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ONA Launches New Web Site 11/26/2008

The Online News Association redesigned its Web site ”to better serve and connect our nearly 1,800 members across the globe,” wrote ONA President Jonathan Dube in a message posted on the site. 

“The site is the first step to giving our members — leading-edge journalists from around the world — new ways to share ideas, content, technology and news,” Dube wrote.

The Online News Association is composed largely of professional digital journalists including news writers, producers, designers, editors and photographers.

 

Inspirational Thoughts 11/26/2008

Do less, be more. ~ unknown ~

“I can be changed by what happens to me. I refuse to be reduced by it.” ~ Maya Angelou

“Always be smarter than the people who hire you.”  ~ Lena Horne

“We are now faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history, there is such a thing as being too late. Procrastination is still the thief of time. Life often leaves us standing bare, naked, and dejected with a lost opportunity.” ~ the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. 

“Be willing to stand on a mountain of noes for one yes.” ~  B. Smith

“We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty.” ~ Mother Teresa

“The future depends on what we do in the present.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi

“The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problem.” ~ Gandhi

“Do one thing every day that scares you.” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

“The most dangerous place to grow up in America is the intersection of race and poverty.” ~ Marian Wright Edelman

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.” ~ George Eliot

“Bishop Blake said, ‘You’ll never see a U-Haul behind a hearse,’” Oscar-winning actor Denzel Washington said quoting his pastor, Bishop Charles E. Blake, during an interview witt TV One on One host Cathy Hughes. He continued to note that it is important for people to complain less, act more. “What are you going to do with what you have?  Who will you inspire?”

“A key to getting ahead is getting started,” according to a church marque in Bellevue, a community west of downtown Nashville.

“Action is the antidote to despair.”  ~ Joan Baez