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Approximately 400,000
Americans, 2.5 million people worldwide,
have Multiple Sclerosis (MS), a chronic, unpredictable,
nonfatal
disease of the central
nervous system that leaves many to seek
work-at-home opportunities. And
nowadays, that means online, with
great new resources like Content
Desk, an Internet content syndication
center and a source of
high-quality, targeted content for websites.
“Tools, resources, tips,
advice, feedback and strategies of the
members are openly shared,”
explained Clay Cotton, stricken with
MS in 1990, who turned to
Internet marketing for his livelihood.
“While in other contexts,
i.e. with other membership sites, they’d be
stored away.”
Content Desk has a variety
of tools to help members create and
use all types of content
from articles, reports, facts, tips,
newsletters and forums, to
blogs, audio, video, interviews, product reviews,
creative writing, public
domain information, RSS and more. Some of their
tools are downloads and
videos, while others are online
applications and knowledge
shared through learning. And learning
is offered in the form of
videos, articles, help texts, tutorials, member
sharing and seminars / workshops.
Power packed, Content Desk
is a helpful tool for Cotton who
struggles to live
productively while facing increased limitations
including numbness, tremors,
slurred speech, weakness and
fatigue. He prefers to use
his “altered abilities,” like those offered
by his Content Desk membership,
instead of being referred to as
one with “disabilities.”
“You sure wouldn’t tell
Helen Keller she had disabilities!” added
Cotton, founder of Alter-Abled at alter-abled.com.
He has played
Piano on record, on stage
and on tour with music legends like Mick
Jagger, Janis Joplin, Jimi
Hendrix, Jerry Garcia, Hank Williams
Jr., B.B. King, Bonnie Raitt,
Chuck Berry, Boz Skaggs and scores
of others. “I like to think
of myself as having altered abilities.”
CONTENT DESK
The Content Desk membership
community communicates via their
private forum, virtual
conferences, teleconferences, email,
support desk, workshops and
new Mentor / Sponsorship Program for
members to team up. And the
exclusive online community focuses on
four things; community,
learning, technology and profits.
Content Desk membership fees
go right back into development of
new software and tools so
that members are always on the
cutting-edge and far ahead
of all the "point-and-click" site
builders out there.
Cyber-brains behind the
Content Desk scene are the “Power Trio;”
Jack Humphrey, Mark
Braunstein, and Peter Lenkefi. These three
renowned visionaries found
themselves smack dab in the middle of
the emerging, fledgling web
publishing industry.
One of the best tools to
come across Cotton’s cyber Content Desk
lately is Skypeä. A peer to
peer voice service, Skypeä users
may call landlines and cell
phones for a fee; users may call each
other for free.** With a
headset, Skypeä
frees up awkward and
fatiguing equipment handling
of ordinary telephones and cell
phones for people with MS.
“The audio fidelity is
incredible. It’s so crisp and clear. No
scratchy technology,“
explained Cotton. “My business has grown
leaps and bounds thru
contacts in Skypeä.”
And because of Cotton’s
warm, friendly and helpful interaction
with Content Desk members,
the partners set up a special area of
their forum just for Skypeä. And Cotton is the moderator of that
area.
“Content Desk is the best
thing that’s ever happened to me,” said
Cotton. “It’s a wonder, the
brilliance of the conceivers of this.
It’s a limited membership
with people dedicated to helping each
other succeed online. That
tribal consciousness, ‘no one will be
left behind’ really
impresses me. ”
MARDI GRAS
To help others learn more
and earn more, regardless of a
membership in the online
group, Content Desk is hosting a 3-day
seminar / workshop in New
Orleans from Sept. 9-11, 2005, with a
full year of support follow
up afterwards. The focus is, “How To
Triple Your Income With
Irresistible New Content
Publishing, Traffic Building
and Sales Conversion Techniques -
The Three Proven Keys To
Internet Success."
"Son of a gun, we're
gonna have big fun, on the bayou…”
For more information, visit
Mardi Gras
http://presssuccess.com/MardiGras . To learn more about Content
Desk and check on the availability
of limited openings at Content
Site Builder, visit http://presssuccess.com/csb . Join hundreds
of publishers and writers in
creating and syndicating your
content at Content
Propulsion Lab http://presssuccess.com/cpl
.
Visit http://www.contentdesk.com for help.
* And every week about 200
more people are diagnosed, according
to the National MS Society.
Source of MS info is the National MS
Society at nationalmssociety.org.
**As noted on home page of
skype.com.
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By Diana Barnum, CEO of the
Ohio Help Group at
http://ohiohelp.net . For more help with marketing, public
relations and writing, email
mailto:diana@ohiohelp.net
or call: (614) 529-9459.
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