My friends at NAFASG have asked me to help out in a very noble cause. I am more than happy to help them help Jackie in finding her long lost sister!
Please spare some time to read this post that we have written on behalf of a good friend of ours in the blogosphere. By reading this post and spreading the word to the others around you, you could reunite two people who shared an extraordinary relationship. You could be the one to reunite two sisters.

Her name is Jackie Hooper, also known as Shinade. Her biological mother was Maxine Soape, but a couple had adopted her. According to her, besides her mother, she also had a younger sister as a family member. Just like her, her sister, who was born in 1959 or 1960 and is three years younger than her, had also been adopted out to another couple, by her own paternal uncle.

Both were born in the same hometown of East Texas, but are now being adopted by two different couples and have been separated since then. The sister is currently staying with her adopted parents in Pueblo, Colorado.

Jackie has never stood a chance to watch her younger sister grow, and has never even known what her sister�s name is.

As painful as it is to be worlds apart from your friends, it is even more painful to be worlds apart from your own flesh and blood. So readers, we hope that you can show some sense of empathy towards Jackie �Shinade� Hooper who longs to rebuild her life with her younger sister whom she holds very dear in her heart throughout the years.

This is your chance to do something good for someone in our global society who is in need of our helping hands.

If you can provide any information about Jackie�s sister that would be able to assist Jackie in her search, we urge you to keep us in the loop or directly inform Jackie at her blog. Your liberality towards helping out in this search would be greatly appreciated by all of us here, but the one who would be most thankful to you is Jackie herself.

A little kindness goes a long way. Readers, please show your compassion towards someone who wants nothing else but to reunite with her beloved younger sister once again. They share a strong kinship, and they deserve to be together till the end of time.

My very good friend Janice from This is a Miracle needs prayers and support. Her brother has just had an operation and is suffering right now. He also has more complications possibly in the future. My friend Karen of WaterLearner has inspired me to help. Whether you are religious or not doesn’t matter, all that matters is for us to show some love and compassion for Janice. She is a great woman, mother and friend. Janice, I pray for you, your brother and your family. I’ll be here for you anytime

Here’s a list of others who are supporting Janice:

Nafa created badge below & Sending Their Ray of Hope
To Janice & Her brother with much love from Jesse
Marzie for Just For Janice
BokJae for Support for Janice
Joezul’s Prayer for Janice’s brother

My great friend Jean from A Great Pleasure just gave me an award! This award means more to me than any other award I have received because it came from someone who really cares. Some people give or create awards hoping for back links as the award spreads across the blogosphere (think thinking blogger award). This award is directly from her to me and that is totally sweet and wonderful. Jean, this is the nicest thing anyone has done for me since I started blogging almost 6 months ago(I take that back as there have been some other great things done for me! This is one of the nicest things, I don’t want to take anything away from the other wonderful people here). Thank you

Thank you Jean

Another blogger because of a recent post and a comment left on my site has prompted me to explain a few things. Dave Lucas said the following on a recent post entitled Ethical blogging:

{“Because there are certain people who are not really blogging: they think they’re in a ‘popularity contest.’ I think it started with MySpace. The race to add “friends” and more “friends” has spread to bloggers who crave links, hits and “recognition.”}

That is true of a lot of viral practitioners, of course the same is true of any one trying to be popular or make money, etc. Money means nothing to me and popularity, I honestly never think about it. The foundation of links I’m building are with mostly people who havee none at all. Very few bloggers with high authority share anything with the newbies and personal bloggers. Personally, I love to teach new bloggers how everything works, answer questions, and try my best to help them see the positive virtue in being a social-network member. I don’t judge what they write or say he’s not a real blogger or she needs to be on my space. I can write anything from stories, essays, opinion, philosophy in many different styles and I have done a lot of it. Right now I’m testing things and for reasons other than “popularity”.

The people I viral network with, I know them. I have made a lot of good friends through it. And I could care less if technorati dumps it or bans me from the web. I’m here for the challenge, for friends and the viral environment is part of it right now.

