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Work around for LinkedIn Group Managers to send messages to new members

Recently LinkedIn has removed the ability for a group manager to download the list of members and e-mail addresses.  I'm sure this was done because some group owners were abusing the the feature and spamming the members (remember spam is defined from the receivers point of view, not the senders).  anyway, many group owners used this feature to send out "welcome to the group" messages to new users, this is not possible now.  

As a work around for the "e-mailing new members" problem, I have a solution that I use, it is a bit more time consuming, but it works.... 

from the "requests to join" page before you approve the users, highlight the list of users, then copy and paste into notepad, this strips all html and other formatting characters, save the file as a *.txt file. open excel then open the txt file, use "|" as the column delimiter, then "finish" once imported you should have a column of e-mails. I then use the excel function "=trim(B5)" and copy this down the entire list of users..... then copy the column of e-mails into my e-mail program (g-mail) and then send my welcome message to new members. I do this in a separate g-mail account for each group. gmail saves a list of all addresses e-mailed, so this has the side benefit of creating and keeping a mail list as well (doesn't sync back to anything to update when users leave though). 

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http://www.burnett.ws/bin/view.pl/Main/BensBlogEntry20090325154312

http://www.linkedin.com/groupAnswers?viewQuestionAndAnswers=&gid=1204737&discussionID=2109417&sik=1238009436487&split_page=2&goback=.ana_1204737_1238009436487_3_1

I Hope this helps everyone. 

--Ben

Bailouts, Markets and the "fear index"

All of the talk in the last week of the bailout in congress and all the campaigning and spin being used by everyone made me remember the "fear index" I heard about awhile back, so I went to Yahoo finance (since Google finance doesn't include CBOE indices) and made up this chart, and decided to post the URL here for quick reference.

The URL is:
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=^VIX&t=5d&l=on&z=l&q=l&c=^VXD,^VXN,^GSPC,^IXIC,^DJI

Chili and Chocolate?

We do a chili cookoff/bonfire every year in Oct, I'm always trying to come up with a new chili twist, Lately I've also been interested in mixing chocolate with Chili, the aztecs started it, it must be good right? (ChiliChocolate) I've started a new page to try to find a good recipe and explore these options so that I can bring a new treat to chili cookoffs with me (see my past Chili Concoctions)

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