Blogging & Social Media

This Thing Called Disclosure

by Trish September 9, 2010

Okay, so there has been a lot of hype over the last few months about the Revised FTC Endorsement Guidelines, especially as they apply to bloggers. Since I have gotten a few free books and other products to review on my blog over the past couple of years, I figured I’d better get my act [...]

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Sunday Best

by Trish April 25, 2010

I have been reading so many great posts by bloggers lately, and whenever I see something that really speaks to me in some way, I feel an urge to share it. Rather than flood Twitter or Facebook with links that may or may not be seen by anyone, I decided to list a few of [...]

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A Clear Direction

by Trish April 7, 2010

Besides catching up on dishes and laundry and dental work and doctor’s appointments and little things like updating Michael’s behavior plan and adding a safe crisis plan to the IEP (more on those topics later), I have had some time over the past month to think about where I want to go with this blog. [...]

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Hanging Up My Blogging Hat for Now

by Trish March 1, 2010

My regular readers may have noticed that I haven’t been blogging much lately. Although I have enjoyed the last two-plus years of blogging and all that it entails more than I can say, I am in a place right now where I must focus on some other areas of my life that are sorely in [...]

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Inlinkz – Another Option for Reader Link Lists

by Trish January 6, 2010

Just the other day, a comment was left on my blog regarding a new service for allowing readers to link up to your blog, called inlinkz. Since I am just getting ready to start using that sort of thing with the 365 Days of Decluttering Challenge, I decided to check it out. Here’s where you [...]

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Best Blog Award

by Trish November 8, 2009
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Well, I by no means think I am deserving of this award, but I am thankful to Leah at Just Me for letting me know I am appreciated. If you haven’t met Leah, she is a pastor’s wife and mom to 4 girls, one of whom has special needs. She has also embarked on a [...]

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Why I Love Clicking the Next Button

by Trish October 24, 2009

It’s 1:01 pm on Saturday, and I am starting a new blog post. It’s part of the Mom’s 30-Minute Blog Challenge over at SteadyMom, so I am giving myself 30 minutes to write this post and publish it. I will have to go in on Tuesday to link up to the challenge, but that’s it. [...]

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And the Kreativ Blogger Award Goes To…

by Trish September 7, 2009
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I was so touched to be named as an inspiring blogger by Mia of General Hysteria, especially after being so hit and miss this summer. I am so hoping to get into a better routine now that school has started, although the first week was very up and down for us! For those of you [...]

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Super Mommy’s First Blog Hop

by Trish August 15, 2009

I have been meeting a bunch of new bloggers lately, and one of them is a fun lady named Super Mommy. In addition to posting reviews and freebies, she has also started sharing about her two kids, one of whom has autism. For the blog hop, she is asking us to tell what our blogs [...]

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Adding Google Friend Connect to a WordPress Blog

by Trish August 6, 2009

Someone asked me the other day how to “follow” my blog, and I quickly realized they were referring to the Google Friend Connect widgets that are ubiquitous on Blogger blogs. My first instinct was to let them know this was a WordPress blog and suggest that they subscribe to my feed, but then I decided [...]

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I’m Baaack! (aka The Secret to Increasing Your Feed Subscribers)

by Trish July 5, 2009

Quite a post title, huh? So I get ready to come back and post again after a month off and find that the subscriber count on both of the blogs has gone up by about 100! I mean, I’ve seen Feedburner fluctuate before, but it usually goes down and makes you wonder what you may [...]

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Too Cluttered to Think Straight

by Trish June 1, 2009
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Even with the stressful IEP meetings over and the stress of our kindergarten-year schedule coming to a close, I am still finding it hard to put together a coherent sentence. Which in turn makes it hard to turn any of the ideas swirling around in my head into something worth posting here. So I have [...]

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Go Ahead, Click On It

by Trish May 30, 2009

If you are reading this in a feed and don’t see a black box with the word “decide” on it, click here to visit the post. Go ahead, click on it! Enjoy your Saturday!!

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Simplifying and Sharing, Part II

by Trish May 24, 2009

I mentioned last time I posted that I was trying out a new, cleaner layout for my blog. One of the things that I had in my sidebar for a long time is a widget for my Google Reader shared items. These are things that I thought were worth sharing when I read them in [...]

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Simplifying and Sharing, Part I

by Trish May 22, 2009
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I have been trying to simplify things in my life lately, including changing the look and feel of this blog. I am now using the Thesis theme and have gone back to my original puzzle piece header image. The new layout is set up with just one sidebar and a lot less clutter on the [...]

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