Renae Bolton ~ Marketing 4 Realtors

After reading Seth Godin's blog entitled National Day of Service, I was inspired! I've already started my family on the right path toward creating a better environment by starting our goal to go green. You can join me by reading my post on One Million Acts of Active Rain Green. In Seth's post, he discussed several ways we can make a difference by volunteering. Everything isn't always about giving money, nor is it always about being local. I'm taking from his post and re-blogging some of the things we could do online.

1. Teach someone how to sell their services on Craigslist, or how to use the web to find a job.
2. Build a Squidoo lens every day for a year about a favorite author or musician and dedicate the proceeds to charity. 300 a year could earn tens of thousands of dollars for a cause you care about. That adds up to serious money.
3. Start a blog and profile one worthy non-profit every single day.
4. Find an artisan and redesign their website or help them figure out how to promote their work.
5. Create and promote an online petition for a cause you care about.
6. Make a video that teaches people how to do better in a job interview or balance a checkbook or spot consumer fraud.
7. Start a Facebook group for like-minded people who support the same non-profit you do. Commit to spending time to promote it, organize the people there and actually create outcomes of value.
8. Write ten letters a day to corporations seeking donations for a local homeless shelter.
9. Find a tool that non-profits need online, and then organize some brilliant people to build it as an opensource utility.
10. Find a cause that supports soldiers or diplomats or other public servants that are on the road, and make it easier for them to connect with people back home.
11. Use Copilot to diagnose and fix computer problems for people or causes that can't afford fancy IT support. It's free on weekends.
12. Find an entrepreneur in the developing world and become her email penpal. Daily advice and encouragement might save hundreds of lives.
13. Lobby Congress with letters and blog posts to make a change to a law that doesn't benefit you at all, but helps the community in the long run.
14. Write a great wikipedia article every day about a person who is changing the world for the better.
15. Find video and remix it into an insanely viral video that promotes a cause that you believe in.

I'd love to hear from anyone who would be up for any of these suggested ways to make a difference. After all, isn't it the responsibility of those of us who are able to help make a difference for those who are not? Not just in Garfield Heights, Ohio but around the world. Each one of us can make a difference. Will you join me?

~Renae - Market 4 Real!_________________________________________________________________________________________________

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It's cold out there.   In Garfield Heights this morning, the news reporters said it was 5 degrees.  It wasn't supposed to get much warmer (high of only 14 today).  But we're used to it being cold here, aren't we?  That's not even what I'm writing about today.

Today, I'm writing about being safe in cold weather like what we are experiencing this week.  Here are some tips so that you'll make it through this cold front safe and sound!

1. Cover up!  Keep as much skin as possible from being exposed to the cold.  Pull hats down low over your ears and forhead.  Wear your scarf over as much of the bottom half of your face as you can.

2. Wear layers! A shirt or sweater and a pair of pants isn't going to keep you warm out there this week.  So wear thermals if you have them!  If not, wear a t-shirt underneath your sweater.  Ladies, stretch pants make for good makeshift thermals under your jeans or slacks.shovelling snow.

3. Don't stay out long! If you have to go out, don't stay outdoors for long periods of time.  If you have to shovel, do it in spurts.  Shovel for a few minutes, go back inside to warm up.  Shovel for a few more minutes, go back inside to warm up.

4. Pay attention to your body! If your fingers or toes start tingling, or if your hands or feet get numb, or any of your extremities start burning, go inside!  Those are signs of frostbite!

Be safe out there!

~Renae - Market 4 Real!_________________________________________________________________________________________________

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Those of you who know me and my family personally in Garfield Heights, Ohio will be shocked at this post. I'm attempting to make us go green.

Now, before you all jump up clapping, whistling, and patting me on the back, I have to make a confession... I'm not going into this all gung-ho like lots of people do. I'm slinking into it, being a super secret, super spy about things we can do easily to go green in our house and with my family.

So today, I was overjoyed to find one more thing I could do to help the planet! Central Florida real estate agent Debbie Summers hipped me to a great and easy way to help save our environment!

The Yellow Pages is going green so they are now giving people a quick and easy way to opt out of receiving the big, clunky, (unused in my house) yellow and white pages. Just go here to opt out.

So, here we are... One small move in the right direction. Wish us luck!

~Renae - Market 4 Real!_________________________________________________________________________________________________

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