Don't Quit Now, Jack

I really don't understand that with nothing to report this blog is doing very well. Also in spite of the Rail Disaster that is already messing up the works something awful. It is evident that we have some good dance organization out there with very good membership.

"The only time you should look back is to see how far you've come,"

Meanwhile all we can do is help promote all the organizations that allow their members a little freedom. When they start laying down too many commandments, it's can get pretty bad. But the entire dance atmosphere on this island is improving specially now that the influence of the Creative Researchers And Producers is receding, and taking the Rootzi Tootzis with them.

 "A Very Special Love" by Debbie Reynolds

We are like the genie, "Free, Free, Free." And the Universal dancer, the Social dancer, the Cultural dancer is evolvng with full appreciation of their fellow dancers. The entire dance structure is looking very good.

This blog is now firmly in second place behind Town Dancer.

Ready for the Guest Authors to take their place in the sun.

Pub's Side Note: Our dance blogs are what all "dance websites would like to be" updated on a regular basis, containing various points of view that are of interest to a select or target audience, before and after the occasion.. Information easy to update and change. Our reader/dancers are gradually picking up on this action. This is where it's at.

Don't Quit Now, Jack

I really don't understand that with nothing to report this blog is doing very well. Also in spite of the Rail Disaster that is already messing up the works something awful. It is evident that we have some good dance organization out there with very good membership.

"The only time you should look back is to see how far you've come,"

Meanwhile all we can do is help promote all the organizations that allow their members a little freedom. When they start laying down too many commandments, it's can get pretty bad. But the entire dance atmosphere on this island is improving specially now that the influence of the Creative Researchers And Producers is receding, and taking the Rootzi Tootzis with them.

 "A Very Special Love" by Debbie Reynolds

We are like the genie, "Free, Free, Free." And the Universal dancer, the Social dancer, the Cultural dancer is evolvng with full appreciation of their fellow dancers. The entire dance structure is looking very good.

This blog is now firmly in second place behind Town Dancer.

Ready for the Guest Authors to take their place in the sun.

Pub's Side Note: Our dance blogs are what all "dance websites would like to be" updated on a regular basis, containing various points of view that are of interest to a select or target audience, before and after the occasion.. Information easy to update and change. Our reader/dancers are gradually picking up on this action. This is where it's at.

Contact? Very Little

I am committed to figuring out how to market these blogs even though they are just for fun. No one is making any money here. At least not blogging. But I am determined to show the reader/dancers that these blogs can be very valuable for our entire dance scene.

"Vaya Con Dios" by Les Paul and Mary Ford

At the moment I will focus on getting that additional Two Center. Just a person willing to share their thoughts and photos with their friends, relatives, neighbors and fellow dancers. Once a week, every two weeks, once a month? Whatever, they will make the decisions. And one more good example will make it easier to get more and make these blogs into social media.

"Stranger In Paradise" by the Four Aces

We can try to focus on what’s important to where we are in the process. We must use the time we have wisely with the help of the others and keep pushing forward. I am determined that I am going to make this work no matter what, - until I run out of gas.

Blogger's Law #41:
All gossip at the Palladium is true. Do not be misled by facts.

Steady

I am meeting dancers from all over the Island of Oahu. And in the last half of the 20th century, it has centralized pretty well in downtown Honolulu, like all big cities. The Rail Disaster has shown us what we really need and for our type of dancing. centralizing is not necessary. We can do very well in our own kuleanas. Waianae Coast is one, The North Shore is another and of course, the Windward side too.

"There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist."

There are natural divisions within each sector and we have gone along with whatever. We are getting some interest and we are covering the dancers where we can get the information. Some consider their information private, and we must respect and ignore them. We will have plenty of others that will realize the value of Public Relations in a blog.

Moanalua Corridor is well into the twenties average hits per day, which is twice what the normal web or blog site on Oahu gets. According to the list of the top blogs in Hawaii, you can be in the top twenty if you have over 30 average hits per day. (900 per month.) One good steady Two Center would swing it for Moanalua Corridor.

