Donate your time and who cares?

We always want to write positive news
However this is not a good story about donating your time.
It starts generally because the person that the organization wants has a skill. It might be that the person has accounting skills, it might be fund raising skills, or in our case computer skills.

Donating your time is thankless
When a person donates their time it is not supposed to be about the “Look at me, am I great or what”.
This information is what happened to us in Palm Springs, California and the surrounding area after being involved with a lot of non-profits and organizations. Some are business organizations, some are animal organizations, and others are disabled persons organizations. Trust Logic and Catnip on this one, the list of these that we have volunteer our skills to is a larger then life list.

Lack of caring by the boards
We have been so involved that today though a few of these organizations are involved with us still we do not offer and will generally just not reply or hangup sighting the past as a great lesson on dealing with ultra ego power trips. We want to call these MEGA-EGOS.

We are not mad. We are amazed.
Before Logic writes further we did not wake up this morning and go after charities and those other Malisha groups but rather to cast a word or two of caution into the air for others that want to be helpful. Like anything in life do your homework. Most of what we found we will write here today and then we can forward this to anyone that comes along in the future asking for our help in the area of computer programming skills.

We have truly met them all, from the ultra power trip of our very own former Chief of Police to even more self serving people with gigantic titles and no skills to get anything done, other then to bark orders and even do this wrong. This Palm Springs Valley has more charities per capital then any-other city in the United States. Some 900 plus and plus because new groups come online each day.

Animals Gone Wild
Here is a story about how we keep adding more and more useless groups each day.
Lets say you have a board of directors and there is a volunteer that does not end up getting along with some other board member. This board member goes out and starts their own organization essentially doing the exact same thing diluting the available to the area resources. They all have and share a common thought that they can do all things better then the other board members. They further more like with the police chief forgot what we were to be all about in the case of the Palm Springs Animal Shelter it is all about the animals and providing them a great home. Not one time though god knows Logic brought it up in meetings? Are we here to help the animals or what? What is this organization all about? A true loss of focus was clearly what Logic saw there and with many other groups as well to be fair about this whole desert charities stuff.

A Police Chief without a clue
Hell we even have our own Friends of the Palm Springs Animal Shelter that had a leader now running for State of California Assembly candidate, Gary Jeandron this a man, most we the people would say were happy he left the Police Department (retired thank you) as he truly was not a good leader in the PSASFriends.com animal project for which Logic used to sit on the board of and watch politics work harder with this man to accomplish nothing. It is truly sad that these are what people want working for them in our government, but this is what voting is for right. There was rarely a meeting without some level of arguments within this little group.

Looks can be misleading
He appears to be on the surface a good man, however get close and get spit out like a cannon ball then you will know Gary Jeandron like we do.
Please feel free to visit his personal web site and see all that this man has accomplished? It is amazing Gary Jeandron State Assembly
However enough about meaningless local politics or those that wish they could be in them, personally we do not loose any sleep over this matter, that this alleged leader used us for this and one other project and then spit us out like “Who Cares”.

We are sorry Gary Jeandron
You know we have to share that we are not mad with Gary. This whole event took place more then a year ago.
Not mad one single bit.
We used Gary (he used us) as that relationship was our saddest example of what happened to us in charity/nonprofit work in Palm Springs.
We understand how these people get to a point of dealing with others in their carriers and can be burned out. We know we fell this way sometimes ourselves. We also want you to know that Logic and Catnip are not perfect at all.
We just, like with our local web site about weather, live cams, and informative information just wanted to contribute to and be a part of the little city of Palm Springs that we are so happy to be living in. See the Palm Springs Weather here Palm Springs Weather with no advertising for tourism and annual operating budget of about 70.000.00 dollars because Palm Springs is a tourism city.

We built PsView.com to also fit in and the web site now service millions of unique visitors per year and not to be self serving but this has made Logic and Catnip a lot of friends locally as well as around the world. It even has and annual PsViewer’s Unite Party Event held right here in Palm Springs, California.

