Public Relations: A Necessary Tool for Advocacy in Gifted Education
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Authors: Frances A. Karnes and Joan D. Lewis
Public relations should be an integral part of advocacy in gifted education. Advocacy is the act of speaking or writing in favor of an issue by providing public recommendation and support. Public relations, on the other hand, are the activities of an organization, institution, or individual that are designed to win the favor of the general public and promote a better understanding of policies and purposes; it involves disseminating information in print and by nonprint media. Without building the knowledge base for understanding the unique needs and educational methods of gifted education, advocacy is likely to meet with limited success. Therefore, building a strong knowledge base among the public is critical. Gifted supporters need to go beyond talking for and among themselves to provide accurate information to other educators and the general public.
Reasons for Public Relations in Gifted Education
Several specialists have provided reasons for public relations in gifted education. Karnes and Riley (1991) stated that gifted children are often misunderstood, the victims of damaging myths and stereotypes. Grika (1986) indicated a widespread misunderstanding of giftedness which can mean public resistance to funding for gifted education. Dettmer (1991) pointed out that public relations for advocacy has taken a subordinate role behind other issues in gifted education. She stated that it is by crisis rather than design that public relations and advocacy are undertaken. Renzulli (1987) cited the lack of a large, dedicated cadre of persons who affiliate and know the need for gifted education as one reason for the limited longevity of gifted programs at the local, state, and national levels. The reasons for public relations for advocacy include: to promote a better understanding of the nature and needs of gifted children and youth, to gain positive support for appropriate programs, to keep all constituent groups informed on key issues, and to build a knowledge base for advocacy (Riley & Karnes, 1993a).
Importance of Media Coverage
Examination of national media coverage of gifted education in newspapers found that few news articles supported gifted education (Meadows & Karnes, 1992; Lewis & Karnes, 1995). Newspaper articles for both studies were cited in the NewsBank Electronics Index, a CD-ROM service with access to 500 newspapers from all 50 states. The more recent publication calls attention to the many critical areas in gifted education that are not being adequately addressed. In addition, there was only one listing on the more than 75 Javits programs. Of the many articles published after the U.S. Department of Education issued the National Excellence report in November, 1993, one was indexed in NewsBank. When two or more articles were listed on a topic, such as identification, minority enrollment, or funding, that listing usually indicated an unresolved problem (Lewis & Karnes, 1995). This selective indexing of news articles depicts an incomplete picture of gifted children and their education. It is important for supporters to use newspapers as a means of educating the general public. Lewis and Karnes (1995) offered many suggestions for more effective newspaper coverage to disseminate accurate information about critical issues in gifted education.
Local, state, and national magazines provide useful opportunities for public relations. Lewis and Karnes (1997) found that the number of articles on gifted education has dramatically decreased in recent years. However, numbers do not tell the entire story. Articles not written by gifted specialists vary as to their accuracy and support. Clearly this is an opportunity for advocates of gifted education to reach a wide audience. Magazines that have published articles on gifted children in the past include those with a general editorial format or focus on business news, education, news and opinion, parenting, psychology, science, and women (Lewis & Karnes, 1997). Renzulli (1993) wrote, “We [researchers] have been guilty in the gifted field of ‘preaching to the converted,’ and therefore a part of our effort is to reach out to other readerships” (p. 101). If specialists in gifted education were to write just one article for the general press each year, the quantity of accurate information available to the general reading public would increase dramatically. Teacher educators and researchers could write about their specialty areas; teachers could write about activities for parents to do with their gifted children at home or curricular ideas for other teachers (particularly important during the current trend toward inclusive education); and parents could write about their personal experiences that were positive learning opportunities (Lewis & Karnes, 1997). For guidelines, interested parties can contact the periodical’s editor. Care should be taken when selecting a title, subtitle, section heads, and picture captions to ensure that the intended message is unambiguous and does not project an elitist tone (e.g., “Aren’t we smart?”).
State Level Strategies
Riley and Karnes (1993b) studied the possible impact of a state gifted organization joining together with other state educational and parenting associations. Of those responding, all expressed a positive interest in gifted education. Almost 370,000 individuals within these state associations could be impacted through presentations at state conferences and news articles in their magazines, journals, and newsletters. Unfortunately, none of the groups had a position statement, committee, or special interest group in gifted education. Networking with other state organizations provides many opportunities to break down barriers between special interest groups and to build the groundwork for mutual trust and support. Another technique to determine support for gifted education is to use a state-wide telephone public opinion survey. The response of a representative, statistical sample of residents in a given state was very positive toward gifted education (Karnes & Riley, 1996). The initial sharing of results could be facilitated through a press conference and newspaper releases. The topic may lend itself to further discussion through radio and television talk shows. Key legislators need to be apprised of the findings to garner support for increased funding. The process of surveying for public opinion and the results of such endeavors could be disseminated at local, state, and national conferences on gifted child education.
Target Your Audiences
Everyone who is interested in working for and with the gifted should know a variety of effective public relations tools. Dettmer (1991) reminded us of the many groups to target both within a district and outside of it. Those individuals within a district include: gifted and talented students; their teachers, parents, and program personnel; regular classroom teachers; school administrators; psychologists and psychometricians; guidance counselors and curriculum specialists; librarians and media consultants; school board members; and special education personnel. Those suggested outside of a district include: legislators, members of state boards of education, and other policy makers; business and professional leaders; community leaders and members; medical personnel; social psychologists; persons having the responsibility for teacher preparation in general and special education; curriculum and textbook consultants; visionaries and futurists; and theorists and researchers. Other groups include members of Congress; members and leaders in religious, humanities, and art associations; interdisciplinary groups and organizations in academic areas; and the general public.
How to Get Started
Local, state, and national groups will benefit from having an organized approach to public relations and a committee charged to design and implement a written plan. Several crucial decisions must be made as the public relations campaign plan is developed, implemented, and evaluated:
- What is the purpose of the campaign? That is, what are you trying to make happen or prevent?
- Who is the target audience, and who in that audience has the power to make changes?
- What is the best message for that group?
