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My husband and I spent the last 2 days enjoying the Labor Day weekend with 9 of our 16 grandchildren. As usually happens this time of year, the conversation turned to the type of costumes they’re going to wear for Halloween.
That got me thinking that the readers of this blog may be in the planning stages of what their blogs and websites are going to “wear” for Halloween.
If you’re a blogger, webmaster or information marketer, sooner or later the time is going to come when you need to resize a graphic or image.
Now if you’re like I was when first faced with this task several years ago, the first thing you do is panic. Actually, I think my first reaction was to paraphrase a line from my favorite movie, Gone With the Wind…
The other evening my friend Andrea Chin and I spent a good part of our 2 hour phone call discussing how “iffy” and time-consuming it is finding royalty-free images to use in a blog post.
Almost as if the Twitter gods were smiling down on me, within 5 minutes of finishing our telephone call Michel Fortin sent a tweet that directed me to Seth Simonds’ article, “How I Discover & Use Images On My Blog”.
In his article Seth reveals that he uses Flickr to find his images. However; as he himself puts it…
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Aquaticus.Social is an icon set consisting of 30 individual icons of the popular social networking and Web 2.0 sites that are currently online. I’m using 5 of them in the “Let’s Connect” box in the sidebar of this blog.
The website icons that are included in this free download are…
Is it just me, or does publishing the first post on a new blog remind you of being the “new kid in school”?
You know that first day (post) is coming, but you’re excruciatingly nervous about it because you also know what’s going to be expected of you…
…the dreaded moment when you have to stand in front of everyone and “introduce yourself”.
You practice your signature speech for weeks, yet when the time comes you hem and haw, shift nervously back and forth, then blurt out something really lame like…
“Hi, my name is Sharon. I just came here from Florida, my interests are Twitter, graphics, templates, blog themes and mini-sites and I’m looking forward to getting to know you all.”
You then high-tail-it back to your seat to the unmistakable snickers and whispers from the “regulars” – as they attempt to size-up the new kid from first appearances alone.
Till Next Time,
P.S. Keeping with the new kid in school analogy, think of posting a comment as your way of inviting the “new kid” to sit with you at lunch.
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