Halloween is right around the corner, and for most of you, that means getting ready to celebrate the holiday with candy, cookies, parties, and costumes. Let’s not forget trick-or-treating. For some, October is also the National Breast Cancer Awareness month. While both of these things are important for different reasons, it’s not what Halloween is [...]

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As September came to a close, so did another find month of the Mahalo Answer of the Day contest. Mahalo Double-black-belter @Buddawiggi earned 88 points to win the monthly AOTD standings for the 2nd straight month.

Credit @Buddawiggi for his daily participation, his top quality writing, his well researched answers and his constant praise of [...]

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With today’s economy being unstable, more people are scared of leaving their jobs for fear another one might just not be waiting for them around the corner. Companies are filing bankruptcy, corporations are closing down entire divisions, and some corporations are just closing their doors for good. When this happens, people lose jobs, and there [...]

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Understanding Wine:
How To Read Wine Labels
Here are the three best How To pages to be featured here on the How To blog!
These pages were great: informative, detailed, replete with interesting and surprising tidbits of information, and most of all, USEFUL!
The pages are to the right under “Mahalo’s Hot How To”
Thanks to everybody who nominated pages! [...]

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Voting for best answers in the Undecided Voting Queue can be fun and rewarding, not only can it be fascinating to read other users answers and get to know Mahalo members, but you also get points for your votes.
One trend I have noticed recently is Mahaloians voting for really bad answers as “best answer” – [...]

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On September 14th, @lesliec will post the “Answer of the Day Contest for September 15th” – The contest proceeds as it always has, with contest participants finding the best answer previously written on Mahalo. The nomination that receives the most “helpful votes” in 24hrs wins the contest prize + team tips. Same thing compared to [...]

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