Maybe I shouldn't be...but I am. I'm single and dating online and I've just gotten six months FREE from Match.com. I did this by NOT finding my soul mate in the last six months. So why am I so happy? Should I be? Can a dating site guarantee that you'll meet your love? Or can they only guarantee that you'll get out there and keep meeting new people? OH...the burning questions to discuss.
You may have recently heard that the Oxford University Press, which publishes the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) each year, recently announced the new batch of 2,000 words that have been added to its current edition.
If you think about blogging, and the reasons why people give it up, you can start to see that blogging is really a community thing and without community, it starts to get pointless, lonely, and feels like a waste of time.
This is the same for both business and personal blogs.
This topic generated a lot of interest on my blog and it's a great one to get people talking. Suggestions for developing the conversation:
Initially I passed on this contest. I didn't think I had a thing to write that would interest anyone. Imagine my surprise when I realized just how much I was really getting out of this blogging site!
Too many people are taking the idea of "fake it 'til you make it" to extremes, and doing harm to themselves and others along the way. Is it time to reconsider the wisdom of this philosophy? And is there an alternative to "faking it"? Join in the debate at the Motivation 101 Blog!
How to get FREE books!! If you are like me, someone that likes to read, then having an opportunity to get books for free is a huge plus. If in addition to expanding your library you get another topic to blog and talk about, well that's an even better added bonus isn't it?
I talk about how to get free books and why you would want to do it also how and what you should write in your review.
In the context of a recent spate of posts about social media experts and their titles, I explain the name of my blog and try to give some rationale for why I chose the title "Social Media Wannabe."
I'd love to get feedback on the whole phenomena of social media experts and will be looking foward to checking out others talking about the same subject.
Eat, Pray, Love means many things to many people. I have had my issues with the book, which I have written about before. Just as I was ready to put up my EPL critiquing pen, I read an article on The Daily Beast that got me going all over again. The book has taken on a life of its own--one that includes EPL pasta bowls, and teas from each region that will bring you peace and serenity. Or so they say.
If you follow me and have a blog, chances are I follow you back and try hard to comment on posts that you make... because I love knowing more about you, keeping up with recipes, your kids, the family drama, the pets etc... and I also try to enter your giveaways and contests when it's a product or service that I could really use... I also am one of those people who actually read product and book reviews regularly - because I know that honest, well thought out opinions will help me be a better consumer and a better shopper...
Our government has spent $50 billion in reconstruction, and according to more than 300 different audits, $5 billion of the $50 billion has been wasted on projects that have either been abandoned, unused, or completely left empty and unutilized. We, as citizens, and voters, should be outraged, and should really make sure that this kind of thing stops happening.
I love writing poetry. Sometimes the ideas and words form sultry webs in my mind for me to unravel and put back together again for others to understand. For me, that is the key to my poetry. My thoughts, though tangled they may be for a time, must ultimately be understood by others for it to have value and meaning.
I like how moments that can seem harried and terrible at the time - in retrospect, can seem so perfect and pure (remember late night feedings with babies - the ballet recital or Christmas pageant during which the camera broke and your kid didn't sing or smile the whole time? Priceless, right?). So... in that vein - that non-cliched, "here's an unusual / direct way to tell a story or make a point" way, I have posted some bittersweet snippets of my life - dinner alone with my little ones - not a true adult conversation in sight - for days sometimes!
Sherry (Maggie Gyllenhaal) is a theif and drug addict. She spent the last three years away from her young daughter and wants her back. Sherry soon realizes this will be the hardest thing she eve had to do. SherryBaby is a poignant film about life's intimate tragedies and the terrible struggle to overcome them.
Ever stop to ask yourself these simple questions when your blogging? Maybe your a newbie who has considered writing a blog, but didn't really know where to start? This blog will get you started, and help more experienced bloggers evaluate themselves.
Know you need to utilize social media for business or personal use and just not sure where to start? This blog is about sharing usable information to help you navigate your way through social media. This specific blog post is part 1 of a series on online conduct. Online conduct being the way you or someone on behalf of a company should act and react when using social media. Getting down to basic, almost common sense topics, the blog is designed to help beginners and give experts a new viewpoint and a few tips they might not otherwise have known.
This month has been about making huge sweeping changes in my life...this dreamboard represents what I want, where I want to go, where I am going...even if I am only now catching a clue as to how I am going to get there. At least I am moving and progressing. At least I can say on some level I get it now.
After this month’s monsoon season submerged one-fifth of Pakistan under water, I began to wonder if maybe we’ve got it backwards...it seemed apparently the best way to help those who have suffered is to drop as much cash as possible into the humanitarian collection plate every time it’s passed around... http://dkkingwriter.blogspot.com/
how do you communicate the “essence of you” online? your online identity becomes the sum total of the information you share online. sharing information, forming relationships, and allowing your personality to show through creates an interesting & authoritative online persona that can truly market your business and grow your network.
I’m a big fan of NPR … National Public Radio. I consider time spent listening to NPR is my time to become enlightened, educated and entertained (not always in that order). Today was no exception.
Swearing on blogs, do you or don't you? I was curious on the subject myself, since being a ''Mom Blogger'' I was supposed to adhere to a whole set of standards. Which I pretty much disregard anyway. My post was entitled Thou shalt not swear and was aimed at the Mom blogging community in general about the standards we are sometimes expected to meet.
A hard question to answer, I know! But let’s get a collection going, I am eagerly anticipating to hear yours, and I think that this could make for a really amazing and original project - not your average " classic famous quotes collection", but an expression of our uniqueness as writers and readers. If you’ve got a tie (or two, or three…) feel free to post them all! If it's a success, other fabulous collections of lines from poetry or song lyrics could come next, on your blog or mine.
What is creativity? Where does its magical flow come from? I think back to times in my life where I have felt the most creative. Without blinking I know it is when I am driving. On a six hour drive from Midland to Ft. Worth streams of ideas flow through me. By the end of the drive I am as exhausted from the creating that has consumed me. For most of my life I believed it was the magic of Midland, or the west Texas roads that go on forever and take my mind with them.
A review of the impact of social networking on communication and conversation between members of the general public. It considers the mass and wealth of information that is placed on websites such as Facebook and Twitter whilst it concedes the usefulness of the technology for promoting stronger relationships between distancing parties.
