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Greenhouse Grower
As much as I want to invoke word play between State of the Greenhouse Industry and State of the Union, I think we're all sick of politics at this point. This one's all about the plants, mostly. As political prognostication goes, officeholders love to give incomplete grades when asked to self-evaluate their work. I tried to think of a grade I would give the industry today, maybe even a percentage. I'm stuck. Are we doing good enough, as in a youngster who tries and fails, only to succeed halfheartedly with encouragement?
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Greenhouse Grower
You can plan on a few changes this year as you make your way along the California coast for California Spring Trials 2017, held April 1-6. Dümmen Orange will be a one-stop shop with its displays consolidated to one site at Edna Valley Vineyards in San Luis Obispo. Cohen Propagation Nurseries, Jaldety, and Hishtil will exhibit together at Chisan Orchids, a brand new location with a fresh look, located in Los Alamos.
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American Nurseryman
Each year, American Nurseryman features an entire magazine dedicated to the latest and most beautiful new and improved plants for the upcoming new year. That is, brighter color, renewed fragrance, improved disease resistance and more. For 2017, this is no different. Here, we've highlighted one new plant from each company. Click the links to find our complete roundup of new plants for 2017, divided by company.
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Mediabistro
The new year has arrived, which means articles about the future of media are parading across your newsfeed. But before you accept these predictions as gospel, let's take a look at the media forecast for 2016 — and see how many expert-backed prophecies actually panned out.
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Independent Fashion Bloggers
It seems pretty crazy that we're living in a time where bloggers can get paid around $15,000 for a single Instagram post, and it doesn't seem to be stopping any time soon.
Blogging, especially fashion blogging, has come a long way. Fashion bloggers have the ability to utilize and monetize their blogs, as well as their Instagram accounts to generate revenue.
If you've been wondering how you can start to increase your revenue in different ways, this post is for you!
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A hardworking, first-of-its-kind solution for small space gardening! The new “Take 2” combos from Burpee plants feature a slicer AND cherry tomato trialed together for habit and fruit timing. Gardeners will get a steady supply of tomatoes from one container all summer long! Available in three recipes for garden centers in 2017. BurpeeHomeGardens.com
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Nieman Lab
More and more news organizations will realize that, to survive, they need to ask their audiences for money. Whether it's a membership program with exclusive benefits or crowdfunding campaigns for specific reporting projects, the people who value good journalism must be asked to help pay for it.
News organizations spend so much time telling everyone else's stories that we forget to tell our own.
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The New York Times
Last month, Federico Viticci, who runs MacStories, a news site devoted to Apple and its products, made a change in how the site publishes articles for mobile gadgets. MacStories, he declared, would no longer support a Google-backed method for faster loading of mobile web pages, called AMP.
Viticci said MacStories's pages already loaded quickly without Google's help.
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Grammarly Blog
With 2016 coming to a close, Grammarly's team of writing analysts took a look at the biggest trends in writing in English this year. And we found some fascinating results! Here are the grammar and writing trends that dominated 2016, as well as our predictions for the next year in written English.
First, we looked at where we write, and found that this has changed significantly over time!
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The Atlantic
2016 was not an easy year to be a writer. Not just because of the constant, concentration-wrecking pull of our devices, their glowing screens beckoning with the promise of fresh horrors. I've spoken with many writers, in recent months, who seem to be facing a deeper, starker crisis of purpose since the election of Donald Trump. They're asking themselves: Is making literature an acceptable pursuit in a world with such urgent, tangible needs? And if so, how should I use my words?
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New Clematis!! ‘Fushia Flash’ loads of hot cerise pink on a compact vine. We are excited to offer this clematis, a pink like no other, clematis like no other in the marketplace! ‘Fushia Flash’ is a large flowering variety, heavy bloomer, longevity, and cold hardy. Offering early season blooms, for peak season sales!
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Innovation and education make the Worm Factory 360 the #1 vermicomposter in the U.S. The patented Worm Ladder and thermosiphon airflow system improve efficiency and ease of operation. A 72-page manual, instructional DVD, and information packed web site make experts out of novices.
Watch How the Worm Factory® 360 Works
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First, we learn to say words. Next, we learn to spell words. Finally, we learn to define and properly use words.
Well, most words at least.
