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    Minnesota Siren Is Born!

    Minnesota Siren, a public relations, social media strategy company is born!  Will you help spread the word?  We’re also on Facebook (a Facebook group we just started, please join) and on Twitter (please follow).

    Consulting services:

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    Outsourcing, contract based:

    • Facebook
    • Twitter outsourcing, contract based
    • Weblog updating (ghost writer, you provide content direction)

    Here are examples of our combined feeds (please subscribe!):

    http://feeds.feedburner.com/MnBlueBlogs (blogs that lean left or are non-partisan, Minnesota based)

    http://feeds.feedburner.com/OccupyWallStreetAcrossAmerica

    http://feeds.feedburner.com/yahoo/RMTc (national union news)

    http://feeds.feedburner.com/MinnesotaSiren Minnesota siren’s own, personalized combined feed which includes us along with other sources of information.  The results of this combined feed automatically tweet to our Twitter account.

     

    Holly Cairns, Strategist, Information Technology

    I’m joining with another person to provide these, and more, non-partisan services:

    Weblog creation and usage
    quick response code generation and instruction
    android phone application creation,
    iTunes publication,
    Strategic messaging/ marketing
    RSS feed creation and usage
    Twitter best practice
    Facebook best practice

    More information will follow. If you need something now, let me know.

    Holly Cairns has been blogging, authoring, editing, and creating since 1996.  She might best be known for her android applications, combined RSS feeds MNBlueBlogs, OccupyWallStreetAcrossAmerica, and national unionnews, and for her blogging. Contact information for Holly:

    Holly Cairns
    holly.cairns@minnesotasiren.com
    507-581-1119

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    Skype:
    heccairns

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    EXPERIENCE
    • Small Business Owner
    • Educator
    • E-commerce, Interactivity, New Media
    • Marketing / Strategy

    EDUCATION
    M.A., Education, Saint Mary’s University, Minneapolis, MN
    B.A., Education and Psychology, St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN

    Find Me at MNPoliticalRoundtable.com

    Hi, I’m neglecting this blog for a number of reasons, mostly because I have not given up on messaging but am tired of backward politics.  To find me you can go to MNPoliticalRoundtable.  Politically, I do not agree with all the bloggers there,  but I enjoy the thought of community discussion.

    Erik Paulsen, John Kline, Michele Bachmann, and Chip Cravaack vote money, not safety

    Who would vote, “yes”,  let’s let a  firm with Iranian friends mine American land for uranium?  Erik Paulsen (MN-R), John Kline (MN-R),  Michele Bachmann (MN-R), and Chip Cravaack (MN-R), that’s who.  Safety first, no more.

    I’d like to direct you to MNCentral, who has this here,  Cravaack Fails to Do Homework on Iranian Mining.  Unbelievable.

     

    Continue reading Erik Paulsen, John Kline, Michele Bachmann, and Chip Cravaack vote money, not safety

    Wall Street Across America

    Let’s get the Occupy Wall Street Across America message out. To know what is happening across America, I’ve put together a combined rss feed that updates as people add posts to their blog. I’m still adding feeds as they are assembled, and researching the best way to include Facebook page rss data.

    So here it is. (Bloggers, please consider adding this rss feed to your sidebar): http://feeds.feedburner.com/occupywallstreetacrossamerica

    There’s a free phone Android phone app found at Market search for Occupy America. No ads are being displayed.

    No revenue is being generated from this feed, I just am doing my part to get the word out.

    PS, This is what I noticed as I compiled this feed and looked at the feeds from across America:

    ==>Occupy is all over America, even in Puerto Rico. http://occupypuertorico.weebly.com/fotos.html (my fav is image 25).

    ==>Every group has its own voice. This video from North Hampton caught my eye http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PFfVqaJNR4

    ==>Although I do find a lot of data when I Google “Occupy end the fed” All across America, only one city has the motif “End the Fed” as their official FB image. It seems most occupy groups know we need to ask for “good government that works for us” rather than to “end the fed.”

