Tweet This past weekend I began my traveling for the holidays.  There’s been days of 12 hours at the airport, cramped airplanes, and long car rides– and it’s just the beginning!  Rather than spend my time bored in an airport (or sleeping in the terminal), I thought there has to be a useful way for [...]

Tweet Ahhh. The holidays.  Parties, presents, travel, snow, a change in winter attire.  Also, travel, parties, work overload, families, holiday shopping, and everything else that takes away from our time online.   I don’t know about you– but I always find a huge drop in traffic around the holidays.  It’s a bit depressing.  Logically, I [...]

Tweet   Once upon a time, I stirred up A LOT of feelings when I wrote Responding to “Follow My Blog!” Messages & Comments.  In general, it seems that many bloggers don’t respond well to generic messages begging for followers on IFB.   Think about the relationships in your life.  Would you walk up to [...]

Tweet Google Friend Connect is a widget featured on many blogs, and most Blogger sites.  Google Friend Connect integrates your Google/Blogger Account, Google Reader, and Blog together seamlessly (though trickier if you try to unsubscribe from a site).  It highlights hundreds of beautiful followers in your blog sidebar.  In short, it’s a great, popular tool [...]