Richmond Villa – Mauritius Holidays in the Sun

Places to Visit

Discover a beautiful balance of fauna and flora

A Magic Site
Soak up the magic of this site: a fusion of the muffled sounds of the trees and the soft Twittering of birds.

An emerald forest
Enter this glittering forest , and discover a haven of luscious tropical flora:
find a variety of endemic and exotic plants.

Invigorating stroll
In these lush green surroundings where banana and palm trees as well as giant bambous grow, more than a thousand Nile crocodiles are bred. On a guided tour, you will meet these animals in their breeding ponds, in perfect safety.

Luxuriant fauna
Other attractions along the way are the different tortoise species:
Radiatas, natives of Madagascar , 140 year life span; Aldabras one is ninety years of age,
came originally from the Seychelles .
With over 200 Aldabra tortoises, La Vanille has the largest captive herd in the world.\

Mahebourg is one of the main fishing centres of Mauritius. It has a luxurious waterfront where people can roam around leisurely,jog or simply sit and admire the sea. There is a landmark created in the memory of Freedom from Slavery: 1835-1935. Its open air market is another attraction where everything is available from bottled pickles to souvenirs

Other than being one of the world’s premier honeymoon and beach destinations, Mauritius’ main claim to fame is that it was once home to the ill-fated dodo – a flightless, hopeless bird that fell into extinction hundreds of years ago. Its descendent, the pink pigeon, is currently being reintroduced onto the nature reserve of Ile aux Aigrettes, another small island off the Blue Bay.

Surrounded by a near-perfect half-moon of Casuarina trees, Blue Bay and the nearby lagoon of Pointe d’Esny are so named for the coat of many colours that wash through the water from sunrise to sunset. Now formally recognized as a marine reserve, the area has the richest displays of wildlife and underwater flora on the island. And, with its perfect arc of white, powdery sand and gentle, jewel-blue water, it is also one of the best beaches on the island for bathing.

But Mauritius is one of those places that offers more than meets the eye. The Gran Baie, or, Mauritian Riviera on the North of the island is most visited by romantically inclined beach bums, but if you’re looking to loose the crowd, head for the islands’ undiscovered South

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Teleseminar Tip # 19 – Teleseminar Promotion Through Social Networking Sites

Social networking sites are increasing in popularity from social sites to more networking sites. You must first establish a network and grow your friends or people you are linked into to make the following sites work for you:

1. MySpace – MySpace is one of the top popular social networking sites. You have to build your friends list. As all the social networking sites, you can gradually increase your list or start adding people to become your friend. The best way to find friends on any site including MySpace is to go to the already formed groups that are similar to your topic and start joining the groups, making comments and adding friends. You should always have a link back to your teleseminar.

2. Facebook – Facebook site started out as a college networking site and has grown into a huge networking site. MySpace is still more for socializing, while Facebook is seeing more business networking. As mentioned in the above item, join the groups and add friends from that group. Make sure you had a thoughtful comment so people know who you are and why you want to be their friend. Have your website listed in your signature line as you are commenting or emailing people. Also announce when your teleseminar is happening. You can send all your friends an event invitation.

3. Jaiku – This is a relatively new social networking site by Google. On Jaiku, you can make posts to your Jaiku account. These posts can go directly to your friend’s telephone if they have Jaiku set up. You can add links and promote your teleseminar using this method of posts.

4. LinkedIn – More business oriented social networking site. This is a great source to stay connected to your industry, meet others who are interested in your industry and offer the teleseminar through a link in your signature line.

5. Twitter- This is a mini-blogging social networking site where people post comments back and forth to each other. This method allows you to promote your teleseminar when it is occurring in a non-evasive method by just mentioning it while you are Twittering.

The above social networking sites are a sample of how you can promote your teleseminars using indirect promotional tactics.

I invite you to visit www.1TeleseminarTips.com to learn how teleseminars can accelerate your business by increasing your sales and creating expert status.

Layla Tusko

What Can I Do With Twitter?

The world is saturated with twits, Tweets, and tweeps. Everyone, from Oprah to NPR has decided that this is the most brilliant application ever devised by man. They constantly cite it, talk about it, and overhype it to the Nth degree.

The one thing they never explain about twitter is how it is intended to be used. They don’t explain the reTweet, or spambot followers. They just tell random people to get online, and drop their thoughts, in 140 characters or less, of course.

