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All I want is for you to rest (Acrostic)
By: M K
Tags: Refugees, Poetry On Medium, Palestine, Peace, Poetry

All I want is for you to rest

Bring the olive leaves in your hands and wave them

Cancel the plans for the week and the next and between them

Draw a tree, a sun behind the mountain or a neighbourhood with trees between them

Eat the fruits of your backyard, the homegrown organic olives, cherries or things between them

Fool around, do things aimless, all that’s needed by you and your friends, under the bridge, near the hedge or between them

Gather the marbles, wickets, balls and run to find shelter from your scolding uncle, disciplining parents or others between them

Hide not in bunkers for the fear of bombs, missiles, gunshots and things between them

I can’t live your life for you, you must be here in person, with your parents and between them

Juggling life and death is not a game for you or those in Australia or Arabia or between them

Kin, next of Kin, who is it? They are not in houses, nor in shelters, they are in rumble; dust and steel between them

Love is gone from the world, a long time ago, those who loved between them

Made a pact to not love anymore, to hate, fight, stab, kill, bomb, burn, exhume and all that exists between them

Nothing is strange to me now, the world is broken, the countries and the islands between them

Organise not festivals, celebrations, feasts or luncheons; they strategize on how to conquer the lands between them

People no longer matter, their lives are mere collateral, between them

Quarterlies and dailies are filled with slaughter, burnings and rapes between them

Records of these exist, but the name of the perpetrator is muddied between them

Signs of hope are fading, bring the olive leaves in your hands and wave them, between them

Target those who have crushed hope, show them you exist, you and many others between them

Understand the world can not remain like this, step up and show how to build a bridge between them

Victory is not when you invade, build checkpoints, settlements and raise your flag between them

War is not a solution, be the bigger person between them

Xenophobia, racism and bigotry is only instilling the same between them

Your world will not be the same without them or their world without you between them

Zombies should be the only worry between you and between them

M.K.

27/04/2020
AYS Daily Digest 03/12/2020 — New Reception Center on Lesvos by September 2021
By: Are You Syrious
Tags: Lesvos, Refugees, Digest, Greece, Migrants

Bangladesh Moves Rohingya People to Low-lying Island//Frontex Chief Caught in a Lie//&More

Are You Syrious?

Dec 4 · 7 min read

FEATURE

Greece and European Commission sign letter of intent on new Lesvos reception center

By September 2021, the European Commission and Greek government plan to build a new reception center on the island of Lesvos. Previously, Greek Minister of Migration Notis Mitarakis had promised to build a closed center by Easter 2021.

In a press release, the Commission described the new center as a place designed to “operate with swift, fair and effective procedures.” It will have living areas made out of containers, playgrounds, common kitchens — and a detention area for people awaiting deportation.

It’s somewhat unclear if these plans align completely with Notis Mitarakis’ plan to build a closed warehouse or if the EU’s proposed camp will be more open (but still heavily fortified). One thing is clear: despite Ursula von der Leyen’s claim that “Europe and Greece are working hand in hand for the people on the Greek islands,” neither people on the move nor Greek islanders are likely to be happy with this plan. Lesvos locals have already protested against the construction of any new camp, and expressed frustration that there was no consultation with them during the decision-making process.

There are also questions about the planned security regime for the new camp. Although the EU statement does not call it a closed camp, it will probably be a heavily fortified camp in an isolated area. Conditions in Moria 2.0 are already prison-like, with drone surveillance, barbed wire, and metal detectors at the entrance. Will this dehumanizing surveillance regime change?

Lastly but most importantly, September 2021 is a very long time to wait for a new housing situation. Moria’s current residents are trapped in tents so flimsy the wind sometimes blows them into the sea, exposed to the elements, and have very little access to water or electricity. Will anything be done to improve their living conditions while they wait for the promised camp, which has already been delayed by several months before construction has even started?

If the EU and Greece cared about “operating with swift, fair and effective procedures” and protecting human rights, they would immediately close the camps and give people dignified housing. Spending millions of euros on a camp that will not even be operational until next year is not the answer.
“Avrupa Türkiye’ye Nasıl Kucak Açtıysa, Şimdi Sıra Türkiye’de”
By: Asmin Ayçe İdil Kaya
Tags: Ngo, Turkey, Rights, Refugees

Asmin Ayçe İdil Kaya from Turkey, 24 and Journalist. Interested about Latin cultures, flamenco. Also working on social media market.
Yaşam Hakkı Söz Konusuysa Sınırlar Konuşulmamalı
By: Asmin Ayçe İdil Kaya
Tags: World, Turkey, Istanbul, Ngo, Refugees

Asmin Ayçe İdil Kaya from Turkey, 24 and Journalist. Interested about Latin cultures, flamenco. Also working on social media market.
We begin with the promise of death
By: Angeline Ai-Nhi Truong
Tags: Vietnamese, Refugees, Novel Excerpt, Authors, Novel

“So you will, right?” Amah glanced at me suspiciously. I shrugged and kept fiddling with my mud pie. I scraped the sides of my pie with a thick apple-leaf, smoothing the mud over the sandy interior.



