timethief t. posted an article on onecoolsitebloggingtips - Feb 8, 2012, 11:48 pm
Have you considered what the next wave of social networks will be like?  Social media ie. technology that enables our connectness is becoming more seamlessly and rapidly integrated into our activities that soon the phrase may disappear.  We are no longer limited to desktop computers; mobile growth...
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timethief t. posted an article on This Time This Space - Feb 8, 2012, 9:05 pm
“Fear is just an illusion and if you believe in this illusion, you are creating your reality. What can you believe in that is not fear? Love. Love is your essence. If you move from fear deep into your heart, you will discover that there is a beautiful little light that you have forgotten. The … ...
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timethief t. posted an article on onecoolsitebloggingtips - Feb 8, 2012, 2:42 pm
Facebook News Feed appears on your homepage highlights what’s happening in your social circles on Facebook.  Facebook Mini-Feed appears in each person’s profile and updates a personalized list of news stories throughout the day. For Facebook to be an effective social media tool your posts have ...
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timethief t. posted an article on onecoolsitebloggingtips - Feb 4, 2012, 5:39 pm
What’s the biggest risk facing Facebook? Hint: it may be in the palm of your hand. Half of the social network’s 845 million users now access the site through their cellphones, and that number is surging. Problem is Facebook currently … Continue reading →
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timethief t. posted an article on onecoolsitebloggingtips - Feb 4, 2012, 5:00 pm
Recently, Joel Garcia at GTO Management bought it to everyone’s attention that everyone’s new favorite social sharing site, Pinterest, is basically hijacking links to make money as an affiliate. I highly recommend checking out Joel’s complete post, but here’s the … Continue reading →
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timethief t. posted an article on This Time This Space - Feb 3, 2012, 12:27 am
The Oxford Happiness Inventory and a battery of personality measures were completed by 171 subjects. The results showed predicted positive correlations for happiness with satisfaction with life, self-esteem, and sociability and negative correlations of happiness with embarrass-ability, loneliness, s...
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timethief t. posted an article on onecoolsitebloggingtips - Feb 2, 2012, 5:49 pm
Will StumbleUpon  become a graveyard with abandoned user pages like headstones marking what once was a vibrant community and is no more? Many previously active StumbleUpon users  abandoned their accounts due the last set of StumbleUpon changes.  Now users have … Continue reading →
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timethief t. posted an article on This Time This Space - Feb 1, 2012, 12:56 am
My Beloved’snew position comes with lots of responsibilities, meetings and travel.  That means an increase in work for me on the home front.  Though we scheduled our time in advance there were several unexpected events in January and every one … Continue reading →
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timethief t. posted an article on onecoolsitebloggingtips - Jan 30, 2012, 9:53 pm
Domains can be purchased from a registrar by individuals or companies. If you own a domain name, you gain independence, more credibility and flexibility that only top level domains can provide. Overall, it makes your site much more professional-looking, easier … Continue reading →
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timethief t. posted an article on onecoolsitebloggingtips - Jan 27, 2012, 11:33 pm
Twitter has announced their ability and intention to block selected content by country. We haven’t yet used this ability, but if and when we are required to withhold a Tweet in a specific country, we will attempt to let the … Continue reading →
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timethief t. posted an article on onecoolsitebloggingtips - Jan 27, 2012, 11:01 pm
I’ve been using Summify,  a social networks summarizing tool. It connects to all of your feeds Facebook, Twitter, and RSS feeds and automatically summarizes which stories, news, and updates are the most important and relevant to you.  This was done by … Continue reading →
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timethief t. posted an article on onecoolsitebloggingtips - Jan 26, 2012, 2:42 pm
“Few people have heard of ACTA, or the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, but the provisions in the agreement appear quite similar to – and more expansive than – anything we saw in SOPA. Worse, the agreement spans virtually all of the … Continue reading →
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timethief t. posted an article on onecoolsitebloggingtips - Jan 26, 2012, 1:49 am