"Music, Music, Music" by Theresa Brewer

Photos: Many send dozens of photos to Facebook and figure they have done a good day's work. They have no concept that Facebook gets 350 million photos per day. You forgot one photo? Will someone miss it? Yeah, Man. Gotcha. However that one photo is a gold mine in one of our blogs, and it will be seen by your friends, relatives, neighbors and fellow dancers. Also increase the hits on the blog which is a benefit to everyone. Big difference.

Steady

I am meeting dancers from all over the Island of Oahu. And in the last half of the 20th century, it has centralized pretty well in downtown Honolulu, like all big cities. The Rail Disaster has shown us what we really need and for our type of dancing. centralizing is not necessary. We can do very well in our own kuleanas. Waianae Coast is one, The North Shore is another and of course, the Windward side too.

"There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist."

There are natural divisions within each sector and we have gone along with whatever. We are getting some interest and we are covering the dancers where we can get the information. Some consider their information private, and we must respect and ignore them. We will have plenty of others that will realize the value of Public Relations in a blog.

Moanalua Corridor is well into the twenties average hits per day, which is twice what the normal web or blog site on Oahu gets. According to the list of the top blogs in Hawaii, you can be in the top twenty if you have over 30 average hits per day. (900 per month.) One good steady Two Center would swing it for Moanalua Corridor.

"Music, Music, Music" by Theresa Brewer

Photos: Many send dozens of photos to Facebook and figure they have done a good day's work. They have no concept that Facebook gets 350 million photos per day. You forgot one photo? Will someone miss it? Yeah, Man. Gotcha. However that one photo is a gold mine in one of our blogs, and it will be seen by your friends, relatives, neighbors and fellow dancers. Also increase the hits on the blog which is a benefit to everyone. Big difference.

Waianae Twitters

So gratifying that we are making contact with many Twitter people and all willing to share information with their friends, neighbors and relatives. There must be some that can be Two Centers in this blog. It is just waiting for them. Meanwhile, we got one willing but only for this one time and he doesn't want any further commitments. All I can say mahalo and I tell everyone, they make their own decisions.

"Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way

to succeed is to try - just one more time."

From Fred Koahou, Maili

You’ve got to have a dream. When you lose your dreams, you die. We have so many people walking around who are dead and don’t even know it! There is a huge difference between growing older and growing up.

If you are nineteen years old and lie in bed for one full year and don’t do one productive thing, you will turn twenty years old. If I am eighty-nine years old and stay in bed for a year and never do anything I will turn ninety.

Anybody can grow older. That doesn’t take any talent or ability. The idea is to grow up by always finding opportunity in change. Have no regrets. We, the elderly, usually don’t have regrets for what we did, but rather for things we did not do. The only people who fear death are those with regrets.

Remember, Growing older is mandatory - Growing up is optional. So let's have a little less drugs around here. Mahalo.

Moving Slowly

We do have enough bloggers who are committed to a dream. In Hawaii, we have close to one million websites, perhaps 100 thousand blog sites and 10,000 being added everyday. Some of these websites and blogs won’t make it past the first two months.

"To move to our favorite music, to inspire, that is the true gift of the dance."

For many, there is the excitement of something new and the content will flow freely. But, as time goes by and there isn’t a ton of fame or income the excitement fades. If you have a counter, you may notice that you are in single digits (nine or less) average hits per day. Reality sets in that this is hard work and you may wonder, is it worth it?

"Morning Dew" by Melveen Leed

You may learn that there is a point of diminishing returns and by yourself there is a limit. There is the make it or break it point where web or blog sites die. Your lack of fame makes your contributions of information into SOS and the variety for more interest is not there.

Then you know, you need different view points in your blog to make it truly social media. A different method of getting comments. And for us in the dance environment it is going to be crucial. Any point of view is important to our friends, relatives and fellow dancers. The Two Center will be an important part in the development of our blogs to eventual independence.

The best example we have now is Willy Dionisio of Kapolei Chapter HBDA. Just contributed photos and a beautiful write up of their Social. The hits on the blog Platinum Horseshoe are going through the roof and everyone benefits. Willy and the members of Kapolei and Ewa Chapters, HBDA, the total dance environment in West Oahu and of course the blog too. It is totally a win-win situation.