It’s not their fault, really, as twitter doesn’t really have a defined purpose. The idea is that it is supposed to enable real-time communication, sort of a text message broadcast to the entire world. The actual purpose of tweets are left up to the users’ imaginations.

It was too much for me to get my mind wrapped around when I started, that is for sure. With this in mind, I’d like to tell you a couple uses that will make twitter a valuable investment of your time.

This article will serve a very practical purpose, both for the novice user of twitter, and for those who have lost interest: It’ll tell you how, what, and why to follow certain users, along with giving you the ability to find and organize that data in a meaningful manner.

With that in mind, let’s begin. There are around 7 major types of twitter users. Your interests will determine which of these folks it would be in your best interest to follow:

1. Newsies: The New York Times, Tribune Media, Huffington Post, Drudge Report, and various other news agencies use twitter as a point of distribution for their articles. Updates commonly carry newly published content, or respond to readers of their content, which will naturally drive new readers to their site.

2. Gurus: These people, like Tony Robbin or Robert Kiyosaki(of Rich Dad, Poor Dad fame) use their accounts to push out mini-seminars. Their updates range from the inspirational to motivational, deliver news updates, and of course, push product in-between.

3. Gossip Gals: They don’t miss a single controversy. It doesn’t matter how small, these girls(and guys—think Perez Hilton) won’t let it rest. While TMZ and the Smoking Gun throw out some really interesting stuff, I wouldn’t put it in the category of “news”.

4. Info-Marketers: Pushing everything from get-rich-schemes, to plugging their latest eBook, these folks peddle all things downloadable. They are always mentioning some resource that seems designed to help you make money, but will make them money instead.

5. Regular Marketers: Generally, tweeps of this ilk are pushing a physical product, or building up that brand. You’ll see everyone from tire companies to toilet paper purveyors interacting with their customers and fans. To spice things up, fun facts and interesting news are served with soft-sell promotional tactics.

6. Power Tweeters: This is an odd group. They generally tweet about anything and everything. Most of the time, they are female in gender, and are a mixture of Gossip Gals and Newsie fare, with a spatter of hometown chatter. They never sell anything. Many times, they will live-tweet their thoughts on concerts, television shows, and fashion.

7. Everyone Else: This encompasses roughly 97% of the twitterverse. They followed a few people, didn’t learn how to link, reTweet, or even reply inside of twitter. Eventually, they get tired of the whole thing, and move back to playing “Mafia Wars” on facebook.

While there are sub-groups within every group, these are where the lines are generally drawn. The most important takeaway from this breakdown is the following: Most people on twitter are trying to sell you something. Now that you know who’s online, how can you get the most out of twitter?

Glad you asked. The first thing to get is a twitter client. For the purpose of this article, we’re going with TweetDeck, a leader in the twitter client arena. It’s easy to use. Download it, open it up, enter your username and password…and magically, you have a bird’s eye view of everything happening in twitter(or at least who you are following, and their activity).

You’ll see your live twitter feed on the far left, in-between you’ll find any replies that have been made to your messages(if you’ve just opened an account, there won’t be any messages here), and on the far right, your direct messages(private messages between you and another user that are not broadcast to other users).

The first thing you should do is find twitterers who meet your basic informational needs. For that, I actually prefer to use google, as it generally does a better job of finding who, or what you are looking for than twitter’s native search service. Google your local station’s call sign and add twitter to the end.(e.g. WKPY twitter). Let’s say we were searching for a our local station in New Mexico. We’d follow @KOBTV. That will be useful for weather alerts, local news, and community events.

Next, get a national news feed you trust. CNN, MSNBC, and Fox all have twitter feeds kicking out news at the speed of type. You can now see what is making waves at the national level, along with any upcoming special reports.

Now comes the fun part…your interests. Love tech…grab @TechCrunch. Need your daily fix of stats and scores: Follow @ESPN. Pick 2-3 Twittering entities that don’t overlap. For instance, unless you just love too much information, don’t follow ABC, NBC, and CBS news.

From there, it’s time to find interesting people to follow. See if your favorite celebrities, nobel laureates, or trashmen are online. Check out their profile online, either by searching google with their name, followed by twitter, or by going to their website, and finding out what it is. This is probably the greatest chance at interaction with the rich and infamous that you will get. Rainn Wilson(Dwight Schrute of “The Office”) is one celebrity with particularly interest thoughts, links, and conversation.