- What public relations strategies should be employed, based on the resources and expertise available?
When these questions can be answered effectively, then:
- Decide on a clear goal.
- Identify objectives and activities to reach your goal.
- Select appropriate strategies.
- Determine cost effectiveness.
- Establish a reasonable timeline with dates for initiation, completion, and person(s) responsible.
- Develop evaluation criteria so you will know when you have achieved your goal.
- Get others involved so that you increase your support and communications base.
Always remember the knowledge level and sophistication of your target audience in selecting and planning specific strategies.
Strategies — Nonprint Media
A variety of public relations strategies can be employed, based on the message to be imparted, the target population, and objectives and resources of the group. Nonprint media could include radio, telephones and answering machines, television, videotapes, videodiscs, and interactive videos. Radio and television include paid advertising, talk show interviews (which involve no costs, except those of transportation), public service announcements, or news reports focused on gifted children, their program activities, or the beneficiaries of some special project. Planned telephone trees or networks allow for quick dissemination of important information. An answering machine with its phone number and time and date(s) of activation can be set up to deliver a short message with the advertised information. Videos, including those produced by students, can be utilized at meetings, malls, fairs, conferences, and on television. Experts can provide a wide array of informative topics suitable for parent meetings and staff development (Karnes & Lewis, 1996).
Strategies — Print Media
Print media include letters, faxes, magazines and journals, newsletters, newspapers, brochures, buttons, post cards, posters, and T-shirts. Some frequently underutilized methods include advertising slugs (postal stamps used on postage meters for mass mailings), billboards, bookmarks, bus placards, electronic signs and commercial message boards, piggyback mailings (information included in another group’s mailings), stickers, and the wire service. Also gaining in popularity is use of the Internet. Gifted education centers; college and university departments of gifted education; local, state, and national organizations; state departments of education; and teachers, administrators, and other school personnel can set up home pages linked to other informative sources on the World Wide Web to provide ready access to a wide range of resources.
Other forms of public relations include displays and presentations at conferences, meetings, and special events. The latter may take the form of proclamations (for example, a governor announcing gifted education month); ribbon cutting events; recognition ceremonies for supporters, parents, or teachers; conferences; panel discussions; seminars and workshops. Student performances in school and at meetings, conferences, and mall events also afford great opportunities for public relations. Volunteering or being solicited for speaking engagements at business, civic, social, and arts events should bring a better understanding of gifted children to those groups.
Link Between Public Relations and Advocacy
Support for gifted education has always been limited. Advocates for gifted children need to be involved in positive public relations on a continuing basis. In times of educational reform, it is even more essential to build a foundation of general understanding about gifted children and their educational needs. When advocacy becomes necessary, more people in positions of power will be informed, making the advocate’s job easier and more likely to be successful. Use public relations to increase support for gifted education–locally, state-wide, and nationally.
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This is a common question amongst dairy producers. With feed costs representing as much as 60% of total production costs, it is not surprising that most are interested in learning about ways to spend less on feed. Of course, many variables factor into ration costs, including commodity values, market pricing and local availability. Variability, quality and palatability must also always be considered when evaluating diets, and it is critical to base your evaluation on income over feed costs (IOFC) — not just solely on feed costs. Spending a little more on feed costs can actually be more profitable if it means cows are milking better, rebreeding more quickly or are generally healthier. However, there are still several ways in which producers may reduce feed costs and maximize returns.
What steps can I take to reduce dairy cow feed costs?
- Re-examine your forage quality. Forage plays an important role in every cow's diet. Utilizing lower-digestible forages at higher inclusion rates will reduce milk production but including more high-quality forages can help to maintain rumen health, in addition to improving milk composition and production.
- Group similar cows together and adjust their diets accordingly. When the same ration is fed to a large group of lactating cows, you may be overfeeding a significant percentage of your animals. Diets are typically formulated to provide sufficient nutrients to the most productive animals, which can result in overfeeding less productive individuals due to inefficient nutrient utilization. Dividing lactating cows into smaller groups and offering them specific feeding rations allows for more precise nutrition, increases income over feed cost and decreases environmental nutrient excretion.
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Talking Mats to find out which activities children like
We are very grateful to Marieke Lindenschot from the Netherlands for this great blog about finding out what activities children like and we look forward to hearing the next stage of her PhD.
For my PhD research in the Netherlands I use Talking Mats as a tool for my interviews with children. The children I interview vary in their communication abilities. Some are able to express their opinions and feelings very well, others are not able to communicate orally. As I was able to purchase the Talking Mats cards without text, I wrote down the words in Dutch in ‘children’s language’ on the cards.
Last week was an exciting week. I conducted the first pilot interviews with a boy of 12 years, a boy of 9 years and a girl of 8 years. They varied in their development. The first interview went great. The child could express which activities he liked, which he disliked and which were ‘so, so’ (in between like and dislike). With Talking Mats he could also tell me with whom he performed the activities and where. It was a fun way to get a lot of information in only 15 minutes! The child and his mother were very enthusiastic. He was able to tell a lot more then he usually does when he is asked about his activities! Unfortunately the other two interviews didn’t produce the same amount of information. The cognitive level of these children seemed too low to use Talking Mats. The boy didn’t understand the top scale ‘like’ and ‘dislike’, whereas the girl didn’t recognize the activities on the cards.
Overall we were very satisfied with these pilot interviews. The goal was to check if the interview guide with Talking Mats ‘worked’ and also to see for which developmental level this way of interviewing is possible. The pilot interviews gave a lot of information on these two goals. I am looking forward to the next interviews as Talking Mats showed to be a very helpful tool in finding out which activities children like.
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New research review provides insights into the continent’s response to climate warming
Scientists from the University of Maryland, the University of Leeds and the University of California, San Diego, have reviewed decades of satellite measurements to reveal how and why Antarctica’s glaciers, ice shelves and sea ice are changing.
