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Everyone Get Ready…..We are very excited for the launch of www.AutismHwy.com!

Kelly Green, the AMAZING woman with such a big heart came to First Source Web with a GREAT idea….a “facebook” type of website for Autistic Kids and their families/friends/relatives. We have had so much fun working with Kelly and have developed our own passion and heart for Autisic children.

Autism is a developmental disorder that typically appears in the first 3 years of life, and affects the brain’s normal development of social and communication skills. Children with autism typically have difficulties in things like pretend play, social interactions, and verbal/nonverbal communication. Communication and social interaction problems may include having trouble maintaining a social conversation, communicating with gestures instead of words, developing languages slowly or not at all, having poor eye contact when communicating, trouble making friends and playing interactive games, prefer to spend time alone rather than with others, and more.

Kelly’s spirit is so inspiring. She never gives up and is not afraid of taking chances. Kelly would do anything to help spread awareness of Autism and help others to learn about the good sides, rather than dwell on the bad. Kelly’s son Wyatt was diagnosed with a regressive type of Autism at a very early age. She has learned a lot along the road and continues to learn every day.

The goal with building AutismHwy.com is to “promote friendship through common understanding”. Autistic children and adults all over the world will be able to connect and share their stories and advice, favorite things and interests, play games, and of course make friends along the way. Members will be able to gain valuable references to events in their area and specialists nearby their homes. Membership on the highway is free to all. AutismHwy.com hopes to take away the stress for family members and friends to help learn more about fun and exciting ways to deal with the disorder in a positive way. We encourage anyone effected by Autism or Aspergers to join in on the fun. Parents, siblings, relatives, caregivers, friends, and even professionals in the industry can sign up!

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We are very excited to unveil the new social networking website for OfficeLemmings.com!

A brief run down about OfficeLemmings.com from the Lemmings themselves:

Created by two lemmings, for lemmings everywhere, OfficeLemmings.com is a collection of daily anecdotes submitted by you, the employee, describing your day-to-day jobs and experiences in the corporate world.  Feel like you’re just a number?  Sit in a pointless meeting today?  Work on a project that led you to question your existence? Then tell us about it!  Hopefully you realize that many of the frustrations and funny experiences at your job are shared by millions of lemmings in offices of all types across the country.

Why Lemmings?

First and foremost, let’s get one thing perfectly clear: lemmings are real!  Documentaries, cartoons, commercials, and even popular video games have used lemmings as their primary subject matter for decades. However, there are many tales about lemmings, and the line between fact and fiction is somewhat blurry. For this website, we have chosen to associate office workers everywhere with the most universally recognized Lemming anecdote related to their migration habits. Why? Because it’s funny. Especially in the context of jobs and office life. As you read on, you’ll see why.

Legend has it that these cute, furry rodents traveled in large groups toward an imaginary land, letting nothing stand in their way. Eventually, the lemmings reached the top of a cliff, with nothing but the great ocean below (as you see in the cartoon on our home page). Unfazed by a little water, the lemmings simply jumped off; surely they could continue their journey by sea! Unfortunately, lemmings can’t swim.

This tale is not completely unfounded; real lemmings do in fact respond to overpopulation and density by frantic, single-minded migration across long distances in search of a new place to live. While this factual information is certainly interesting, we consider the mythical lemming to be far more entertaining, as the story above conjures mental images of thousands of lemmings blindly following one another to their ultimate demise. None of the creatures know where they’re going – or why – just that they must get there!

A Metaphor for Corporate Culture

Contrary to what you may be thinking, we’re not telling you something you don’t already know. The office-workers-as-followers story is nothing new, it’s just never been told before with a lemming as the main character. Hollywood and television have already capitalized on the corporate culture phenomenon with movies such as “Office Space” and the incredibly popular NBC comedy, “The Office”. Since its inception in 1989, the “Dilbert” cartoon has appeared in over 2,000 newspapers in over 70 countries. Self-help books, morning talk shows, and websites frequently target the disenfranchised cubicle-dweller who wishes for nothing more than to break free from the shackles of PowerPoint slides and Monday staff meetings to achieve his/her dream. Some succeed. Most do not.

