Blogging & Social Media

Welcome to my world!

by Trish August 27, 2008

Well, I’ve taken the leap and acquired my own domain – anotherpieceofthepuzzle.com.  I will slowly but surely be moving Another Piece of the Puzzle over here from wheresthebox.blogspot.com.

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Catching Up Is Hard To Do

by Trish August 5, 2008

This is a bit of a catch-up post, since I keep thinking of all the things I have been meaning to share but haven’t gotten to yet.  ‘Tis a bit long as well; my apologies – it was either this or four shorter posts and that would overwhelm even me! First, the Wordle The image [...]

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Try This Tuesday at 5MFSN

by Trish July 15, 2008

Hop over and check out the weekly meme I will be hosting at 5 Minutes for Special Needs. The first “Try This” idea will be posted next Tuesday, and I hope all of you with special needs children will join in. You can also grab the code for the button if you want to spread [...]

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My Blog Mission

by Trish July 14, 2008

Angela @ Becoming Me is someone whom I admire, partly for the eloquence of her writing, but even more for her willingness to talk openly and honestly about issues of the heart. So when she asked her readers to define their blog mission, I decided to take the challenge to look inward at my motivations [...]

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Does This Mean I’m A Real Writer?

by Trish July 11, 2008

My first post is up at 5 Minutes for Special Needs. I’d love to have you pop over and check it out (and I love comments even more)! I also want to extend a special welcome to those of you who are visiting from the site. I am so honored to be part of that [...]

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Got 5 Minutes?

by Trish July 10, 2008

I am currently away on vacation with my husband’s family, but just had to take a few minutes to share some very exciting news (at least it is for me – I hope you will think so too)! A few weeks ago, I was approached by Tammy @ Praying for Parker about participating in a [...]

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Proud to be Mediocre

by Trish July 7, 2008

I may not have hundreds of readers or thousands of visitors here at Another Piece of the Puzzle, but I am proud of what I do and have met some wonderful people through blogging over the past several months. So how fun was it to hear about a very clever blog called AllMediocre, whose tagline [...]

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My Interview at 5 Minutes for Mom

by Trish June 30, 2008

Did you know that 5 Minutes for Mom has a blog directory? I had submitted my blog a while ago and just found out that I am now listed, plus there is an interview with me about how I got started blogging and what I love about it. It was really fun to answer the [...]

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What’s Your Blog Mission?

by Trish June 25, 2008

Now there’s an interesting question. Here’s the challenge from Becoming Me: create a mission statement for your blog, post it sometime between July 13th-18th, and then link to the post she will have up at her site to share your mission and even win a prize. Read the Blog Mission Tour post for more information [...]

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What the Heck is a Plurk?

by Trish June 23, 2008

Have you joined Plurk yet? Like Twitter, only different, Plurk offers an easy way to see who is responding to each plurk and has interesting features like qualifiers, emoticons and karma. With both of these, I find I am a casual user and can tend to lurk more than participate, but I will say that [...]

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I’m on mommybar!

by Trish June 17, 2008

I am generally cautious about installing new toolbars in my browser, but after reading about this new one designed for moms, I decided to give it a trial run–and I really like it! The mommybar allows you to easily access tons of great mom blogs, social networks and various other resources such as shopping sites [...]

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Saturday 9: Sharing Your Blog Habit

by Trish June 7, 2008

While scrolling through the entries on BlogNetNews.com/autism, I found this neat little meme on Laane on the World and decided to give it a whirl. 1. How long have you been blogging?Just 4 1/2 months; I started my blog on January 26, 2008. 2. How did you start?I started reading a friend’s blog and then [...]

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New FriendFeed Rooms Feature

by Trish May 27, 2008

This weekend there was some buzz about the room feature on FriendFeed and then, when a Mom Bloggers Club room was created, I decided to check it out – and absolutely love it! It is easy to add almost any online service to create a personal feed of your online activity, plus you can subscribe [...]

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New Autism Section on BlogNetNews.com

by Trish May 24, 2008

If you stopped by here in April, you are probably aware that I participated in Blogging for Autism Awareness during that month as part of a campaign organized by Genevieve Hinson. Towards the end of April, she was approached with an opportunity to keep the awareness going; BlogNetNews wanted to create an autism section on [...]

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I Can Hardly Believe It, It’s My…

by Trish May 17, 2008

Wow, I can’t believe I am already at my 100th post – what an adventure this has been so far! From my first post at the end of January ’til now, I have had incredible fun learning the ins and outs of blogging, as well as discovering more about myself through the experience, and I [...]

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