Private

Completely overwhelmed by two scam spam robots (from Russia somewhere) Blogger cannot stop them and they screw up the rest of the hits which are now half of what they were. The total hits from them are going up

So I changed the blog to Private and no one but the guest authors can tune in. Gotta stop these people some way. Meanwhile the hits on the other blogs are going up. Total hits are still going up, so just gotta cool it for awhile.

Meanwhile, there is Blogging Hawaii, Platinum Horseshoe and Moanalua Corridor and they are moving up quite well. Any of the Guest Authors can choose whatever they want and I have made Richard an Administrator too.

The Administrators can decide what they wish to do. They can even get their friends as members and they can view the contents of the blog. It can evolve into something else. I will not be able to do anything definite for at least a month and I will consult with the both of them before deleting Town Dancer.

Falling Down

I fell down twice and fortunately got well patched up at the VA and I am now using a walker. They have me in physical therapy and I am learning very nicely. They also got me a cane that I can use for short distances for now. Hopefully I can wean myself out of the walker and just use the cane. Perhaps, (I can hope) I may dance again. It will take time.

If you are going through hell - keep going, you'll come out of it."

Chances are you know of a dancer who has been critically injured or has died from falling. Each year according to the State Department of Health, 85 seniors (65 and older) in Hawaii die. 1,960 more will be hospitalized and 8,700 are treated at emergency services - all as the result of falls. All I can say is "watch it, be careful!"

Meanwhile I hope to find a Two Center for the information needed to share with our reader/dancers of the Moanalua Corridor. With regularity of local dance action, the hits will go through the roof. Many years ago, in the limelight, were the Aiea Ballroom Dance Club and Wahiawa Ballroom Dance Club. They were the prime source of dance action, but no more.They have their own Public Relations set up and we must find the ones that can use our help.

We will continue to do the best we can for the entire Corridor. We never did find out what happened to the Kapiolani Ballroom Dance Club. They had dance classes at the Newtown Recreation Center. Line Dancing is practically unknown here as far as we know. Just give us E for Effort, we try.

Falling Down

I fell down twice and fortunately got well patched up at the VA and I am now using a walker. They have me in physical therapy and I am learning very nicely. They also got me a cane that I can use for short distances for now. Hopefully I can wean myself out of the walker and just use the cane. Perhaps, (I can hope) I may dance again. It will take time.

If you are going through hell - keep going, you'll come out of it."

Chances are you know of a dancer who has been critically injured or has died from falling. Each year according to the State Department of Health, 85 seniors (65 and older) in Hawaii die. 1,960 more will be hospitalized and 8,700 are treated at emergency services - all as the result of falls. All I can say is "watch it, be careful!"

Meanwhile I hope to find a Two Center for the information needed to share with our reader/dancers of the Moanalua Corridor. With regularity of local dance action, the hits will go through the roof. Many years ago, in the limelight, were the Aiea Ballroom Dance Club and Wahiawa Ballroom Dance Club. They were the prime source of dance action, but no more.They have their own Public Relations set up and we must find the ones that can use our help.

We will continue to do the best we can for the entire Corridor. We never did find out what happened to the Kapiolani Ballroom Dance Club. They had dance classes at the Newtown Recreation Center. Line Dancing is practically unknown here as far as we know. Just give us E for Effort, we try.

Update

Three quarters of the year has almost gone by and the blogs are definitely nearing the point of diminishing returns. For only one person, and rather unknown at that, I am not doing so bad. But of course, that establishes a point that the Two Centers will make the difference.

"Party hard, make mistakes, dance and laugh endlessly and do

the things you are afraid to do. You only live once."

The bottom of the pile in hits. But we cannot blame anyone. It is the newest

blog and whatever has been there is very private. We will be patient

for the first Two Center willing to share the news.

Town Dancer is still number one in hits but mostly taken over by the scam, spam robots that are running it into the ground. And Blogger programmers don't have a clue. And of the eight remaining only three show great promise. Blogging Hawaii, Platinum Horseshoe and Moanalua Corridor. And the only thing holding them back is the lack of Two Centers.

