So, if we buy an upgrade this weekend for $49, is it worth the risk of being guinea pigs now or should we wait to just pay the upgrade price of $119 on October 22nd?
You can find my FanPage on its special URL here.
It's awesome because I cannot communicate with others easily by them "liking" the post or posting a comment under the wall post.
I encourage my fans to post things they find to my Fan Page wall! It's not just for me! Let's share together! I'm not sure how to get my fans to start doing this, but I'm trying!
In addition, when I have special announcements, I can alert the fans through an "Update to Fans," which is much less intrusive than the only option available in groups (being e-mail).
Also, I have in the sidebar of my FanPage other digital scrabpooking FanPages so that you can find your favorites. If you have a FanPage that is not listed, please let me know.
I debated on what URL to choose, whether to use "hummiesworld" or "digitalscrapbooking" or "photoshopelements." I decided that for new people to find me, it would be better to have the name of the hobby rather than the name of my site which has nothing to do with the name of the hobby. I was excited to be able to grab that URL.
Here is this week's #followfriday pick!
You can also add your twitter address there for others to find you and also so that I may choose you for a future week.
This is a collaborative effort each week to get one digital scrapbooker noticed on Twitter.
Here is this week's #followfriday pick!
You can also add your twitter address there for others to find you and also so that I may choose you for a future week.
This is a collaborative effort each week to get one digital scrapbooker noticed on Twitter.
"Wow! I almost skipped these videos, but I did learn several things, as usual! : )"Do you ever find it difficult to find time to scrapbook? I have for you 10 ways to save time so that you can get a layout done!
Everyone is always exclaiming to me "how do you do so much!" I think part of the reason is that I have just developed over the years a habit for time-saving techniques.
1. Limit television watching. The evolution of the DVR/Tivo has helped me considerably! I only watch the shows that I record and never watch a commercial! I am no longer tied down to the TV watching it at specific times, but rather curl up in my chair at the end of the night when I need to relax. There is always something recorded that I am interested in watching.
2. Have no useless waiting time. Yes, I have even been known to take my laptop to doctor's offices if I am waiting on someone else's appointment or even taken a calculator to balance my checkbook while waiting for my own appointment. With the immergance of G3 telephones and access to the internet at all times, you could even pay your bills online while waiting.
3. Just let it go. Maybe, just maybe, if you do not do the dishes and just let them go, the ugly stack or inability to get a clean glass will eventually bother others in your home enough that they will wash a few dishes. Meanwhile, you can get a layout done! Realize that life will go on even if they do not wash them as well as you would wash them.
4. Shop less often. I only grocery shop every 4 to 6 weeks. I make one big excursion and stock up. In between shopping trips, I let my men make runs to the store for me. Usually they are the ones who are missing the snacks more than me anyway, so they are ready to go! I also like allowing my freezer and cabinets to go bare as I know there will not be lurking somewhere a product that is suddenly a year old!
5. Develop the pile system. I have SO many piles about my house for so many different projects. I hate the piles, but it works! This is my way of organizing. I save up similar tasks so that I can handle them all at once. Then when I'm ready to attack a task, its all there together and ready to go! Besides, I eventually hate the piles so much that I'm motivated to do something with them. This could be seen negatively as procrastination, but as long as you do not let the piles go too long or just move a pile from one place to another place, it really works! Of course, a file cabinet and other organizational products are a big help too.
6. Make a to-do list. There is something exhilarating about being able to mark something off of a to-do list. It feels like a burden off of my shoulders! In addition, I do not feel the "worry" of possibly forgetting something I need to do, constantly running the list through my head. It helps me to sleep! I have Microsoft OneNote and am really loving how I can just jot down anything into an organized manner. Everyone should get this program! Make a list of which layouts you want to do. Save challenge information with links to the challenges.
7. Stop cruising the internet! YES, it takes much self-discipline, but it can be done! Just tell yourself "Self, you won't miss what you don't ever see in the first place!" Be brave, shut down that browser and open your digital scrapbooking program! Go ahead, you can do it!
8. Every meal does not need to be fancy. Yes, I worry if all food groups are eaten at every meal, but they do not care! I've learned over the years that my men are actually happier with simple eating techniques. I'm not disappointed that they did not eat something that I slaved over and they are not stressed to have to eat when they are not hungry. Just because they grabbed something frozen from the freezer and skipped the vegetables does not mean that they are going to suddenly come down with a week-long sickness.
9. Stop downloading digi-supplies and organizing. How is your time better spent? Creating a layout that will last forever or unzipping and tagging everything you download? This one goes hand in hand with #7 above!
10. Utilize those small moments. One of the benefits of digital scrapbooking is that we do not have to keep all of our supplies spread out all over the table until we finish a layout! Do you have 15 extra minutes before work? Do not spend it dusting the coffee table, use the time to work on a layout! You can always work on it for another 15 minutes later until you get it done. Do not think that you cannot get anything significant done in 15 minutes and just waste that time. Of course, you do have to be careful to avoid using more than your 15 minutes and being late!