“Yeah, yeah. Okay. Do you want a slice, Amah? I can cut you the part with the dandelion seeds.”



When I was a little girl, I spent hours and hours in our backyard, digging rabbit-holes in our faltering lawn, plucking weeds out of cement cracks, and carefully constructing mud pies. Though I know this couldn’t have been how our conversation went — my Amah barely speaks English — I still remember every word perfectly.



“Lielee,” Amah said. “Listen. You hear me, you understand? Repeat, so I know you heard.” She rolled a leaf between her fingers anxiously, crumpling it to a smooth dust in her hands.



“Yes, yes. The rain. The mud is so soft. Isn’t it, Amah? Rain is so good for pies,” I said. I placed a few smooth pebbles around the rim of the mud pie, which I had carefully chosen for their texture and color. The pebbles were small and round. I liked the way they blinked at me, a line of beady blue eyes smiling and winking alluringly.



“Lielee! The rain!”



“Alright, alright! Don’t yell. I’ll bury you when it’s raining. Okay?”



“Okay,” Amah said, satisfied. “Okay. Wait, not so fast. Say it again.”



“Say what again?”



“Say it again. Repeat after me. I’ll bury you on a day it’s raining,” she replied.



“I’ll bury you on a day it’s raining.” I paused to scrape a wad of dirt from under my pinky nail. “Hey, Amah. Do you want some mud pie now?”



“Okay. No, not that one. The one with the dandelion seeds, please.”
AYS Daily Digest 03/12/2020 — New Reception Center on Lesvos by September 2021
By: Are You Syrious
Tags: Lesvos, Refugees, Digest, Greece, Migrants

AYS Daily Digest 03/12/2020 — New Reception Center on Lesvos by September 2021

Barbed wire in Moria 2.0. Image courtesy of Katy Fallon

FEATURE

Greece and European Commission sign letter of intent on new Lesvos reception center

By September 2021, the European Commission and Greek government plan to build a new reception center on the island of Lesvos. Previously, Greek Minister of Migration Notis Mitarakis had promised to build a closed center by Easter 2021.

In a press release, the Commission described the new center as a place designed to “operate with swift, fair and effective procedures.” It will have living areas made out of containers, playgrounds, common kitchens—and a detention area for people awaiting deportation.

It’s somewhat unclear if these plans align completely with Notis Mitarakis’ plan to build a closed warehouse or if the EU’s proposed camp will be more open (but still heavily fortified). One thing is clear: despite Ursula von der Leyen’s claim that “Europe and Greece are working hand in hand for the people on the Greek islands,” neither people on the move nor Greek islanders are likely to be happy with this plan. Lesvos locals have already protested against the construction of any new camp, and expressed frustration that there was no consultation with them during the decision-making process.

There are also questions about the planned security regime for the new camp. Although the EU statement does not call it a closed camp, it will probably be a heavily fortified camp in an isolated area. Conditions in Moria 2.0 are already prison-like, with drone surveillance, barbed wire, and metal detectors at the entrance. Will this dehumanizing surveillance regime change?

Lastly but most importantly, September 2021 is a very long time to wait for a new housing situation. Moria’s current residents are trapped in tents so flimsy the wind sometimes blows them into the sea, exposed to the elements, and have very little access to water or electricity. Will anything be done to improve their living conditions while they wait for the promised camp, which has already been delayed by several months before construction has even started?

If the EU and Greece cared about “operating with swift, fair and effective procedures” and protecting human rights, they would immediately close the camps and give people dignified housing. Spending millions of euros on a camp that will not even be operational until next year is not the answer.
Dünyanın Her Yerinde Aynı Dayanışma: Evrensel Koro
By: Asmin Ayçe İdil Kaya
Tags: World, Turkey, Refugees, International, Choir

Asmin Ayçe İdil Kaya from Turkey, 24 and Journalist. Interested about Latin cultures, flamenco. Also working on social media market.
Politicians vs. Reality!
By: Michael Weddle
Tags: Refugees, Politics, Us Foreign Policy, War, Racism

[Originally written as a Facebook Note on November 17, 2015]

Perhaps were another Syrian refugee child to wash dead upon the shores of Greece, the mass hysteria many Americans are now experiencing would subside and their eyes, hearts and minds would become more sensible!

Folks, do not listen to politicians attempting to capitalize on the events in France. Where were those same politicians when French Fries became Freedom Fries or French Toast became Freedom Toast!?!

And how quickly did concern about the threat of Ebola fade among Republicans after the 2014 elections?

The governors and their meaningless pronouncements relative to Syrian refugees coming to America are postulating fear in a bid to make themselves look good before a genuinely-concerned citizenry!

