This is a people powered site. Regular people write the articles and regular people financially support the site.This month, contributions are massively down. MASSIVELY!! We should be at around $2700 now. We're under $850. (about $450 came in yesterday. We can do this if just 100 people contribute an average of $32 each, which means some give $5 and some give $100 or $250)
Being short so much, so late in the month is a recipe for disaster. last month we fell short by $1100. This month, we need to at least meet our $4000 budget. We'd like to recoup what we came up short last month.
Can you help? Even $5.00 contributions add up to make a difference.
Of course, if you can't afford to give anything, we still value your readership, but if you care about the site, if you value our work, and can afford even $5, please take the three minutes it takes to make a donation.
Please, do not assume someone else will do it. That's what's been happening this month, so far.
About OEN's New Server
Friday night we're going to switch to the new server. It'll cost more but it should be a lot, lot faster, not necessarily for article page loads, but for admin accessing and submitting content-- articles, comments, polls, etc.
The new dedicated private server has ten times the throughput speed, four times the ram, is moving from 32 to 64 bit processing, and a RAID 5 system with three mirroring hard drives that is supposed to help make accessing the site faster.
We expect the site will have to be down for 3-7 hours friday night.
I'll announce the exact time range on Friday.
thanks,
rob kall
Rob Kall is an award winning journalist, inventor, software architect,
connector and visionary. His work and his writing have been featured in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, CNN, ABC, the HuffingtonPost, Success, Discover and other media.
Check out his platform at RobKall.com
He is the author of The Bottom-up Revolution; Mastering the Emerging World of Connectivity
He's given talks and workshops to Fortune
500 execs and national medical and psychological organizations, and pioneered
first-of-their-kind conferences in Positive Psychology, Brain Science and
Story. He hosts some of the world's smartest, most interesting and powerful
people on his Bottom Up Radio Show,
and founded and publishes one of the top Google- ranked progressive news and
opinion sites, OpEdNews.com
more detailed bio:
Rob Kall has spent his adult life as an awakener and empowerer-- first in the field of biofeedback, inventing products, developing software and a music recording label, MuPsych, within the company he founded in 1978-- Futurehealth, and founding, organizing and running 3 conferences: Winter Brain, on Neurofeedback and consciousness, Optimal Functioning and Positive Psychology (a pioneer in the field of Positive Psychology, first presenting workshops on it in 1985) and Storycon Summit Meeting on the Art Science and Application of Story-- each the first of their kind. Then, when he found the process of raising people's consciousness and empowering them to take more control of their lives one person at a time was too slow, he founded Opednews.com-- which has been the top search result on Google for the terms liberal news and progressive opinion for several years. Rob began his Bottom-up Radio show, broadcast on WNJC 1360 AM to Metro Philly, also available on iTunes, covering the transition of our culture, business and world from predominantly Top-down (hierarchical, centralized, authoritarian, patriarchal, big) to bottom-up (egalitarian, local, interdependent, grassroots, archetypal feminine and small.) Recent long-term projects include a book, Bottom-up-- The Connection Revolution, (more...)
