Posted by slmetcal in Geeky stuff, General, General Ramblings, Internet, Ramblings, Technology.
Tags: General, Internet, Ramblings, Technology
Well where do I begin with this one. It seems like technology has not been my friend this week. I wanted to make some updates to my handmade jewelry store, but the internet had other things in mind for me. Yesterday when our internet connection seemed to be working in my favor I set out to do the updates that I mentioned. Well that did not happen. The network storage device that we have for backup was not accessible all day long. Last night after Art woke up he finally got the device working again. Needless to say we just backed up the device with a portable usb hard drive. I didn’t know everything had to be so redundant. So this morning was spent making updates to my site and getting blog going for my handmade jewelry store. Everything store related will be posted here. I will occasionally mention it on this one but any changes I make or products I add will be posted on my jewelry blog.
Posted by slmetcal in Geeky stuff, General, General Ramblings, Internet, Ramblings, Social Networking, Twitter.
Tags: Facebook, HootSuite, Myspace, Scheduling, Social Networking, Twitter, Updating
I have spent the past few days looking to make myself more productive with my social networking. I have always wondered how people update Twitter, Facebook and MySpace without spending all day on the computer. I have known for a while that you can schedule your blog postings so why not schedule your social network updates. I discovered a little tool called HootSuite it supports multiple twitter accounts. I have been playing around with this tool and find it a very handy tool. Up until today I only had one twitter account but decided that it might be best to separate my personal tweets from my business related tweets. Now that I have played around with this application I wished that I had discovered it long before I did. Now if only I can make a habit of scheduling some sort of content regularly on my blog. I have been doing well scheduling content on my food blog but need to do so with my handmadejewelry blog as well.
Posted by slmetcal in Blogging, Etiquette, General, Internet, Ramblings, Websites.
Tags: Blogging, Instant Messaging, Social Networking, Texting, Websites
The other day I posted about a new web portal for women called Shine. It was launched by yahoo. I like the site and will continue to use it. It is a nice alternative to Ivillage where I have been a member for years. I know that the rest of this post may piss off people who may read this but, I feel that it is worthy of getting out there. I have spent some time there and have increasingly noticed that the youner people will blog like they are texting or instant messaging their best friend. Granted sometimes when I post something I will ocassionally let something slip through spellcheck but my blog posts do not look like i am texting or using instant messaging. How many of you think that people on sites who blog should at least use proper english when blogging or the proper etiquette when posting? To me that would encompass not screaming or typing in caps. The one thing I did notice about a recent post I read over at shine the individual who posted some YouTube Videos did not use proper english and also used upper and lower case in the title of the post. I have no problem that they posted something or the fact it was a YouTube video as I love YouTube and can waste hours on the site. I do not have a problem with them making a short post it does not have to be a novel. What I do have the problem with is that the person chooses to blog like they are texting or instant messaging. I tend to notice these things the more time I spend on places like shine or myspace or insert whatever social networking site you are a member of. Am I wrong to want places like these to look nice? I know I am rambling here but, this has bothered me today. I know the alternative is not to read everything I see but, with new sites like shine or myspace popping up I like to see what peoples thoughts are and what kind of content that they put out there.
Shine
April 1, 2008
Posted by slmetcal in General, Internet, Ramblings, Websites.
Tags: Entertainment, Fashion, Food
Well Yahoo has done it again. They have launched an all in one site for fashion information, entertainment, and food. I am posting this here as it does not fall into one specific category for my other blogs. It encompasses all the ones I mentioned above and then some. I just happened upon it the other day while surfing yahoo and saw that they have launched a site geared towards women. I think it is great and will continue to use the site. You should check it out sometime.
