News and Announcements: November 1, 2009

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Taking care of the housekeeping! Comments Contest Thanks to the entire FWJ community for participating in our comments contest. For many members of the community, it was business as usual and I appreciate your continuing to provide thoughts and insight to our discussions here. We also met a few new friends. Welcome! I’m tallying up the comments to choose the winner. This is going to be trickier than I thought because even though we had community members participating in the discussions throughout the month someone came along on Friday night and commented on about a hundred posts. While there was [Read more…]

Retweet for Charity: Thanksgiving is Coming: Let’s Feed America

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I’ve been trying to think of ways to give back. I feel very blessed to have this community and to be able to support myself doing something I love. On Thanksgiving, I will be celebrating with my family in a warm house amid laughter and good food. Many families won’t be so lucky. I’m not rich and don’t have huge amounts of money to spare, but I’m fortunate. Beginning now, and until Thanksgiving, I will pay .05 to the Community Food Bank of NJ every time an article in the FWJ network receives a retweet. I know, that doesn’t sound [Read more…]

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