EDITOR’S BLOG — VOTING EXTENDED THROUGH THE WEEKEND: After receiving good suggestions for book titles — and sub-titles we need to choose the best options. Just use the clickable poll on the right and vote for your favorite titles (up to three) — Click VOTE after each choice. Then, go to the second poll and do the same for up to 3 sub-titles. Thanks! (YOU must be on the homepage to view the poll, and some people using IE browser need to scroll down. Cheers! Geri
POLL: The Best Title for My Book
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Hi Geri,
How do we access the book so we may place educated vote?
I think all you need to know is the book will be a collection of my favorite stories/columns of the past 10 years, that will be organized by topic:
news for the environmentalist’s soul
news for the business soul
health and wellness
family and kids
civic life
inspirational individuals
trends
animals
etc… (I think 10 chapters in all, each with a different topic.)
With a Forward by yours truly…
🙂
Geri silly me still did not figure out how to vote, but here is my vote for your new book title:
G N2 = Hope
its supposed to read G plus N squared equals Hope. The G is for Good, the N squared for News Network. 🙂
Gary
I’m having trouble figuring out where to vote too Geri – could you put the titles here and will vote from here?
Thanks
Do you not see the polls on the right side of my home page, at
https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org ? ? ?
(It could be that a certain old browser might not show them?)
Unfortunately, If you click on a story and LEAVE the home page, the polls disappear from the right columns. (I wish I could make the software do everything that *I* want…)
🙂
If you don’t see them on the home page, I will paste them here. Let me know…. Take both polls, to choose both a title and a sub-title okay? (I give a lot of choices)
If you don’t like any of them and want to suggest one of your own, like Gary did, do it here.
In meditation this morning, I thought of another title,
“Your Favorite Stories” -or-
“America’s Favorite Stories”
(then, add a subtitle)
My favorite is
Good Happens: The Best Of The Good News Network
Thanks Geri – found it! (I tend to ignore the right side of the page I have discovered!)
How about these for brainstorming:
Good, Gooder, Goodest – The best of the Good New Network (Yes I know – no such word as “goodest”)
The Good, the WHole and ONLY the Good
The Best of the Good
Just a note re America’s best stories idea – are you only using stories from America, surely that cuts out a lot of good news from around the world? Just a thought!
PS – I like “Good Happens” Graciela – good idea!
I can’t find where to vote! Has it already closed?
But I like ‘Good Happens’ too.
Lucy 🙂
The key to solving the vote confusion is to simply follow Geri’s excellent instructions: go to her home page (end in org). Ta Da !!!!
Well I’ve gone to the home page and looked everywhere – i still cannot find anyplace where the suggested names show. I’d love to vote but can’t find where.
wow. it must be a browser issue.
I just launched my IE browser v. 5.2 for MAC, (which I never use, because IE is horrible) and the poll shows up ALL the WAY down AT the BOTTOM of the page (in the right column). That may be the issue for some. FIREFOX is the only browser people should use (importing bookmarks is easy, so please make the switch! — It is much more secure as well). Go here if you want to switch:
http://www.switch2firefox.com/
It’s working for all the browsers I’ve just tested in it (latest Opera, IE, Firefox) – just look (or scroll) to the right side of the page. It’s in a separate part of the web site – in a window pain to the right. Note it only comes up when the MAIN PAGE is displayed. It’s not present when this news item (or any other) is clicked on. Go back to the main page and look to the right to vote.
Some people may need to scroll if they have set their desktop to the old 800×600 resolution.
I too voted for “Good happens”. “America’s Favorite Stories” rings some kind of a bell to me though Geri I must say. You could easily call other world editions by a different name. I imagine you will put the winner to your editor as the people’s choice, but it may not be chosen as their expert experience may think of something better? But if they do you can still put it to us to test!
Hi Geri,
I voted for GOOD HAPPENS
Hi Geri,
I also voted for The Best of the Good News Network.
“Good happens” is my fav. It’s trendy and short/to the point. It sounds like a book with a purpose. I can imagine it on my desk and being proud to own it.
It’s also a clever play on words **** happens, – showing people there is a reverse side to it.. Yes, good happens too!
Nov 8:
I wanted to share the highlights of the poll results here, as I am going to take down the poll from the site:
295 people voted in the first poll, for BEST TITLE, and the majority of them (65 or 22% ) voted for:
GOOD HAPPENS
And, 19.3% (57) voted for
A Decade’s Worth of Good News
(That might be my title and subtitle right there… )
NEWS TO ENTHUSE received 33 votes, or 11.2%
_________
In the poll for best SUB-TITLE, 100 fewer people voted:
A majority in this second poll, 16%, voted for :
125 Stories Of Real People Doing Real Good In The Real World
Second and third place were close:
13.9% for: A Decade of Inspiration
12.4% for: The most uplifting, positive, good news stories of our day
10.8% voted for A Decade of Elevated Journalism