m2h blogs by Marcia Hansen

Hi, I have good news! I want to let you know about a project I’ve been managing that just launched last week. It’s called CoberTOUR(sm). CoberTOUR(sm) is an educational tool that will (hopefully!) help people learn more about insurance coverages. Since December, Allstate has had the English version of the tool, Bumper-to-Bumper Basics(sm) accessible via [...]

As you might guess, cows are quite commonplace here in northern Illinois. But, we don’t see many like this one.
It’s a first for me: a striped cow.

After a little research, I think it might be a rare Dutch Belted Cow.

A while back, Jenny wrote a post about cutting out mainstream media.
Below are a few links I’ve come across may be of interest to people who think similarly.
Common Language Project: Positive Reporting Across Borders
Happy Rant – also check out his blogroll
Yes Magazine

While what I said before under entertainment notes is true that this town doesn’t have any coffee shops listed in the yellow pages, I’ve just discovered via an ad in the local newspaper that there is a coffee shop in the bookstore downtown, Books on First. Their website doesn’t mention that they have wireless [...]

On PBS tonight, Tavis Smiley (author of The Covenant with Black America – website, Amazon) moderated a discussion at Howard University among the democratic presidential candidates.
There was consensus among many of the candidates on the following issues:
Criminal Justice System
- eliminate minimum sentences for non-violent offenses
- treat powder cocaine offenses like crack cocaine offenses
- create rehabilitation [...]

Companies have many different ways to communicate with customers: the web, a blog, and the message they hear while on hold. Matt at Signal vs. Noise concludes that JetBlue didn’t use any of those means to communicate with customers. Instead, it was the guy with the megaphone standing at the terminal who had [...]

via: Seth Godin
Interesting read (actually, it reads more like science fiction):
Call for neuroethics as brain science races ahead
— Scientists who are working on brain scanning say that in some cases brain scans can reveal a person’s intentions. One of the examples in the article is about how this technology could one day be [...]

I hate it when my local NBC affiliate, KOMU, takes over the regular scheduled programs and shows college basketball games. Bah! Give them their own channel and sell subscriptions, but stop messing with me! I don’t watch that much TV, but when I watch it, I hate it when they [...]

Take a look at the two pictures on the MSNBC Multimedia page – 1st of Barack Obama with his head bowed “being called to serve” and the 2nd picture of Hillary Clinton as she makes a point at an NAACP convention. Quite the contrasting pictures, wouldn’t you agree? However, click on Clinton’s picture [...]

Oh, spare me. In my del.icio.us inbox, I received my first piece of Agloco spam from urlhunter who promotes Agloco, a company that promises to pay me to surf.
More on this company here: Web 1.0 Undead Rise: AGLOCO
Writing “Agloco spam” from urlhunter could be considered a digital literacy as it links the company and [...]