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Jan
24

Starting Off Blogging Right!

No, not politically right, but in tune with resolutions to improve my blogging and keep on top of resurrecting blog efforts such as TrueGrit, etc. I wrote a little report on a few changes I made in my wordpress sites. This site and the garden website Ilona’s Garden, are my earliest efforts at blogging with the wordpress platform. I have many posts accumulated from years of writing, so the sites have...
Dec
9

Be Back Soon- What I’m Doing Right Now

Among other projects I’ve been designing on Zazzle. Remember all those past New Year’s Resolutions I posted on this blog? Well, I’m finally getting to the “making art” part. I even have made a studio for creating some hardcopy original art. Tat will make it to the net in the new year 2013. Here’s my ever-improving work at Zazzle: make custom gifts at Zazzle I also had...
Oct
20

Be Careful Who You Listen To

Be Careful Who You Listen To This good advice comes directly from my experience on this blog. When I was in my heyday of blogging here, I did make some communication mistakes, with people, with writing, with rankling some readers, but I was honestly me and just wanted to speak opinions on the issues and topics I wrote about. Those topics could be just about anything. I had been on lists previously to blogging so had a fairly thick...
Dec
11

Advent, Thoughts on Peace

My friend, Rusty, has written an Advent essay,Third Sunday of Advent, 2011 – Peace. “Imagine all the world, living in peace.” “I have a dream!” Noble sentiments, yet the authors of those statements died unexpected, violent deaths. So true, and so sad. Thoughts on true peace for this...
Oct
1

This Will Get Me Blogging Again

Ok, I’ve been lax, lame, and what-have-you about actually getting a post up on my garden journal and here. That is ok for me, although it means real setbacks for the blogs… because who wants to wait forever for the odd post to come out? I mean who has time for that? Well, there is the rss feed ( sign up for blogs like mine… real people who singlehandedly try to keep these things going)....
Jul
21

Welcome Back, Blogging Again

Welcome Back, Blogging Again There is a type of process that many bloggers go through, and some of us can totally identify with the stages that Samantha describes, although I do think it depends on how many different types of online social interactions you have engaged in. “I have at times been kind of obsessive, feeling like I need to somehow document every thought I have…..[later] it began to seem like a duty to produce...
Feb
5

Web User Data

Forrester Research data — - 19% of US internet users are Creators, who publish blogs, maintain websites, or upload self-created photos, podcasts or videos on social sites. - 25% of US internet users are Critics, who post ratings and reviews of products and services on user review sites, comment on someone else’s blogs or contribute to online forums or wikis. - 12% of US internet users are Collectors, who...
Jan
27

Things I Learned In Forums

If this seems like a strange post out of nowhere- although on my blog who could tell?) I decided I would go through past drafts and try to work on them if they still seem to hold some interest. So here for your reading pleasure are thoughts that something in the past inspired. Originally posted 01/04/06 Lots of bloggers end up running into the social dynamics of large groups interacting in dialogue. Some...
Aug
2

Sarah Palin Shows the Hiccups in Social Media

When blogging came into its own, I found it quite exciting to have a platform to share conversations on religion and politics with the world. In my real world life I found too few interested or comfortable with that sort of conversation, the topics being either too controversial or wrangling for most peoples taste. (At least among those here in a Midwestern, and certainly Church circles). Social media...
Jul
6

Does New Media Make Us As Powerful As We Think It Does?

I followed a twitter link to Unveiling the New Influencers from the PR2.0 blog. It was the usual (well, better than usual) ‘social media’ empowers us post. But the caveat offered in the comments highly interested me (quoted in entirety below). I think that new social media does empower many of us in ways that were not imagined previous to the explosion of blogs, and twitter, etc. Yet, I also...
Jun
18

Update to WP 2.8? Wait

I updated one of my sites this past week, and I think the 2.8 is an improvement, but I still chime in with those who say that if you haven’t updated yet, you should wait. I’ve had some things go haywire and they have been very hard to troubleshoot. It seems to be the usual suspects after the new updates: plugins. I get maddening warnings and white screens, although the site works – just...
Mar
17

Unfair and Self Destructive

I didn’t vote for Obama- I’m going to be upfront on that, but this trend:“The populist anger at the executives who ran their firms into the ground is increasingly blowing back on Obama” is not just politics. It is about preservation of the USA. All of us. Our economic health is not partisan and it isn’t even a divide between immigrant and citizen. We ought to hold the fire...
Mar
13

Changes Ahead

Again. This time I am going to change my theme into one that I hope to be able to use long term. The reason to alert readers is because it looks like things will be disrupted a bit and it might look strange for the time it takes me to iron things out. I finally paid some money for a theme so that it would have support and be flexible for the future. Then I will start writing more here...
Jan
20

Fine Points of Good Coffee-and other Church Topics

Fine Points of Good Coffee-and other Church Topics I’m not writing much of late, but I have been reading and listening alot. Many of us have coffee bars as part of our Church experience and many more are acquainted with the Starbucks experience. Combine this fact with parallels in what we as believers should serve to those around us, and it makes for a compellingly presented lesson. Earl Creps in “Viral Dis-Marketing” might have you...
Jan
15

This Guy Talks About That Guy

Don’t you love this guy? Hey- I will get off my obsession with Chris Brogan once I move on from topics where he is the guy to go to. Anyway… Shannon Paul was the blog where I was reading about this. X-tra points for Christians when watching this video. We all know That Guy, all too well. We, some of us, have been That Guy… but really, friends, was Jesus ever That Guy? No, He...

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