Please don’t be hoodwinked!
Yaralı Ruhları İyileştiren Bir Koro
By: Asmin Ayçe İdil Kaya
Tags: Turkey, Refugees, Bianet, Woman, Women Empowerment

Asmin Ayçe İdil Kaya from Turkey, 24 and Journalist. Interested about Latin cultures, flamenco. Also working on social media market.
A BRIDGE TOO FAR: Mental health services for migrants
By: The Endless Journey
Tags: Photojournalism, Refugees, Mental Health, Africa, Migrants

Moses Tuli was 13 years old when his mother started noticing small changes in his behaviour.

“I don’t really remember when he became sick. But I really started noticing it when he became aggressive,” his mom, Nossita Maguite Tuli, 56, said through an interpreter. “He started throwing stones at me and kept yelling that he needed money.”

Nossita usually accompanies her now 35-year-old son to the Stimela Activity Centre in Naas, Nkomazi in Mpumalanga, near the Mozambican border. Here he and other people with disabilities take part in skills development programmes and practise crafts such as weaving mats and making wooden spoons to sell.

Nossita didn’t pay much attention to Moses’s aggression, but in due course his teachers realised that he was unable to carry out basic instructions or write down answers to questions on the chalkboard. He was taken out of school after failing to progress from Grade 7 for a third year.

One of his report cards reads, in isiZulu: “Akulahwa mbeleko ngakufelwa (which roughly translates to “the fact that something unpleasant happened to you does not mean you must lose hope”).

Despite this, Moses was taken out of school. “I didn’t take him out of school myself, but the school said they can’t take him anymore. They didn’t say I must take him to another school.” Nossita said.

Moses was able to dress himself and eat but he needed help with bathing. “The biggest challenge is to see your child losing his mind and forgetting everything. If you ask him an easy question, he can’t even answer that,” Nossita said.

The family took Moses to the nearby Tonga Hospital, but doctors were unable to provide a diagnosis for his disorder, since all they do is provide medication for people who are “mentally ill”, according to Nossita. Exacerbating the family’s struggles to access health services for Moses is the fact that Nossita and her husband are from Mozambique. Although Moses was born in South Africa, he doesn’t have a birth certificate.

At the Tuli family compound, where two of Moses’ younger siblings practise as traditional healers, they have tried their best to diagnose and treat him. His sister, Maggie, 31, said he “became sick” as “punishment from the ancestors”.

“We don’t know what went wrong to upset the ancestors, but I believe that’s what happened,” she said with five other siblings sitting around her. “When you upset the ancestors, sometimes someone in the family will lose their mind.”

“We’ve tried to treat him a few times. But he is not getting better,” Maggie said.

While Moses has a caring family and support network around him to look after him, many other people in the area who are living with mental or psychiatric disorders are not so well supported. During the day, they are often left to roam the streets around their homes, without any real treatment or services available to assist them.
Mother of Mercy Hospital Update — December 2020
By: Operation Broken Silence
Tags: Health, Sudan, Refugees, Christianity, Healthcare

Operation Broken Silence supports Mother of Mercy Hospital in the Nuba Mountains. Mother of Mercy is the only referral hospital in this oppressed corner of Sudan. The growing local staff is overseen by American Dr. Tom Catena. Together, they see over 400 patients a day.

Here’s a recent update from Dr. Tom:

The situation here in Nuba has been pretty stable for the past year. The Transitional government in Khartoum and the SPLA-N rebels have met recently for peace talks but were unable to reach any conclusions. The SPLA-N is demanding that Sudan have a secular (not Islamic) government which respects freedom of religion, but the government seems unwilling to take that step now.

The good news is that the ceasefire is holding and the people feel that peace is a real possibility for the first time in a couple generations. Some even express pity that we are having so many troubles in the US!

The hospital work continues on. The relative peace has made us even busier as patients from the government controlled areas are now free to come to us.

We’re managing well as we continue to get more trained staff, including our first trained Nuba doctor.

To address the huge shortage of health care personnel in Nuba, we are in the early stages of starting a school to train midwives and clinical officers and eventually nurses. We have the plot of land which has been given to us by the community and hope to start construction soon.

Thank you all, and may your holidays be blessed.

Dr. Tom
Eden’s Run 5K Results
By: Operation Broken Silence
Tags: Sudan, Refugees, Nonprofit, Covid 19, Running

Eden’s Run 5K Results

In one of the hardest years in history, you made the 11th annual Eden’s Run 5K our most successful run yet.

Between the pandemic and social upheaval, 2020 has been a particularly challenging year for Operation Broken Silence and the Sudanese-led programs we support. Our movement has been hit disproportionately hard by job losses, paycheck deductions, and cancelled and postponed events.

Our program partners in Sudan are doing more work with fewer resources than ever before. We needed this year’s 5K to be a home run for them. And you met the moment.

145 Runners Raise $17,800

More runners came together to raise more funds than ever before.

