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Gifts for people who have everything made easy with Kiva and Passports with Purpose

December 16, 2009 by Lanora

 image from www.camnet.com.kh 

This morning I received a couple of emails from a long-time friend who has just started a new job with Catholic Relief Services in the Congo. One of them contained a link to the website of the micro-loan project Kiva, with a note: "This is an idea for a Christmas present for someone who has everything.
It was given to me and I love it."

Last week, I celebrated my 4000th Twitter follower with a promise to award a prize "suitable only to that person."

This was a bit risky, as my follower number 4000 could easily have been a spambot pushing whiter teeth. Luckily, that wasn't a problem. I was overjoyed when I saw that my 4000th follower was @JoeDiazAFAR, co-founder of AFAR
Media
and experiential travel expert. I can't think of a more suitable prize to award Joe than a contribution to Kiva in his honor.

Thanks for the follow, Joe! I enjoy reading AFAR and love that it takes me places I can only dream of experiencing.

As you finish your holiday shopping, don't forget Passports with Purpose as another end-of-year gift idea. They have met the initial target of $13,000 toward building a school in rural Cambodia with American Assistance for Cambodia and have doubled that target to include health services for the school. So far, there's enough money to build the school and hire a nurse. Additional funds are needed to create a garden and hire a gardener and cook to improve the students' nutrition.

Please consider donating. It's easy, in increments of $10 through Paypal, and every $10 buys a chance to win a great prize. See the list of donated prizes here.

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Filed Under: Blogs, Charitable giving, Current Affairs, Shopping, Travel, Travel Blogs, Weblogs Tagged With: American Assistance for Cambodia, charitable causes, Passports with Purpose, schools in rural Cambodia, travel bloggers

Fireworks time! My photoblog has made invesp.com’s list of Top Photography blogs!

July 4, 2009 by Lanora

Blogrank

It pays to inspect the source of incoming site visits occasionally.

That's how I discovered Lanora Mueller Photography, my photoblog, ranks in sixth place by pages viewed per visit on invesp.com's Blog Rank of the Top 50 blogs in Photography. I'm proud to be in such distinguished company.

Another reason for setting off the fireworks today!

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Filed Under: Blogs, Photography, Publishing, Web/Tech, Weblogs Tagged With: blog rank, Photography, photography blogs, top blogs

Introducing HipCompass Escapes, a tree-friendly, niche-free, all-digital national travel magazine

April 18, 2009 by Lanora

HipCompass Escapes travel magazine Spring 2009 Sitting at a stoplight a couple of months ago, I picked up an email on my Blackberry from fellow travel writer Michelle Strashoon with her thoughts about launching a new, glossy travel magazine in digital form.

Michelle's message was filled with such enthusiasm I almost pulled over immediately to read the details. Fortunately, my safety-conscious daughter was in the passenger seat and willing to read Michelle's email aloud so we could continue our drive home from school. I dialed Michelle as soon as possible to learn more about the project and was thrilled when she accepted my pitch to write about my recent culinary experiences in Paris from the point of view of a frugal foodie.

Not everyone shared Michelle's optimism about the viability of a niche-free, solely digital travel publication in this economic environment. Undaunted, she followed through and brought out the premier edition of HipCompass Escapes on April 15, an impressive 96-page launch issue supported by numerous high-end advertisers willing to take a chance on the new venture.

Despite all efforts by Michelle and her team to plan for adequate bandwidth in support of the launch, there were a few technical glitches during the first 48 or so hours that prevented eager subscribers from accessing the publication. Apparently, distributor Zinio.com, host of the online editions of such mainstream periodicals as Business Week, Reader's Digest, Esquire, Playboy, PC Magazine, and Macworld, hadn't reckoned on the publication's immediate surge in popularity.

After those first few days of complaints from frustrated readers who couldn't access the publication, it's now time for me to invite all my readers to sign up for a free subscription to HipCompass Escapes.

The magazine is a quarterly, so we are already pressed to decide where the Frugal Foodie will dine next.

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Filed Under: Magazine Publishing, Publishing, Travel, Web/Tech, Weblogs, Webzines, Writing Tagged With: digital magazines, digital publications, digital publishing, magazines, online publications, publishing, Travel, travel magazines, travel writing

Update on the future of JPG Magazine: it’s very good news and a testimony to the power of community

March 2, 2009 by Lanora

If you've been following the uplifting story about the rescue of JPG Magazine, the hybrid online and print photo publication comprised entirely of content submitted and juried by its reader community, you'll be happy to learn the latest news.

On Friday, February 27, JPG's Editor in Chief Laura Brunow Miner announced that a new president and CEO has been promoted from the ranks, in the person of Seth Familian, formerly vice president of product management. Seth shared the best part of the story: new investors are officially on board and Adorama is in place as the site's Premier Community Partner.

"JPG is simply too special and unique to vanish. Our new investors … believe strongly in the potential of JPG as a business." 
President & CEO Seth Familian

Read more about JPG's news on their blog

  • An Exciting Future for JPG
  • JPG is back!
  • The Latest at JPG

An update to the update, added March 2, 2009

And lest we get too starry eyed about it all, here is the dirt, as dished up by Owen Thomas on gawker.com. I can't quite figure out why Mr. Thomas believes it relevant that Adorama is owned by Hasidic Jews.

Meltdowns: CEO's $500,000 Salary Burns Startup Into Fire Sale

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Filed Under: Magazine Publishing, Photography, Web/Tech, Weblogs, Webzines Tagged With: citizen journalism, citizen photojournalism, online magazines, online publications, Photography, photojournalism, print magazines

Woo hoo! Writing Travel featured on today’s Carnival of Cities

February 19, 2009 by Lanora

Carnivalofcities
 Today’s Carnival of Cities blog carnival is hosted by
Perceptive Travel Blog. Look for the next Carnival of Cities on Feb 25 on the Uptake Attractions Blog.

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