Thus the inspiration for OfficeLemmings.com. On this website the term “Lemming” is used to describe the many types of employees that reside within the confines of corporate culture. You know, the employees that perform mundane tasks with little or no enthusiasm for their job other than the fact that it earns a paycheck. They engage in a lemming-like, frenzied migration every day as they pack the car and commute to work. Once at the office, they blindly follow a corporate mission that they have been told is for the greater good. Massive corporations are indeed what make the world go round, but it is often at the expense of the millions of workers who feel as if they are “just a number” in their company, a small cog in a big machine. Families, recessions, and fear of moving elsewhere keep people in a job they never liked in the first place for decades, never able to pursue their dreams.

We know what you’re thinking: Why am I even reading this? (if you still are) This is so… negative. You like your job, co-workers, and company and are angered and offended that anyone would ever question or mock the way you support yourself and your family. To you, we extend our sincerest congratulations. We couldn’t be happier for you. In fact, we envy people that like their jobs! After all, we’re talking about what most people do 8 or more hours per day, five or six day as a week, 50 weeks per year. Shouldn’t we enjoy the one thing in life we do the most?!?!

Do you…

• Wear a coat and tie to work for no other reason than “it’s company policy”?

You’re a lemming!

• Use acronyms and corporate buzz words like they’re going out of style or in your every day speech outside the office

Lemming!

• End emails with the words “best” or “cheers”?

Lemming!

• Shave every day not because you want to, but because you have to?

• Sit in meetings and think to yourself, “Why are we even here? This is pointless.”?

• Use phrases such as “Hump Day” and “Happy Friday!”?

Lemming, Lemming, and… you guessed it, lemming!

Perhaps we’re speaking to you loud and clear because you get really annoyed by all of the lemming attributes we’ve just described. If you in fact identify lemmings in your corporate surroundings on a daily basis, you might not be a lemming! But, then again, you work in environments like this, so guess what? That’s right. You’re a lemming too!

As you can see, we use the lemming as a metaphor for the oddities, frustrations, awkward moments, annoying bosses and coworkers, botched proposals, and subsequent humor that occur in the workplace. It is these things that often get you through the week and make the corporate world go round and round. No employee is immune to them, even those who love their jobs. This is why OfficeLemmings.com exists, to find the humor in all of these situations and share it with one another.

Our Reason for Existence

Our goal at OfficeLemmings.com is twofold: First, we hope to create a “lemming community”, where lemmings around the world can go every day for a few minutes of laughter. Whether you agree or disagree with our metaphor, whether you love or hate your job, we hope that you will revel in the opportunity to share your humorous work anecdotes with people who are just like you. Second, we hope to inspire you. For those of you who are taking our metaphor very seriously, we hope that we’ve inspired you to take off your coat and tie and pursue your dreams. If you like your job but perhaps have been slacking recently and life has been nothing more than “business as usual”, leave your business attire on and work a little harder. No matter your job-satisfaction, figure out what you want in life and go get it. Don’t follow the masses. Blaze your own trail. The creation of this website is the first step in our own escape from “lemminghood”. We hope it’s yours too.

So, to conclude this manifesto, OfficeLemmings.com was created for many reasons, but primarily to bring corporate humor into the 21st century by bringing it right to your fingertips. Take a few minutes out of your day to be entertained, and share your funny tales with other lemmings around the world. Did you sit in a pointless meeting today? Get berated by an incompetent boss? Spill coffee all over the materials for a big proposal presentation? Catch a co-worker doing something inappropriate on his computer? Get caught checking your fantasy football team page or watching March Madness? Figure out a way to make it funny, and tell us about it! And then tell us again, and again, and again. This site is not intended, in any way, shape, or form, to be a safe haven for those who want to rant and yell and complain about their jobs. There are other websites that serve that purpose. We will not post anything that purposefully and maliciously bashes your company or coworkers or has any profanity in it whatsoever. Stick to the three rules: 1. Work-related 2. Keep it clean and 3. Make it good. Tell us why you’re a lemming, and be amused at why the rest of the world is too.