You have a base of good, solid tweets that you are now following. Here comes the fun part. There are people around the world having conversations about the latest news, movies, restaurants, whatever. Now, you just have to find them. Pull up the search feature in TweetDeck. There are two ways to search: hashtag, or plain text. Hashtags denote a post in a certain category. For instance, if you were looking for all the updates that include the President, but don’t actually mention him in the body, this is the easiest way to search. If you are just looking for all mentions of Barack Obama, you would enter his name in plain text.

Searching in TweetDeck will open a column that automatically updates each time the search term is mentioned. For instance, you could keep a column opened for any topics you are interested in, and monitor them in real-time. I like to keep an eye on precious metals, mining, and tire news(boring, I know). When I am monitoring twitter, I keep a #gold, #silver, #mining, and #tires tab open, so that I can keep abreast of what is happening. It’s like a stock ticker. Glance, see something you like, and read any article links that come through. If I see someone who is tweeting regularly about a topic I am interested in, I follow them, so I can see any of their general tweets as well. Rinse and repeat for each topic you have an interest in, and the list of people you follow will be over 100 in no time.

Now, for the bad part: Taking out the trash. Twitter is full of people who will spam you, by doing the most flattering thing of all: following your account. Since twitter sends you an email notification that someone is a follower, your curiosity makes you want to check them out. Many times, they will masquerade as a female in a bathing suit(or less). Their names will often be followed by a dash with a 4-digit number. You should immediately go to your follower page, and hit “report as spam”. This helps twitter eliminate them from the roster, and keeps any of your followers from checking their garbage out.

On a lesser note, I try to clean out people I follow from time-to-time. Some of them have reverted to inane chatter, instead of providing important news. Even worse, they are tweeting more often, and saying even less. If you are spending time in twitter, make sure that dump a few people to keep things uncluttered.

Some of you might be wondering how to get legitimate followers. It’s simple advice: Be you. If you are chatty, be chatty. Talk about your interests. ReTweet things from others that you find interesting. Be consistent. Spend time on twitter. The more you are engaged with others, the more likely it is that people will like, and follow what you have to say.

Now, let’s recap how to get the most out of twitter:

1. Know the major categories of Twitterers. Filter them out based upon your interests.

2. Get a twitter client, like TweetDeck, to help you manage the vast streams of information coming through.

3. Make sure you are following a local news station, national news station, and sources that cover any informational gaps that you might have.

4. Follow celebrities that are active and intelligent.

5. Use search and hashtags to sort out topics and people to follow that are of interest to you.

6. Take out the trash regularly to make sure your feed isn’t overloaded with garbage. Block or report bots as spam.

7. Gain more followers by contributing to the conversation, and being yourself.

That’s all for now. There are far more advanced methods of tweeting, following, and being heard. Most of those methods are custom rules, developed by each user. You wouldn’t think publishing a message would need rules. After all, how complex should sending out 140 characters be?

Evidently, as complex as we can possibly make something that has no definable purpose.

Kurt Hartman

How Apple Iphone Changes the Market Landscape and What Should Carriers Do?

The runaway success of iPhone across the world has indeed revolutionalised the next generation of phones. Before the debut of iPhone, touch phones were at best a good to have feature. For example, resisitive screens have always been available on Windows Mobile phones, but it was not THE thing. We would always prefer a physical keyboard and a stylus. Apple changed the game when it launched its first generation of iPhone 2G/Edge . We are awed by the convenience of touch and the ease of zooming in and out of internet pages by panning and pinching with our fingers. The capacitive screen brought the touch phones to a new level. (see here for more details on how capactitive screen works: http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/iphone2.htm )

Since then, we have seen a slew of phones that aim to provide the similar touch and accelerometer capabilities as the iPhone. I said similar and not same because to date, I have yet to test a phone that offers the same level of finess in its touch and accelerometer capabilities (see my other posts on the recent phone models). Storm and G1 are close competitors to iPhone in this aspect – they make it up with many other features that are missing in iPhone today – such as expandable slot, MMS, copy and paste function, just to mention a few). If you may remember, Samsung Omnia had some good success, particularly in countries where iPhone 3G was / would be launched later than Omnia. Now almost all major phone manufacturers from Nokia to Sony Ericsson to HTC have their touch phones series. I won’t belabour too much on each of these phones since this is not the intent of this post. I thought this is healthy for the market. Now, we have more choices. Apple has indeed caused a disruptive change in the competitive landscape in just 2 short years. It has even overtaken RIM’s second position in smartphone sales. Of course, now with Verizon launching Storm, we have yet to see how this will pan out.

