This sad news motivated me to publish this post here on my personal blog, I was shocked today when I heard about the big open strike of IslamOnline employees that started since yesterday and still running at the moment of writing this post and promote it on Social Media, the basic reason behind it was that journalists and editors of the famous media website IslamOnline.net was threatened by their new management at Qatar to layoff all the 250  employees from their jobs in a blank of an eye!

I am writing this post to tell you all about it, they have started an official blog for IslamOnline Employees strike, so who ever like to help on promoting this blog to reach more people on the inter plz do it, there is also another post I have published on my other blog about IslamOnline Employees strike that has more details and photos. I believe that social media will play a big role on helping them to reach their goal.

I actually heard from my mates there that a lawyer is waiting to get an official authorization to give all 250 employees their rights, so probably this will be done by tomorrow but now one will leave the company building till everything is done. The employees are asking for (6 month of salary plus a month for each year they have been working for IslamOnline).

IslamOnline Employees Strike

I am a former employee of IslamOnline.net and I hate what’s happening with my fellows and workmates today even if I am not there with them. actually the office will be closed at any how, they will be with out a job, and all what they are asking for is something to help them facing the challenges of living!

There is a live stream page for the strike from inside Cairo’s building, and don’t forget to visit the official blog for IslamOnline Employees strike for more updates about the situation.

All of you know that I am hosting a contest on our Famous Bloggers and Making Money Online blog, and our Prizes are getting higher and higher as our Sponsors are so kind and doing a great work on this contest, so I am not afraid of selling my furniture or anything from that- I hope not, even it’s still new and I won’t let anyone take it from me. I just thought about it because sometimes I got excited with this Best of the Best Famous Bloggers contest, and I am getting crazy like I want to spend more money on it, specially the cash prizes, but I really don’t want to be the blogger who sold his furniture to pay his taxes, so .. I am keeping asking my self.. Should I stop thinking this way?!

Do the New FTC Guidelines Affect me?

I have no idea yet! But guys, I came across this great post by Kristi about the New FTC Guidelines, I am not in the mode of 100% understanding this new FTC Guidelines, and I am not sure if it has any relationship with my blogging earnings and my situation as a blogger, but I think you all must check and read it, and if you understand anything tell me because I am a little confused about Laws here. All what I did is that I changed my information and updating my Taxes situation on all my earnings accounts to avoid any possible problem in the future. But I am wondering if someone earns from my blog contest, and I send him cash via PayPal, in this case I am spending and he is earning, so what If I am earning by the same way? (What is the situation of blog contest prizes?)

Who is going to surprise me by the end of the year?

I believe also that my bills are higher than my earnings, and it will be the same for some time until I can improve my blogging and advertisement earnings, I already pay taxes for my sponsored reviews, also Google AdSense has my Taxes info. So who is going to ask me for more taxes? (Just wondering!)

I really don’t want to be the blogger who sold his furniture to pay his taxes. Anyways maybe the title of this post will keep the Taxes people away from here

One of the most basic things to make any community a successful one is the Editorial and Moderating Team of the community, it mostly depends on the friendship between them and community members, and how good this relationship is. So basically there is two ways that I can think about them right now, the Clear Way and the Facebook Way!

So, let me talk for some time about the best strategy possible for  Moderating Forums and Online Communities, of course I am not going to talk all the time, I would love also to hear your opinion about it, specially if you tell us about more things to be considered as important for community success!

Talk less to reduce your mistakes!

Some people are thinking that the best way to moderate a forum or community is to be undercover all the time, and this is what I call Facebook way, all moderators use the same account to moderate member’s posts to the community and answer their questions. No member relationship will be personally open between the editors or moderators and the members, probably it’s because of the lake of experience that force shy moderator not to show themselves!

Maybe Facebook moderators team can not do that, and follow up conversation of all members, it’s not possible because of the really big number of members on Facebook, but what I am talking about here is medium size communities with a number that can be handled by 10 to 20 moderators or editors.

There one questions that I would like to hear an answer to it from you, which strategy  is better when dealing with Moderators and Editors of a website, blog or online community?

If you are a member of any community and would like to ask for help or know a reason why your submissions or posts are panned or deleted, what would be better? If you know the person you are talking to? Or just receiving the answer or the help you need is quit enough for you?

Clear Way or Facebook Way?

OK, let me tell you my opinion from my personal experience about this matter. Being a web editor for 3 years added a great experience about user behavior and satisfaction, so I can say that the best strategy is to be clear about your identity and show your self to your forum or community members, this will solve to you so many problems, specially when 2 members have a problem together or fighting and you should act to solve this problem some how, and bring the smile back to your community and raise the loyalty or it’s members.

If you are a Moderator or a Web Editor of any website or online community, My Advice to you is to involve your self with members and try to own their friendship, learn more about them, study their cases to know how they think, answer them by what ever short messages to tell them that you are busy and will get back to full answer their questions and give them the help they need, I am sure they will appreciate that too much!

