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Help Wanted

by | 3 | Dec 8, 2011
Help Wanted

LikeTheDew.com is looking for a few smart and resourceful people to work in a convivial virtual environment helping to deliver enlightened perspectives on progressive Southern culture and content. Positions part time, for no pay, but include the benefit of knowing you are trying to make a difference.

  • Community Engagement Manager: moderate comments, engage readers and poke around the site making sure everything is as it should be. Email: CEM@LikeTheDew.com.
  • Author Relationship Director: reach out to new writers, contact writers who aren’t, set up and update author profiles, communicate with guest writers and manage creative commons relationships. Email: ARD@LikeTheDew.com.
  • Social Marketing Guru: plan, manage, post and engage the Dew’s followers all over the web. Email: SMG@LikeTheDew.com.
  • Dew Business Manager: plan and run our non-commercial, almost no revenue except from the donation of our readers, business. Email: DBM@LikeTheDew.com.
  • Editorial Comrades: read, prep, art direct and post stories. We really need some help. Email: EC@LikeTheDew.com.

Right now, the Dew is just three volunteers who work 24/7/365. We have reached the limit of what we can dew and really need help. We have to get better organized and none of us are any good at that. If you have some time, we would really love to hear from you.

Dewings

Overdew Changes

by | 6 | Oct 25, 2011
Overdew Changes

Over the last few weeks, we’ve made a few changes on our home page and on the site. Here’s an update:

  • DewTube Slider
  • Our Brick Wall
  • Fewer Photos on our Home Page
  • Guest Columns
  • Our Future Plans
  • A Note to our Writers
  • A Note to our Readers

Manage Subscriptions

by | 7 | Sep 30, 2011
Please fill in your subscriber email address below to manage your subscriptions. Email Address: ... Read on →

Southern Bastards

Trojan Terrorism

by | 2 | Jun 15, 2011
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Recently, the Dew has come under an attack from presumed terrorists. The Patriot Act was useless to help keep us safe. These people are smart, motivated, well-financed and uncaring. This was a malicious attack. We don't have ... Read on →

Registering on the Dew

by | 0 | May 31, 2011
Registering on the Dew
During the past couple of weeks, LikeTheDew.com has come under increasing attacks from spammers registering on our site and attempting to post malicious code. While the site is secure, the bombardment, over 20,000 attempts yesterday, is ... Read on →

Civility on the Dew

by | 11 | Mar 26, 2011
Civility on the Dew
Today, we did something that feels terribly wrong, but for good reason: we suspended the comment privileges of someone on the Dew for violating our published rules of civility. Free speech and the right to disagree are ... Read on →

Site problems

by | 0 | Oct 21, 2010
If you have been to the Dew the last couple of days, you've probably noticed that we have had some technical issues - pages loading slowly, problems with sign in and comments and, at times, no ... Read on →

Help Wanted

by | 0 | Sep 15, 2010
Help Wanted
Smart. Savvy. Sophisticated. Southern. Of course you are. You're a Like the Dew reader. Let's be honest with each other. We have a sharp group of folks in the Like the Dew community, and we'd like to offer ... Read on →
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  • Another long weekend

    by | 4 | Jul 17, 2010
    Alert Dewsletter readers may have noticed their “Sunday Dews” arriving Saturday. Oops, my bad. Our automated email system failed overnight and a manual replacement version had to be created. As I hit the ... Read on →

    What we’ve done for you recently

    by | 2 | Feb 23, 2010
    During recent weeks, we have made some changes on the Dew. Comments - Now when you comment on a story, you’ll find an “Edit” button so you can discreetly fix typos or punctuation. In ... Read on →

    Like The Dew’s Wall

    by | 167 | Feb 6, 2010
    Post your thoughts and comments on movies, plays, concerts, exhibits, restaurants, bars, arts, events and festivals. Alert us to upcoming events, political rallies or what's going on where you live. Comment on the ... Read on →

    Dew Your Last Minute Holiday Shopping

    by | 1 | Dec 17, 2009
    If you have last minute holiday shopping to dew, please stop by our Dew Shops. When you click on the links from the Dew, a portion of each purchase from these merchants goes ... Read on →

    Now you can post a story by email

    by | 0 | Dec 17, 2009
    Want to write for the Dew, but get a wee bit intimidated with the post instructions? If you can send an email, now you can submit a story to the Dew. You must be ... Read on →

    Shop the Dew Shops

    by | 0 | Dec 3, 2009
    The Dew is all volunteer, but we do have some expenses. If you're shopping anyway, you can help out by shopping with some of ... Read on →

    Almost all the news in one place

    by | 0 | Dec 1, 2009
    If you haven’t been to Like The Dew’s News & Opinion Feeds (the link is at the very top right of every page), you ... Read on →

    We have a Dew T-shirt winner

    by | 0 | Dec 1, 2009
    As required by the official LikeTheDew.com site survey contest rules, all valid entries were printed out and placed in grocery bag (better to reuse ... Read on →

    Long Overdew Changes

    by | 0 | Nov 23, 2009
    New Story Categories Southern News - We’ve long needed a place to feature news and comment on news (weigh in). Here you’ll find Ron Taylor’s ... Read on →

    Dew Survey Results

    by | 3 | Oct 29, 2009
    Last month, the Dew conducted our first site survey — a pretty comprehensive attempt to learn what you like, don’t like or want to ... Read on →

    Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-09-13

    by | 0
    LikeTheDew: Money-Driven Medicine http://likethedew.com/5687 # LikeTheDew: Creative Visions Foundation http://likethedew.com/5686 # LikeTheDew: War Made Easy http://likethedew.com/5684 # LikeTheDew: Another side to the story http://likethedew.com/5679 # LikeTheDew: Moth revives art of storytelling http://likethedew.com/5675 # ### Read on →

    Now on a Kindle near you

    by | 3
    Now on a Kindle near you
    For those Kindle users, the Dew is now available via Amazon Whispernet. Like The Dew posts are auto-delivered wirelessly to your Kindle and updated throughout the day so you can stay current. It's risk free—all Kindle Blog ... Read on →

    You won

    by | 17
    You won
    It’s official. Vancouver, WA-based internet hosting provider, Dotster, has announced the winners of their “Next Big Small Business” Contest and LikeTheDew.com swept third place. Dotster’s contest sought to find businesses “using the Internet to turn their personal passion ... Read on →

    Like the Dew wah diddy

    by | 12
    Like the Dew wah diddy
    A couple of months ago, Like-the-Dewer, Terri Evans, read an email requesting entries for Dotster’s Next Big Small Business Contest. The winner would receive a modest cash prize and, more importantly, some promotion. Dotster is LikeThe.Dew.com’s internet host. ... Read on →

    Recommended Reading

    by | 2
    Recommended Reading
    Have you noticed the "Recommended Reading" section on the top left of the LikeTheDew.com home page? It is a new feature. Most mornings, LikeTheDewers get up really, really earlier (okay, at least one Dewer stays up really, really ... Read on →