Their report, published in a special Antarctica-focused issue of the journal Nature on June 14, 2018, explains how ice shelf thinning and collapse have triggered an increase in the continent’s contribution to sea level rise. The researchers also found that, although the total area of sea ice surrounding Antarctica has shown little overall change since the advent of satellite observations, mid-20th century ship-based observations suggest a longer-term decline.
“Antarctica is way too big to survey from the ground, and we can only truly understand the trends in its ice cover by looking at the continent from space,” said Andrew Shepherd, a professor of Earth observation at the University of Leeds’ School of Earth and Environment and the lead author of the review.
In West Antarctica, ice shelves are being eaten away by warm ocean water, and those in the Amundsen and Bellingshausen seas have thinned by as much as 18 percent since the early 1990s. At the Antarctic Peninsula, where air temperatures have risen sharply, ice shelves have collapsed as their surfaces have melted. Altogether, 34,000 square kilometers (more than 13,000 square miles) of ice shelf area has been lost since the 1950s.
More than 150 studies have tried to determine how much ice the continent is losing. The biggest changes have occurred in places where ice shelves—the continent’s protective barrier—have either thinned or collapsed.
“Although breakup of the ice shelves does not contribute directly to sea-level rise—since ice shelves, like sea ice, are already floating—we now know that these breakups have implications for the inland ice,” said Helen Fricker, a professor of glaciology at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego and a co-author of the review. “Without the ice shelf to act as a natural buffer, glaciers can flow faster downstream and out to sea.”
In the Amundsen Sea, for example, ice shelf thinning of up to 6 meters (nearly 20 feet) per year has accelerated the advance of the Pine Island and Thwaites glaciers by as much as 1.5 kilometers (nearly 1 mile) per year. These glaciers have the potential to raise sea levels by more than a meter (more than three feet) and are now widely considered to be unstable.
Meanwhile, satellite observations have provided an increasingly detailed picture of sea ice cover, allowing researchers to map the extent, age, motion and thickness of the ice. The combined effects of climate variability, atmosphere and ocean circulation, and even ice shelf melting have driven regional changes, including reductions in sea ice in the Amundsen and Bellingshausen seas.
“The waxing and waning of the sea ice controls how much sunlight is reflected back to space, cooling the planet,” said Sinéad Farrell, an associate research scientist at UMD’s Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center and a co-author of the review. “Regional sea ice loss impacts the temperature and circulation of the ocean, as well as marine productivity.”
Other findings covered by the research review include:
- The Antarctic continent is covered by about 15.5 million square kilometers (nearly 6 million square miles) of ice, which has accumulated over thousands of years through snowfall. The weight of new snow compresses the older snow below it to form solid ice.
- Glaciers flowing down the ice sheet spread under their own weight as they flow toward the ocean and eventually lose contact with the bedrock, forming about 300 floating ice shelves that fringe the continent. These shelves contain about 10 percent—or 1.5 million square kilometers (nearly 600,000 square miles)—of Antarctica’s ice.
- In the Southern Ocean around Antarctica, sea ice expands and contracts as ocean water freezes and melts throughout the year. The sea ice covers an area of 18.5 million square kilometers (more than 7 million square miles) in winter and grows to about 1 meter (more than 3 feet) thick.
- It is estimated that there is enough water locked up in Antarctica’s ice sheet to raise global sea levels by more than 50 meters (more than 164 feet).
New and improved satellite missions, such as Sentinel-3, the recently launched Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment Follow-On (GRACE-FO) and the eagerly awaited ICESat-2, will continue to give researchers more detailed insights into the disappearance of Antarctic ice.
This release was adapted from text provided by the University of Leeds.
The research review, “'Trends and connections across the Antarctic cryosphere,” Andrew Shepherd, Helen Fricker and Sinéad Farrell, was published in the June 14, 2018 issue of the journal Nature.
This work was supported by the U.K. Natural Environment Research Council's Centre for Polar Observation and Modelling (Award No. cpom300001), NASA (Award No. 80NSSC17K0006), the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Award No. NA14NES4320003), the European Space Agency’s Climate Change Initiative, and the U.K. Royal Society. The content of this article does not necessarily reflect the views of these organizations.
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You can find traces of this idea in many modern and classic stories if you look closely. From Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein to today’s blockbuster Terminator, you can see traces of the idea in many stories.
The idea of making it a reality was first realized during World War II. The faculty at Bletchley Park were under pressure to decode the Nazi Enigma Machine. They tried their best to understand logic and math.
One person who was highly influential in these parts was one Alan Turing. It was through his and his companion’s efforts that led to the development of theoretical computer science and the formalization of the concepts of algorithm and computation with the Turing machine.
His influence on the field of computation was undoubtedly despite his somewhat unfair (an understatement) treatment following the war. He is today widely considered the father of theoretical and artificial intelligence.
Although there were significant advances in artificial intelligence over the years, people have not seen it in use (or misuse) in recent decades.
AI has been a huge success story in the early years of this decade. Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been able to recognize faces and write articles. This is thanks to massive advances in machine learning.
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Facial recognition is also not received well. Concerns about privacy and security were often cited as the main driving force against the technology. Despite that, facial recognition AI has seen its fair share of use commercially. Facial recognition is a security feature in most smartphones, including the latest models.
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Copywriting can include website copy, blog posts and emails, as well as social media content, brochures and press releases. The goal is to engage readers and help them take action, such as signing up for a service or making a purchase. WordAi vs Notion
WordAI allows you to easily create one copy by simply rephrasing and rearranging the first copy. This makes formulating multiple articles on one single topic a cinch. It is also a more efficient process overall.
With WordAI’s functions, you can finish one article, have that same article spinned into as many times as you can, and then release it as multiple blog posts.
This gives you more free time to think up new angles to cover your product. WordAIs allows you to focus on one article and then move on to the next in a shorter time. WordAi vs Notion
You also don’t need to worry about the quality of your writing. Heck, you might even be surprised at the result. Your writing may even improve. WordAi’s vast vocabulary might surprise you.
Grammar is also something you can relax about. Just as with most things, WordAi is taught proper grammar. You don’t have to worry about how the article looks, since it is fully readable and complete according to human standards.