This is amazing! After thinking how to spend money I have earned from my blogs, I thought buying a premium WordPress theme would be a great idea, but what happened was completely shocking, I can not believe it! .. I spend the money but I have earned more!

I joined the Affiliate Program and post about it on my blog yesterday, and I was amazed because I purchased the $19.95 membership which is not expensive at all if you compare it with other WordPress themes prices or memberships, and you know what?! I have just received an email from Elegant Themes, The good news is one of my 7 blog visitors that clicked on the affiliate link yesterday did a purchase, Elegant Themes will give me 50% or the purchase payment which means $9.95, and this is great!

The Good Price will work great for you

If you are looking for premium quality/affordable wordpress themes, Elegant WordPress Themes offer a large selection of designs, all of which are included on a membership basis for the low price of $19.95 per year. That’s not all, while your membership is active you will gain access to all new themes released. So far there is 21 themes available for you, and each of the themes come with a large selection of features, including:

- Widget ready sidebars
- Theme Option Pages
- Custom thumbnail images
- PSD files
- Valid XHTML + CSS
- Social bookmarking ready
- Featured Articles
- Firefox compatible
- IE7 + IE6 compatible

Here is the email I got from Elegant Themes:

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Where is the experts in this country? I am always asking myself this question again and again, I am still not satisfied with the answer. This story began when the company I used to work on it was welling to hire some people to work in the same section I was working, the job was simple as it’s all editorial and moderation work, I was one of the responsible team to interview and choose from application we received, I am not sure of the exact number of people who apply for the job, but the team agree on interview and test about 40 person. I am telling you this story just to let you know how much I was surprised when no one passed the test!

Why we Failed when we tried to employee someone?

This happened like three times in one year during journey to find someone who can do the job, so just imagine every time we wanted to employ someone we fail, because they are not familiar with the job at all, they don’t even have the minimum requirements from the job. So.. the question is coming alone.. Why they applied then? And where we can find the one who deserve the job?

I was trying to answer this questions that came into my mind but still not satisfied with the answers. I think those people who applied for the job just need to work so badly, or it’s their motivation to work was so high that they applied for the wrong job. But when I tried to find out where is the experts I found my self facing another question.. Do you think all experts are working for great companies and they already hired?

Do you agree with me?

Of course not all the experts are working for big companies, they are divided by their interests, maybe lots of them changed their minds about been working for some company and already started their own biz, maybe some of them are still thinking about it, so they will never apply for a new job, and another one important thing that I have to mention is that experts in some conditions leave their important jobs and do something else not in their carrier path.

This is weird!

I don’t know.. I just want to understand what is happening in this world, why we can not find employees and workers some times while we have good offers?

Today I was remembering the first domain I ever had in my life, it doesn’t exist anymore, but there is a very interesting story happened more than 5 years back when I connected to the internet for the first time, and I became a web designer!
I meet that nice girl online, and we was chatting about several things, then we came cross internet and domain names and websites and all this kind of stuff, and I told her that I wish to have my own domain name, and create a website and maybe I can make money from it.

She really surprised me when she asked me what domain name you want? Because she said it’s easy to have it, and she will give it to me as a gift. Oh.. I was flying that day!

And Yes.. I told her about the domain name and she brought it for me. When ever I remember this time I thank her for been such a great help to me, she helped me to start a new biz when she brought me that domain,  she open several new doors for me that time, actually she made my heart beet for her, I loved her that much that I got married to her

That was the story behind me and my relation with the internet, and how I started my online biz for the first time when I went to study web design, and I could make a full static website in about 6 months latter, and again I went to study website development, but the lake of education in that part of the world where I live limited my skills some how, but I was never into desperate because I have a great woman pushing me all the time forward, I spend so many hours studying and learning about how to make websites, and my biz got better as I am serving a number of clients right now.

It was a new life for me, a new beginning, new way of thinking about this life, that’s why I named my blog My Life Thinking, and started to run a community on it for all bloggers who think they can write about life.

I moved along from one idea to another, trying to catch the amazing grow process of the internet, to keep my biz up. I started to earn a few dollars now from my blogs, and I am planning to grow this biz more as I really like the challenges and have fun doing it.

I came cross blogs and CMS, I can say that I love Open Source projects, because this is the only way I can grow up much faster. I started to blog about 2 years back on wordpress.com, then I moved my blog to my own domain more than one year back, and after some hard work I got the rank of 4 on Google now!

That was a short story about me, my love, and my blog!

Now It’s your turn to tell me about your blog story behind your blog. Who showed you the way to the bloggers world? What is your blog name? Post a comment and tell all about it.

My career goal is to find a position that utilizes my design and technical skills to their fullest in order to produce the best work possible. I am a highly self‐motivated and goal oriented professional pursuing a senior role with a talented group of individuals to create web sites of the utmost quality. I am always looking forward to provide consultant and help to to everybody.

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