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Blog Updates: Instagram and Weekly Content

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Just really quick, I wanna share a couple of tweaks that I’m making.

Instagram

Instagram is interesting. My blog is connected to Instagram, so when I post here, it automatically goes over there. The problem I’m facing is links are essentially broken when I do this, so someone can’t follow the link to see the entire post. They basically see the featured image and the name of the title.

With that said, I’m going to eliminate Instagram from automatic sharing for my blog. It works fine for Threads so my content will continue to land over there. I’ve also noticed that Threads overall gives me more engagement than IG overall so that’s something I’m keeping an eye on.

But this also means, I would like to produce content for Instagram. Now that Threads has…”exclusive” content, I’d like for my IG followers to have something. And I think that means I’m going to look into reels more since that seems to be more popular than regular IG posts.

Weekly Content

Okay, so when I relaunched, I kept going with the Weekly Optimism and Weekly Funnies. I looked at the posts for both of these titles and I was left dissatisfied. I feel like both posts are too short. So, I came to two possible conclusions.

  1. I can just make each type of content longer.
  2. I can combine them into one bigger type of post.

I debated this for a while but I ultimately decided to just combine the two. I think it would make for easier reading and it would make it easier to create. It would ultimately be a weekly version of what Daily Good Stuff used to be.

I can’t tell you it’s going to be called “Weekly Good Stuff” (not feeling it anyway). But I’m not sure I still love Weekly Optimism because now there’s more in there. Can humor still be counted as something positive or optimistic? So I need to figure that out.

Three reasons why social media is awesome

I’m not even a social person and I still see the benefits of this stuff. What does that tell you? Anyway, here are some reasons why I really think social media is a good thing. There is always bad things in something, but social media great overall.

1. Stay in touch with people.

Well, duh. But, that cousin across the country. You two grew up together but then she moved away and now you use social media to stay in touch. If you’re on Facebook, you can play games together among other things.

2. Meet new people

Hey, it’s a really nice way to meet people. Okay, so social media sites tell you that you should only interact with people you know. In some ways, I actually think that’s important. Like, on Facebook where, if you fill out your profile, everybody you friend can know quite a bit about you. But, for Twitter users like me, people only know your name (if you reveal it) and not much else. So, it’s easier to friend someone or not. For me, I’ve met a lot of other writers and bloggers and Sixers fans so that’s cool.

3. Get news (quicker than the TV)

I use Facebook for one main reason: Keeping up with news about my favorite things. My feed is nothing but the pages I like and their updates. Same with Twitter, which really has a growing reputation for this, but it’s easy to keep up with the latest news to the point I generally don’t have to directly go to the news sites to find news. The news comes to me. I like that with my lazy behind.

Monday Motivation: Talk to someone new

It’s time to make a new friend today or this week. Maybe there’s a co-worker you don’t know much about. See if you can strike up a conversation. Get some new perspective in your social circle.

I know I gotta get in on this. I rarely talk to people so this will be an adventure for me. Even a simple hello to someone you see around but never really talk to is good.

Even on the internet. I’ll take it. Comment on this post and talk to me. I got you.

The point is to make a new social move today. Different. Fresh.

Now go.

-DALANEL

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Why my WordPress followers are my favorite

Oh Lord, what did I do!? I don’t look at my followings from various places as my kids. I do have a favorite following.

Huh, I guess I do look at you all as my kids. I know for a fact my baby sister is the favorite of the three of us. My parents deny it; but it’s true.

I guess my favorite kid is WordPress. Ya know, when I first joined WP and was trying to understand terminology, I came across publicize. You could connect your social media accounts to the blog. Apparently, the blog used at least the numbers from Twitter, Tumblr and Facebook as well as the blog itself as to give one number: You following. At least, that’s how I figured it out. When I put in the “Follow Blog” widget, when I check the little box to show the number of followers, I noticed it was bigger than the blog’s actual following. After doing some math, that’s how I came to my conclusion. I just wonder why G+, LinkedIn, and Path aren’t a part of it. But, whenever I talk about my following, I mention each of those areas in publicize.

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Page Updates: Code of Conduct, What Is DALANEL?

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I made a slight update to my Code of Conduct page. It’s under the What Is DALANEL page. You need to be familiar with it if you intend on commenting on posts here at DALANEL. I’m not even kidding because if you get yourself banned, the challenge of “I didn’t know” will NOT fly by me. I’m a laid back type of guy but I will not tolerate foolishness. Here’s a bullet list found of the page of what I just won’t do:

  • Name calling
  • Disrespecting others’ beliefs and comments
  • Commenting only to promote your site/business
  • Keep the language clean. No cussing (I am open about this and using this language will not automatically result in trouble; keep it to a minimum though; I want this site to be kid friendly)

That’s right. Follow this and you live.

Next, What Is DALANEL? That page got a major new look. Gone is the video and my life story. As I said, my personal life will be limited. The page now contains what this blog is about (duh) on a much more simpler scale. It also aims to be better related or complementary to the sub pages under it too.

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ICYMI: Read Team DALANEL’s first posts

Team DALANEL made their debuts this past week. Let’s recap as I share some of my thoughts on each post.

First, Dallas T took over Dante’s Opinion for the week as she answered a question.

The article is here. I’m not going to copy and paste all she said. Basically, there was a friend with a dilemma: Her friend made one of those comments where you get the sense they were just talking for attention. The friend tried to investigate the situation but was met with a brick wall.

Dallas ultimately said to give said person their own space and, if the person is ready to let you in, then he/she will. I can agree with that. Maybe she used that tweet as a means of venting but, didn’t want to actually talk about it. Or, perhaps she talked to someone else about it. Or, like I said, it was just a ploy for attention. If I were in that situation, I would probably say what Dallas said: “You know you can talk to me about anything and i’ll be here for you.” Indeed, that’s sometimes the best we can do.

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