 

 Near  the bottom and also new to the game. Latin is very splintered,

mainly the young and the old. Also the two specialty factions,

Tango and Bachata-Salsa. The elders will prevail.

The rest are in the teens average hits per day and the same values exist there - just one Two Center will make the difference on any of them. Needless to say, the amount of hits is of benefit to everyone. It is a win-win situation. No one knows? Yes, I know.

Pub's Side Note: Social media in dancing is not about technology, it is about

psychology. The tools are always changing but the concepts -- the

engagement, transparency,  sharing and entertainment -- do not.

Update

Fred Astaire Studio, where are you? They have two dance clubs and one Arthur Murray Studio in East Honolulu, but the ordinary dancers do not hear from them. We await the new dance club forming and perhaps a Fred Astaire Studio. Wow, that would blow the hits on this blog up through the ceiling and everyone would benefit.

"We must agree with our older contemporaries, there is a lot of shit

we just don't care about anymore."

There are so many benefits to just dancing, whatever your dancing may be. We happen to dance a social style of ballroom dancing. The difference usually depends on the strictness of the discipline. International Style is by nature the strictest discipline, for these dancers are to be judged.

"Young At Heart" by Frank Sinatra

And the American Style has enough troubles of its own. Then there are the younger groups in any dance endeavor that will have a weakness for LAGS. (the Latest And Greatest Syndrome.) The tried and true basics are not good enough for them, they gotta get fancy.

Blogger Law No 37D: Teamwork is essential.

It allows you to blame someone else.

But they are all welcome in these blogs and we respect honest differences of opinion.

Progress

The Waianae Coast is progressing, too bad so many that could help are dragging their feet. We must get legislators that are for the people and not for the ones that are contributing the big bucks for their campaign. Tough to do, we all know that.

"Nobody is perfect - if someone is having a bad day, give them

a little room to be human. It may pass in a short while."

O’ahu cannot afford to lose any more farm land is true, and Lualualei has some good soil for farming that has never been used for agriculture in five thousand years. You know how much the owners want in rent for farming? Auwe! Fortunately many are becoming aware of the rail "cancer," and the misnamed, "Rapid Transit."

The Beautiful Articulated Bus. The number 93, today can get you

from Makaha to Honolulu Hale in one and a half hours. And I

could get it right around the corner. "Rapid Transit" and

their Rail Stations will never beat that in a million years.

The latest estimates on the Rail Fiasco have gone up to Seven Billion Dollars. What happened? Easy money, it's the bread, Fred. The entire island is becoming aware that the citizens on the Wai’anae Coast definitely do not want to spend half their working day in commuting to Mecca in downtown Honolulu.

"I'll Be There" by Bruddah Iz

The proposed site of the industrial development in Lualualei is known as the birthplace of Maui, the Demigod, one of the great heroes and deities in Hawaiian legends. And now constructing an industrial park on this site would be a tribute to the people of this cultural significant area. Why? Because it is for the people. "And I coulda been home in 20 minutes."

Was this guy talking about the Present Rail Party?

"You can con some of the people all of the time. and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot con all of the people all the time."

Twitter

I have four twitter accounts and they are doing their job. Nothing is magic, it is work and the results are slow, but effective. Most people do not really know what a blog or micro blogs are. They may be ignorant but they are not stupid. Many people really learn how to work it and run up thousands of followers along with thousands of following. And many are looking for more. Strictly out of my class.

"Yes, I know, idiots can ruin your day. Don't let them do it."

I set up my own agenda, got four twitter accounts and decided to keep it small. I had to start in the beginning to get anything and soon got too many. So I got picky and began pruning. I narrowed the field to only the Hawaiian Islands and I am now very well on my way. I have about 300 that I am following and I have about 150 followers in each Twitter. I am making better contact with people with which there may be the possibility of meeting some day.

"Morning Dew" by Melveen Leed

And even better yet. many are already introducing me to others. Of course, I am picky there too. Anyone who has more than 1000 total following and followers is out. Sorry, but I am just not in their class. And I want to keep it to about 500, 600 total. We can have a nice friendly gang. And I fully expect some to participate in the blogs.

