Morning all!

‘Tis been awhile since I’ve last written here as I’ve been up to my earlobes designing my entrepreneurial blog BarbaraLing.com.  However, I’ve reached a breathing point over yonder, so I can start writing at some of my other blogs like this one too!

I’d like to invite you to visit my entrepreneurial blog.  If the heavens are aligned and the birdies are singing and the cows are mooing, ideally you should see a dropdown menu on top like so: [Read more]

Morning!

It’s now been, hmmmm, 4 months since I’ve started problogging, and the amount of knowledge and tips I’ve gained is amazing.  Truly the blogosphere is a superb resource for teaching yourself just about anything regarding the art of communicating with people about whom you care.

I’ve also discovered that blogging can really help boost your income as well! 

One of my trademarks is always walking the walk I talk and consistently putting into practice everything I teach.  That’s why I maintain several blogs besides this one, including: [Read more]

Morning,

Twitter has apparently recovered from the glitch over the  weekend (kinda sorta)! 

That’s the good news.

And Eric from Internet Duct Tape wrote a extremely comprehensive post that describes exactly how to import one’s Twitter contacts to Friendfeed!

That’s the better news!

To wit:

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As you might be aware, over the past 10 days I have carefully devise 10 rather ridiculously silly Twitter rants.  There’s a method to my madness, of course - go to [Read more]

Morning!

You know, there I was, sitting at my computer, drinking my morning coffee, when all of a sudden I said to myself:

"Golly self!   I just adore the number 101!  Let’s make 101 lists!"

After sanity returned, I modified the above conversation to:

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Morning!  Can you believe, it’s 5:50am here and my 15 budgies are actually still sleeping on top of their cage in my office?  No twittering or cheeping or trying to sound like Iron Maiden on steroids!

Peace and quiet…what a concept.  Soon to be destroyed, of course, as I have to get the kids up for school, but I’m enjoying it for as long as I can.

But I digress. 

Tomorrow is April Fools Day!  And tomorrow is the day I’m releasing my (drum roll please) [Read more]

Morning!

The sun is shining, the birdies are mooing and the cows are tweeting and of course, I’ll bet the immediate thought that smacked you upside the head upon reading that was:

Hey!  In less than a week it will be April Fools Day! 

followed closely by

Hey!  I wonder if I should take advantage of that!

followed closely by

Hey!  How on earth do I even begin?

Well, gentle readers, fear ye NOT about the above, for I shall give you some super pointers to increasing your readership thru your own April Fools joke you’ll devise on your blog.  It’s really not difficult at all [Read more]

You know, I’ve been educating myself quite a lot about Twitter lately, and I can really see the benefits to it. 

But the more I analyze it, the more I realize…it’s missing some key critical features.  And for my Friday Musings, I’ve decided to start listing them, one by one.

Let’s start with:

No way to communicate in MORE than 140 characters. 

Sure, I know, the basis for Twitter IS 140 characters or less, but c’mon!  If someone [Read more]

Are you sitting down?  You should be to ensure you don’t fall off your chair after visualizing the following:

You promise me now you’re sitting, right?  I don’t have to worry about hearing large <THUMPS>?

Alright then….tell me.  Picture the following.

SpongeBob SquarePants battling the Cloverfield Monster.

Okay now!  Is that image firmly lodged within your cranium?

Is it crowding out visions of freshly-perked coffee and the spine-tingling joy of a neat laundry room (complete with nary a single sock in sight)?

Excellent.  Now tell me….what on earth could such an image convey?  You’ve all heard, a picture is worth a thousand words….what would cute yellow SpongeBob up against mean scary Cloverfields make people think?

Hang on, wait a sec, what’s that you just thought?

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If you’ve been online for more than, hmmmm, 17 seconds or so, you’ve probably heard about Twitter - the nifty site that lets you communicate in chunks shorter than 140 characters. 

If so, you’ve probably noticed that people use the TinyURL function to easily let their friends know about super neat blog posts, websites, etc.

After witnessing this sharing about 817 times, I said to myself:

Gee self, it would be quite spiffy if I could proactively give my readers the TinyURL itself…and then encourage them to tweet it on Twitter!

And thus was born my quest that resulted in every one of my blog posts being prefaced by:

NOTE! If you enjoy this post, please feel free to twitter it with the tinylink (fill in tinyURL here). Thanks, I appreciate it!

Here’s how I did it and how you can do it too.

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