Dave said this about my good friend Marzie:

{“I came across Marzie after joining MyBlogLog. She’s a nice girl, who managed to blowout Technorati. She’s made plenty of cyber-friends, myself included. She’s racked up hits and links and been favourited… but, for what? Does anyone really care about what she writes? She’s made friends, and that’s good. She’s highly ranked in Technorati, bit so-whattie? July 10-16 there wasn’t a single new post on her blog”}

Well, we love her and think she’s great. Her blog is my favourite and she is my favourite person on line. She is beautiful and sweet:)

Dave, no matter how you slice it – that is just uncalled for and rude. Marzie is a professional writer who is having fun. Yes, you’re right, she doesn’t follow a schedule of when she posts. I remember one two week stretch of no post, her rating still went up and up! People still commented daily and still read today. The reason her and her blog are popular is because she is the friendliest, sweetest and caring person on the web! People love her! So why on Earth are you picking on her? Her technorati authority a “big so-whattie?” I hate to tell you this but she really doesn’t even care about her authority. She is just a great friend who isn’t concerned of her’s or anyone else’s ratings. As far as her trying to be popular – that is so ridiculous. She’s actually shy and isn’t trying at all to even be competitive. She helps anyone who asks her and is just the one person on this Earth who is so far removed from any of your points, it is. . .ok, I was mad but now this is funny.

I hope you understand we’re a lot different than you think. She is my friend and I would never judge her blog. Maybe you’ll change your mind one day:smile:

If you have any trouble with this refer to this great instruction guide by Jeanchia.

I got this from The Thinking Blog and these icon based viral links seem pretty cool. The thinking blog stated that visual links were more their style simply because they are visual.

The idea is simple and follows suit with the previous viral schemes but instead it is done with favicons. When an ALT tag is used to describe your image with an alternative text, this can help to improve your page relevance. In other words, if ALT attribute contains keywords that are specific to your page’s topic, it will help your keyword density.

Moreover, when optimizing a site/web page for Google, remember that this attribute is taken into great consideration by Googlebot when spidering and indexing your pages. Thus, the ALT tag of an hyperlinked image tag has the same importance of a text link.

VIRAL-ICONS

���Copy and paste the VIRAL-ICONS and instructions below this line���

Instructions:

Important Update – Please read here!

1.) Copy and paste the matrix of �Viral Icons� below courtesy of Ilker Yoldas from The Thinking Blog. (to support Ilker�s quest of launching his own Internet Startup with a student budget, please consider subscribing to the Full RSS Feed and enjoy interesting posts in the meantime. “Knowledge grows when shared!”).

2.) Upload your non-animated favicon (GIF image of size 16×16 pixels) to ImageShack, a similar free image hosting server or to your own server provided by your hosting service if you have one.

3.) Substitute the Host Icon and one of the �Viral Icons� in the matrix with your ALT text of choice and your blog�s URL. Maximum of 3 specific keywords for the ALT text are best for it to be effective.

Here is an example:

4.) When you get a ping back from someone that has your icon in one of their �Viral Icons�, practice good karma by copying his/her Host Icon�s code (automatically the associated ALT tag will also be copied) and paste it over one of your �Viral Icons� below.

5.) Invite your readers to do the same and soon this can grow virally.

Host Icon:

VIRAL-ICONS

Rules: No Porn Sites, Only 1 icon per person (i.e. don’t hog the ViralIcons!), and please don’t tamper with other people’s ALT tags, URLs or favicons.

Important: Once I get a ping back from you (I promise to do the best I can), I will add your favicon and the associated code you designate as �Host Icon� here, replacing one of the �Viral Icons� from the matrix above. Feel free to drop a comment here with your blog URL, ALT tags and favicon URL (we don’t mind if it is the same all over the blogosphere).

Optional: Display the �Viral Icons� badge on your sidebar and promote your blog. As more and more bloggers copy and paste the �Viral Icons� from the matrix above, the more backlinks you will have with your ALT text, and in turn the more promotion your blog with get. The sooner you participate, the more link love you will receive!