Welcome to My Blog Page

As suggested by ProBlogger on the third day of “31 Days to Building a Better Blog” I should search for and join a forum.  Since I have been blogging for a few months I have already joined several forums.

Edublogs

LibraryThing

Shelfari

My goal will be to find new forum and introduce it to bloggers following my blog.  Right now I am very interested in the Personal Learning Networks (PLN) and how to expand.  I will search for a forum which is informative on PLN’s.

I need one individual to audit my blog and answer the following questions.

• What are your first impressions?
• What did you first think the blog was about when you arrived at it?
• Did you find it easy to read/navigate/understand?
• What did you ‘feel’ when you first arrived at the blog?
• What suggestions do you have on how I could improve this blog?
• What questions do you have having surfed the blog?
• What words would you use to describe the design?
• What are the main things that you remember about the blog 10 minutes later?

Source:

http://www.problogger.net/archives/2007/08/02/run-a-first-time-reader-audit-on-your-blog/

E-Mail a New Reader

I sent a comment over to N. Z. Waikato at the Tamaki Today blog.  Their class has been kind enough to follow by blog.  I hope I am worthy of their following.  Tamaki Today’s blog is used to promote the work of Room Six at Tamaki Intermediate School located in Panmure, Auckland, New Zealand.  Check out their blog it is very interesting and a lot of fun.

Also as a way to enlist more readers I am going to send out a message using Twitter.  This is a great means to networking.

Now that I have found Jing I want to introduce you to my pet project.  My husband and I were blessed in 2001 with a rough and tumble 2 1/2 year old who will turn ten next week.  You may have noticed his pictures in past blogs.   Our blessed union was brought about by an off hand introduction to Debbie Sparrow and her sister Jill.

Debbie and her husband Dennis started the adoption agency SEEK, International which fouced on the adoption of Romania children.  Over the years other SEEK parents and myself have been discussing ideas on how we can contribute to SEEK’s mission to help the children of Romania and continue to support the families SEEK has blessed over the years.  Yes, we are all involved in organizing fundraising events and humanitarian projects, but we wanted to do more.  Over the past month we have started a blog as a way for SEEK families to interact and social network with other SEEK families and the international community.  This blog was also started as a means to promote SEEK’s mission to continue to help our children in Romania.

I would like to introduce the Friends of SEEK blog

Please visit our blog and meet the SEEK families and our children in Romania.  I hope you will add the site to your RSS reader and continue to follow its growth.

Wow – If technology only had the ability to wire harness the inter-workings of my co-worker’s brain. She has more information in there than I think is humanly possible. Every time I mention a roadblock she comes up with a solution. The newest one is Jing. This application allows you to capture anything on your screen and turn it into a picture or video.  This is how all those individuals are adding tutorial videos to their blogs.



It is so easy.  This is screen shot of my home computer screen.  As you can see I was able to add text and arrows to point out features.  Way cool.    Have fun add Jing to your applications.

This blog post by Sue Waters caught my eye and I have be debating the idea over the last few weeks.  I researched the idea and started following Steve Dembo’s site “30 Days To Being a Better Blogger”.  I like the concept and think it would be a lot of fun, especially during the cold winter months when we spend more time indoors.  But I have no idea what I would write or show on the blog for 31 days.

Then a “Ta Da” occurred a few moments ago.

Something you don’t know about me is for 15 years I enjoyed working as a Litigation Paralegal.  I love researching and finding answers to questions.  So here is my idea on the concept of 31 days to better blogging.  Tell me your questions about blogging, what you want to learn or have seen on other blogs and don’t know how it is done.  I will research the subject matter and attempt to answer your questions.  I need at least 31 different subjects to research.

Hopefully I have enough followers to get this project started.

Looking forward to hearing from you.

P.S.  After posting I came up with another idea.  Let me know of any key blogging elements missing from my site and I can work on adding them to the site.

Hey Jude introduced me to Zemanta.  As an add-on to Firefox it assists you when posting a blog.  As you are writing Zemanta is finding photos which correspond to your subject matter.  Zemanta also recommends tags for your post.  I’m really enjoying Zemanta’s resources.  Try it out.