Review Rockfords Rock Opera
An online ecological musical story from Britain is proving a hit in the USA.
Set in Battersea in London, England, Rockford’s Rock Opera tells the story of a boy called Moog and his dog, Rockford, who travel to the mystical Island of Infinity where they fight to save the human race from extinction. Following in the footsteps of major British hits like Harry Potter, Rockford’s Rock Opera’s blend of thoughtful storytelling, humour and great songs has proved to have real appeal to US audiences.
And, the fact that the story and www.RockfordsRockOpera.com website, are packed with educational img materials has led to an extensive audience for the story in schools. Over 3,000 US junior schools are now registered on the Rockford’s Rock Opera website and using the story, songs, animations and resources in class.
OFFER: We have 50 Exclusive Web membership to give away to the Rockfords Rock Opera Website! Blogger with a Min of 4,000 unique visitors each month are invited to receive an exclusive membership subscription. They can navigate the site, unlock all parts of the story and download exclusive content.
Now on DVD, CD and available via Apple Apps, Rockford’s Rock Opera is becoming available to even more families.
Co creator, Matthew Sweetapple, said: “We love hearing from our fans in the USA. Although the Rockford adventure starts in England and there are lots of English voices, its a story about our planet.”
Writing about Rockford’s Rock Opera, the London Times said:
“Rockford’s Rock Opera is an amazing mix of story, songs and sound effects. It has a freshness that makes you smile as you listen and could become a cult favourite.”
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You have probably noticed Facebooks new time line. Either because you are already using it or you have been like our founder Kay been fighting the switch over to Facebook’s new timeline.
Unfortunately you can’t hold out forever so we thought we’d share a few tips about Facebook’s new timeline and …
put up a contest for a CUSTOM designed cover image (because we haven’t found a Facebook timeline cover generator that doesn’t squish up your photos yet). See bottom of post.
Our Facebook timeline tips:
1) Privacy.
Facebook’s timeline makes bring up past status updates, photos, and events more visible. Did you rant and rave about a family member last year? It could make a more visible appearance on your new timeline.
A) Adjust privacy on each post. You can hide a Facebook timeline element by clicking on the pencil image at the top of the offending status and choose hide from timeline.
Any previous privacy settings you had still apply, so if you set a photo to be for ‘family’ only, it will remain that way.
You can control what appears on your Facebook time line using your Activity Log which displays every post and activity from the day you joined Facebook to right this minute.
“You’ll see two dropdown menus next to each story in your activity log. The first lets you adjust the privacy of your posts, or it shows you the privacy setting if it’s a story created by a friend (like when someone writes on your timeline or tags you in a post). The second dropdown menu controls the visibility of the story on your timeline and gives you the option to hide, allow or feature the story on your timeline. You also have the option to permanently delete anything you post on Facebook” http://www.facebook.com/help/activitylog
B) Review and adjust your privacy settings. You can set ALL of your previous posts to friends only on your Privacy Settings page. It is a good idea to always review the privacy settings page when Facebook launches a new layout. http://www.facebook.com/settings/?tab=privacy
2) Layout and design
Facebook’s new timeline is a big change from the old profile page. There are two things you should do to update your profile to the new timeline layout; create a cover and add past content.
A) The Time Line Cover. You will find there are tons of new aps and pages offering ways to create a new cover. However, most run the risk of requiring you to provide your contact details or interacting with a third party ap so be sure to research the terms of service and privacy policy of any ap you use to create a facebook time line cover. Our suggestion- use photoshop or paint to create your own.
Facebook has guidelines around using your cover to ‘advertise’ a business’. We recommend that you keep it ‘personal’ but include your blogs colours and fonts to help brand your blog.
B) Your timeline events. See that time line? Chances are there’s not much from when you were BORN to when you joined facebook. You can fill this part of your timeline quite easily by going back and adjusting the dates of any photos you have previously uploaded.