Meanwhile the results are more hits in all the blogs and we must realize that it will take time. We will get some nice Two Centers willing to share a photo or two and a few comments for their friends, relatives and fellow dancers

Sorry Folks

 
But the famous scam spam robots have got control of this blog and Blogger cannot do anything about it. I have no choice but to use the other blogs to communicate to our readers. Yes, we have been advised to switch to Word Press. And we hear that their programmers are very knowledgeable.

We should be be patient. Mahalo
Pepe

At A Standstill

I  remember when Jimbo Johnson was blogging up a storm and the hits were going through the roof. I certainly hope the readers will be picking up on the action soon, That one very valuable Two Center will make all the difference in the world.

"Always walk through life as if you have something
new to learn and you will."

With this blog I give anyone who may be interested the opportunity to get information about dancing in our section of the island. People are realizing that we had a sizable group of dancers and they were coalescing into a nice tight community. The Rail Disaster has brought a lot of this dancing to a screeching halt. So it becomes necessary that we help each other and more dancers and more news, the merrier.

Hopefully the new club in Foster Village or Salt Lake will emerge and we are here to help. Let us know so we can jump start your Public Relations. Moanalua Corridor "coulda been a contendah."

 "Lonely Summers" by Carol Kai

Pub's Side Note: So Rome was not built in a day. I will continue to try to help wherever I can. However, there are those who think I am receiving too much from their "good looks, talent, fame and good fortune." It is their decision and I should respect. Meanwhile, I have to find those I can help and I do not have too much time. I have work to do and I must be on my way. Good luck to all.

At A Standstill

I  remember when Jimbo Johnson was blogging up a storm and the hits were going through the roof. I certainly hope the readers will be picking up on the action soon, That one very valuable Two Center will make all the difference in the world.

"Always walk through life as if you have something
new to learn and you will."

With this blog I give anyone who may be interested the opportunity to get information about dancing in our section of the island. People are realizing that we had a sizable group of dancers and they were coalescing into a nice tight community. The Rail Disaster has brought a lot of this dancing to a screeching halt. So it becomes necessary that we help each other and more dancers and more news, the merrier.

Hopefully the new club in Foster Village or Salt Lake will emerge and we are here to help. Let us know so we can jump start your Public Relations. Moanalua Corridor "coulda been a contendah."

 "Lonely Summers" by Carol Kai

Pub's Side Note: So Rome was not built in a day. I will continue to try to help wherever I can. However, there are those who think I am receiving too much from their "good looks, talent, fame and good fortune." It is their decision and I should respect. Meanwhile, I have to find those I can help and I do not have too much time. I have work to do and I must be on my way. Good luck to all.

Still Here

It is really amazing that this blog has as many average hits per day as many dance Web Sites. Of course, that is the reason many don't carry a public counter. And one cannot blame them.

"There's a story behind every person. There's a reason why they're the way
they are. Happiness and Pain alters everyone's personality."

While I’d argue that investing time and resources into a social media strategy in our dance community is most definitely a necessity in 2014, I believe the tipping point in the dance public sentiment from "should have" to "must have" will occur in 2015. The Top Echelons will realize the effectiveness of good blogging and promote what the reader/dancers want.

"Here In My Heart" by Al Martino

For us, the Bloggers of dance blogs, the big necessity is the Information Contributors also known as the Two Centers, willing to stick their two cents in for the benefit of their friends, relatives and fellow dancers. And it is all up to them, nothing is really required.

"Three Coins In The Fountain" by the Four Aces

And the starting point could be a photo of any dance gang, with the location, occasion and first names. It could progress to more than that with time. A few words would help and the frequency could increase. From there, any time they wish they could get Guest Author, and they would have their own blog within the blog.

"Tiny Bubbles" by Don Ho

They could open. write whatever, post photos, publish, close and get out without saying "boo" to anyone. And it would go automatically under their name. So that all bloggers would be responsible for their own words. And they would be on their way to glory.