertising has its doubters.
Some people say the medium, essentially ads made to look like editorial content, is too deceptive. Others point to low renewal rates.
Still more argue people aren't dumb enough to be tricked into thinking ad content is actually editorial.
But while there may be many doubts about native ads, that won't stop advertisers from experimenting with them.
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GWA
GWA: The Association for Garden Communicators is excited to announce the launch of our prestigious 2017 GWA Media Awards, the only national online media awards program for the gardening communications industry. Held annually for more than 20 years, the GWA Media Awards have recognized the top professional horticultural communicators in the areas of writing, photography, digital media, broadcast media, publishing and trade. This year's program features over 60 categories.
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GWA
Members can recognize the achievements of their peers with a 2017 Honors Nomination. To honor individuals who have made a significant contribution to the GWA objectives, please complete the nomination form.
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GWA
Join GWA in the beautiful Delaware Piedmont as we spend the day touring the gardens of the famous du Pont family estates, Nemours, Mt. Cuba and Winterthur, culminating in a trunk show and GWA Connect meeting.
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GWA
Join Region IV GWA members for weekend adventure in the Carolina "triangle." Experience the spring magic of the Sarah P. Duke Gardens, including guided tours and an educational seminar over lunch. A visit to the North Carolina Botanical Garden Chapel Hill in the height of the season will educate visitors on the native floral displays of the central piedmont region. Finish the day with a trunk show and guided tour of the famous grounds of Fearrington Village.
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