You shattered every single registration and fundraising record built up over the last decade of runs.
AYS Daily Digest 1/12/20: Why more people arrive on the Canary Islands
By: Are You Syrious
Tags: Canary Islands, Digest, Spain, Refugees

AYS Daily Digest 1/12/20: Why more people arrive on the Canary Islands

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Spain sees an increase of people arriving on the Canary Islands. Photo: Screenshot UNHCR

Spain

In an article, NRC.nl explains the reasons for the increased number of people arriving on the Canary Islands. According to the newspaper, Morocco suspended an agreement with Spain to take back undocumented people due to the pandemic. With income losses because of no tourism and a bad olive harvest, the situation for many people in Morocco has worsened — additionally especially the rural areas are hit by the Coronavirus. With a higher focus on the conflict in the Western Sahara, the coastguard is not currently being prioritised by authorities, making it easier for the people to start their 1500 kilometer long journeys by boat. After arriving on the islands, their next goal is the Spanish mainland. “In recent weeks, quite a few have managed to board a plane from here to Spain with their passport. There are no figures for that. That goes through the mesh of the net,” says a spokespoerson for the spokesperson for the Spanish Commission for Refugee Assistance (CEAR).

However, for the first time the Spanish government has authorized the transfer of 50 people to Barcelona. At the same time, officials underlined that there will be no mass relocations to the mainland. Today, 130 people arrived on Gran Canaria; the average number of arrivals since November is 256.

According to Civicus, the Interior Ministry has prevented journalists from covering the arrival of people. This comes along with news from InfoMigrants, that the tent camps at the harbor docks have been removed and transferred to other facilities.

Read more: What happens to the dead in the Mediterranean (German) on Der Standard.
Leaving Home Forever It never occurred to our mind the idea of leaving home forever because there…
Tags: Refugees, War, Immigration, Unhcr, Home

Leaving Home Forever



It never occurred to our mind the idea of leaving home forever because there is such intimate connection to where we grew up in that we never wish to end. Home is where we walked our first steps, talked our first words, fell from stairs, cried in our bed, laughed with family, learned to cook, sang out loud,… it is where we feel most at ease and comfortable. Moreover, our family members make home more warming and loving, however, home is also our room and bed where we spend our most time. Therefore, there is no such a place in the world that can replace the home we grew up in.

Leaving home for some years is the hardest thing someone can ever experience. We may go on holidays away from home and enjoy those days but as it extends longer we start to feel homesick waiting with passion for the moment to be in our bed again. Plus, at the end of a busy day one can never find more comfortable place to relax like home. Thus, none of us would accept the idea of not going back home ever again or the idea that home doesn’t exist anymore. The idea is so frightening that we would feel anxious thinking about it. However, thinking about people who lost their homes will make us embrace the value of home even more and sympathize with the refugees around the world.

Every year thousands of people flee their homes and leave their hometown heading to nowhere just to be secure because of the war in their country. I’m particularly talking about those who were forced to leave their country because their government can no longer protect them from war and violence which makes it no more a safe place to live in.

As a result, refugees around the world have dealt with losing home forever. They have dealt with the idea of not being in their room or bed anymore, even worse some of the refugees have witnessed their home falls out and demolishes in front of them mostly by bombs. Hence, never being able to see your room, bed, desk, favorite place in the yard, kitchen …would be frustrating and depressing to them as to many of us.

I wrote these lines to educate people who does not know what it means for a refugee to lose his home, especially children. Moreover to make them see that this refugee does not only suffer from being in foreign place with no job, no money, no stabilization of mind, but he is definitely being hurt of leaving his country and home which can turn into a depressing experience he goes through. Just imagine yourself in their case that you will never be able to rest in your home that must be hard on any of us. I hope that acknowledging this fact would somehow make you tolerate and kind with these refugees.
6-1 Luna water
By: Moon Gaza
Tags: Refugees, SF, Gaza, Moon, Novel

fly ME to the MOON from GAZA | Save the Gaza project | written by Masakado Murasaki a.k.a. mivjm | moongaza.com
How Denmark and Sweden changed the lives of two women in Ethiopia with small business loans
Tags: Women, Livelihood, Refugees, Ethiopia, Business

Eradicating hunger and malnutrition is one of the most significant and complex challenges of our time, and the path to a Zero Hunger future requires several approaches. In addition to maintaining food and cash distributions where needed, WFP is investing in resilience and livelihood activities which allow people to help themselves. In Ethiopia, WFP is working with partners to help boost livelihood opportunities for families keen to secure their solution to their food insecurity.

Ngayong’s dried fish. Photo: WFP

Story by Edward Johnson

In one of Pinyudo’s refugee camps, in Western Ethiopia, there is a makeshift table draped with a white woven sack. Once it was used to hold food provided by the World Food Programme (WFP) but since then it has been sliced lengthwise and is now covering 15 meticulously stacked piles of dried fish which once swam in the rivers of Gambella Region.

The fish belongs to Ngayong, a female graduate of a small business training scheme run by WFP’s partner Concern Worldwide. In exchange for attending and participating in regular seminars on financial management, and after developing a business plan, Ngayong and 203 other women in Pinyudo recently received a start-up loan of 2,000 Ethiopian Birr (a little over US$ 50).

