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When I first started blogging I made it a goal to post once a day, except on Sundays. Most weeks it feels pretty manageable, with the danger always being writing something just for the sake of meeting the goal. I never want to do post something if it doesn’t have some type of a purpose.…

I’ve said it plenty of times…social media has a lot of power and a lot of positives. I referred to some of the positives in this post a few months ago. With all the power for positives in social media, there is an equal and maybe greater power for negative influence. I saw a couple…

Writing the demise of social media reminded me of all the “mistakes” I’ve made in social media in the past. I say “mistakes” partly because there are a lot of things I would do differently, but also because when the heart behind the mistakes is right, they aren’t totally mistakes (at least in social media…that…

I figured out pretty quickly that blogs that don’t have opinions are boring. The downside of this is that to have an opinion means you become controversial and can offend people at times. I’ve been thinking about this ever since I wrote my post on “the demise of social media” last week. I had an…

Social media means a lot of things to a lot of people. What it means for me doesn’t necessarily work for everyone else. However, I do think I have a decent grasp of how many view it though, so hopefully my thoughts are helpful in that way. I have 3 examples that I’ve seen in…

While I was gone on vacation I decided to not use social media. I was gone 8 days (disclaimer: I tweeted 3 times and used Facebook 4 times, only when I was really bored with nothing to do). At the beginning it was quite difficult. I get used to thinking about things that I should…