If you want to add a special event in the past, it is as easy as creating new content and setting the date. For example, our founder may want to add “Came up with the idea of Her Media” which occurred in 2003. Easy peasy. Just create a new status and date it.
Yes we said there was a contest. Use the raffle copter form below to be entered to win a custom timeline cover. (Winner can choose from 4 background and provide up to 8 photos and their text.)
a Rafflecopter giveaway
Our Blog of the Day is inspiring me to get up and get exercising? Why? All of the amazing fashions you can find at Style PA!
They are covering some amazing fashion brands in a unique ‘Brands A-Z’ format and that is why they are our blog of the day. A key component to a successful blog is for your blog to have some unique features like Style PA’s unique blogging theme of brands by A-Z.
As a self proclaimed geek I don’t stay up to date on fashion – I suppose I’d be booed right out New York. I can however, appreciate the gorgeous fashions (especially the baubles – I like baubles!) you will find at Style UP’s UK Fashion Blog.
BlogPrWire’s featured blogger this week is: Susan of Busy Bee Lifestyle
Susan’s blog was created to share fabulous ideas that would make it easy for busy women to add special touches to family life! The blog covers topics like entertaining, cooking, gift guides, trends, parties for children, fashion, books and much more.
You can tell she loves her blog – the attention to design and navigation makes visiting a pleasure (which wasn’t so great for us at BlogPrWire as I spent much too long browsing and browsing).
The Busy Bee Lifestyle blog is managed on a hosted WordPress platform. When asked what WordPress plugin tops their list, Susan shared that the Quick page post redirect plug in for WordPress is a must have for every WordPress hosted blog.
What are the goals you have for the Busy Bee Lifestyle blog this year?
“One of the most optimistic goals that I have for Busy Bee is to be featured on a national television or cable show! On a more reasonable note, I am continuing to seek FaceBook fans, Twitter followers and subscribers to our newsletter. “
Can you share a blogging tip with other bloggers reading the Blog Pr Wire blog?
” The best thing that I have done is to develop a terrific relationship with the NBC Philadelphia television studio where I have been filming live segments for The 10 Show for the past two years. It’s been great exposure for the site and our blog readers really seem to enjoy the filmed segments that we post online.
Also, one of the most popular features of Busy Bee is our “Tip of the Week” which is mailed to our subscribers on a bi-monthly basis. The tips vary widely in subject matter, but are always informative and fun! Here are links to two of my favorite, recent tips:
Upgrade the Classic Cheese Tray:
Take a Virtual Tour of Your Favorite Art Museum “
Reader’s question:
“How can I get free blog visitors – traffic using traffic exchanges?”
Answer:
First let me say that they key to quality organic traffic is not traffic exchanges. It is creating a quality SEO optimized UNIQUE content. (Yes that is our disclaimer.) However, should you really want to obtain free traffic to your blog using traffic exchanges you will find that most in this list of free traffic exchanges will provide you with up to 1000 free visitors for signing up.
BEFORE you use any of these auto traffic exchange services MAKE SURE you have quality antivirus software on your computer like – AVG or Norton.
The following list of traffic exchange programs can provide you with free visitors to your blog.
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Have you ever been faced with an overwhelming number of pending SPAM comments in your WordPress blog? The daunting task of deleting them 20 at a time when you have 40,000 of them (like one of our blogs!) can be – well shall we say – concerning.
Blog Pr Wire has found an amazing WordPress Plugin that will delete all of your comment spam. The WP-Optimize WordPress Plugin will allow you to delete all of your pending WordPress comments with one click. Finally, a WordPress comment spam plugin that works and is updated as needed.
Be sure to review your comments and approve the legitimate ones, BEFORE, using this WordPress Plugin.
“WP-Optimize is a WordPress 2.9++ database cleanup and optimization tool. It doesn’t require PhpMyAdmin to optimize your database tables. It allows you to remove post revisions, comments in the spam queue, un-approved comments within few clicks.