    ==> I felt this spoke to me, and I understood the movement in general.
    http://www.facebook.com/pages/Occupy-Carson-City/120132728093240

    Here’s what I like there at Carson City: “I see a lot of people still confused, lets sum this up of what this movement is and is not:

    1. This movement IS NOT about hand outs. We still believe in working for what you earn, and that hard work pays off. That system only works given an adequate amount of jobs to do so with wages that actually coincide with cost of living.

    2. This movement IS NOT to end corporations. Its to end corporate per…sonhood, corporatism, to keep corporations out of politics, to limit their financial contributions to elect the representative which will cater to their (generally illegal) needs.

    3. This movement IS NOT Anti-American. We care about this nation even more than they do and that is why we are fighting to restore it. If we just left it in the hands of those it’s in now it would just continue to get worse.

    4. This movement IS NOT about anarchy. Somehow along the lines this turned into the United Republic of America. We are not trying to overthrow the government, but restore it back to its democratic roots.

    5. This movement IS NOT affiliated with any known political party. Do not let anybody trick you into thinking it is. This was started by the people, for the people.

    This movement IS about change. IT IS about correcting the corrupt. IT IS about taking back what is ours. IT IS about the unjust discrepancy between the rich and poor. IT IS you, IT IS me, IT IS America. At least 99% of us, even more if you are only accounting for those who aren’t congress or their financial backers.

    Last but not least IT IS going to work, so if you don’t know you better ask somebody” (end)

    Thanks, I’m at 507-581-1119 if you have q’s. Hang tight.

    Update on the National Labor Voice Combined RSS Feed

    I’m still tinkering with my National Labor Voice Combined RSS feed. The UAW and Teamsters know how to use social media well, and are tending to hog the feed. I’ll have to find a better balance which still shows what those two groups are doing (but doesn’t follow their forums or FB page).

    Here’s my National Labor Voice Combined RSS feed (this is the non-cached version, it’ll be different from the one in my WordPress sidebar as WordPress’ server has cached the older version of this feed).

    Obama and Jobs, Were You Listening?

    POTUS Barack Obama is on our side.  Let’s go, Congress.  Get off your bottoms and start helping Americans.  We need help for the middle class.

    In case you missed it, here’s what Obama suggests we begin with to encourage job growth while providing immediate and fiscally responsible relief:

    -Renewing the payroll tax cut we received in December, which would help families and businesses alike.
    -Congress getting to work on rebuilding America.  Construction personnel need jobs, the time is right as far as interest rates go, and it’s long lasting.
    -Giving tax credits to businesses who hire veterans.  In service, veterans were often in charge of multi-million dollar equipment, made life and death decisions, and lead.  It’s time to employ them.
    -Making trade deals.  It’s time for other countries to read “Made in America.”
    -Reforming and reducing, getting rid of red tape which would make entrepreneurship easier.

    “What is needed is action on the part of Congress… and (action) that allows government to live within its means… All of us need to share in a little bit of sacrifice. “

    Obama is concerned about Texas residents and fire, talks with Governor PerryPhoto of the day. President Barack Obama talks with Governor Perry, expressing his concern for Texas citizens impacted by fire in an Oval Office phone call, Sept. 7, 2011. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)

    Combined Feeds, for example the Labor Voice

    I’m working on a combined feed which is the voice of labor, since that is a big concern of mine.   We need job growth and living wage jobs.   In our Capitalistic society, we need worker rights.  This combined feed allows people to see immediately after any one of the national unions posts anything.  Please feel free to send me suggestions at holly@hollycairns.com.

    Obama and Jobs: Taking it to the streets

    Tonight I heard Obama address congress. He used the same voice of reason tonight as he did in Cannon Falls. We need job growth, the rich to pay their fair share (fair taxation), and to use government as a tool to end this recession. Good government serves, and Obama gets that.   Thank God.

    Have you voted yet? CBS local Minnesota most valuable blogger

    Today I was poking around in one of my favorite blogs, reading about gay roasting (scary Uganda connection!) and God trying to reach Rick Perry, and found I’m behind on voting for Minnesota’s Most Valuable Blogger (prizes!) 

    You can vote once a day.  The icon below is the link, and here’s the details.  Fun!


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