Google announced, starting today,  we’re updating our Top Search Queries feature to make it better match expectations about search engine rankings.  “The new definition will take the average of the top ranking of your site for all searchers, as opposed … Continue reading →
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timethief t. posted an article on onecoolsitebloggingtips - Jan 25, 2012, 8:27 pm
So much for my goal of becoming a more organized blogger in 2012. After two wicked storms featuring wild winds that delivered snow and freezing rain and toppled trees over the power lines leaving us without power for almost two … Continue reading →
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timethief t. posted an article on This Time This Space - Jan 23, 2012, 11:20 pm
Chinese New Year (Chinese: 春節, 春节, Chūnjíe; 農曆新年, 农历新年, Nónglì Xīnnián; or 過年, 过年, Guònián), is also known as the Lunar New Year or the Spring Festival and is the most important of the traditional Chinese holidays. New Year’s Eve … Continue reading →
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timethief t. posted an article on This Time This Space - Jan 20, 2012, 11:00 pm
The key to successful winter gardening is knowing the average date of the first killing frost in your region and planting winter vegetable crops early enough to reach their full maturity before that frost. Gardeners here grow over 20 kinds … Continue
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timethief t. posted an article on onecoolsitebloggingtips - Jan 18, 2012, 12:09 am
My regular readers will be shocked to see my blog in black but there’s an important reason for that. Today Jane Wells made the Anti-SOPA announcement millions of WordPress.com bloggers have been waiting to hear.  WordPress.com is joining, Reddit.com, Wikipedia.org, … Continue reading →
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timethief t. posted an article on onecoolsitebloggingtips - Jan 17, 2012, 8:54 pm
There are two options: a “Stop Censorship” ribbon and a full blackout. The blackout portion will be in effect January 18 from 8am to 8pm EST, while the ribbon will be displayed until January 24. Here’s how to join in: … Continue reading →
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timethief t. posted an article on onecoolsitebloggingtips - Jan 16, 2012, 4:54 pm
In a surprise move today, Representative Eric Cantor(R-VA) announced that he will stop all action on SOPA, effectively killing the bill. This move was most likely due to several things. One of those things is that SOPA and PIPA met … Continue reading →
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timethief t. posted an article on onecoolsitebloggingtips - Jan 16, 2012, 4:33 pm
If you are on WordPress.com, it’s harder to blackout your blog completely unless WordPress.com offers an option to black out our blogs in protest on January 18. So I’m offering an alternative. via January 18: Join Reddit in a National … Continue reading →
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timethief t. posted an article on onecoolsitebloggingtips - Jan 13, 2012, 10:23 pm
Save The Date! Forever also sports a custom design for a new widget we call Milestone. You can find it in your blog dashboard at Appearance → Widgets and it’s pretty easy to use. Just pick a title for your … Continue reading →
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timethief t. posted an article on onecoolsitebloggingtips - Jan 12, 2012, 8:24 pm
“After a lot of work and some test trials, I figured out a semi-easy way to insert a pin it! button into my wordpress.com blog. I wrote a post about it that gives step by step directions. Hope this helps … Continue reading →
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timethief t. posted an article on onecoolsitebloggingtips - Nov 2, 2011, 3:23 pm
There are many elements that make a good business plan. It often takes time, patience and many revisions before you get it right. Unfortunately when rushing to get your funding in place and launch your business, your plan can get neglected. Below we have highlighted a few of the very common mistakes...
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timethief t. posted an article on This Time This Space - Nov 2, 2011, 2:05 pm
Humans are by nature perceptive and compassionate beings in tune with nature and with others but these qualities are usually lost in the deluded busyness of  life.  The more exposure we have to the stresses of  life in a busy world the more important it is that we make the time to relieve the pre...
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timethief t. posted an article on onecoolsitebloggingtips - Oct 31, 2011, 3:12 pm
Now Google will alert you if  they canonicalize your URLs to a different domain. To be transparent about cross-domain URL selection decisions, we’re launching new Webmaster Tools messages that will attempt to notify webmasters when our algorithms select an external URL instead of one from their w...