In July 2020, WFP started a new five-year Country Strategic Plan (CSP) in Ethiopia which not only includes the provision of emergency relief but also numerous resilience-building activities. The triple nexus was a guiding tenet of the CSP formulation. Emergency food assistance saves lives, and sustainable livelihoods and enhanced food systems change lives. Both humanitarian and development approaches drive WFP’s CSP in Ethiopia because together, they mitigate risks and fragility, contribute to community development, and support broader efforts to build peaceful and stable societies.
The Canvas
By: Rachel In Wonderland
Tags: Refugees, War, Peace, Poetry, Poems And Stories

may the light guide us all home to safety

Photo by Casey Horner on Unsplash

In the corner a dot of red

Further in the wisp of a cloud

Next to this the sun bleeds into rays

Warming sheep who sleep under leaves.

Further in still the note from oceans bass

Vibrating harmonising like a hearbeat of comfort.

Breathing in rosy cheeked child sleeps next to mother

Nestling gently riding waves in the coldest weather

Further in a gap of silence.

Angry tone speaks and love wraps around cleansing all wounds.

Further in another sound punctures the air but we are nearly there,

To safety my love, to our castle my princess our new home.

Blue eyes like no other shine

Cupid bows kiss this bliss

Look at all of this.

Photo by NASA on Unsplash

Further in there’s you and me

Not yet in the middle

Not yet in love

Up in the left

Cigarette smoke

Covering the mood from above.

To the right a garden of joy

Butterflies soar, butterflies beckon us to freedom

We roar.

Little boats float to the shore

Family drowns but cry no more.

In the furtherst corner shes leaving again

You slam the door but your not sure.

Flick throught the tv

Wanting to score

The hand of creation keeps creating some more

Your love is growing we bend to the floor

Writhing in ecstacy begging for more.

Its another day in eternity

It’s one more pixellation in the grand canvas

Cliche grand scheme of things

Here the angels sing.

This pain will pass they say.

The noise of the clock will eventually stop

But your heart is needed or the canvas will be incomplete.

The canvas will bleed

The canvas will weep

So you got to keep believing, have faith keep creating.

For the light makes it so easy

So why do we get in the way

And judge the next story

Which is wanting to grow

Photo by Laura Ockel on Unsplash

Might morph into sorrow might become joy

And become happiness

Anger or bliss.

It’s not for us to stop being light.

Peace becomes war

War becomes peace

But the source is not keeping score

Just emmiting pure love .

Colours of the stratosphere blend into one

And one day the canvas because of all of us will be back to innocence

The bliss of pure.
AYS Daily Digest 30/11/20 What was old is new again with new map for Moria 2.0
By: Are You Syrious
Tags: Refugees, Digest, Spain, Greece, Germany

Are You Syrious?

Dec 1 · 9 min read

The Arguineguín camp is emptied // Germany’s debate on whether to deport to Syria // Home Office still saying migrants are traffickers, even after Judge says no // and more…

FEATURE: New map of camp/RIC for Lesvos

The Ministry of Immigration and Asylum confirmed on Sunday a map of the new Closed Controlled Structure of Islands in Vastria, north-eastern Lesvos within the boundaries of the Municipality of Mytilene. The building is supposed to start around Easter and end in the fall of 2021. The camp will be accessible from a road that apparently goes to a landfill…but the camp will have “no contact” with the landfill. As Stonsi Gr reports:

“It should be noted here that the position was proposed by the Mayor of Mytilene, Strati Kyteli, and the Lesvos MP of New Democracy and 2nd Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Charalambos Athanassiou. The position proposed to create the new structure is noted to belong to the administrative boundaries of the Municipality of Mytilene and specifically of the Community of Nea Kydonia. During their visit to the island, the Minister of Immigration and Asylum Notis Mitarakis and the head of the European Action Group for Lesvos, Deputy Director General of the European Union for Immigration DG HOME Beate Gmter, came to the position. A group of special advisers was with them.”

Only two and a half months after Moria burned down, this is what is coming. AYS will continue to report on these developments.
AYS Daily Digest 30/11/20 What was old is new again with new map for Moria 2.0
By: Are You Syrious
Tags: Refugees, Digest, Spain, Greece, Germany

The Arguineguín camp is emptied // Germany’s debate on whether to deport to Syria // Home Office still saying migrants are traffickers, even after Judge says no // and more…

Photo by Stonsi Gr.

FEATURE: New map of camp/RIC for Lesvos

The Ministry of Immigration and Asylum confirmed on Sunday a map of the new Closed Controlled Structure of Islands in Vastria, north-eastern Lesvos within the boundaries of the Municipality of Mytilene. The building is supposed to start around Easter and end in the fall of 2021. The camp will be accessible from a road that apparently goes to a landfill…but the camp will have “no contact” with the landfill. As Stonsi Gr reports:

“It should be noted here that the position was proposed by the Mayor of Mytilene, Strati Kyteli, and the Lesvos MP of New Democracy and 2nd Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Charalambos Athanassiou. The position proposed to create the new structure is noted to belong to the administrative boundaries of the Municipality of Mytilene and specifically of the Community of Nea Kydonia. During their visit to the island, the Minister of Immigration and Asylum Notis Mitarakis and the head of the European Action Group for Lesvos, Deputy Director General of the European Union for Immigration DG HOME Beate Gmter, came to the position. A group of special advisers was with them.”