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Has your company created a Facebook business page yet?

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Business accounts are designed for individuals who only want to use the site to administer Pages and their ad campaigns. For this reason, business accounts do not have the same functionality as personal accounts.

Business accounts have limited access to information on the site. An individual with a business account can view all the Pages and Social Ads that they have created, however they will not be able to view the profiles of users on the site or other content on the site that does not live on the Pages they administer. In addition, business accounts cannot be found in search and cannot send or receive friend requests.

Each business account or personal account on the site should only be used by one individual. This individual should be the owner of the email address used as the login email address for the account.

A Page can have multiple administrators. Each Page administrator will need to have their own business account or personal account. Every admin can manage the Page from their own Facebook account using the “Page Manager” application that will appear in the left hand column of the Applications section once they become an admin for a Page. Every admin has equal access to and the same abilities as the other admins for a Page, however the original creator of the Page may never be removed by other Page admins.

For more detailed information visit the Facebook Help Center.

WE ARE EXCITED TO ANNOUNCE that our client www.AutismHWY.com has been featured on www.Reason.tv

Take a look at the video below featuring Kelly Green and Wyatt Green!

If you are interested in more information about Autism HWY feel free to let us know or you can sign up on their social friendship network website for a free membership.

Read the Full Article - http://reason.tv/video/show/do-vaccines-cause-autism

The most common form of sending a web page to someone is to copy and paste the link. The other option is to send the entire page via email. The following steps outline the various ways to do so.

Send Web Page as Email in Outlook 2007

A few steps let you open a webpage within Outlook and send it as a whole in an email instead of as a link.

1. Open Outlook 2007. Navigate to View – Toolbars – Web.send web page as email outlook.

2. Use the Search toolbar (located on the right) to go to the desired URL.

3. Once the page loads, click on Actions – Send Webpage by Email. A new message box opens up with your webpage pasted in the content window. Fill the address fields and mail it out.outloook

Email The Web

EmailTheWeb (v2.12) is a web service which lets you send the exact webpage to anyone right from your browser. Presently, there are three ways of using it –

1. As a web service – copy-paste the page link in the URL field on EmailTheWeb.com and click email web page.send web page in email

2. As a button in Internet Explorer – Add the Google toolbar and single click function to the browser. But you might feel it is redundant as the latest edition of the browser has its own email webpage mode.

3. As a Firefox add-on – Adds a sub-menu entry under File – Email this Web page…A configuration box gives you two emailing styles – Exact Page lets you capture session specific, dynamic and password locked pages.The Quick Page though faster is more geared towards static pages.send web page in firefox

The browser add-on works with Firefox 1.0 to 3.0+.

Once you use any of the three options, the service authenticates you using your Google account. As a Google account is free and most of us have one, I don’t think it’s too much of a bother. The compose email page lets you add the recipient IDs and optional notes. The captured page can be previewed. To speed up the email, the captured page is also sans dynamic ads and pop-ups. All you need to do is send the page and sign out.

Internet Explorer 8

The new Internet Explorer 8 makes it convenient to send a webpage as an email. IE8 has two instantly accessible buttons located on the Command toolbar. The use has the choice to click any of the two to send a webpage either as a complete webpage or as a link. The Send Page by Email button loads the webpage into the default email client.

If you do not see the buttons on your browser, click on View – Toolbars – Command Bar.

Sending a complete webpage might bulk up the download, but in the age of broadband a few extra bytes should go by unnoticed. And at least you the sender would know that the recipient has cast a glance at the webpage. The webpage often might not retain its formatting as it is used in different style environments. The spruceness of a perfect newsletter might be a lacking but the information you want to send forth is not.

Original Article provided by  Saikat Basut. “3 Easy Ways to Send a Complete Web Page via Email.”