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timethief t. posted an article on onecoolsitebloggingtips - Oct 31, 2011, 10:44 am
by Guest author Brad  of candiantechblogger.com Apple – Introducing Siri on iPhone 4S Siri intro demo by Apple. Siri on iPhone 4S lets you use your voice to send messages, set reminders, place phone calls, and more. What is Siri? Siri is Apple’s new killer feature for the iPhone 4s. For those w...
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timethief t. posted an article on onecoolsitebloggingtips - Oct 27, 2011, 8:21 pm
Earlier this year I visited Quantcast and saw that data I wanted access to was not available to me. I knew that as all WordPress.com hosted blogs are monetized and that they were also Quantified, as the Quantcast HTML code is inserted into our blogs by Staff. I emailed Quantcast and officially requ...
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timethief t. posted an article on onecoolsitebloggingtips - Oct 27, 2011, 1:16 am
You may have heard the stat that StumbleUpon drives more traffic referrals than any other social media site. We wanted to shed some light on this by describing the lifecycle of a web page in StumbleUpon, especially how long you could expect the average web page to keep getting visitors. via StumbleU...
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timethief t. posted an article on onecoolsitebloggingtips - Oct 26, 2011, 10:24 pm
WordPress 3.3 Beta 2 has been released  and that means more changes to WordPress user dashboards are coming soon. Expand and collapse menus will be replaced by fly out menus. Currently we can have our left dashboard menu sections simultaneously expanded in as many sections as we wish. (See the imag...
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timethief t. posted an article on onecoolsitebloggingtips - Oct 26, 2011, 10:26 am
Last week, the folks at Social Media Examiner put together some of the best minds in social media to speak at Facebook Social Summit 2011. In no particular order, here are the 41 most useful things I heard from experts via 41 Useful Things I Learned From the Facebook Social Summit | Payvment Blog.
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timethief t. posted an article on onecoolsitebloggingtips - Oct 22, 2011, 8:28 pm
At the Web 2.0 Summit today, Federated Media Publishing and Automattic, parent company of WordPress, announced an agreement to provide advertising rights for U.S. WordPress.com bloggers. Over 24 million sites are hosted on WordPress.com, and users will now be able to opt into a topically targeted ad...
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timethief t. posted an article on onecoolsitebloggingtips - Oct 21, 2011, 2:14 pm
SEO is an acronym that stands for search engine optimization, which is the process of increasing the quantity and quality of traffic to your site from search engines. Generally, the higher your website ranks in the search engines, the more traffic you receive. The process of applying Search Engine O...
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timethief t. posted an article on onecoolsitebloggingtips - Oct 16, 2011, 11:00 pm
Next to the feet our hands are among the most hard used parts of the body, so it’s not surprising that many bloggers take mobile hands and wrists for granted — until they hurt.  Many of us rely heavily on computers to help us perform our work – for some, dedicated computer work is necessary,
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timethief t. posted an article on This Time This Space - Oct 14, 2011, 7:31 pm
This summer my friends who are also in their autumn years came to visit with their three girls. Though they thought they were finished with parenting years ago, due to unusual family circumstances they are parenting again. We had a marvelous time together and throughout the month they visited we tau...
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timethief t. posted an article on onecoolsitebloggingtips - Oct 13, 2011, 12:36 am
Today the executive of eBay, the world’s largest internet marketplace, and the executive of Facebook, the world’s largest social-networking platform, unveiled a new partnership.  Facebook, is tapping eBay’s commerce platform to create new social shopping experiences for hundreds of millions o...
