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Twttrlists

Are you on Twitter yet? If so, you can follow me. Twitter is a great place for social networking, and since posts are limited to 140 characters (or spaces) it isn’t writing intensive. Of course Twitter is only one of many micro-blogging sites. I’ll write more about others later.

Today I want to mention Twttrlists… which are hosted on Squidoo.Com, one of my favorite sites especially now that I earn over $100 dollars there every month… and have lots of friends there. If you would like to find out what all the fun is about, feel free to join by creating your first Squidoo lens on any topic that pleases you.

Twttrlists are easy to make, and fun. They let you find tweets on any topic and add them to your lens. (Lens is what Squidoo calls a web page.) After you join, come back here and use this link to make your first Twttrlist.

Here are a few I’ve made:

Great Writing Resources, Tips, Twitters, & Inspirations

NaNoWriMo News, Tips, and Resources on Twitter and Squidoo

Twttrlists Created by Senior Squids

Wyotech Tech School - Pros and Cons

Purple Everything!

Truth and Justice on Twitter

Copyblogger - a blog that teaches copywriting skills

JournalSpace

I admit it. I’ve got a collection of blogs… not just this one. However this is the only one whereon I focus on social media.

A week or two ago I went to JournalSpace to add to my Mountain Dweller blog - which I’ve used sporadically for over five years to record observations about living the life of a mountain dweller. I live in the Siskiyou range in Northern California. Well, imagine my surprise (and sadness) when I saw that JournalSpace was down and the owner had decided not to revive it!

Flash forward about a week… to this morning. I went to JournalSpace again to see if I could find the links to those FaceBook groups where people are comiserating about the demise of their blogging site - and I discovered someone else took over the site and JournalSpace is back up! I was thrilled, and re-established my MountainDweller blog - this time on a WordPress multi-blogging platform.

JournalSpace, like Tumblr, is a community blogging network. I don’t know about others here but I like to have lots of blogs, spaced out on many different sites. Usually each blog focuses on a specific topic just like this one is mainly about social media opportunities.

Who am I and what am I doing here?

I’m waking up from a long sleep, finding out I’ve landed in a place called Tumblr, and I have no idea what the local customs are or what is expected of me. Nonetheless I groggily sit up and look around. I see before me a screen with a place to post something. Title, post… couldn’t be all that hard. I know a bit about blogging but every blogging site is different. I will adjust.

At least I remember my name… no amnesia here.

I’m Linda, a blogger and content writing web worker living in Northern California. I enjoy exploring social media and blogging sites. I’m also a consultant to writers who need websites and recently started a message board where I can answer questions for them: Write Web Now.

I live in the boonies in the middle of the Siskiyou Mountains about twenty miles south of the Oregon border. I sure like it here. It takes a hermit spirit to really appreciate living in the middle of the forest about forty miles from the nearest fast food restaurant.