Yesterday I had big plans. I wrote up posts for several of my sites and I was hoping that in the afternoon we’d go to the beach for the first time with our puppy since the weather was above freezing.
Well that didn’t happen.
Chris got busy removing the last of the snow that we had in our driveway. Our driveway is long and narrow and we can only park in the very front part of it because it’s so narrow. So no – during that big snow storm I didn’t shovel the whole driveway. So .. since it was above zero and the snow was beginning to melt Chris moved it around and got the driveway cleared.
Then he was tired.
The other thing I was going to do was to manually update all of my sites on Feverishthoughts.com to the latest and greatest version of WP.
I didn’t do that either.
Instead I got an invitation to join a new community group on Bumpzee.com and along with joining the new group I ended up adding a lot of new contacts to my account. I started by looking at members who’d visited my sites or profile recently, adding them if I liked their sites and then I looked at their lists of friends to see if I knew any of the bloggers that they’d added as contacts. I did something similar on Blogcatalog a few weeks ago too.
I literally spent hours on Bumpzee last night! It’s amazing to realize how many bloggers I know or who I was at least familiar with in some way. It was kind of addictive once I got started. If this keeps up they’re going to have to make something like a drug rehabilitation center for Bloggers, except of course it would be perhaps a Social Media Rehab.
Hopefully today I’ll begin upgrading my blogs, well that is if I can stay away from Bumpzee after adding all those bloggers as contacts!
There seem to be so many social networking sites. The two of us are on Facebook. Bumpzee is a new one to me.
I’ve never been drawn to the social networking sites at all. I guess I just like to visit blogs that have subjects i’m interested in. Technorati seems to be a site for people who want to generate ad traffic, and Blotanical is becoming viciously competitive. GTS is the only place I really enjoy exchanging comments with other gardeners.
Aiyana
LOL Jean-Luc I know you’re on Facebook – pretty active too. I think I get a little message in some form or other from you just about every day. LOL
My problem with social networks is that 1. I’m not 100% sure how to use them to best effect. 2. I don’t really have enough time on my hands to make the most of the networking potential. If I could spend more time looking up sites that discuss things I’m interested in and making contact with those bloggers on a regular basis that would be great, but I just don’t have the time.
Do you find Facebook helps you get more people to your site at all? I know it’s a fun place to hang out. I really like the trivia quiz’s.
Aiyana – Blotanical? Oh oh .. I just looked it up. Oh oh … I’m going to have to struggle to keep my self from exploring over there today. I really gotta get my sites updated! LOL
BTW my GTS posts are behind because I literally fell asleep at the computer last night. I’m just setting up the posts on my sites now and I’ll have them up in a short while.
BTW Aiyana … I really do think that taking the time to visit other bloggers sites and participate in conversations – like you do in the GTS – is really the best way for bloggers to network. It’s also the most fun. I just need a few more hours each day to do all the things I should be doing!