Here is this week's #followfriday pick!
You can also add your twitter address there for others to find you and also so that I may choose you for a future week.This is a collaborative effort each week to get one digital scrapbooker noticed on Twitter.
My Fan Page is here!
I sure have been doing a lot of learning about Facebook Fan pages in the last few days! I decided to make the move from a group to a fan page. There were 358 people in my Facebook Group and 225 of them moved over to my new fan page. I was so glad that I made the change!
Whereas a group does not show up in the Facebook wall stream, a fan page does. The only drawback is that you can no longer e-mail all of your fans, but I never wanted to do that anyway as I was always annoyed at other sites that e-mailed me.
It is awesome how you can communicate with others through a Fan Page.
I discovered, however (too late), that the owner of a Fan Page can remain anonymous. Wow! After 225 people moved to the new Fan Page, I realized that I could have the Fan Page as part of my real me Facebook ID and remain internet safe! Now, there is no need for me to have a internet me Facebook account!
Now I do not have to log in and out of each account all the time! What great news for me! Of course, I am going to miss the stream of people on my internet me account and seeing all of their layouts and wishing everyone a happy birthday. I think I'm going through withdrawals already and I have yet to delete the account, but plan to soon. I will not see all the great stuff that is shared any longer.
I do hope people chat with me on my new Fan Page to help me alleviate the withdrawals. However, I figure it is best that I do so as it is time consuming and taking me away from doing other things I could be doing.
So, I decided to make the move again! Oh, digital scrapbookers are SO good to me and patient with me! Already, 50 people have made the move to the second new Fan Page.
Please know that my new Fan Page is a two way street. You can share good finds of tutorials and inspiration on it just as I can. I do hope that you feel comfortable doing so.
When I logged onto Facebook, I saw this message that we will soon be able to assign a user name to our account in which to direct ouf friends to. That's kind of a cool development.
This is a test to see how well it is to blog from within Microsoft Word 2007
Apparently I can draw shapes, but how will they post? This box even has a drop shadow on it, although I do not know what I would use it for.
Apparently, the box does not show up when I post, so I deleted it.
Um, I can create charts! I guess I would have to make up the figures, uh?
Too bad it does not show up in the post. Neither does the word art.
Neither does the smart art, so I had to delete it.
I am having trouble with pictures, though. I cannot figure out how to make the settings so that it uploads to an FTP.
I have several FTP choices, but I cannot figure out what the settings mean, especially since there is no place for an account name or password.
I am beginning to think that one must upload first through FTP and thereafter set it to sync with a blog post. I don't really know.
However, one can upload to a host and stick it in the post like this.
I merely copied and pasted the bunnies from what I had already uploaded to Flickr. Not too hard at all really.
I am able to do things to the photo, such as add a frame, change brightness, contrast, etc., even a reflection!
However, I had to delete them from the post as they did not show up after publishing.
Okay, even a basic photo copied from Flickr does not show up, so how do I get it in here?
Off to look at the help files again.
Here is a simple | Table | |
To see how it | Works when uploaded. | |
I think that blogging from Word 2007 is going to be really cool awesome, provided all of this stuff posts as it looks in this editor. |
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There is an insert category button, but it is grayed out. I do not know why. I was hopeful it would work with the labels on my blog, but I suppose it is not hard to add them after publishing.
Well, at least republishing is quick and easy after removing all the things that did not work.
Publishing actually works very quickly.
Here is this week's #followfriday pick!
You can also add your twitter address there for others to find you and also so that I may choose you for a future week.This is a collaborative effort each week to get one digital scrapbooker noticed on Twitter.
There's a new journal challenge in the forums. This round, it's just a simple prompt to encourage you to begin writing. Want to see what it is? Go here!
You can also see my layout in that thread. In addition, I used this clip in my layout too which I made for the last Scan It Challenge. You can grab the freebie in the Scan It Challenge thread.
You might even find some other freebies still there. Won't you join us in scrapping some pages? I just want you to SCRAP. Now what are you doing here reading? Go scrap!
I have never been able to find the time to make good use of YouTube other than hosting videos for my blog. I do not have very many friends (add friend feature), although I get notices all the time that people are subscribing to my videos.
It's supposed to be a great place to market, but can you tell I really don't care about marketing? I hope my subscribers at YouTube see me that way.
So, I'm looking about YouTube more to see what all it has to offer and I see that there is "YouTube Insight" which provides graphics of statistics with regard to the viewing of my videos. How surprised was I to see that 82% of the viewers of my videos are men! Wow! Seriously, why aren't the female gender digital scrapbookers watching my videos?
I see that I can e-mail all of my friends on YouTube at one time, so why don't people use this feature more often? I'm going to start trying to build my friends at YouTube. Now, what to do with it to not be annoying is another question!
You can find me on YouTube here.
I only have 16 friends (and 28 contacts), but 268 subscribers? What's wrong with that statistic?
What's the difference between contacts and friends?
