Meet Darryl Heron, who took advantage of our relaxing promotion rules and wrote an excellent piece on Earth day.

It’s been 31 years since the first Earth Day.

Are you involved?

I’m very excited to point you to Cre8 Green Week.

“We’ll be celebrating Earth Day, April 22nd, with a week-long “green” focus. The most unusual facet will be that we’re temporarily loosening some of our usually strict policies about self promotion. We want to make it easier for the community to come in and share about how their projects inspire awareness of our environment and sustainable use of resources.”

Logo design: Risa Borsykowsky of Rb3Webdesign.com

Cre8Green Week Planning and Implementation: Elizabeth Able of Ablereach.com

Some discussions:

How To Promote A Non Profit Organization, how to get more visibility to raise money and funds

Thus, I’d like to start a single thread, where leaders of nonprofit and charity organizations can find resources to make their organization more visible. Obviously, you are supposed to contribute a link or two that will help them in this direction.

Blogging About The Earth The Week Of Earth Day?

Normally, we don’t allow link drops or self promotion. Like never. Just for the week of April 20-26, even if your site is not dedicated to green living, we are bending our rules. If you have written a substantive post that fits with the spirit of Earth Day, you are invited to tell us about it and link to it in this thread.

For those who get a kick out of a forums that has never taken itself seriously, stop on by before we get boring again.

Missed our antics? View the visual history in April Fools 2008 at Cre8asiteforums.

(The following outburst is reprinted from a post at Cre8asiteforums by permission of myself because every once in a while it feels really damned good to let it all out.)

In the beginning there was only a gray background. We borrowed (stole) everyone’s HTML so we could learn how to make our own web sites. We lied about our real identities. We were shy in those days. Even our spam was wimpy. Immature. Testing Internet waters.

Spammers started with simple spam emails that were so few and far between that you could hardly tell you were being spammed. In fact, historically speaking, the progression was foretold by none other than Monty Python in the famous “Spam” sketch from 1970.

* Egg and bacon
* Egg, sausage and bacon
* Egg and spam
* Egg, bacon and spam
* Egg, bacon, sausage and spam
* Spam, egg, sausage and spam
* Spam, egg, spam, spam, bacon and spam
* Spam, spam, spam, egg, and spam
* Spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, baked beans, spam, spam, spam and spam
* Lobster thermidor aux crevettes with a Mornay sauce garnished with truffle paté, brandy and with a fried egg on top and spam
* Spam, sausage, spam, spam, spam, bacon, spam, tomato and spam

But I Don’t Like Spam

It matters not, in today’s in-your-face marketing agenda society, that we like or dislike email spam. As marketers, the bottom line, golden rule is this:

Rush in. Do whatever is the shortest route possible to satisfaction. Never, ever, expect to be fulfilled.

There is nothing ethical about spam. Spammers are the lowest form of life on the planet. In fact, some would go so far as to say spam is not a living thing at all. However, we’ve all seen spam take on a life of its own via the endless incarnation practice of “copy/forward” to friends.

To end this cycle, we could simply ignore junk mail but alas, some email clients have to warn us first. We’re offered a choice. Keep or trash? I’m sick and tired of being asked and yet the moment I don’t, a good behaving email gets tossed in with the low-life scum.

What are the causes of spam? Are spammers’ angry people? Do their egos lead them to believe that we’re all interested in what they have to say? Could they not, before spamming these forums, ASK FIRST, to see if what to do or say is permitted? Do they not know how to read and therefore are too stupid to read our House Rules?

Do they think we get paid to be here, disabling them?

Many days I think to myself…“Kim, you could be doing something good for the planet.” What prevents me from doing so? Spam.

If I and the moderators didn’t come here every day, every hour, and every minute, no one would recognize these forums. Spammers with their naked celebrity pictures would have a field day here. People who still believe in “link farms” would pile in to beg for links. New web site owners would arrive, hour by hour, hawking their sites on everything from porn, to pills, to political statements.

What’s missing from the brain of a spammer?

Compassion for others. Concern for the well being of our society. Wisdom. Integrity. Responsibility. Spammers aren’t interested in dialog. Theirs is a one-side conversation.

Yes. In the global grand scheme of things, there are far, far more important and vital issues to be thinking about. People are in pain. Children are born into lives of slavery and starvation. Women are owned, raped and of less value than all other living things in some cultures. Not a day goes by when my soul doesn’t ache.

Not a day goes by when I must fight off those who use words and images to force me to look at their spam emails, spam blog comments or spam posts. And all I want to do is show every spammer where they could be putting their time, money and energy.

Dear spammer. It is not your desire that matters.

Discuss: Cre8asiteforums Staff Taking Time Off

and a baby’s arm holding an apple.

This is how I spent my Saturday.

My Happy Assimilation Into Cre8asite Forums - New moderator, Donna Fontenot.

Thrilled to Become a Moderator at Cre8asite Forums! - New moderator, Miriam Ellis.

Cre8tive Flow - Redesigned Blog by Joe Dolson and Elizabeth Ablereach

New Cre8asiteforums logo is up. It was designed for us by Risa Borsykowsky, who also redesigned the Cre8pc logo.

We retired Mr. Peabody, our blog mascot. Meet the new Blog logo.

We said goodbye to three moderators, Rand, Tim and Chris

Wanna Keep up?

It’s Bring Your Pet To Work Week at the forums. (Members view only.)

What is a Lifestream?

We’re just getting started.