Margaret Rose Stringer's Blog, page 93
January 12, 2014
Tell me what’d I say …
I was afraid of this …
DAY 11: BE A GOOD NEIGHBOR — LEAVE COMMENTS ON THREE NEW BLOGS
The best thing you can do to connect with others and build a community around your site is to, well,engage. You’ve already been following topics and blogs, and chatting with other Zero to Hero participants — let’s take that up a notch.
Today’s assignment: leave comments on at least three blogs that you’ve never commented on before.
Why? – because engaging in conversation will inspire you; you never know where (o...
The 500th
http://unsmileys.wordpress.com/ – the one to draw the short straw (at this particular stage, anyway) …
I’m amazed that these 12 weeks have passed so quickly and been such fun!
Honestly, you guys – I don’t know how to thank you all. You’re a wonderful bunch to put up with my nonsense every day, and often several times within any one …
Filed under: Uncategorized Tagged: blogging
January 11, 2014
Oh, good grief!
DAY 10: DRESS UP YOUR BLOG WITH WIDGETS
You’ve done a lot so far — published a few posts, worked on yourAboutwidget and page, and dabbled in personalizing your blog with a custom headers and backgrounds. Today, let’s insert a few more widgets to add more personal touches to your blog.
Today’s assignment: add and customize two widgets.
Having spent some time a few days ago deciding which widgets I could reasonably get rid of in order to prevent my sidebar’s becoming the central piece of the blog...
Sliding through the years
It occurred to me to put up some historical family photos, because I had written in a piece for Starts at 60 the fact that I miss being part of my clever family.
It’s a bit of self-indulgence, isn’t it? – showing old family photos … But it’s fun for me to see again the strangeness of Chic’s having come from a family of four boys and me from one of five girls! Must be some significance in that: dunno what it could be.
The person who scanned them didn’t know a lot about sc...
January 10, 2014
Weekly Photo Challenge: Window
Another-y meant specifically for me (not)!
When we spent our entire holiday in Italy, in 2002, we made an unplanned arrival in Rieti , and fell madly in love with it. Rieti is most definitely worth visiting. If I were you, I’d cancel plans for staying somewhere else and go there!:-)
We didn’t, it is to be admitted, fall madly in love with the supposedly classy Four Seasons hotel we booked ourselves into: Stringer reckoned the rooms were higher than they were wide! Honestly, I have never seen ce...
January 6, 2014
Weekly Writing Challenge: Cliffhanger!
OK, are you all settled, my little dears …? Don’t spill your cocoa! Comfortable? – then off we go …
Once upon a time, there was a young woman who lived on her own in a 2-bedroom flat on the 4th floor that looked down on a huge traffic intersection called St Kilda Junction, a block or two away; and she enjoyed the ceaseless activity that was there if she chose to observe it. She loved living alone, in spite of the cost.
She had a boyfriend with some rather odd friends – a married couple who argu...
January 5, 2014
Wouldn’t it be better not to be so polite?
Oh. Um. Bother! This one’s a bit of a nail-chewer … Yet again I’m faced with the necessity of covering ground long since trodden – not that I’m blaming WordPress, because this project is designed primarily for absolute beginners …
DAY 4: EXPLORE THE NEIGHBORHOODToday’s assignment: follow five new topics in the Reader, and begin finding blogs (and bloggers) you love.
Part of what makes blogging such a rich experience are the conversations and relationships with people from every corner of the wo...
January 4, 2014
This is what it’s all about!
I’m so happy to have made this friend happy.
I would never pretend for a moment that I don’t know her well, because there’s no need: the fact that we are friends has nothing to do with this email. There was no need for her to have sent it: all she had to do was to write at some point saying something – anything – nice.
And touching on my previous post –carpe diemindeed. It seems that many readers have ended up with that feeling when finishingATLMD; and although I believed for ages that such was...
You were on my mind …
I’m still plugging away at this 30-day exercise, but beginning to wonder if there’ll be anything for me before the instructions that require me to repeat myself drive away every reader I have.
DAY 3: WHAT’S ON YOUR MIND?
Today’s assignment: write the post that was on your mind when you decided to start a blog.
Why? Because it’s an idea you were so passionate about, it motivated you to begin this new project — there’s something to that.
I followed various links offeredto help with this step, and c...
January 3, 2014
What’s my name …?
Ha! – unlike most of the rest of you, who have gone to the trouble of choosing a name for your blog that will attract attention, amuse or perhaps cause readers to reach for their dictionaries, mine is me: I am my own ‘brand’, you see.
DAY 2: WHAT’S YOUR NAME?
Today, you’ll name your blog and expand on that with an “About this Blog” widget, drawing on the introductory post you published yesterday {…}
because the title is the first thing most readers will see
because “What’s this blog about?” is th...