One charity out of all is great
Logic does not sit on the board of Desert Paws and we are sure there are other great charities and nonprofits in the Coachella Valley, but we do love Desert Paws and Logic and Catnip while not much, donate money to them when we have it and these two that run the organization are true leaders and great with volunteers and have been great with us for over 7 year.
It is Desert Paws a part Barry Manilow project Lori and Peter they are absolutely great to have as friends and as the founders of Desert Paws. See their wonderful organization here Palm Springs Animals and we truly believe that other Coachella Valley non-profits should take lessons from these two wonderful people. Lori and Peter are what giving and what Palm Springs is all about.

What happens when people get tired
You can read how Logic and Catnip feel about being treated so badly, then back a year ago not now these very people (some of them anyways) talked about how bad we did.
What does this cause?
It means like in our case, and the case of so many others that have come before Logic and Catnip and will come after Logic and Catnip. It is that you loose the good volunteers and they are not willing to help others when they need the help. Hey even our own Palm Springs Economic Development Corporation could care less about our web site efforts, however we did not sit on their board mainly because the non-profit group accomplishes nothing as well.

Is giving to be treated bad a local thing?
It might just be a Palm Springs thing. Perhaps it is that Logic, Catnip, and the Viper Logic team do not come across as good enough people or we are mean in some way.

Closing the door on this subject
This is how you are left feeling when you reach out when asked to help these groups only to have them hinder your local efforts to do business, and stay in good graces with your fellow neighbors. For us we do most of our business from outside of the Coachela Valley and this has little to no effect on ouir business and we are thankful to be here in Palm Springs.

Discovering Cities in California Series - Arcata

Welcome to Arcata, California
Located in Region 13.
The County is Humboldt, California.
The city has a little under 17,000 residents living in 9.2 square miles of land and there is 1.9 square miles of water area within this city.
The city was incorporated in February 1858.
The city is located in Northern California.

Some Interesting facts about Arcata, California.
The city of Arcata takes great pride in being an environmentally responsible city, and as well it truly should since it is sitting between the famous redwood forest and they have rivers that lead into the Pacific Ocean. This is a mountainous city and it is generally cooler though minutes from the Pacific Ocean as with most all of Northern California it is cooler then the Southern California regions of our great state. This city and its city council seem to have a way about not fitting in with not liking the Patriot Act. This might because of the amount of marijuana produced (Are they smoking their own) in their county the famous well known Humboldt weed. Just a thought.
The city is not far and a great heading north off State Route 299 onto Highway 101 going towards the state of Oregon.

What to do in and around Arcata, California.
This area is some of California’s most scenic and with the near area Pacific Coastline and Highway 101 and the Redwood Forest this is a great city to stay in and venture out from visiting the coastline and the forest. There is marshlands the Arcata March and Wildlife Sanctuary with migratory birds as well here California Marsh Lands

Official City of Arcata, California web sites
City of Arcata City of Arcata, California

Arcata Chamber of Commerce Arcata Chamber of Commerce

ArcataWeather.com

Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Great news during a tough times
With a year we will elect a new president and with a current American economic down turn we were watching television last night normally never a watcher of 60 Minutes but usually check to see what they have to offer. Last night was a true home run.

HHMI
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute founded in 1953 by Logic’s personal hero of all time I truly idolize this great man, a great inventor, a great leader, a great visionary and my only regret was not meeting this man prior to his death in 1976.

WHo is the Howard Hughes Medical Institute?
The campus setting located in Chevy Chase, MD. is where this institution operates and it operates under and 11 billion dollar foundation started by Howard Hughes. This is the second largest endowment on the planet outside of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

What does the Institute do?
I believe they have 400 to 700 million dollars a year that they spend with over 100 scientists called investigators and they select a subject of health like solving diabetes or cancer and they work on it until there is a cure. They are as well involved in stem cell research. Stem cell research was declined by the United States Government and there for you cannot get a grant for it.
The HHM Institute allows through their private funding the fastest and most accurate research and advancements in medicine.

Learn more about HHMI
If you are interested in understanding what the Institute does and how it works please visit their web site it is a comprehensive understanding of all they do. We at Viper Logic thank the Howard Hughes Medical Institute for all they are empowered to accomplish thanks to Howard Hughes tax shelter and visionary abilities.
Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Thank you Howard Robard Hughes.

