Myanmar Cylcone Death Toll at 15,000 and Set to Rise

Over 10,000 confirmed dead in one town alone.  

     First, I would like to say that the month of May has some exciting things in store for those loyal readers of, what I consider, the best site ever--Joeprah.com.  I will be releasing the first ever series of articles that are only going to be available to "Registered Users."  In this series entitled "Confessions of a Stay at Home Dad" I will go back to the beginning and allow readers to find out the story behind Joeprah becoming a stay at home dad.  This series has already been touted by critics (I am my own worst critic trust me) as groundbreaking, and better than reading the obituaries.  So if you haven't registered you will soon find yourself on the outside looking in, I have forced your hand in a stroke of brilliance to register.
 
    Second, in May I will be continuing to upgrade my site (if that's possible), I am going to start by allowing registered Joeprah members to share there Twitter Home Pages, Cre8Buzz Profile Pages and BlogCatalog user pages within their profiles.  This information will also be viewable in the “interactive blogroll.”

    The third major improvement for Joeprah.com members is the addition of a gallery tab in your profile page. This gallery tab will allow members to further customize their profiles by utilizing state of the art technology.  This technology will give members the ability to upload multiple images into their profile page making it just that more awesome.

    I have had some folks wondering why they should register at Joeprah.com and after spending some time reflecting on the question I have realized that there are literally at least a couple of reasons to register.  Here are my favorites:

Greater Exposure:

How many blogs do you know of that announce when you have logged on and allow you to have a customizable profile?  Just mine?  I thought so.  At Joeprah.com, when you log in, your profile ID is displayed on the left sidebar and each time someone looks at your profile you will notice your “hit counter” go up. These hits mean more people notice your website/blog and this means more possible visitors to your site.  Win/win.  Also, being a member gives you an opportunity to upload a profile image that is seen whenever you comment on an article.  Your username is directly linked to your profile and if someone clicks your name from within an article's comments, once again your hit counter reflects this. 

Fun:

At Joeprah.com we strive to give our users a fun experience.  Yep, that’s all I got on that one.

Money:

Money?  What?  Yep, now at Joeprah.com, you will have an opportunity to turn your zealous love for Joeprah into cold hard cash.  The Independence Day Contest at Joeprah.com allows registered members to compete for cash.  Lots of it.  Well, depending on what you consider lots. Let’s just say compete for a sum of money.  The rules of the contest are as follows:

The Independence Day Contest at Joeprah.com:

Rules: 

•  Any registered member with a website can participate.

• The contest runs from May 5^th to July 4^th

• The member with the greatest number of referrals to Joeprah.com will win the prize money

• You can refer people to my website using your website only

• You can use links in a post or in your sidebar

• Clicking your own links is both reprehensible and in poor taste of the contest

• I will track referrals via a state of the art traffic program

• The prize for the website with the most referral traffic to Joeprah.com is $25.00 (USD), eh
  

• If you plan on participating you should announce your intentions by responding to this newsletter stating your intention and listing your website address

• It costs nothing to play

Cash will be paid on the week of July 4^th either through PayPal or cashiers check to the winner.

 
I have created some badges that you can proudly display at your site to help get yourself some referral traffic or to just spread the love of Joeprah throughout the internet.  Here are the badges with their accompanying code (you do not need to copy the images, just the code):

<center><a href="http://www.joeprah.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://joeprah.com/images/stories/contest1.png" alt=" " width="175" height="120" /></a></center>

 <center><a href="http://www.joeprah.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://joeprah.com/images/stories/contest2.png" alt=" " width="175" height="120" /></a></center>

 <center><a href="http://www.joeprah.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://joeprah.com/images/stories/contest3.png" alt=" " width="175" height="120" /></a></center>

 <center><a href="http://www.joeprah.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://joeprah.com/images/stories/contest4.png" alt=" " width="175" height="120" /></a></center>

<center><a href="http://www.joeprah.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://joeprah.com/images/stories/contest5.png" alt=" " width="175" height="120" /></a></center>

<center><a href="http://www.joeprah.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://joeprah.com/images/stories/contest6.png" alt=" " width="175" height="120" /></a></center>

<center><a href="http://www.joeprah.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://joeprah.com/images/stories/contest7.png" alt=" " width="175" height="120" /></a></center>

I will post bi-monthly updates for the participants which will give those involved in the contest an idea of where they stand. These updates will be done through a post which only registered users can have access to.

Thanks as always for all your support!  So, go forth register, update your profile with your Twitter/Cre8Buzz/BlogCatalog info, take a chance at winning the $25 Independence Day Contest and subscribe to Joeprah to stay up to date with all my most recent posts.

Your Truly,

Team Joeprah

Fresh New Feature On Joeprah

I have updated my site, yet again, and this time I have added some exciting new content.  I spend numurous hours a week on the net reading news headlines, articles and blogs.  Whenever I find an article that provides useful parenting information, I will post this article within my site utilizing state of the art twenty first century technology.  Simply go the 'Blog' section of Joeprah and click on the 'Parenting News' menu item and you will see articles I have found throughout the net that you can view without even leaving Joeprah.  Why waste your time searching countless hours for fresh news when I can do it for you?  Stay informed, stay up to date...stay at Joeprah.com.  

I had to pass on a bit of news to my loyal readers about something very exciting in the land of Joeprah.  It may not seem like a big deal to many, but for me--it's huge.  I have a place on the Examiner.com as the National Fatherhood Examiner.  What does that mean?  It means I get to expose my smart ass self to a larger audience and as a bonus I get to champion common sense parenting for a large media outlet.  I plan on delivering some articles from Joeprah on my National Fatherhood Blog, but I will also feature some articles there that can only be found there.  This makes all those times that my wife was like, "Why can't you stop blogging tonight and watch (insert horrible chick flick title here, if you can't think of one Coyote Ugly will suffice) with me?" and I was all like, "Sorry, this is important."  seem somewhat realistic.  If you care to make my day/week/month/year, why don't you stop by my new home and say hi, you'll be glad you did.

My National Fatherhood Examiner blog (has a nice ring to it, eh?) can be found at the web address I embedded in this long and annoying sentence just to prove I could embed a link in a long sentence.  

If you care to subscribe to my new blogs feed (see highly recommended) just click on this run on sentence and follow the link to your preferred feed reader and add my feed .  

This is such a big thing for me.  My kids and how awesome they are have always been my source of validation, as a stay at home dad, but this type of recognition really makes a dude feel good.  

So, by now, some of you have figured out there are some benefits to registering at Joeprah.com.  Actually, the benefits are striking when you think about it.  First,