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Gender: Male
Status: Single
Age: 30
Sign: Aries

City: Derby
State: Kansas
Country: US
Signup Date: 9/24/2005

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Friday 19/12/2008 

Current mood:  accomplished
Category: Blogging
New website up and running now. It's also the home of my new blog. The new address is http://mikemathia.info - this will be the centralized new location where you can keep up with me.

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Wednesday 17/12/2008 

Current mood:  busy
Category: Life
Hosted By: FUZION! Wichita
When: Friday Dec 19, 2008
at 9:00 PM
Where FUZION
252 NORTH MOSLEY STREET
OLD TOWN WICHITA, Kansas|17 67202
United States
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FUZION! Wichita

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Saturday 06/12/2008 

Current mood:  focused
Category: Web, HTML, Tech
What do Apple Macintosh users and Harley Davidson owners have in common? Those products have become a part of people's lives and self-identity. They feel a sense of ownership in the company. They form communities around the product, and in essence become salespeople and marketers for the product. They have a fierce loyalty, and they are vocal about it.

Ideally, as successful business owners we should want people to feel a sense of ownership in our sites and blogs. We should want our social media sites to be a part of their lifestyle. One of the ways to accomplish this is to create a sense of community and inclusion. The goal should be that our users should feel as though they are not only part of something bigger than themselves, but something that they feel they are invited to join.

It's important that we figure out ways to promote communication between users on our sites. We should arm them with promotional tools to help promote our sites—for example, by creating a widget (clickable button) for their blogs that link back to our sites. Another example is that one day a week, we could host an open comment night on our blogs where users can ask questions, give suggestions, communicate with other users, and interact with them online. We could then additionally interview different users on our blogs, and by doing so we can take an active interest in the lives and businesses of people who are not only interested in us, but in others with similar interests. It allows for the creation of a cyber-fanbase-community, much like those that Apple and Harley-Davidson have.

We can also start looking to identify things that our users have in common and help them to make connections with each other. This is similar to how sites like Facebook and Ning help create a sense of community among users by allowing users to create groups. Another thing sites like those have deployed successfully is to allow users to search for each other by interests, occupation, marriage status, and geographical location.

Businesses could also encourage and foster meetups based on their social network—this way users can meet each other face to face. The more we can promote communication and interaction between our users online, the greater the sense of community they will feel. This is critical to both retaining active users and having our users virally market our sites through word of mouth. Mini Cooper is unusually adept at this, and have both regional and international meetups on a regular basis that are based on online social networks.

If you have a social networking site, you'll want to make it easy for your users to invite their friends, family, and work associates to use your site. However, there's a lot to be said about initial exclusivity and creating desire. One of the things that Google did right with Gmail was to make it exclusive. Google gave each person a limited number of email invites to give out to friends. When Gmail first launched, a buzz was created online as people actively sought out invites.

Remember, each mention of your site on a message board or social media site is a mini-advertisement. The more we can get users to talk about our sites and blogs in their emails, IMs, social media sites, message boards, and blogs, and the more we can get users to mention our brand(s), the quicker we'll see our user bases grow and the more active users we will be able to retain…and the more customers and clients we will reach.

As successful business owners, we should want to engage people, create two-way dialogs, encourage participation, listen, and respond. The only way to create a sense of ownership in our sites and blogs is actually to give away ownership. Let others have the spotlight. Our blogs are not about our egos. Our blogs are about our audience and readers. They aren't about us.
Currently listening:
Are You Gonna Go My Way
By Lenny Kravitz
Release date: 1993-03-09
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Wednesday 03/12/2008 

Current mood:  tested
Category: Life
If a man wants you, nothing can keep him away.

If he doesn't want you, nothing can make him stay.

Stop making excuses for a man and his behavior.

Allow your intuition (or spirit) to save you from heartache.

Stop trying to change yourselves for a relationship that's not meant to be.

Slower is better.

Never live your life for a man before you find what makes you truly happy.

If a relationship ends because the man was not treating you as you deserve
then heck no, you can't "be friends." A friend wouldn't mistreat a friend.

Don't settle. If you feel like he is stringing you along, then he probably is.

Don't stay because you think "it will get better." You'll be mad at yourself
a year later for staying when things are not better.

The only person you can control in a relationship is you.

Avoid men who've got a bunch of children by a bunch of different women.

He didn't marry them when he got them pregnant,
Why would he treat you any differently?

Always have your own set of friends separate from his.

Maintain boundaries in how a guy treats you.

If something bothers you, speak up.

Never let a man know everything. He will use it against you later.

You cannot change a man's behavior. Change comes from within.

Don't EVER make him feel he is more important than you are...even if he has
more education or in a better job. Do not make him into a quasi-god.

He is a man, nothing more nothing less.

Never let a man define who you are.

Never borrow someone else's man.

If he cheated with you, he'll cheat on you.

A man will only treat you the way you ALLOW him to treat you.

All men are NOT dogs.

You should not be the one doing all the bending...compromise is a two-way street.

You need time to heal between relationships...there is nothing cute about
baggage... deal with your issues before pursuing a new relationship
You should never look for someone to COMPLETE you...a relationship consists
of two WHOLE individuals...look for someone complimentary...not supplementary.

