I have a plan for this year – it involves a major housekeep of all my sites (and there are an awful lot) which will end with many of them going by the wayside I suspect. I’m also revamping my vanity site, which hadn’t been touched in donkeys ages and which was really quite shameful. The new site will be a little bare to start with but will gradually become a directory of all my sites and work online. You may be surprised at what comes out of the woodwork….
There will be some reshuffling here on Mutterz as well, mainly in that it won’t be so neglected. I’ve started the tidying and revamping here today with the addition of some new social media contact links in the sidebar and also google friend connect. The video profile will be going soon as it’s a bit too dominating – so if you haven’t seen it yet, take the chance whilst you can. Why am I paying so much attention to the social side of things. It’s two fold. First of all, I’m a social animal and working online can be a lonely business. I find the twittering and the contact through various other social media an antidote to that isolation which leads nicely to the second reason.
I had a minor rant the other day about the proliferation of rubbish on the net and commented that the rise of social media would have an effect on this. I’m something of a cynic but my other half is even worse and muttered into his wineglass that it wouldn’t change anything and there would always be the lowlives that were out to screw us out of our hard earned money in return for their rubbish. I agree. However, amidst the press induced gloom and despondency about the economic situation, I have noted that most companies are reporting an increase in Online trading which is, to my mind, a natural result of the demise of the High Street shopping culture.
For some reason, we always like to shout when something goes wrong, or we feel hard done by. Sadly, we rarely shout so loud when something is good. The rise of social media is going to mean that people who are conned by the lowlives are going to shout, and the word is going to spread. People are going to polarise into groups where they feel they can trust people, and get good advice and guidance and they are going to use the ‘oh so easy’ social media in the ether. As mobile phones synch more and more with the net it is getting easier and easier to be in touch in so many ways. Being a part of the conversations is going to be so important for more reasons than I have space for here. That is why I am paying so much attention to the chat, and why I will continue to do so.
Do join in – I’d love to hear your views – there’s lots of ways to converse with me, just pick one of the nice shiny new buttons in the sidebar, or better still pick more than one and connect as a friend. I might be a grumpy old woman but I don’t bite!
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