That said, checking what WordAi has generated for you is still good practice. While it is tempting to have it do all the work, it is still merely a tool. It can lead to embarrassing situations if you are careless or blase.
This could even cause a decrease in the quality and quantity of your writing. This is because AI is not perfect. While it is tempting to believe that everything the WordAI spits out is already usable, there will be times when errors occur.
These errors can come in many different types. This could result in the same paragraphs being repeated in different sections. These errors may be grammatical errors. These errors could also be caused by incorrect information or incorrect facts.
No matter where it comes from, the fact of the matter is that you should not entirely leave all of your writing in WordAI. To ensure high-quality writing and no errors, you should always check the text it produces. WordAi vs Notion
WordAI in Blogging
Blogging has existed for as long as the internet has. Blogging is also a mainstay of online culture. Although most people don’t need to be introduced to blogging, we will provide some definitions.
The act of publishing and creating content on an internet blog is called blogging. You can also blog about maintaining or contributing to a blog, and engaging with readers through the comments section.
Blogs are often about writing about a topic or sharing personal opinions and experiences.
Now, one thing about blogging is that most often think they are for one-time use, that they are articles that will be published and forgotten. Bloggers are prone to publish a blog, get traffic, and then forget about it.
Most do not realize that Blogs can also be reused and updated with more relevant information. Blogs that are old and stale can be updated to bring life back to them. This can have many positive outcomes.
For one, refreshing an existing blog also means its search ranking will be refreshed. Some pages are lucky enough to have a refreshed blog that can positively impact their SEO.
Approaching blogs this way eliminates a lot of unneeded time, effort, money, and other resources related to running and researching a blog. This is a better way to create a blog post than starting from scratch. Besides, this blog entry already has a built-in audience.
For stale blogs that raked in lots and lots of readers in their heyday, if people have already found it compelling, how much more if it gets updated with newer information?
So what do AI and WordAI specifically have to do with this? There are many. WordAI can be used to quickly expand and rewrite content. People often only add a few paragraphs to blogs when they are updated.
Using an AI article rewriter like WordAi eliminates the effort and time required to update your old content. This automatically refreshes your content in no time at all with that done. This allows you to focus your efforts on expanding and updating your content. WordAi vs Notion
It is possible to include more current and relevant information. If your original post was too short, you can increase the word count. You can use the new section to explore new information or other materials related to that topic.
WordAI in Creative Writing
It might seem like a curse to have AI and creative writing in the same room. But if you think about it, AI programs like WordAI can also be used as a blessing.
Artificial Intelligence (AI), which is a powerful tool for creative writing, can prove to be a valuable tool. AI can help by analyzing text for patterns and providing structured data, which can then be used to determine a writer’s style and preferences.
These data can be used for suggestions about sentence structure and word choices, and to aid in the development of characters and plot structure. Additionally, AI can help automate mundane tasks such as researching topics or finding images that match the tone of a piece of writing. AI is also useful for engaging with readers: using algorithms to analyze user feedback on articles or stories and making recommendations based on these results.
Artificial intelligence technologies, such as natural language processing (NLP), have potential applications for automatic summarization or storytelling. This allows computers to create stories from large data sets.
AI offers many possibilities for creative writers, allowing them to work more efficiently, produce higher quality work, and easily access new ideas.
All of this may sound good and all, but not all creative writers might feel comfortable doing this. AI is not something that creative writers should ignore. For those who really want a challenge, they can use the AI-generated text as a benchmark that they must surpass.
The thing about AI-generated work is that they have a source. This source is built from previously written works that are collated and collected. AI-generated work is therefore predictable.
This may not be a problem with marketing or blog posts, but it can be a problem in creative writing.
The thing is, for a piece of creative writing to really break the mold or to make a name for itself, it must break the mold that has already been established. WordAi vs Notion
It is okay to stick with established tropes. However, it would be boring work if it did not. It takes effort to create something new. Although some people do it better than others in this area, there is no denying that writers will encounter the age-old problem known as writer’s block. WordAi vs Notion
How can an AI text rewriter help a creative writer overcome writer’s block? Well, they can use AI to generate text and maybe find inspiration from these generated texts.
The generated text can be used by them as a guideline for their story. After all, a story that an AI cannot write is something new and something that is unpredictable by most.
WordAI in Academic Writing and Research
While most fields have more or less accepted AI writing with trepidation, the field of academic writing and research has a great case in supporting it wholeheartedly. Text generators and AI rewriters work best when accurate information is available. WordAi vs Notion
In the field of academic writing, where facts and findings are already a given, AI word generators can become the best that they can be as tools to express the findings.
AI rewriters like WordAi can help academia by re-phrasing difficult or lengthy passages in research papers, simplifying complex material for easier understanding, and creating unique research summaries into shorter content pieces.
It can improve the readability of text, replace colloquial or jargon-laden language with more formal alternatives, as well as identify potential topics that warrant further investigation. WordAi is a time-saving tool that allows researchers to quickly create drafts of their research, which can be further refined or modified through manual review.
WordAI for Resume Optimization
Your resume, also known as a curriculum vitae, is what you give prospective employers to help you land a job, a gig or a job. If you want to be accepted for your dream job, it is crucial that your resume is well-written.
This is a task that has been growing difficult year by year as there is a lot of competition that enters the job market year by year.
As such, ensuring that your resumes are the best for it to be noticed and read by recruiters. WordAI, an AI text generator like WordAI, can help you create a better resume. WordAI can optimize your resume by:
- Incorporating up-to-date industry keywords into resumes to improve search rankings.
- Text optimization techniques and natural word processing are used to correct typos and errors. This improves readability.
- Revising phrasing in resumes to highlight qualifications and ensure consistent use of language that paints applicants in the best possible light.
- Reorganize resume content to prioritize information and simplify presentation, while still ensuring that relevant details are included.
- Automatically suggest and deliver more impactful alternatives for underperforming words or phrases in resumes during the editing process.
