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Earth Hour No Power 2012

Earth Hour – One Hour No Power 2012

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Earth Hour – One Hour No Power 2012

8:30pm Local Time – Saturday, March 31st

It’s almost that time of the year again; a time at which a coordinated effort is made in support of the environment across the globe. A time during which everyone is encouraged to turn their power off, for one hour… Earth Hour – One Hour No Power.

In 2011, all seven continents joined the Earth Hour – One Hour No Power movement, even the Cartoon Network halted transmissions for one hour. In 2010, a record-breaking 126 countries helped raise awareness for climate change, including destinations like the Las Vegas Strip, Mount Rushmore, The Empire State Building and Niagara Falls. Learn more about the history of Earth Hour…

Scheduled Downtime

So, setup and turn-on that reminder alarm on your phone, calendar and project management app for 8:30pm, March 31st and Shut. Down. Everything!

If you have a WordPress powered website or blog, grab a nifty plugin right here. This will automatically take your site down for one hour and display a message and links in support of the Earth Hour movement.

Here’s an example of the plugin in action:

Earth Hour No Power 2012

Don’t have WordPress? No worries! There are plenty of banners, posters, logos and videos available for placement on your website, blog and/or social network right here.

Earth Hour Flickr Global Stream

Sunset Cap

Sunset on the Founder

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Sunset Cap

Josh Laughtland Featured in Sunset Magazine

Jtree’s founder, Josh Laughtland, was recently featured in the February 2012 edition of Sunset Magazine. Grab the tablet edition…

Not for SEO mind you, but for three of his favorite northwest hot springs destinations. Josh runs a couple websites specific to recreation of the geothermal sort (hot springs), which happen to bring in tens of thousands of unique visitors each month.

His first geothermal website, IdahoHotSprings.com, started out as a hobby shortly after moving to Boise to attend college at Boise State. It contains years of his personal trip reports besieged from many adventures throughout Idaho and the northwest.

Josh has driven, hiked and spent multiple days backpacking through pristine wilderness to reach the Northwest’s most incredible hot springs.

He also helps operate CaliHotSprings.com, which features geo-location, interactive maps and detailed information about California’s natural geothermal wonders.

Follow @hotspringsguy on Twitter
Visit the Hot Springs Blog
Josh on Google+

Google Chrome

20 Awesome Chrome Extensions

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Google Chrome

We think Google Chrome is pretty slick these days. It loads pages faster than Firefox, Safari and IE no doubt. And, as far as add-ons and extensions go, it has pulled ahead of our longtime favorite, Firefox. Remember the browser wars of old? Netscape Navigator versus Internet Explorer… my how web browsers have changed since then.

The following list consists of twenty of our favorite Google Chrome Extensions. If you are just here for Chrome SEO Extensions, they are the last five on the list.

20 of Our Favorite Google Chrome Extensions

Add-This

Quickly share your new post to social networks like Twitter, Facebook, Google+ and more. Analytics included. Options for embedding social sharing buttons on websites and WordPress.

Bitly

Shorten, share and track links, complete with link analytics.

Feedly

An intuitive way to read and share blogs, feeds and even Google Reader.

Google Voice

Message notifications and quick access to Google Voice features.

Google+ Notifications

Receive and respond to Google+ notifications from your web browser.

Klout

Adds Klout stats to your Twitter web timeline.

Music Plus for Google Music

Adds controls, notifications, Last.fm support, downloading, global keyboard shortcuts and lyrics to Google Music.

Picnik

Quick and dirty image editing on the fly.

PostRank

Enhances Google Reader with PostRank (owned by Google) data.

Rapportive

Gmail on social steroids. Connect with people you already know on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter and more through the familier Gmail interface.

Screen Capture

Easy as pie screen capture and annotation tool.

Search by Image

Search Google by using images.

StumbleUpon

A great extension and toolbar from an oldie but goodie.

TinyEye Reverse Image Search

Did someone jack your latest profile pic? Content theft? Search for an image on the web.

TweetDeck

The most awesome version of TweetDeck… unified multi-account streams (oh my!). Just don’t download the ipad version… blech!

Chrome SEO Extensions

WooRank SEO and Website Analysis

Auto SEO website tool featuring SEO analysis, traffic estimation, Alexa rank, Compete rank, keyphrases analysis, indexed pages in Google and Yahoo!, title and URL analysis and much more.

SEO for Chrome

Displays SEO related information about the website you are currently visiting. Featuring backlinks, social media stats, pages indexed, traffic stats, PPC (+ orgainc) stats and keyphrase research tool.

SEO SERP Workbench

Find out where your website or blog ranks in Google. Track and monitor your website and your competitors search engine (un-personalized) keyphrase rankings. Includes ranking change notifications.

SEO Site Tools

Comprehensive SEO tool that pulls in metrics from a multitude of sources about the website you are viewing. It includes social media reactions, and enhances web based versions of Google Webmaster Tools and Site Explorer. Sources utilized include SEOmoz, Google PageRank, Quanticast, Dmoz, Majestic SEO, Alexa, SEM Rush and Compete.com.

SEO Status

Simple. Fast. Lightweight. Quickly displays the Google PageRank and Alexa Rank of the current website you are on.

20 Awesome Google Chrome Extensions listing provided by Boise SEO Internet Marketing Company.

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Boise River

Advocating for the Boise River

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Boise-based SEO company, Jtree.net, provides not-for-profit organizations like Advocates for the West with a discounted rate – in the name of fighting the good fight.

We are very proud to be involved with organizations which effect the conservation of our natural environment. Advocates for the West (our client) recently helped protect the Boise River from a mining company (Atlanta Gold), who was found guilty of contaminating the Boise River with ‘toxic levels of arsenic and iron’.

Thanks to the efforts of Advocates for the West and the Idaho Conservation League:

Monday January 9, U.S. District Chief Magistrate Judge Williams determined Atlanta Gold Corporation is illegally polluting ontezuma Creek, a tributary of the Boise River near Atlanta, Idaho, with toxic levels of arsenic and iron, constituting over 1,400 violations of the Clean Water Act.

Source: Big Win for Clean Water in Idaho! – Advocates for the West

This feat will help protect the Boise River from other mining companies with similar practices aside from stopping Atlanta Gold from currently polluting clean water.