iPhone is not simply about the Phone itself. In fact, iPhone brings with it an ecosystem – the iTunes. If you are a Blackberry user especially if you are a Blackberry Enterprise Server (BES) corporate user, you have very applications that you would buy and load into your Blackberry. Reasons are two-fold. Firstly, the range of applications is limited and certain corporate policies may prohibit installation of third party apps. Secondly, the applications are relatively expensive, say about $10 or $20 or more. Thirdly, traditional Blackberry phone is really meant for one core functionality – messaging. The same goes for Windows Mobile phone or Symbian Phones. To be fair, I must say that there are many third party Windows Mobile applications that are availabie. There is no lack of applications. Then one might wonder, why didn’t the “appstore” concept take the central stage in the past so many years since the availability of Windows Mobile phones. Let’s look back in history. Windows Mobile was an attempt by Microsoft to take away market share from RIM by extending its dominant reach in the PC market and desktop Windows / Microsoft Outlook base to the mobile world. The whole “wow” factor of having a Windows Mobile phone was that you were able to finally synchronise your emails, calendar appointments and contacts over the air. The big “PUSH EMAIL” capabilitiy was why people wanted to buy a Windows Mobile phone. Plus, the early Blackberry gadgets limited phone functions as its primary purpose was for messaging. Even then, it was a real pain to read attachments on Blackberry. Windows Mobile made up for the shortcomings in Blackberry. Not only do I not need an activation pin/password that is required for my Blackberry (which is different from your Outlook user name / password and domain), I can easily set up my email outlook account on my Windows Mobile phone anytime. Reading attachments was much better on Windows Mobile phone. I could also buy third party applications like Documents To Go. In the case of Blackberry, while similar third party apps for reading attachments are available, they are usually on a subscription model (if you are recall, you could not download and save attachments from a Blackberry back then. You could only open them).

Fast forward to today. What has Apple done? When Apple launched iPhone 2G, Apple was not targeting at enterprise users. It avoided direct head-on competition with either Windows Mobile or RIM. Instead, it aim straight at consumers. Apple leveraged on its core competence – designed a phone that had the form factor which would wow people as an iMAC or MACBOOK did and positioned the phone as a all-in-one for voice, videos, photos, and music. This is what a Apple is good at. By then iTunes was already widely used by both Mac and Windows users and people were used to buying music and synchronising it into iPod. No doubt there would be some cannibalisation on the iPods, but the upside was far bigger. iPhone would allow Apple to make inroads into the mobile world and take a slice of the mobile market which would tip 1.8 billion by end 2007 (estimate from Yankee Group report). 

Apple upped its ante in 2008 with the launch of iPhone 3G and this time, Apple aimed squarely at the enterprise market by annoucing the capability of provide Exchange push mail. This will expand its addressable market to some “prosumers” who are at two minds about using iPhone because of the lack of Exchange push mail. Most importantly, the linchpin of Apple’s iPhone strategy again lies in its iTunes contents and ecosystem. This time, it announced the availablity of appstore on iTunes. Free applications would be available. Paid applications would start as low as $0.99. This lowered the entry barrier for consumers to try out many types of applications. I would not mind paying just under $5 for any application. Most of the applications were largely games and utilities tools initially but as more and more corporations adopt iPhone, we see that more and more software developers are now incorporating mobile applications on iPhone into their roadmaps. I’m sure Apple would realise that as user loads more and more applications onto the iPhone, he is less reluctant to switch to a different phone and loses all the applications that he has been using or has bought. This is very strong customer stickiness. RIM must have realised this and thus it’s luanching its first Application Centre to support Blackberry OS 4.7 (which is what Storm’s OS is). If you take a leaf from Apple’s iPod strategy, Apple is not going to rest on its laurels and cede the market share. Apple will push out new upgrades on iPhone firmwares (Just look at the time interval between major firmware upgrades 2.0, 2.1 and 2.2 – it’s getting shorter). Let’s see over the next few months how the competition will heat up. In the meantime, sit back and hold tight to the coming mobile war.