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timethief t. posted an article on This Time This Space - Oct 10, 2011, 4:04 pm
On our early morning walk through the evergreen forest my Beloved and I were both struck by the color change in the deciduous tree leaves. In all other seasons they sink into the background and the various shades of green … Continue reading →
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timethief t. posted an article on onecoolsitebloggingtips - Oct 5, 2011, 1:13 am
Each of us has a unique personality; each of us has a unique writer’s voice. Writer’s voice is the way your writing style sounds to your readers. Are you an introvert (reserved) or extrovert (outgoing)? Finding out your personality type … Continue reading →
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timethief t. posted an article on This Time This Space - Oct 4, 2011, 3:17 pm
My friend Zeenat of Positive Provocations has just celebrated her birthday by embracing the child within her. She’s determined to be forever four and I’m joining her. Four-year-olds: are adventurous, playful, and physical love to go on excursions are in … Continue reading →
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timethief t. posted an article on This Time This Space - Oct 4, 2011, 7:54 am
We are well aware that depressed people have a brain chemical imbalance that requires clinical treatment, yet we all have blue moods. Pacification and distraction form the foundation for making the choice to think and do what helps us lift our … Continue reading →
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timethief t. posted an article on onecoolsitebloggingtips - Sep 30, 2011, 7:24 pm
If you are a regular reader of this blog then you are well aware of my antipathy when it comes to Facebook. However, I have been considering joining Google Plus. For the last month I have been reading all I could find on both so I had some information upon which to make an informed
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timethief t. posted an article on onecoolsitebloggingtips - Sep 27, 2011, 10:30 pm
It won’t surprise any long time WordPress.com bloggers to see what’s not allowed on the WordPress.com platform is likewise not allowed on Blogger, but I thought new WordPress.com bloggers would benefit from gaining some insight into Terms of Service Violations. … Continue reading →
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timethief t. posted an article on onecoolsitebloggingtips - Sep 25, 2011, 8:20 pm
“Why Facebook’s ‘Frictionless Sharing’ violates HTTP Facebook has this new feature, whereby the act of simply reading a web page, under certain conditions, gets it posted to your news feed, for your friends to see. Here’s how ReadWriteWeb puts it: … Continue reading →
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timethief t. posted an article on onecoolsitebloggingtips - Sep 25, 2011, 3:44 pm
If you are a Stumbleupon member as I am, you will have received the email I have posted excerpts from below. In my case, it doesn’t look like the changes will impact me much if at all. I have never … Continue reading →
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timethief t. posted an article on onecoolsitebloggingtips - Sep 23, 2011, 3:20 pm
Today we are adding .me (to .com, .org and .net) as a new option for upgrading to your own, custom domain name on WordPress.com. … It’s only $2/month, so what are you waiting for?! New Domains for You and .me — Blog — WordPress.com. Filed under: Blog Promotion, Blogging Tips, WordPress.com ...
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timethief t. posted an article on onecoolsitebloggingtips - Sep 23, 2011, 12:46 am
WordPress.com is on continuous roll-out. Changes to the code are being made many times daily and new features are being introduced, while existing functions and features are being improved and upgraded.  Changes to the WordPress.com Admin bar and/or dashboard took users by surprise and  A Shiny Ne...
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timethief t. posted an article on onecoolsitebloggingtips - Sep 22, 2011, 8:16 pm
WordPress.com bloggers have always had a strong sense of community and many tools for social networking both within the WordPress.com community and with other bloggers have been introduced for our use.  Not to be outdone by those other sites that have click and follow buttons WordPress.com has intr...
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timethief t. posted an article on This Time This Space - Sep 22, 2011, 6:00 pm
Eckhart Tolle on the essense of spiritual awakening, time, space and the now moment. The now moment is not what … Continue reading
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timethief t. posted an article on This Time This Space - Sep 20, 2011, 12:55 am
The Greeks original paradise was called the Garden of the Hesperides, and they associated it with Zeus and Hera and with a serpent-entwined apple tree. Dryads were nymphs associated with trees and water. In Greek mythology, the three nymphs The "Hesperides" were daughters of either Nyx (Night) or t...
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timethief t. posted an article on onecoolsitebloggingtips - Sep 19, 2011, 12:05 pm
Every year, you help us make State of the Blogosphere the most comprehensive resource for bloggers, and about bloggers. The 2011 survey is live, and your input is critical. Since 2004, Technorati has been tracking the Blogosphere through our State of the Blogosphere study. The goal of the study is t...
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timethief t. posted an article on This Time This Space - Sep 19, 2011, 12:35 am
In the summer months I have far less time to blog and social network in than I do during the other months of the year. This is reflected by the number of posts I publish and the amount to time I invest in blog promotion. Despite the fact the weather was a few degrees cooler than expected August weat...
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