New Year's Resolution Part 2!
Well, I know its been a while since part 1, but here is the long awaited part two of the New Year's Resolution saga. How many parts are there? well at the moment I would say about four, but that might chance as the series progresses
So my second NYR is to try and achieve a more active web presence. What does that mean? Well this hopefully is a start to this resolution. I would like to be more active on the web, post more often on my blogs, comment more often, and basically try to get better known or read on the net. This might initially seem a simple target, but it really does take more than a regular post here and there. I am very much aware that the content has to be relevant and interesting and my comments in response to other people's blogs have to be suitable and interesting as well.
As well as all this, its important to keep the posting and commenting going, so that people become familiar with my presence and personality. This will hopefully, in turn, build up a following beyond that of my dedicated bezzy and my brother.
So what am I going to try and use to increase my web presence? Well, initially, I am going to try and tweet more often. Although this is hard when I am at work, I am trying to make up for it at weekends and on the evenings. I am also trying to reply to more people. The other most important feature of my twitter account is this is were everything links to, so following me there, means you get a tweet about everything I post.
I do at the moment have a YouTube account, but I find this very difficult to keep going, so I have attempted to make shorter videos using my 12 seconds channel. These range from signing videos, to popping bubble wrap. Anything that takes my fancy at the time.
Over the years I have started up and developed many different blogging platforms. Initially in blogger, then moving to wordpress and then eventually downloading the wordpress package onto my own domain. I tend to use MarsEdit to write my blog posts, especially since I can save them and finish them later if needed. This I used to then copy into each of the blogging platforms so that several blogs ended up with the same update, incase someone followed me on one platform and not another. Recently I discovered Posterous a simple blogging platform that accepts email as a method of posting, but most importantly autoposts to all the blogging platforms I use. One email and the blog gets posted to all. I then link my own domain blog to twitter so hopefully most people look at that site, since it is the one I designed and try to improve. So please try and add your comments there. Posterous also allows me to post quick links and photos straight to my blogs and Flickr so I have the photos saved
The last Earth Day I was introduced to Daily Booth. This is a site where you take a daily photo and this is kept to create a visual blog of your time on the web. It also allows you to comment on other people's photos and post your responses in text, photo or both forms. At the moment, I am up to over 200 photos, and although I sometimes double booth, (post two photos in one day) most days have a photo. This photo can be seen on my blogs, but also I am trying to comment regularly on other people's photos as they present questions to be answered.
This is hopefully the basis of my new active web presence, so wish me luck in maintaining it!. Have fun!
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