Domain Names that make Money during a Recession Part 2

Welcome to Part 2
Domain Names are not easy to find when you want one that is:
A a .com extension.
B a two word domain name like “Candy Bars” looks like this CandyBars.com.
C are keyword rich meaning that the words are generic and combined the two words make sense like Candy and Bars do.
Candy let’s a searcher and the search engines know that this site is about Candy and that the company is selling Bars as a specialty in the Candy category.

What the Search Engine sees
This type of domain name is what causes a search engine to place the domain name at the top of the search engine result return page when the visitor types in Candy and for sure when the visitor types in Candy Bars.

A working example
Viper Logic owns ViperMailer.com true, The site is a product for email marketing services, but Viper Logic has another web site Email Marketing Authority here Email Marketing Training and Tips and all though when we write on this blog you understand what ViperMailer.com is and does. The search engines do not however so we use a lot of SEO/SEM (Search Engine Optimization and Search Engine Marketing) tactics to gain a place on the search engines for ViperMailer.com and one of those tactics is utilizing our web site Email Marketing Authority to gain a position for email marketing help and email marketing authority as they both rank high on your favorite search engine.
This way when someone is seeking help with email marketing they find our authority site.

Special Note
Do not worry about the SEO/SEM at this stage as you are going to learn enough from us about this since we are certified in this practice. We will share enough to get what you off to a great start later.

Be a part and Watch us Grow,
If you are interested in following our climb to be on page one from page currently 25 to 28 depending on the search engine you can follow us every two weeks we will be sharing our progress on climbing the search engine ranking system. We post our standings for ViperMailer.com every other Friday afternoon. Here is the link to the first or beginning of our task Search Engine advancements

Building ValleyCafes.com
Now let’s get started with our example on building any domain name into a money maker.
Yesterday we selected ValleyCafes.com from as a random pick from our ViperNames portfolio and we explained yesterday as well that you can make money and in fact we are going to show you how starting right now.

What is your web site or blog going to be about?
Ok to begin you will need to select a domain name maybe your city with real estate, restaurants, web site hosting or anything that is about a business making money in that field, and that has a lot of competition in this field as well.

Time to build your list of possible Domain Names
Before you go to ViperGate.com and searching for your own domain name or domain names it is and we have mentioned this before when we discussed buying your family names for example LanceConway.com. There is a real challenge to find a great domain name, but you can still find a good domain name and in fact this is why we are suggesting you buy your city name with a service word attached to it like “Restaurants” and if you are living in a really small city or town then you might want to build your list using the nearest neighboring city or town that has a lot of competition in the field you are seeking.

Why does the localized domain name need to be near your home
We want you to do this project, and we want you to take as many risks out of this investment as possible.
If you live near a town or city that your domain name is about then you will know the area well, you will also know how to write content for your web site or blog, and lastly if need be and as a last result you can go out and sell advertising to gain even more revenue. Logic is shy so the last one about going out and talking with people and asking these people for something does not come naturally to me anyways.

You might enjoy the interaction and in fact people will get to know you as the Internet expert or domain name owner for your city. None of this relationship building is going to hurt you it is actually going to help you in your venture as well as your personal life.

There are a great many domain names that are taken and we really want you to buy a two word in particular a two keyword domain name so your success will be better assured. The best way to get started is to make a list of services in your city or town ans then check to be sure there are plenty of the services you have written down.
Now it is time to go out and search to see if they are available at ViperGate.com here Domain Name search and for as we always mention buy them at 9.95 and remember you will need to pay this each year that you own the domain name or domain names. Never buy just one name as you might regret it later.

Building a revenue web site from scratch
Lets use our example to begin the process “Valley Cafes”. You can see that this can be any place that is know as a valley like in California there are a lot of valley’s and we live in Palm Springs, California that is located in the Coachella Valley. So we will use this one for the “Valley” and our second word is “Cafes”.

The Coachella Valley has its fair share of Cafes in it as we have about 400,000 residents living here in 10 cities that make up this valley. So there is a fair amount of competition here and this will work out fine for our money building web site.

Tomorrow Part 3
We are going to discuss what you will be writing about on your web site referred to as on topic content. We are also going to share with you how to find a person that will build your web site for you if you do not know how to build one yourself using say “Front Page” an HTML language web site building tool to mention one.