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Trying to use a recently compiled email list, but freaks me out when I get a 17% failure rate.
The alumni association recently had a sister organization share an email list with us, but it's not as clean as I keep my lists, and I just got a 17% bounce rate ten minutes after sending. Friends, there is nothing as important as our reputation, and I fear this list will shred mine.
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Houston continues to have a beautiful spring. Bottlebrushes doing particularly well this year
I haven't noticed how many people have these bushes before. Here's a photo from Mike Fisher. http://www.flickr.com/photos/bfs_man/4556446878/
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Look! My favorite Houston magazine, My Table, has favorite new restaurant Yelapa, in Deal on Meals
via www.mytableentree.com
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Straighten up and email right, says Jakob Nielsen
Like automobiles, email newsletters are powerful and dangerous. Usability expert Jakob Nielsen reminds us how challenging it can be as he picks apart these examples. useit.com Alertbox: UK Election Email Newsletters Rated, 2010-Apr-26, by Jakob Nielsen: Since our earliest user research into email newsletters 8 years ago, we've known that newsletters are a superb mechanism…
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RT @Team_HIWI Can we agree this morning that Houston’s worth it because of the light? #HIWI
The Houston morning sunlight in my yard. It's 68 degrees. Wouldn't you like to be in Houston now?
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While I was sleeping the Bloggess was getting ready to rock the world. Let us rise to the challenge!
So I'm trying to losen up on this web site and here we are trying to point out how silly we can be. There was a Wittgenstein quote lose on the internet yesterday: "If people did not sometimes do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done." Regardless of whether you can participate, it's always…
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Just made donation to Houston Area Respite Care (www.harc-hou.org), hope you’ll consider too
Houston Chronicle: Trying to Save a Godsend, 2010-Apr-26, by Jennifer Radcliffe: But with donations down in this tough economy, the Houston Area Respite Center is in danger of closing its doors. It doesn't have the $90,000 a year it needs to operate the parents'-night-out program or its social club for adults with special needs. A…
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Just finished sending alumni newsletter in waves, avoided throttling, but also learned more
This is a fragment of a screen shot from my email software, PoliteMail. Although the company allows the option of using their mail servers, that has led to higher undeliverable messages for me. The regular email server for the account (a free Windows Live account) lets me send about 200 indentical messages a day, and by breaking the…
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Have so many fun projects to work on… Weekend seems to evaporate…
I'll have my weekend vicariously by looking at some cool photos. Drew and Didi live in San Antonio, but they took this cool picture in downtown Houston, apparently at trials for a bike race. http://www.flickr.com/photos/morganti/4546981985/
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