With the stiff competition in the job market out there, it is only right to use all the right tools at your disposal. If you have WordAI available in your hands, then it is only right to use every tool at your disposal. WordAi vs Notion
WordAi also makes your resume more visible and eye-catching. Acceptance for the job is entirely up to you.
WordAI in your Business
Continue reading this article to see that WordAI offers a Custom Entrepreneur plan as an option in its price plans. This means that WordAi is built for business. So how does WordAI exactly help your business? It all depends on your business.
WordAI is a tool that can be used to help with many business types, such as:
- Content Writing: Articles, website content, SEO-optimized content, and all types of other written materials can be produced quickly and quickly by WordAI.
- WordAI Spin Marketing: WordAI is able to create unique, high-quality spins that can then be used in marketing campaigns. These spins can also increase visibility for a brand or product on search engine results pages.
- Automation: WordAI is a tool that automates large portions of copywriting tasks, such as writing emails, websites, and posts on social media. It is possible to produce large quantities of material quickly without having to spend too much time on manual tasks.
- Proofreading & Editing: WordAI offers proofreading services for business owners who need their materials checked before they are published or distributed. It also offers editing services if needed.
WordAI Unique Features
- Automated rewrites: WordAI’s advanced artificial intelligence allows you to instantly create unique versions of your content by automatically rewriting entire sentences or paragraphs.
This is one feature that makes writing and generating articles from WordAI fast and time-efficient.
- WordAI’s Human Readable Spinning creates simple content that humans can understand, read and engage with. Its algorithm considers factors such as sentence structure, vocabulary choice, grammar, and syntax to ensure the spun content reads naturally.
This is an important factor in creating high-quality articles. It makes the difference between machine-generated and hand-written articles. People are less likely to read articles written by machines or AI if they discover that the article was created by them. WordAi vs Notion
- Advanced Customization Options: WordAI provides a variety of customization options that allow users to customize the output according their needs. These include synonym choices, paragraph formations and word replacements.
This greatly ensures that all your articles carry a personality that is not common to most AI-generated text. This is also another factor that can help mask your text if it is AI-generated or human-written.
- Multi-Lingual Support: WordAI can support multiple languages including English, Spanish and Dutch. This makes it ideal for a variety of use cases and audiences.
WordAI has a wider reach than any other text generator. This multilingual support of WordAI takes it out of English exclusivity and allows it to be used by more people worldwide.
- Nested Spinning Support: WordAI’s nested spinning feature allows users to spin within existing spun articles so they can quickly create different versions of the same article with just a few clicks.
You can write as much text as you want, as long as you have enough credits. Then you will find the best article for you.
- WordAI can correct grammar and spelling errors in written content. High-quality content is built upon good grammar and spelling.
It can be tedious to correct spelling errors and ensure grammar, especially for people who aren’t familiar with the language. Of course, this applies to all languages supported by WordAI.
WordAI will ensure that your generated text and any rewritten text are properly written. You get to focus less on the building blocks and spend more time looking at the big picture.
- Paraphrasing: WordAI can paraphrase old paragraphs and generate new content. Users will not have to worry about losing the meaning of the paraphrased content.
WordAI ensures that the new content maintains the overall meaning and structure of the original.
- WordAI can also do paragraph and sentence shuffling to create unique content.
WordAI, like the paraphrasing function, ensures that the new content retains the overall structure and meaning of the original, while maintaining a fresh, high-quality version.
- Integration with Other Tools WordAI can be used in conjunction with other content creation tools and marketing tools such as article spinners or content management systems. WordAi vs Notion
WordAI integrates well with Article Forge (with plugins) and WordPress. WordAI also integrates with Content Management Systems like Drupal and Joomla to generate new content and blogs consistently.
E-commerce platforms like Shopify and Magento can also work well with WordAi to generate product descriptions and other related written content. If creating unique and constant emails is your game, you can integrate WordAI with email marketing software like Mailchimp and Constant Contact to generate unique email content.
Social media managers can also integrate WordAi on different platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram to create unique content.
WordAI Pricing Plans
For a robust tool such as WordAI, it will be no surprise that it will cost a big dent in your pocket. That said, if you are convinced by this review and want to use WordAi, you will have three choices for WordAI’s billing plans.
These include a basic plan, an enterprise plan, and a custom plan. Each plan is different, so the Custom plan is recommended for anyone looking at an enterprise plan. However, what billing plan you should select will be up to you at the end of the day.
The yearly plan is the best option, as you will save $30 each month if you choose to be billed annually.
Before finally committing to it, those wanting to try WordAI capabilities can try Word AI’s free three-day trial.
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WordAI Pros & Cons
Pros in using WordAI?
- WordAI is quick and efficient. It can quickly create high-quality content using any input.
- You can customize the output to suit your specific needs with a variety of options.
- WordAI is multilingual, which makes it an excellent choice for international bloggers or businesses that require content in multiple languages.
- The spinning algorithms are extremely accurate, producing text that reads naturally and flows well.
- WordAI is integrated with popular platforms such as WordPress, making it easy to integrate into existing systems. WordAi vs Notion
- It provides an intuitive user interface that simplifies the task of creating spun content quickly and easily.
What are some Cons of using WordAI?
- It can take a while, especially if you have to process large amounts of text.
- The artificial intelligence algorithms used in WordAI can produce inconsistent results, which may require manual correction or editing.
- It is not always accurate and may produce incorrect rephrasings or even misspellings.
- It is more expensive than some other content-spinning tools available on the market.
- Understanding how to use the tool correctly and interpret its results can take some time.
WordAI Review: Final Word
WordAi is definitely an interesting tool. Truthfully, I am not completely down with emerging AI technology. It is possible to say that I am more concerned about the negative effects it could have on a wider audience. However, I would be lying if I denied how useful of a tool AI word spinners and rewriters like WordAI are. WordAi vs Notion
WordAi is a powerful and easy tool to automate content creation. It is easy to create new articles, rephrase sentences and spin entire paragraphs in just a few mouse clicks. WordAI is a great platform that offers many functions, which has helped me save a lot of time and effort when writing content.
