I just looked out my window and saw a swallowtail butterfly enjoying one of my nasturtiums, a scrub jay pecking at a fallen plum, and a little white butterfly examining the lemon balm. I’m so glad all these flutterbys are having a good time in my garden!
Today I’ve been thinking about refining the focus of this blog to make it more useful to me. I’m going to start my own flutterbys… stopping by this blog to record social media information for my own edification. Instead of trying to impress anyone else, I want to use this space for keeping notes to self…
So there it is. A refined focus and a new start.
“Your desire is your prayer. Picture the fulfillment of your desire now and feel its reality and you will experience the joy of answered prayer.” — Dr. Joseph Murphy
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
Copyblogger - a blog that teaches copywriting skills
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.
Ping.fm -
I love this new update service! There are MANY micro blogging platforms these days - plus MySpace, FaceBook, and many other social media services. What if you could update them all at one time by writing your message only once?
That’s what Ping.fm can do for you. Follow the link above to get the skinny on how to use this great new service!
This is a search engine powered by people like you. You can look for information, plus add any links you like. It is lots of fun. Here’s my profile there: LindaJM. Give it a try!
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Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative and creation, there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred.
A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one’s favor all manner of unforeseen incidents, meetings and material assistance which no man could have dreamed would have come his way. Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now.
” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) -a German philosopher, scientist and writer.FriendFeed is a rss feed amalgamator I’ve found useful for organizing dozens of related blog feeds, news feeds, and more.
Klamath River Valley, Northern California… my home.
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.