I am so excited to introduce to all of you a very special woman that I have had the pleasure of knowing for over 25 years. Barbara Sayre Harmon is a woman of the ages who has lived her life as an old school painter and philosophical dancer.

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Today, March 1st 2012 is the day that Google turns on it’s new (unified) and controvrsial privacy policy. I decided to put this short video presentation to help you understand a little bit about the implications with some suggestions about what you can do on your own behalf to protect yourself and  your internet privacy.

This is certainly not a comprehensive presentation and there are links below that will help you so further investigation (which we encourage) if you so choose. However, we always believe that to be forewarned is to be forearmed.

Personally, I had three uncles who fought in WW2 and both my mother and father worked in the factories during WW2 – in defense of the Constitution which not only assures our freedom but also our privacy and though they all came home alive, countless thousands of unnamed hero’s and heroines paid and made the ultimate sacrifice to protect the Constitution, the rights and privileges which it guarantees.  (end soapbox). Leave any questions or comments below

References:

Google Search Alternative, Start Page

Electronic Frontier Foundation

• https://www.eff.org/

Reference Used for this Presentation (Electronic Frontier Foundation)

Mozilla Firefox Plug In

Internet Explorer Add On

• (http://www.torproject.org)
• (http://www.privoxy.org)

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Over time there will be more videos, articles and interviews posted to Belly Dance Village, which is great, but what goes hand in hand with that is then finding and being able to quickly refer back to what you were watching, reading, or listening to.

Now to help you with this you will find below the title of each item a link called “Make This a Favorite” When you add something to your list of favorites it will appear on the right hand side of the page. In addition there will also be a section called “Top Favorites” which is a a summation of what is being Favorited by everyone.

The video pretty much explains it all. If you have a suggestion or comment about this feel free to leave it below or send me email using the contact form.

Dan

This past weekend I worked to put together the Belly Dance Village dashboard and unfortunately there were some software bugs that were unanticipated and unfortunately had to uninstall it temporarily. The bugs are being worked on and it will be back in place hopefully later this week, or next week sometime.

Not to be deterred, last night I put together (and fully tested) something new that will also save you time when you’re so inspired to work on your dance and it’s called the “Belly Dance Village Toolbar”.

The toolbar once you install it will allow you to access just about any part of Belly Dance Village without having to type the URL. In fact once you log n (say in the morning) you can use the toolbar to access any category of videos no matter where you are on the internet.

Anyway, check out the video, it will explain and demonstrate it and then just login and take the minute, or so to download and install it. It works on Internet Explorer and Firefox. Hopefully (but can’t say when) we’ll have it available for Chrome as well.

The Belly Dance Village members dashboard is something that we hope makes finding what you’re looking for a bit easier and faster. There’s nothing worse in my opinion then to go to a website with a clear image of what you’re looking for and then get frustrated because it’s buried somewhere. We want any amount of technology to be a non issue so that you can find the video you’re looking fast, so you can spend more time dancing and less time mucking with technology.

The Belly Dance Village members dashboard is something that we hope makes finding what you’re looking for a bit easier and faster. There’s nothing worse in my opinion then to go to a website with a clear image of what you’re looking for and then get frustrated because it’s buried somewhere.  We want any amount of technology to be a non issue so that you can find the video you’re looking fast, so you can spend more time dancing and less time mucking with technology.

The dashboard is very configurable and we put it together and organized the sections based on what we thought might make sense. But if you have a suggestion for how it might work better for you then by all means don’t be shy and let us know.

The thing that has me the most excited is that it has a very clean layout and has a nice placeholder for video as well. We’ll probably use this to update you on any new or planned changes at Belly Dance Village.

Let me know what you think, or what your suggestions are for the Belly Dance Village members dashboard below in the comments area, or send an email using the contact form. 

Login to the Belly Dance Village, check out the dashboard and let me know if you like it.

The Oracle of the Flame is the Belly Dance Village “Call-in” webinar. Members can listen over the internet and type in a question, or can dial-in by calling a number, entering a pin code using your phone, or using Skype If you don’t have Skype you can download it for free at http://skype.com.

If you call in using your phone, or Skype you can ask any question, or participate in the chat at your discretion. The intent of “Oracle of the Flame” is to provide a way for dancers who do a large amount of their Belly Dance Training from home, a way to get “Never Get Stuck” support.

Also you can do a time zone conversion from http://www.timezoneconverter.com/cgi-bin/tzc.tzc. It’s pretty easy. You’ll enter the time of the webinar, say 11:00 AM, then select US Mountain Time Zone, then your area and click on “Convert Time Now”

You can check your time by going to http://www.timezoneconverter.com/cgi-bin/tzc.tzc. It’s pretty easy. You’ll enter the time of the webinar, say 11:00 AM, then select US Mountain Time Zone, then your area and click on “Convert Time Now” If you’ve never participated before and need some help joining the conference you can  get the simple video instructions from this 3 minute video by Dan. 

Phone number to call:

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One of the things we want to make sure we stay focused on is providing support. This is why each video has a way for any member to ask a question about a move, or a combination. We want to make sure  you’re never stuck. It did occur to us though that there should be a way for members to ask questions that may not be particularly related to a specific move, or combination from a given video. So we decided to create a post (this one here) called “Cleopatra’s Court“.

Cleopatra’s Court will be a general discussion area for anyone with questions regarding belly dance, choreography or the how to’s of dance that may not be related to a specific video. Of course you can always get help with a move, or combination related to a video but for anything you care to discuss not related to a specific video, this it this the place to come.

Daniel and I are both very excited about this as it provides more accessibility to me so this way we both feel I can be supportive and available at the same time. I think it will be a lot of fun and a good way to get to know our fellow dancers around the world!

So don’t be shy and share what’s on your mind as it relates to your dance journey.