Purdue basketball is one of the more unrecognized basketball teams in the nation. Sure people know that Purdue is consistent when it comes to basketball. The story with Purdue basketball is that is starts out that they are either ranked within the 20’s on the AP top 25 poll or just barely missed the cut. They go on and play a solid non-conference schedule and finish at a decent position in the BIG TEN conference. They make the tournament at a reasonable seed and get bounced in the first round or the round of 32. The season recycles and the same thing continues. Sure it is a model of consistency, but also puts Purdue fans on edge on how this team underachieves. However this season is WAY different than most. Going into mid-January and Purdue sits as the 3rd ranked team in the nation even receiving from first place votes by the voters. The Boilermakers have been cooking and have won 15 straight games and remain undefeated in the conference. Purdue has finally garnered respect as legitimate contenders for the national championship. What’s so special about Purdue is that they don’t have 5 star recruits going to their school, or that legendary coach with some rings on his hand. Purdue relies on grit and intense defense. Don’t be confused, Head coach Matt Painter may not have rings but he knows how to coach this team to wins. Led by studs like Vince Edwards, Carsen Edwards, and Dakota Mathias, this team is special. They have experience, resiliency and a advantageous home court at Mackey Arena. The home court won’t matter when it comes to tournament time but at this rate nothing will matter if the boilermakers keep rolling like this.
Tips on using WordPress
With your web hosting and blog all setup, it’s now time to show you how to use WordPress. To make an account is pretty simple and easy. Just use your Facebook or email account like you would with any other account you have made. Once your WordPress software has been installed on your hosting account, you can log in and start using the platform right away.
The first thing you will want to do when logging into WordPress for the first time, is to change the Title and Tagline for your site. By default, these will just be set at “My Blog”, so you will need to edit them to match the actual site or topic for your site. Realistically you can name the blog whatever, but for now just keep it simple. Then add some different types of themes and vibrant backgrounds to make the blog presentable to your audience. Depending on what you want to blog about whether it is about food, life, or sports, make sure that the theme is similar to what you are writing about. Some tips on writing blogs is always be wary of who you are writing too. Know your audience and make sure they can not only relate to your content, but be able to simply understand you. Another tip is too add a personality to your blogs. Add a feeling to your blogs so not only it makes your blogs not dry, but you can have a certain type of interaction with your audience. Be organized with your overall blog. Add different types of pages if you want to do different themed blogs, or maybe contact information if anybody had questions for you. Lastly enjoy what you are doing. Have fun putting your ideas online and sharing it with a large community.
What Makes a Good Campaign
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Having a good political campaign strategy is very pivotal to succeed in your goal. A good campaign is what can make an average person seem great. With the right people and the correct goal in mind, a person can seem influential and very likable. An example of a great political campaign was Donald Trump’s. Whether you agree or disagree with his political views, he did have a great group of people to help him get elected. What made his campaign great was the little things. He visited small towns and tried to relate to the people in smaller towns and communities and did this across the nation to get votes. Trump also used social media to voice himself and got publicized tons for it. He also reformatted how people are communicating over social media and making sure to get his name out for people to know. Trump’s strategies were controversial but effective. Trump ran the most unconventional of political campaigns, but it turned out he knew better than all the experts. He spent more on hats than on pollsters. He travelled to states like Wisconsin and Michigan that pundits said were out of reach. He held massive rallies instead of focusing on door-knocking and get-out-the-vote operations. He had a disjointed, sometimes chaotic national political convention that was capped by an acceptance speech that was more doom-and-gloom than any in modern US political history. He was vastly outspent by the Clinton campaign, just as he was during the Republican primaries. He turned consensus wisdom about how to win the presidency on its head. All of these decisions – and many more – were roundly ridiculed in “knowledgeable” circles. In the end, however, they worked. He and his closest confidants, his children and a few chosen advisers, will have the last laugh.
Prepare for the Worst
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A crisis plan is something that should be prepared, but not frequently used. Every company should have a crisis plan, because you must always prepare for the worst. There are forces that cannot be controlled sometimes there will be times that you are not prepared for certain rare cases. We are going to help people plan out a crisis plan to minimize future damage to a company and to help retain and lost reputation. The ways to formulate a good crisis plan to formulate a good PR team. Have a team that can not only act immediately to a crisis but that is also experienced. Have reputable people working for you and make sure they know what they are saying. Another way to formulate a good crisis plan is to have a good spokesperson. Each crisis communications team should have people who have been pre-screened, and trained, to be the lead and/or backup spokespersons for different channels of communications. All organizational spokespersons during a crisis situation must have right skills to speak to the public, the appropriate training, and also be flexible. Being flexible means that not only can they speak to the public, but be able to communicate over regular media and social media. Understanding your audience is also very key. A company should now that have to speak differently depending on the situation. Also certain audiences might need to be spoken to in a different manner than others, again depending on the situation. Lastly a company should always do a post-crisis analysis. Basically just away from what happened and see if they learned anything. A formal analysis of what was done right, what was done wrong, what could be done better next time and how to improve various elements of a crisis plan. Overall just be prepared and not have a “It can’t happen to us” attitude.
Blogs with the top
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Being a blogger is vital if you are trying to inform people online. Everything seems to be leaning towards the internet. For example everyone uses the internet for their job whether, you are collecting data, looking at news, trying to learn a new task, or just for entertainment, it is important to know how to talk to people. A blogger must find a way to attach a person to their article and to keep them hooked. Here is 5 ways an amateur can become a good blogger.
The first way a person can become a good blogger is to be consistent. A person have a consistent schedule of posts. Whether a person posts every Saturday or they post twice a week, make sure to be precise with your style and upload. Have the readers entertained in what you are typing about, but do not throw too much of a curveball. Some people do not like change so it is best to keep things simple.
Second of all another tip that is critical is understanding your audience. A person should make their blogs personal and engage with their reader. A blogger should go out of their way to talk to, and get to know the audience. A method on doing that is too survey your audience and see what they like and how they want certain things arranged in the blogs.
A third way to blog well is too break the mold. When you see examples of other blogs and how they are set up, you wonder why they get so many views and comments, and that is because they are unique and personalized. Those blogs have their own personality which separates them from other blogs. It makes them unique and also creates a new dynamic. Look at other competitors and see what they do. See where they succeed and where they fail, and fix what they lack in. Make your own blog better than the other persons.
First blog post
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