Groups of youth from Huntington gather regularly at the Barnett Center’s Community Learning Garden. It’s here that they learn about gardening and have formed a group called the Junior Master Gardener Huntington Urban Gardeners.

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Retweeting a post has huge traffic-driving power on the Web. So, writing compelling Twitter headlines is an important factor in ensuring that your message is retweeted. “With one click, any of your readers can spread your post to hundreds or thousands of their followers,” Dan Zarrella, author of “The Social Media Marketing Book,” writes for Copyblogger.

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KEYS 4 HealthyKids has been awarded a $360,000 grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) to improve opportunities for physical activity and access to affordable, healthy foods for children and families in Kanawha County. Based on a rigorous selection process that drew more than 500 proposals from across the country, Kanawha County is one of 41 sites selected for the RWJF Healthy Kids, Healthy Communities initiative.

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and have a wonderful 2010!

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Readers, WVSU Extension Service wants to hear from you!

We would like to see your gardens or trees with the best decorations for the holiday season. Send us pictures of your favorite garden spot or best decorated Christmas tree.  You can reply to this blog post and attach a picture, or simply email your photographs to me at toddbeane@wvstateu.edu. And be watching for them to appear on the Douglass Institute blog!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

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Making your holiday GREEN

The Douglass Institute (GRDI) of WV State University is giving this holiday season. GRDI along with other departments and divisions on campus are giving life to the earth this holiday season. The Institute is joining with the University and the Kanawha County Solid Waste Authority in creating a campus wide recycling program.

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7 Stupid Social Media Mistakes - Are you making them?
 

There are a variety of problems with social media. Here are seven common mistakes that could really make you look like a rookie that just learned about this Internet thing. Don’t worry if you are making some of these mistakes, you are not alone, and you won’t be the last.

1.    Trying to participate in too many tools

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Use these three expert tips so the 35 days between Thanksgiving and New Year's won't torpedo your finances.

In the next two months, the pressure is on like no other time of year -- to entertain, to purchase gifts, to decorate, to contribute to office or community festivities and to travel to Grandma's house (via sleigh or not).

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WVSU Extension Service is holding a wreathmaking workshop on December 8 from 10am - 1pm. It will take place in the Wilson Student Union on campus.

Cost for the workshop is $20 and advanced registration is required.

Please call Jaime Rinehart to register at 304-720-1401.

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What Seinfeld can teach you about networking

Overcome your fear of networking with the right opener

Seinfeld. The show about nothing, or what everyone referred to it as, but one of the most successful shows in the world. After more than a decade of being off the air, people still remember what station it was on, what day of the week it was on, and what time.

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