If used properly, WordAI can bring a net positive impact on your work. These may include better accuracy and speed in text generation, improved overall writing quality, and more efficient retrieval of relevant information for research purposes.
WordAi is a great tool to save time and spot plagiarism. By leveraging machine learning algorithms, WordAi can also improve your text’s readability score by grading sentence structure and word choice.
WordAi’s synonym substitution feature can also help ensure that your text is unique and does not contain duplicate words or phrases.
WordAI Frequently Asked Question WordAi vs Notion
What is WordAI
WordAI is an article spinner that creates multilingual content with human-quality.
With WordAI, content writers, copywriters, bloggers, and those who belong on a related field can easily produce unique and original content that is free from any plagiarism. It offers a variety of features, such as spinning syntax, auto-spinning, generating quality content, and grammar checking for accurate results.
How much does WordAI cost
WordAI is available as a subscription and offers three pricing options.
These pricing plans include a monthly plan, a yearly plan, or a custom enterprise plan.
How Good is WordAI
WordAi is a great tool.
Like most tools, it has its ups and downs. See pros and cons. Overall, WordAi is pretty easy to use. It integrates with other top online marketing tools, including social media platforms, email marketing, and content management tools.
WordAI produces high-quality, human-readable content when asked to create content. Its main problem is its inability to create unique content. There are only a lot of things that Ai can do.
Human writers are better if you’re looking for something completely original and outside the box.
Is WordAI good for SEO?
Yes, WordAI is a great tool for SEO.
This can be used to generate high-quality, unique content that is SEO friendly and can boost your rankings. The automated spinning process helps save time and resources, which would be required to rewrite the content manually.
In addition, its deep understanding of language and ability to identify synonyms make it a great choice for improving readability scores.
What is Article Spinning?
Article spinning is a type of article writing that involves taking an original article and altering certain words, sentences or paragraphs to create multiple versions.
This process can help online businesses to create unique content for their websites without having to write it from scratch. Article spinning can also be used as a means of generating backlinks for SEO purposes.
Is Article Spinning with WordAI good for SEO?
Yes, article spinning with WordAI can help you rank higher in search engines.
This process helps to create unique versions of the same article, which allows for increased visibility on search engines and helps to prevent duplicate content penalties.
It also offers automated sentence structure optimization and keyword enrichment to help create versions of the article that are more friendly for search engine algorithms.
Is article spinning legal?
Article spinning is a controversial topic, and there is no uniform answer as to whether or not it is legal.
Article spinning is the process of taking existing content and rewriting it with automated software. Then, you distribute the rewritten content online. The legality of article spinning can vary from country to country, but some countries may consider it to be a form of copyright infringement.
Therefore, it is always best to consult with an experienced lawyer when engaging in any article-spinning activity.
Can WordAI do Article Spinning?
Yes, WordAI can do article spinning. It offers an automated article-spinning tool that can be used to create original content in the form of multiple versions.
This allows content to be rewritten without manually writing or editing the text. It uses advanced artificial intelligence and natural language processing (NLP) technology to generate unique content for each spin.


I’m not talking about the song from Black Eyed Peas here. I’m talking white sugar and white flour. Together, they pack a one-two punch that can damage your kids’ health and your health.
I recently saw a survey that said 70% of polled six-to-eight-year-olds believe that fast foods are more nutritious than healthy, home-cooked foods. It’s no wonder kids think that way, though. Studies show that ads targeted to kids 12 and under lead them to request and consume high-calorie, low-nutrient products like soft drinks and sodas, sweets, salty snacks and fast food.
Kids sure are buying up and eating this stuff at an alarming rate, too. In fact, these high sugar and flour products add up to more than one-third of our kids’ daily calories. That’s about one full meal (plus a little more) made up solely of junk food!
Kids and teens are even spending their own discretionary money on these unhealthy snacks and drinks. During one particular year, kids aged 7-12 spent $2.3 billion—and teens spent a whopping $58 billion—on unhealthy, high-sugar snack products.
It doesn’t stop with our kids, either. About 100 years ago, an average American ate about 63 pounds of sugar a year. Now, the average American consumes about 170 pounds of sugar per year. It all adds up, too, especially when just one 12-ounce can of soda has 10 or more teaspoons of sugar in it.
Speaking of soda…did you know that an average male teen drinks 868 cans of soda a year? That’s 540 cups of sugar—and that doesn’t even include the other types of sugary junk foods our kids and teens eat.
The truth is that we’re not made to put that kind of stuff, particularly the evil twins of white sugar and white flour, in our bodies. They cause all sorts of problems, including increased unhealth, accelerated aging, unhealthy weight, as well as immune system, blood sugar, blood fat, blood pressure, mental, bone, heart and cellular unhealth.
Interestingly, some of these unhealthy effects are immediate, but some effects might not show up until 20 years later. That’s not a bright future. In the meantime, though, our kids are getting fatter and unhealthier by the day.
The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) says that the proportion of overweight kids ages 6-11 has more than doubled—and overweight adolescents has tripled—since 1980. It’s a cycle that sets kids up for a lifetime of weight problems and ill health, since statistics indicate that about 80% of overweight teens become obese adults.
It doesn’t have to be that way, though. The first step is to lose the boom boom pow effects of white sugar and flour in the diet. Instead, you gotta get get organic veggies and fruits, organic popcorn, raw, organic nuts and seeds, organic yogurt and cheeses—for starters.
By the way, black-eyed peas—the food, that is—are pretty good for you, too.


With all the tension and difficulties in Israel that are very real, it is infuriating that the situation is made even worse by complete fabrications. But it’s nothing new. Though just as sinful as everyone else, the Jewish people have suffered countless attacks based on total lies, demonising them with outrageous accusations throughout history. This is known as “Blood libel”.
The concept of the “blood libel” is a phrase full of meaning for the Jewish community. What is the history behind this loaded term, and what should it mean to us today?
Falsely Accused of Killing Christian Children
Even though Jewish people are forbidden by God to eat anything with blood in it, the ridiculous story started circulating in the Middle Ages that Jewish people kidnapped Christian children, killed them, and used their blood to make matzah (unleavened bread for the feast of Passover).