While social networking such as MySpace, Facebook, Twitter became popular way before iPhone took the market by storm (let’s see if Blackberry Storm will replicate this success), iPhone has popularised this even more. Now, I can easily access do my ‘Twittering‘ or update my flickr or facebook easily with one button on the iPhone. The types of iPhone social networking apps, particularly for Twitter, reflects the underlying trend. Now even Sony Ericsson X1 has a new panel for Facebook. Storm will also come with pre-installed application for Flickr and Facebook. Given the increasing penetration of social networking tools, I’m wondering why carriers (telco operators) are not leveraging on this for their marketing or customer support. I think there is a lot of opportunity in the social media marketing that the carriers are missing out. I have yet to come across a carrier that is proactively using blogs or twitter to do product releases or news updates or to use social networking tools to make product or event annoucements. Going forward, phones will become more powerful and applications running on the phones become the key factor to creating customer stickiness. Carriers should exploit this opportunity to work closely with the handset manufactureres or the independent software developers to pre-install certain applications unique to them. Carriers should also be aware that customer support has to go beyond just supporting the phone hardware itself if carriers really want to be the first touch point to customers. It’s no longer good enough to just set up retail stores to sell the phones. Carriers need to understand the needs of the customers and provide the right type of phone to customer. That’s true customer service.

poohwinn

Why do older people think that Twittering is something younger people do?

I’m at a loss, really.

Their gay that’s why. ( BEST SILLY ANSWER OF THE DAY)

Ronnie Mund Twitter Discussions 3 30 11 pt 3

Ronnie Mund’s Twittering discussed yet again

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Home Based Business: 5 Powerful Tips to Drive Traffic to Your Website That Increase Profits

As a home based business owner it’s not breaking news that the only way to make money online is to get traffic to your site. What is newsworthy however is how you do that without costing you every dime you make!

If you’ve been in the network marketing space for any length of time you have heard of Web 2.0. Some people have a pretty good idea what all this means while others are a bit fuzzy on the definition. But I think I would be safe to say that most of us are just a bit cynical as to whether it all really works.

Well here’s what I can say; if you have a strategy, you work that strategy, you’re not expecting to become wealthy overnight, and your willing to let the system work, great things can happen!

Below are 5 Web 2.0 strategies that work and are free. Use them wisely and your home business will reap the benefits of tons of traffic.

___Create a Plan…Using sites like Facebook, Squidoo, HubPages, can help you market and generate highly qualified traffic to your site. The idea on these site is not to use blatant sales tactics, rather build relationships and they will come to you. Join groups with similar interest, post on others walls, create pages that inform and help…build it and they will come!

___Create a Blog…I can’t stress enough the importance of blogging for traffic. Providing relevant content to your niche is a great way to generate a loyal following. Give your subscribers tips, ideas and even some controversy keeps them engaged and coming back. You should ping your blog every time you create a new blog post, and make sure you tag that post at social bookmarking sites like Digg, del.icio.us, and Technorati. These sites offer huge exposure for your blog.

___Social Bookmarking…the purpose of social bookmarking is to create backlinks to your blog or business opportunity website. By posting your site or post to Propeller, Digg, del.icio.us, and Technorati – just to name a few, will generate direct traffic to your site. You can use submitters like Social Marker to do all the hard work for you. They can submit to dozen of sites in minutes, boosting your traffic enormously.

___Comment on blogs…this may sound like work but its well worth your time. Subscribe to RSS feeds of blogs in your related niche. Post regularly and make sure your adding value to the post, don’t just say “I agree”. You can use a service called Blog Lines to track new posts as they happen. Responding quickly to posts will increase your traffic immensely.

___Twitter…are you Twittering yet? This is a micro/blogging site that is just gaining some real traction in the social marketing arena. With a 140 character limit you will be surprised how much traffic you can generate with this tool. Don’t pitch your home based business here, people really don’t like that, but you can build a following that will be very profitable to your bottom line.

Cindy Floyd

How To: Twitter Guide (Part 3 of 3)

Twitter Video Series Part 3 of 3: Trends, ReTweets, Replies & Twitpic.

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Part 2: How To: Twitter Guide
(Twitter History & How to set up your Profile)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3ddkrsiS1g

Part 1: TWITTER: My 2nd Anniversary
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-cgaaCY92s

Lauren’s Blog:
http://lauren-day.blogspot.com/2011/03/2-year-twitter-anniversary.html

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birds twittering in the middle of the night?

can anyone tell me…

around midnight til at least 2am in the morning you can hear the birds Twittering away in the trees outside ….why is this.

has it got anything to do with global warming seasons changing that things aren’t how we saw them maybe 30/40 years ago

or have some birds migrated from other countries and and jet lag ??

Many have to work nights to make ends meet these days.

Damn Twittering Yaks

http://twitter.com/damnyaks

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