The English language is not easily mastered. Homonyms — words that are spelled or pronounced the same but mean different things — can be particularly challenging, which is why even the most highly educated English speakers get tripped up sometimes.
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Adweek
From an A-list celebrity tagging his new designer duds on Instagram to your next-door neighbor raving about her favorite new meal-delivery service on Facebook, most everyone uses social media to talk about brands. But how different generations of people create, consume and share this type of user-generated content varies widely. To help marketers better understand the divide, earned content platform Olapic conducted a survey to find out how consumers of different ages view UGC.
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Copyright and Technology
It's fairly well established by now — thanks to court decisions like Viacom v. YouTube and UMG v. Veoh — that online service operators have no legal duty to proactively police their services for potential copyright infringement. But that doesn't mean that some services don't do it anyway. The biggest example is Google's Content ID system for YouTube, which uses fingerprinting technology to flag uploads that contain copyrighted material.
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BuzzFeed News
If you're wondering whether Twitter views itself as a media company or not, take a look at its careers page.
Twitter Careers currently displays three open roles for editors, and another for an associate producer for online video. According to Twitter's job descriptions, editors — who will work on the company's Periscope video product — should be "experienced multi-lingual media junkie[s]."
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Journalism.co.uk
For the past two years, the social media team at BBC News has been experimenting with video content on Instagram, producing 15-second videos named #BBCShorts, in a bid to engage younger, on-the-go audiences with the news of the day.
But since the social platform lauched Instagram Stories in August 2016, a feature that allows users to publish a stream of videos and pictures that disappear after 24 hours, the BBC has been able to try and draw in followers in a new way.
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GWA
In this issue...
- Sally Cunningham previews the exciting line-up at #GWA2017 in Buffalo, New York
- Executive Director Maria Ungaro's Message, "Career-building
Tools for 2017"
- GWA President Kirk Brown's Message, "Happy New Year!"
- Updates on GWA Foundation's Scholarship Program and Plant a Row for the Hungry with Ashley Hodak Sullivan
- Plus much more!
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GWA
The 2017 GWA Annual Conference & Expo is an inclusive opportunity for all current and future GWA members to engage in exceptional formal and informal learning experiences that support career development, increase individual productivity, and provide innovative insights and solutions to industry challenges.
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GWA
The GWA Foundation, a 501(c)(3) charitable partner of the GWA: The Association for Garden Communicators, continues our commitment to provide financial assistance to deserving students who wish to pursue or further a career in horticultural communications! This year's scholarship awards will range from $500 or $2,000 per student and includes a complimentary full year membership to GWA.
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GWA
On Friday, December 2, we held the Region I GWA meeting in the Boston Convention Center during the landscape show, New England Grows. This year NEG event coordinators changed the date from their normal February time slot to the beginning of December. They did this to get around the snow problems encountered during the last few shows. This also made sense for the heavy equipment sellers since their customers in the past had been out snow plowing and could not get in to see the new plows, mowers, and excavators on display.
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GWA
Join GWA at the LB Tavern in the Lord Baltimore Hotel on Wednesday, January 11 for an intimate Connect Meeting, 5:30PM – 7:30PM. Connect with old friends and meet new ones, all while Registration is free and non-members and visitors are welcome to attend! Dinner options will be available on-site, but all food and drink is the responsibility of attendees.
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GWA
Meet new friends and reconnect with old ones, as GWA members gather for a Connect Meeting at Landscape Ontario Congress 2017 on Wednesday, January 11, 10:00AM - 11:00AM. The meeting will be held in the Sutherland Room #4 located in the Toronto Congress Centre, 650 Dixon Rd, Etobicoke, ON M9W 1J1. Registration is FREE.
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GWA
Meet new friends and reconnect with old ones, as GWA members and non-members alike gather for a Connect Meeting at NCNLA's Green & Growin' 2017 Show on Thursday, January 19, 6:00PM - 7:00PM. The meeting will be held at The Bar Down Under located in the Sheraton Greensboro at Four Seasons, 3121 Gate City Blvd, Greensboro, NC 27407. Registration is FREE.
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GWA
Join GWA on January 27 in Fort Worth, Texas for an afternoon at the Botanic Research Institute of Texas. BRIT documents the diversity of plant life and conducts extensive research around the world. GWA will be given an inside look at the work BRIT does to find new plant species and research plant life for agricultural, economic, environmental, medical, and social uses.
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