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After that incredibly dreary post, here’s an update on the other stuff I’m doing around the web…
As always, I write at the Fun and Function blog.
I have a card giveaway going over at Butterviews.
There’s a deal posted at Butterviews for Crystal Essence products.
And I have a fledgling business blog to go along with my business website.
::cough::Comment love is always appreciated.::cough::
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Posted in Giveaway, innernets, Site Stuff, working, Writing
So, I’m updating the look of the blog, and as part of that had to check on my feed for something. I went to Feedburner and discovered that apparently my feed ended… Oh about a year ago. I have now fixed it. So those people I show up for out of the blue in your reader? Yeah. I’ve been around. You just didn’t know it.
Anyway – In case you’re curious, here the official “real” feed. Sheesh. Talk about Blogging 101.
Posted in Site Stuff
So – I’ve been fixing stuff around here, and looked at my feed stats.
Well… I don’t do it very often. I’m not a big stats person. But I did notice that my subscribers went down. WAY WAY WAY down. I didn’t post anything particularly hate-worthy at the time, so I figured it was a mistake somewhere, somehow. I have fixed it. So, if you would be so kind as to resubscribe at my new, correct feed, I’d REALLY appreciate it.
Posted in Site Stuff
*I’m still working on the site redesign – so that’s where my blogging time is going at the moment. Can’t be helped. I’m not a designer or a coder, so I’m doing bits at a time all by myself. Like the header? ALL BY MY LONESOME! You haven’t any idea how much swearing was involved.
The last day to enter the Capri-Sun Sunrise $250 Visa Giftcard Giveaway on Butterviews is tomorrow! I won’t be taking comments after Midnight 7/9 Pacific, so be sure to get your entry in. Oh, and don’t comment here for the giveaway – it won’t count. But anything else is A-OK.
The blog might visually look messy for a bit.
A bit may mean today, or for a week, or a month.
I’m doing a little housecleaning and changing up the design a little bit. But because of my poor-i-tude… I’m doing it all myself. Which can totally mean that I break it.
Bear with me.
Posted in Site Stuff
Just the Monday Catch Up on my other gigs:
I did a book review on a book called Emergency by Neil Strauss.
The Capri-Sun $250 gift card giveaway is still going strong until 7/8.
So, it’s Monday, which means it’s time to update you on ME around the web.
You already know about this one. But I’m mentioning it anyway because HELLO! I was on CNN.
Article up at Special Needs Bliss, Advocate – Enough Said. A bit of a rant, cleaned up for non-personal blogness.
Another article up at Special Needs Bliss, How to Find Special Needs Programs.
The $250 Giftcard Giveaway for Capri-Sun Sunrise is still going strong over at Butterviews! The deadline isn’t until July, so be sure to enter if you haven’t already.
Posted in Giveaway, innernets, schmooze, Site Stuff, working, Writing
Tagged capri-sun giveaway, cnn, Giveaway, interview, kids with special needs, special needs, special needs bliss
I’ve decided on Monday’s to do a basic rundown of what I’ve done online in the previous week, if anything, so I’m not pointing it all out every entry, but I’m still letting you know what’s going on for me.
I landed a ghostwriting gig for parts of an ebook that’s WoW related, so that’s kind of cool. I’m done with the project, but that may lead to a WoW blogging position.
I highlighted Yom Kippur Reflections on Blog Nosh. Anna T. is a sweet soul, and I was excited to be able to highlight a mainly unknown blogger.
I highlighted Haagen-Dazs Five on Butterviews. Not a product review per se, but the one tried is damn good.
I highlighted the Hunger Pledge on Butterviews. They were my sponsor for SxSW. A very good cause, with many ways to contribute – and not all financial.
I reviewed Yanni Voices for the One2One Network on Butterviews.
I reviewed the Ballas Hough Band for the One2One Network on Butterviews.
Posted in innernets, Product Review, schmooze, Site Stuff, working, Writing
Just a little bit of a head’s up for you the reader.
And can I just say thank you, first? There are a couple of you who are faithful commenters, and I thank you for reminding me that I am not alone in the world, and perhaps not so weird. I appreciate that, I appreciate you. Thank you.
Anyway – I’m going to be changing the site’s look a little bit. I don’t know when. But soon, hopefully. But it just doesn’t feel like me anymore, and I’m changing things to be more me. In a lot of areas. So, if it looks different at some point – don’t worry – I’m still here.
I’ve added a list to the right hand side bar. The list will change and morph as I decide on new things to add. There is no timeline to it. There is no deadline. It’s not a list of things to accomplish before the year ends. They are just things I want to figure out and do. And once they’re done, or habits become habits, they’ll be crossed off. It’s more for me than you – but I want to share my journey.
I also may be cleaning up the sidebars – perhaps bowing out of things that I’m either not participating in well, or don’t fit me any longer.
I’ll have a post coming on Butterviews soon about my sponsor for my trip to SXSW. While the trip didn’t turn out like I expected, they are a good cause and deserve a highlight.
And finally Blogher. Dammit. The plan was the same as last year. Use the funds from our tax refund to go. That worked beautifully last year, and our budget wasn’t effected by the trip. But, since I’m working on a business that isn’t yet booming, and Poe lost his job, unemployment hasn’t kicked in, and he hasn’t found a new one… well… we’ll be living off the refund for the time being. Which means no BlogHer for me. I’ve entered a contest, but well, it’s a contest.
If you would like to sponsor my trip to BlogHer – Please contact me. Sponsorship entails the conference ticket, hotel, and flight. Of course, you’ll have to have already purchased the ticket since they’re already sold out… And you’re just trying to figure out who to give it to! Pick Me!
Posted in innernets, Miscelania, schmooze, Site Stuff
Tagged blogging, BlogHer, butterviews, sxsw
Comment and Email
Guess what? I don’t comment back to people on my blog. I email them. Do I have some great blogging philosophical reason? Nope! I do it because with my comment system mixed with WordPress I can just hit reply in my email and it goes to the commenter.
Granted, I don’t reply to every single comment. Sometimes, I simply don’t have the time. I care about each one, because that person took time to do it. But if someone seems to really have resonated with me on something, has a question or a problem to solve, or whatever, I email them back. In fact, I’ve made a lot of my online friendships that way.
So please know, that when you don’t see comments from me on my blog – I’m not unresponsive to my readers. I just do it a little less publicly. I like it to be more personal. Once someone comments, I like to take it to a more personal conversation.
In addition… I WILL comment publicly if I need to. Not to trolls – they simply get deleted. But people who may be heated or have a different opinion may need to be responded to publicly as the situation calls for it. You never know.
There, I feel better now.
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Posted in Blogathon 2009, Site Stuff
Tagged blogathon, blogging, commenting