Only two and a half months after Moria burned down, this is what is coming. AYS will continue to report on these developments.
The Waterslide in the Dessert
By: Suraj Nagarwal
Tags: Content Creation, Documentary, Content Marketing, Content, Content Strategy

The Waterslide in the Dessert

I have seen many marketers who failed because they didn’t find the exact place to serve. They visited place to place but they didn’t find an actual thing in the market what they want.

They didn’t find the hot market so Russell is telling about one method called “The Underachiever Method”.

It will help you to grow yours in an exact way. Sometimes we have everything right. We have good products and we have a good community but we failed.

We have a community and place like Facebook where we can find the people whom we will serve.

But we didn’t find them.

The Underachiever Method

3 Steps to give clarity about what we can do.

Step 1:- Find the hot market

Step 2:- Ask them what they want

Step 3:- Give it to them

Mainly what others do they made product first and find people according to them but they forgot about actual what your people want?

Sometimes people buy a small value thing with a large amount but they didn’t want to buy a big thing with a small amount. Think Why?

It is the only thing people spend their money only where they find the actual thing that will help them.

We just have to do reverse engineer means first we find the hot market and find out what they want and what is the issue they are facing.

Can we help them?

Focus on that thing which they are buying already and that related to your niche and in which thing you are passionate about.

It is a simple thing to create the product in that particular niche that your market wants.

It is easy to sell them.

Example

If you visit the group of senior citizens to find the people who are doing the gym and you have an idea to create a supplement for them. So, It is only a waste of time because they don’t want the supplement.

If you visit a student who wants to become a doctor and you want to sell them some gaming products. So, It is not a good approach.

because student aim not to be a gamer
Create More Content: Why Every Brand Needs to Think Like a Media Company
By: Ido Lechner
Tags: Digital Marketing, Strategy, Content Marketing, Business, Content Strategy

We’re used to waking up to our phones ablaze with notifications, some more meaningful than others. Rubbing our eyes and reintegrating with reality, we then do the red dot clearance dance, sifting through our emails, news, social media and texting apps to decide which messages warrant a response.

Consumers today live in what’s called the ‘Attention Economy,’ which means that we day trade our attention as if it were a commodity…

And it is.

Both in our daily lives and in the grander scheme of things, we are quite literally picking and choosing who or what we ‘pay attention’ to.

This may seem like nothing more than semantics, but consider this —

“Since there is a surplus of information, more information flowing through our society than any of us could ever hope to process or understand, the new bottleneck on our economy is attention… This is why today we are each bombarded with over 3,000 advertising messages per day. This is why these advertisements get zanier and more nonsensical — like the Geico gecko or the Old Spice guy — because the goal of advertisements is no longer information, but simply attention.” ~Mark Manson, In The Future Our Attention Will Be Sold

In the ‘Age of the Internet,’ businesses first have to compete for your eyes before they can reach your pockets… And even though Spotify, Netflix, Instagram, Peloton, Playstation, Medium, and Gmail all play different roles in our lives, they still compete for our attention every single day.

As consumers, we’re constantly coming to micro-decisions as to which brand to choose, which link to click, which post to stop scrolling on.

So how can brands incentivize people to pay attention to them?
Anger.. Love.. Smiles..
By: Fredrick Chisom
Tags: Anger, Poem, Love, Smiles, Content Strategy

Anger.. Love.. Smiles..

I love her for her smiles. The way it lights up her cheeks..

Doesn’t it mean I wish her to get angry more often?

Because the light in her cheeks hit more strongly, then?

Still, she smiles more when surprised, or in chats with friends, or when I compliment her- her cooking especially...

Perhaps, its nothing like the smile that hits after her anger pangs…

So, I get her angry, instead. Small things irk her, like going a day without eating.. I get busy, I forget. So it isn’t intentional. Yet, she is angered, hovering over, like a mother hawk till I consumed the dinner worth a 3-course meal in thirty minutes.

Still, I take the whole night, and she sleeps off- the smile in her sleep more beautiful.

Maybe, I shouldn’t write this love letter, then. But for this words, not to fill a note, did be a more heinous sin.

I imagine my baby’s girl emotions on her face, though succulent lips, those soft pants.

The slight of irritation at being disturbed. My hands running through her hair. A black field so bountiful.

I should wake, her and tell her I was done… Do a fake call, later. Call sweet names over the phone.

Poorly thought-out, she did be more angry at the day about to break and I did have to call in sick.

'Another sick day.'

So I kiss her on the cheeks instead.

I love this more.

Her

Here,

Now.