Additionally you can rename any username to another username too.
For example: If you want to rename default ‘admin’ username to ‘someothername’; just put ‘admin’ (without quotes) to the Old username field and the new username to the New username field, then click “PROCESS”)”
Click here to learn more about this Comment Spam management WordPress Plugin.
Have a space that needs filling on your blog? Why not share the Blog Pr Wire with your readers… it creates good karma. Show your visitors that you are a BlogPRrWire member by placing our 125 button code on your blog. Then be sure to submit your application to be a featured blogger on our blog!
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Looking to spruce up your blog?
Blog PR Wire is inviting all of their registered subscribers to help us get the word out about the Blog PR Wire to other bloggers and of course there is a prize! You can win your very own premium Dynada WordPress theme.
Features:
* 10 styles and color, easy to choose style/color via admin theme options.(one click from a blue theme to a red theme!)
* Ability to rotate sliding images on your WordPress Home page.
* Homepage Template with 3 sidebar position, one for right side and two sidebars for below content.
* 5 Page Template with its own right sidebar position.
* Blog Page with custom category, just create a page and tell it which categories to include. Perfect for multiple blogs.
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What we LOVE about this theme- It’s multiple page templates! Ever wondered how some blogs have different layouts in one theme ? This pne does just that. You can select different WIDGETS to display on different pages.
So how do you win ?
Register as a blogger on BlogPRWire.com (be sure to verify your email). Then post a comment letting us know you are registered and you are entered!
Want to earn MORE entries ? Simply Tweet out the contest (no more then once a day) and come back and post the link to the tweet.
Your tweet should include our @blogprwire id and the URL: http://bit.ly/cgbGtf Or just use:
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Good LUCK !
Contest closes April 30 2010 11 59 PM PST.
What is the Blog PR and News Wire?
It’s easy to explain, yet confusing so we thought we should clarify. Think of a Newswire….
‘a service transmitted esp. by teletypewriter and providing late-breaking news stories, stock-market results, or other up-to-the-minute information: We took the story off the newswires. ‘
We recognize that bloggers are a valuable news media and the purpose of our Blog News Wire is to provide bloggers and website publishers with access to news, advertising opportunities, and resources.
Our Mission is to provide bloggers with ‘Opportunities’ via our email PR & Newswire for bloggers.
So how do you get the wire?
By registering on our website you will receive three different types of wires;
- A Weekly Wire containing mini pitches sample
- Occasional Dedicated Pitches custom written by a PR rep or business sample
- Occasional Press Releases sample
The wire is distributed by email and your email address is never given out. You simply respond directly to the contact details in the wire if you feel it has value to you.
Once the wire gorws, we plan to provide opportunity to filter the wires you receive by categories.
It’s a contest. Yes, we here at Blog Press Releases want to give away some free stuff that every blogger can use. So here are the prizes:
1) A custom blog logo and header (if you already have one you like we will create you some unique buttons matching it instead).
2) A set of IAB Universal ad package banners matching your new header (plus a 125 because bloggers like them).
3) A custom Twitter Background matching, yes, your custom blog header.
So how do you get all these great things ? Why you enter the contest here at blogpressreleases.com of course. Right here on this very post.
To enter – first register as a blogger then go to your blog and insert our Pitch me 125 button in your sidebar. The code is in the box below.
Then come back and comment on this post with your URL (so we can find the button) and that’s it you are entered!
Want to earn an extra entry or two or three or four (you get the idea) ? Tweet about the contest and come back and post the status url in a comment. (once per day).
Win a blog logo, header, and custom twitter background from @blognewswire http://bit.ly/b36ghW #contests
(or something like that – but include these three things: @blognewswire http://bit.ly/b36ghW #contests )
The contest closes on Feb 14th 2010. The winner will be announced Feb 15th 2010 (because hopefully, we will all be busy on the 14th ! )
Good Luck!