It all started in the twelfth century in Norwich, England:
“A boy named William was found dead in the woods outside of town, and a monk, Thomas of Monmouth, accused local Jews of torturing him and murdering him in mockery of the crucifixion of Jesus. Although many townspeople did not believe this claim, a cult venerating the boy eventually sprang up. At this time the myth began to circulate that each year, Jewish leaders around the world met to choose a country and a town from which a Christian would be apprehended and murdered.
“The blood libel spread throughout the Christian world in the Middle Ages. When a Christian child went missing, it was not uncommon for local Jews to be blamed. Even when there was no evidence that any Jew had anything to do with the missing child, Jews were tortured until they confessed to heinous crimes. Some Christians believed that the four cups of wine that Jews drink at the Passover Seder celebrations were actually blood, or that Jews mixed blood into hamantaschen, sweet pastries eaten on the Jewish holiday of Purim. Others claimed that Jews used Christian blood as a medicine or even as an aphrodisiac. Scholars have documented about 100 blood libels that took place from the twelfth to sixteenth centuries. Many of them resulted in massacres of Jews.”(2)
During medieval times two popes expressly declared such claims to have been fabricated, but nevertheless, these blood libels frequently led to mob violence and pogroms, and have occasionally led to the decimation of entire Jewish communities, according to the ADL.
Blood Libels in the Twentieth Century
But people were primitive and crazy back then in the Medieval era – right? Shockingly, similar incidents have also happened in recent times:
“In 1913 a Ukrainian Jew named Menahem Mendel Beilis was charged with ritually killing a Christian child whose body was discovered near a local brick factory in Kiev. During a sensational trial, numerous respected Russian intellectuals and scholars testified that Jews attacked Christians and used their blood in obscene rituals. Ultimately Beilis was acquitted of the charges, but not before horrific anti-Semitic claims were repeated and broadcast throughout Russia.
“A blood libel even occurred in Massena, New York, in 1928. When a four-year-old girl went missing from her home, a rumor spread that local Jews had kidnapped and killed her. Crowds gathered outside Massena’s police station, where the town’s rabbi had been summoned. A state trooper questioned the rabbi, and asked him whether Jews offered human sacrifices or used blood in rituals. The girl was eventually found alive and unharmed.”
“In 1940, members of the Damascus Jewish community were charged with kidnapping and killing a Christian priest who had disappeared. Several notable Jews from Damascus were tortured to extract confessions, and an angry mob destroyed a synagogue and its torah scrolls. Jews were massacred repeatedly in the Muslim world, partly as a result of this libel, which had been imported from Christian society.(3)
Then of course there was the whole “Protocols of the Elders of Zion” conspiracy: A plagiarism of a French horror story, twisted to accuse Jewish people of plotting to take over the world. It has been proven to be utterly fictitious, yet is constantly repeated as if it were fact, even till this day.
False Accusations against the State of Israel
While Jewish people have been long accused of killing Christian children in these elaborate fabrications, now Israel’s enemies’ favorite accusation is that they deliberately kill Palestinian children, when military experts have agreed that Israel makes every effort to avoid civilian casualties as much as possible. At one point, Israel was accused of “executing” young Ahmed Mansra “in cold blood” when in fact Ahmed was alive and well, being cared for in an Israeli hospital after having stabbed a 13 year old boy very seriously, and injuring another Jewish man. But by the time the truth comes to light, the media has moved on.
Another lie was that Israel deliberately opened dams in the south to flood Gaza with insanitary water, when in fact there are no dams in the south of Israel at all. It was just a lot of rain. But these lies are believed, and young Palestinians grow up reading books in school and watching TV shows about how evil the Jewish people are.
It’s not hard to find things that Israel really is getting wrong, and the frustration of the Palestinian people against Israel is understandable, but there are also many outrageous lies told about the Jewish state which people unquestioningly believe.
The irony is that many times, the ones pointing the finger are guilty of the very things they are accusing Israel of – whether it’s deliberately targeting civilians, endangering children, wanting to take over the whole of the Middle East, plotting for world domination, wishing to wipe out whole people groups, or desecrating holy places. These things are all true of Islamic terrorists, but not of Israel.
These lies are doing great damage, and spurring Palestinian young people on to become murderers and likely end up killed as a result. It is a tragic waste of young lives, and the total opposite of everything that God would have for them, which is to live alongside the Jewish people in peace.
Remember that the enemy is The Enemy
With all of this mess, it’s critical to remember that Israel is the epicenter of spiritual battle. It is vital to keep in mind that the descendents of Ishmael are just as beloved as the descendants of Isaac – both peoples are in deception, and the truth that will set us all free is only found in Yeshua the Messiah. The enemy here is the enemy of our souls, the Father of Lies. Satan hates the Jewish people with a particular passion, and it is no coincidence that they have been subject to these false accusations and blood libels throughout the years by all kinds of people, including Christians. Many of the lies today are coming from the mouths of Islamic extremists, but ultimately they come from the pit. We need to separate out the deceiver from the deceived, and love and pray for all the people in and around Israel – we all need the same salvation.
Jewish people over the centuries have been falsely accused of all kinds of things, from poisoning wells in order to kill entire villages, to world domination enterprises. But at least they are in good company. The Bible is littered with God’s people who found themselves in the same boat:
- Joseph had to run from Potiphar’s wife, who falsely accused him of rape. He ended up in jail for many years, even though he was innocent.
- David had to run from Saul, whose jealousy was driving him to consider David his enemy, even though he too was innocent.
- Mary‘s innocence was not believed, even though God considered her pure enough to choose her to be the mother of Jesus.
- And of course, Jesus himself, our pure, spotless lamb, was accused of blasphemy and killed.
Like every people group, the Jewish people are far from being pure and spotless, and there have been grievous incidents carried out by the hands of Israelis, but nonetheless, there is an awful lot of lying and incitement going on. Please pray for lies to be exposed and for truth to keep coming to light.
