Random Thoughts about life in general, living in the big city of Toronto
I think I spent close to two hours today adding people to the blogrolls that I run and adding a few of my sites to blogrolls run by others! I also listed our sites on a few new directories that I discovered.
Busy busy! I’d say I spent most of this week working on advertising and promoting our sites. Hopefully the time I put into this pays off in the near future.
How did you spend your Saturday?
Wow, this blogging thing has become a real job lately! Maintaining all of my sites and my husbands takes a good portion of time each day.
When I’m not creating new posts for each of my blogs I’m answering email and some of the comments left on the blogs. The rest of the time I’m either working on securing advertising or making the advertising that I’m using on the sites work better for me or I’m trying to promote the sites.
I used to have more time to promote the websites, but I think this is the area I’ve let fall behind the most as I’ve gotten busier and busier.
I consider promoting our sites to be anything from having fun visiting my friends and others blogs and leaving comments to finding a new Blogging Directory in which to list our sites. Oh yes, social networking sites like Mybloglog, Blogcatalog and Bumpzee are one way that I promote our sites.
How do you manage your sites? Do you just blog and leave the rest to chance or do you do some background work to try to get the word out about your blog?
Chris had a bit of a messed up day at work yesterday. They’re apparently upgrading all of the healthcare management software in the hospital and they were testing it out in Chris’ department yesterday.
I don’t know if they’ve ever changed the software over to a new program in your workplace, but it’s a pain in the butt. There’s always people that can’t figure it out, or worse, it’s a new complicated program unlike anything that was used in that workplace before so no one knows how to use it once it’s installed.
In the healthcare field this is bad news! There’s already enough delays in patient care due to most medical offices and hospitals being short staffed. A major software change causes even more delays as people struggle to learn new programs while they try to work.
That’s what happened in Chris’ department. No one had been trained on the new software so it was chaos!
They really should train people first before them implement a system wide change don’t you think?
Hey gang, do you want a chance to win a Nintendo Wii from CellForCash.com? Sure you do!
I believe I’ve told you about CellForCash.com in the past.
It’s an online company that makes it easy for you to sell your cell phone for cash. Cool.
Not only can you enter their contest and have a chance at winning their monthly $100 giveaway, win a great prize like the Nintendo Wii and be entered in their annual $1000 grand prize draw, but you can also recycle your cell phone for free and get cash back for it too.
Did you know that millions of old cellphones are simply thrown away each year in the USA? These cellphones end up in landfills. Hazardous toxic metals and chemicals can leach from the old cell phones into the ground waters and cause pollution. It’s terrible really when you think about it. So why not do your part and check to see if you can sell your old cellphone to CellForCash.com? They’ll recycle the cell phone for you once they receive it.
So what are you waiting for? You can win a Wii if you enter this contest. Go sign up!
I think that sometime over the next couple of days the look of this site will change.
I know … I’ve said that a couple of times this summer. I just haven’t been able to find the time to customize a new theme for this site and a couple of other blogs that I write that need a new look too.
I really do need to change this theme. the sidebars load first and since they have some scripts in them that can be slow it really slows the loading time of the content. I’ve tried to switch the coding in the theme so that the posts will load first but every time I’ve tried the them breaks. I must have tried 30 times over the last year in several different ways and each time it’s ended in failure.
I’ve got a few themes in mind for this site. I just have to decide which one to customize to make it “mine”, but once I do this place will have a new look.