Fredrick Chisom

@iamfredrickchisom on instagram
Why you should start using short URLs in your posts
By: Joachim Zeelmaekers
Tags: Analytics, Data, Short Story, Programming, Content Strategy

Photo by Luke Chesser on Unsplash

When you’re looking at social media posts, people are sharing many URL’s, blog posts, etc… But I feel that people forget to analyse these clicks. When you’re using the non-premium LinkedIn you get insights into how many people have seen your posts, but no indication of any clicks. When you’re using Twitter, for example, you get a much more in-depth analysis of the number of clicks, likes, interactions,…

You might be thinking: “We have Google Analytics on our webpages for that”. And that’s fine, but what if you have no insights in those analytics? Let’s say you want to get to know your audience by posting content on different topics. You might receive many likes from friends or colleagues, but you don’t know if anyone is actually opening the content. That’s where short URLs come in!

I’m sure that everyone knows what a short URL is, but here is a short explanation. You take a long URL, like www.this-is-a-very-long-URL-and-not-so-interesting-to-post-on-social-media-especially-when-your-tweet-can-only-be-280-characters.com. This long URL gets converted into an URL that looks like https://cutt.ly/XXXXXX, much shorter right? That’s the only thing it does. Or so you might think.

When you’re using platforms like Cutt.ly, you get much more than a better-looking URL. You get a dashboard for all the data that your links collect.

In the graph below, you can specifically see in what timeframe people are clicking your links, from which devices they are engaging with your content, and what their language is. You even get their estimated location.

Screenshot by Author

Screenshot by Author

Now, why is this so important?

In this world, where every application and every social media post fights for the audience’s attention, you have to be able to send your audience the content they want. This is not that important when you’re writing as a hobby, or not trying to build an audience. But when you are looking to engage with an audience and grow it, you have to give them what they want.

In my example, I can see that most of the people that clicked the link speak English. That confirms the language that I write my content in English. It’s important to you know what your audience likes. This is true in business, marketing, product development, and writing. It’s probably true for every kind of product. You might have the craziest idea, that solves all your problems, but if no one has the problems you solved with your idea, no one will use your solution. And certainly not pay for it.

Of course, it’s important to analyse this kind of data, but knowing who opened the link is not enough. You have to combine all your analytics, but this is the first step to some amazing insights without much effort.
Tips for Creating Social Media Content Including Must Dos
By: Chatter Digital
Tags: Content Creation, Content Strategy, Audience Engagement, Social Media, Brand Strategy

Do you want to create engaging social media content? Follow these tips for creating social media content including helpful must-dos!

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Thank you for sharing your insight!
By: Dr. Deborah M. Vereen
Tags: Writer, Content Marketing, Writing, Ｍedium, Content Strategy

As a mom, family engagement influencer, educator, author, and Christian, I write to speak my truth. Visit my website at: www.Drdeborahmvereen.com .
How to Start Blogging for free in 2021
Tags: Blogger, Blogging Tips, Blogging, Blog, Content Strategy

Blogging is a great way to share our thoughts, opinions, ideas, information and knowledge with the world through the internet.

It is annoying when you want to start a blog and all you get to do is search and scroll through the internet to find one but many articles.

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Launching your blog and publishing articles has been easier nowadays than ever before because of many free helpful blog-publishing services, growing demand for articles and written content for every field and it requires no money if you are using free blog sites like blogger, WordPress etc. that are comfortably easier to use for beginners.

So why not start blogging today with our tutorial of a few easy steps for how to create a blog for free and make money which will save you time taking only a few minutes to read and will help you start your own blog.
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By: Delights Digital
Tags: Digital Marketing, Content Writing, Content Marketing, Content Is King, Content Strategy

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3 Reasons Why Cairo is an Irresistible Tourist Destination that Will Leave You with Enduring Delightful Experiences
By: Tom Joshua
Tags: Content Writing, Blogging, Travel Tips, Travel Writing, Content Strategy

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Did you know that traveling to Africa without paying a visit to Cairo in Egypt is like remaining outside the stadium for the entire duration of a football game?

Many reasons make Egypt a favourite travel destination for international tourists, the most important being its historical significance as the cradle of the world’s greatest and earliest civilizations. There are numerous places of interest such as the Great Pyramids of Giza where one can get lost in the mysteries of the past.

And that is just one thing, but let’s first take a trip to Cairo before we can examine the other marvels Egypt has to offer.

The city of Cairo is one of the most magnificent metropolises of the Arab world. Its world-famous Khan al-Kahalili market is among the largest bazaars in the Middle East. It is a treasure hunter’s paradise filled with splendid alabasters, exotic perfumes, spices, and copper or silver items.

Cairo is the most ideal place from which you can launch excursions to locations of delightful sceneries all over Egypt. While visiting, you’d have tons of exciting things to do like:

• Strolling leisurely on serene and spectacular beaches.

• Exploring ancient sites and other cultural treasures like the Sphinx.

• Sampling a variety of world-class cuisine and accommodation.

• Taking part in water sports such as diving or snorkeling in clear blue waters.

• Going out for quad biking or camel rides across great desert expanses.