(1) http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-12176503 What does ‘blood libel’ mean? 12 January 2011
(2) http://www.adl.org/Anti_semitism/Blood-Libel.asp What is the blood libel? Anti Defamation League website
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MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — The first frost of the season goes a long way towards closing the book on summer. So, with a new season coming, we’re already thinking about fall foliage. But, why do leaves change color? Good Question.
“The shorter days and the cooler temperatures mean the chlorophyll in the leaves breaks down,” said Pete Moe, director of operations for the University of Minnesota’s Arboretum. “That’s the green pigment that actually masks the yellow and orange pigments that are in the leaves all summer.”
Those golden colors we’re used to seeing are technically always there, but red, is a different story. Once the chlorophyll, the green, is gone, what basically amount to a wall goes up between the leaf and the tree — the flow of nutrients back and forth, stops.
Good news for red lovers.
“Sugars build up in the leaves and then if it’s sunny those sugars in the leaves will turn the bright red colors,” Moe said.
And this should be a great year for the reds. In fact, Thursday morning’s near-freeze was a perfect example of that.
“Chilly nights do help, too. It allows the sugars to build up in the leaves instead of being used up — that increases the red fall colors later on,” Moe said.
After a rainy spring, a relatively dry and sunny summer and a few more chilly nights, you should see fall’s finest in just about three weeks.


The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore, courtesy of Ars Electronica
One of the main characteristics of the industrial age is the concentration of activity under a same roof. In order to realize the full potential of resources that are scarce and to minimize transaction costs, organizations tended to perform as many roles and tasks as possible. That is, a factory would non only weave, but spin, dye, weave, design, cut, sew and distribute.
We got used to this. And for the sake of efficiency and efficacy it did make sense.
A publisher, for instance, would also concentrate several roles and tasks under the generic concept of publishing. Not being exhaustive, these could be:
- Identifying talent. Who is good at writing.
- Investing in talent. Providing resources to the one that is good writing so that they write instead of doing some other thing.
- Improving originals, that is, editing. In two ways. Firstly, improving the quality of writing by providing an external dispassionate look at the work. Secondly, making it more marketable according to the tastes of the potential readers.
- Prepare the work for a support. If it is going to be printed, prepare a layout for printing.
- Printing the work (or creating the actual product).
- Prescribing good works. That is, building a reputation so that your opinion counts and then you’ll recommend the talent you found.
- Finding or creating a demand. Who will by the book? Where are they? What are their tastes?
- Distributing the book to the seller near the demand you found.
The digital revolution has implied that resources (knowledge intensive resources, like data, information and most kinds of intangible goods) are no more scarce, at least in technical terms (some legal restrictions may apply, but this is a layer put upon the technical one); with the end of scarcity, information costs drop dramatically. And the digital revolution has implied too that communications are almost costless and, thus, transaction costs also drop dramatically.
This has led to an increasing process of decentralization — subrogation, outsourcing, off-shoring… there are many names and ways to it — since the late XXth century and whose possibilities are but expanding with new software for creation and social media.
If we break up the roles and tasks that publishers usually perform, we can easily find alternate ways to do them in a mostly distributed way. We have changed some names to bring them closely to the actual names of such roles in the market:
|Finding talent||Social media for content sharing, recommendation sites, virtual communities.|
|Producing||Crowdfunding, microlending — besides several ways to drastically reducing the need for investment or enable self-production.|
|Editing||Collaboration tools, comments on social media, ranking and recommendation sites, streaming and content sharing sites (with their analytics), tremendous exposure to others’ works, availability of professional or expert analysis to these others’ works, open courses and MOOCs, open educational resources.|
|Layout||Crowsourcing platforms, free layouts, self-editing and self-publishing websites, layout and format conversion software.|
|Printing||(provided there still is a need for printing) print on demand websites or services|
|Prescribing||Social networking sites (word of mouth), self-publishing websites, experts’ blogs or videoblogs, reputed authors’ personal websites or blogs or social media users.|
|Marketing||Most of what has been written above counts here, because|
|Distributing||Personal websites, social networking sites, file sharing services, online retailers, online marketplaces.|
That there are alternatives does not necessarily mean that publishing, or publishers, are over. The alternatives may not even catch, the alternatives may live together with traditional publishers, or publishers themselves may abandon traditional ways of working and adopt the alternatives themselves, thus changing the ways without a change in the actors. The idea here is neither to kill anyone nor get rid of them, but just showing some of the many ways that intermediation is being challenged by the numerous possibilities to break up of centralization, the distribution of decision-making and task-execution.
Publishers — as many other institutions like schools and universities, newspapers, the recording industry or political parties themselves will have to reflect on what are the tasks that they are now performing, what are the alternatives to the centralization of these tasks, what is the task or set of tasks where the institution can add more value — especially in relationship of the alternatives — and whether it makes sense to stick to centralization or move towards specialization.
For most of these institutions, especially publishers, guidance on the design is probably the task where more value is added: how to become a better learner (instead of imparting courses), how to understand a piece of news (instead of producing yet more information), how to record a better song (instead of printing more CDs), how to make better decisions (instead of making them for the citizen) — or how to write a better book, despite who will pay for it, raise awareness on it, print it or distribute it.
Detaching the core task from the rest is difficult: firstly, because it is not easy to know what the core task is, given than for decades or centuries all of them have been mixed and sometimes indistinguishable between them; secondly, because the temptation to control everything is strong. But it is very likely that control is no more an option, and that others will identify your core business and make it their own.
PS: my gratitude to Borja Adsuara for “forcing” me to write this reflection. He has posted the original Twitter conversation on the role of publishers in his website.


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Scope and contents Thomas Clarkson (b. 1760 d. 1846) was a renowned English abolitionist who spent his adult life fighting to end slavery. As a leader in the British anti-slavery society, Clarkson was instrumental in getting the English Parliament to ban the slave trade in 1807 and to abolish the institution of slaver in 1833.The majority of this small collection is comprised of correspondence from Thomas Clarkson and his wife, Catherine, to her father, William Buck. These letters deal mainly with...