Dating is fun...even if he doesn't turn out to be Mr.. Right.

Make him miss you sometimes...when a man always know where you are, and your always readily available to him- he takes it for granted.

Don't fully commit to a man who doesn't give you everything that you need.

Keep him in your radar but get to know others.
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Tuesday 18/11/2008 

Category: News and Politics
On 9/24/08 in the letter I sent out stating my displeasure (along with the majority of Main St.) with the possibility of a WALL STREET BAIL OUT, our outrage and concerns were ignored. Then on 10/04/08 in another letter I stated that now that the BAIL OUT PACKAGE was passed this would now become the first day of the next crisis. Since then it has become a daily routine for Big Business to stand in line for their HANDOUT. The latest is the Big 3 Auto Makers.

What ever happened to a business going to a bank for capitol to run their business (remember when Washington claimed they needed to get the BAILOUT money into the banks so businesses could go there for their business needs)? The reason the Big 3 cannot go to a bank for working capitol is the fact that their business and debt load can't support the loan. So ask yourself and your Government why squander our tax dollars into companies that will just fail if they continue business as usual, which will only result in the same problems 1 to 2 years down the road.

The choices are simple:

Waste the money by putting it into the Big 3 now.
Let them fail then restructure and pay unemployment and retraining for a better and more efficient industry
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Tuesday 18/11/2008 

Category: News and Politics
While Nancy Pelosi pushes for the Bailout of the Big 3, I ask myself what side of her BED OF NAILS she got up on. Let me explain. If the Big 3 gets bailed out business will continue same as usual until they need more (and they will need more).

While bankruptcy doesn't mean loss of jobs, it simply lets companies undergo restructuring, trimming fat (overpaid CEO'S, EXCESSIVE BONUSES and the death grip of the UAW) . This is why the laws of bankruptcy were put in place (to save the jobs). By going through this process, the Big 3 would be able to put their products out on the market cheaper giving Americans the opportunity to buy AMERICAN MADE AUTOS at competitive pricing. Isn't that the goal?

Back to Nancy Pelosi. In Jan 2007 when the minimum wage went from 5.15 to 7.25, Pelosi had American Samoa exempted from the increase so Del Monte would not have to pay the higher wage. This would make Del Monte products less expensive than their competitor's. Pelosi's district is San Francisco----StarKist (owned by Del Monte Foods) headquartered in San Francisco-----StarKist is the major employer in American Somoa employing 75% of the Samoa workforce. Paul Pelosi, Nancy's husband owns $17,000,000 in StarKist stock. So on one side she wants to shell out Billions of dollars to protect the policies of the UAW and BAD MANAGEMENT of the BIG 3, but on the other side she suppresses wages of workers making minimum wage for her personal gains. I guess Pelosi's outlook is keep the minimum wage tuna packer with nothing and the UAW and CEO'S of the Big 3 out pricing their own products and employees giving foreign completion more advantages daily. She is the PERFECT reason why politicians are viewed as WHORES. If the people of her district re-elect her another term then I feel that whole district should undergo treatment.
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Monday 13/10/2008 

Category: Web, HTML, Tech
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Saturday 11/10/2008 

Current mood:  sad
Category: News and Politics
Government's view of the economy:


If it moves, tax it.
If it keeps moving, regulate it.
If it stops moving, subsidize it.
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Friday 10/10/2008 

Current mood:  betrayed
Category: News and Politics
On Oct 4, 2008 in my blog titled "BAILOUT PASSED" I stated that it was the first day of the next crisis. So now 2 weeks and $85,000,000,000 later (not to mention the $400,000 weekend celebration of AIG Executives) the Federal Government is giving AIG another 38.8 Billion Dollars and still don't know if this will be enough. "DEPENDING ON THE ECONOMY" is the terminology that Washington and Wall Street used to structure the "BAILOUT" (more business as usual). To me that just sounds like an OPEN CHECK. This is unfolding the same time that Secretary Paulson is addressing America explaining how bad OUR SITUATION is. The DO NOTHINGS in Washington and the THIEVES of Wall Street conduct business as usual and Paulson's explanation------ it is an "ECONOMIC CYCLE". As a small businessman I would like to be part of that "ECONOMIC CYCLE" only to sell the Treasury Department the paper to print all the MONEY and CRAZINESS.
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Friday 10/10/2008 

Current mood:  aggravated
Category: News and Politics
CHANGE Chicago style...
BODY COUNT
In the last six months 292 killed (murdered) in Chicago,
221 killed in Iraq .
WHO'S IN CHARGE IN ILLINOIS ?
Gov. Rod Blogojevich
House leader Mike Madigan
Atty. Gen. Lisa Madigan (daughter of Mike)
Mayor Richard M. Daley (son of former Mayor Richard J. Daley)
&
SENATORS
BARACK OBAMA
&
DICK DURBIN
...the leadership in Illinois .....all Democrats.
Chicago is a combat zone. Of course they're all blaming each other.
Can't blame Republicans, there aren't any!
State pension fund $44 Billion in debt, worst in country.
Cook County ( Chicago ) sales tax 10.25% highest in country.
(Look'em up if you want). Chicago school system one of the worst in country
This is the political culture that Obama comes from in Illinois.
He's gonna 'fix' Washington politics?
"BULL SHIT"
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