Generally, Egypt is famed for its beautiful landscape brimming with cultural treasures. The combination of sea, sun, and sand on the backdrop of exotic cultural practices, antique monuments, and wide deserts make it one of the most mesmerizing places on earth. Plan a visit now for the ultimate in thrilling adventures!

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Mariam Kazi — Portfolio. Hi, potential prospect:
By: Mariam Kazi
Tags: Blogging For Business, Content Marketing, Content Strategy, Social Media Management

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I welcome you to my not so extensive but surely worth giving a read writing profile:

I am a social media enthusiast with a knack for creative writing — having about a year of experience in content marketing and writing.

Please see below, few of my writing samples from my previous professional experiences:
𝙽𝚒𝚗𝚎 𝚀𝚞𝚎𝚜𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗𝚜 𝚃𝚘 𝙳𝚎𝚏𝚒𝚗𝚎 𝚈𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝙳𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚖 𝙱𝚞𝚢𝚎𝚛
By: Suraj Nagarwal
Tags: Content Marketing, Questions, Content, How To, Content Strategy

I'm an Affiliate Marketer and Online Business Coach. I help people to build their own online business.
𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐚 𝐍𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐞?
By: Suraj Nagarwal
Tags: Niche, Content Marketing, Content, How To, Content Strategy

❓𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐚 𝐍𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐞?

Niche is your hobby and interest in which particular thing you are passionate about. A particular thing that will be a success for you and reach you out to your goal. A particular thing that you know a few things already and have a good skill and always encourage yourself to learn and deep dive in. A particular thing in which you will spend your ton of hours to learn and explore your knowledge. Niche is a category in which you are passionate. Passionate means in which work you will interest and share your knowledge with your audience.

Your audience means that people who are related to your niche and relate to your particular thing in which you are passionate about. Your audience can be a beginner and also master in your interest and have a lot of experience.

✅𝗪𝗵𝘆 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗻𝗶𝗰𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗶𝗻 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴?

Niche is really important in every marketing and also go with Micro Niche. Make it your niche micro. Because it keeps your work easy and easy to target your audience. Targeting your audience and traffic in the market is big deal and If you don’t choose your niche then you always will be distracted from your path. You have to choose a particular thing in which you can help your audience. Once you will find your niche then you will be created so many ideas to promote and grow your business.

It will provide you a clear vision of your destiny. It will easier to target your real and actual audience.

Explore the mind and find a particular thing in which you can help someone else.

Identify your interest and passion

➡️𝘏𝘰𝘸 𝘥𝘰 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘥 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘧𝘳𝘦𝘦?

➡️𝘐𝘯 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘯𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘴𝘭𝘦𝘦𝘱 𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘯𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵?

➡️𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘥𝘰 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘯 𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘪𝘯 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘧𝘳𝘦𝘦 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦?

➡️𝘠𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘣𝘦 𝘢𝘴 𝘢𝘯 𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘴𝘵? (𝘉𝘦 𝘢𝘯 𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘴𝘵 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘕𝘪𝘤𝘩𝘦)

✅𝗟𝗼𝘃𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗕𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗮𝗻 𝗔𝗿𝘁𝗶𝘀𝘁 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗬𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗡𝗶𝗰𝗵𝗲

The artist always loves their art and always represent their art in front of others in a beautiful way. The artist always takes a challenge from his/herself to achieve their goals. Artist spends a whole day on his art and makes it so attractive and worth it for others. You can become an artist in your niche. Like you have a great skill of cooking then you can become a good master chief. Art of cooking food.

Change your interest in your art that you will love. Artist have always a clear vision of their thought and their art, They only focus on one thing until succeed. They think that they already succeed because they are doing what they love and what they want to do.

That why I’m thinking and work as an artist.

✅𝘙𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘩 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘢𝘶𝘥𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘦𝘵𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘪𝘯 𝘠𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘕𝘪𝘤𝘩𝘦.

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Responding to My Last Slashdot Troll, Part 3
By: C.D. Reimer
Tags: Creativity, Slashdot, YouTube, Trolls, Content Strategy

I hope YouTube finally bans his channel for the sub for sub gimmicks he is into with other un-creative “creators” he hangs around with and who are trying to build their personal spamming brands on YouTube while providing no value at all!

This comment might be about winning a Christmas present from follow YouTuber, Daniel Batal, on Twitter. His giveaway was quite simple. Post the link to a content creation tool that you want for Christmas that cost between $1 USD and $100 USD. The person who comes closest to the price point that he picked will get their Christmas present.

I posted a link to Zhiyun Smooth X gimbal for $60 USD. Another person posted something for $90 USD. His price point was $75 USD. We were both within $15 of his number. Since there were only two of us who participated, he gave both of us cash via PayPal to buy our Christmas present.

Sub for sub is requesting a channel to subscribe to your channel and then subscribing to their channel in return. When subscribers mattered to the algorithm, this was the fastest way to grow a channel. YouTube banned this practice years ago. If I did sub for sub on my channel, my last Slashdot troll would have no problems getting my channel terminated in a heartbeat.

As for “personal spamming brands,” it’s not uncommon for YouTubers to have Amazon affiliate links in the description of their videos. One of many ways to monetize a channel on YouTube.