Here's a great (and free) way to make your blog or webpage "printable" by your visitors. As I was reading today, I found this cool gadget to do just that. Within seconds I installed it on one of my webpages. You can see it at: www.terscott.com/rolodexfile which also lists other sources that I update and add to often. Just click on: "Make any page on your site "print friendly" and you'll be taken to the site that offers this. To see one of my pages that shows a FREE Tips Sheet on my Personal PR presentation that I do for corporations, click here to see how you can easier print it. And, I've added it to this blog. You can see the icon also at the top right of this page. Click on the print icon to see how it works. I love it.
It's always a great thing to offer our visitors more ease of use and reasons to come back to our blogs and web sites; this is a great way to do it. This is another "try-it, you'll like it" gadgets.
Piggy Back the Thoughts and Words of Others
Everything is built on the thoughts and ideas of others that have been here before us, or if we're fortunate, are still here.
Read, read, and read. Many of my ideas come to me when I meld minds with other authors. Usually for me it’s from a book from my regular “quiet time” collection I read from every morning with my tall cup of coffee companion. Today was no exception.
I was reading a book about SEO and was reminded of 3 things to ask visitors to your site or store. Since much of my consulting is involved with the Internet (and what isn't today), I am equally concerned with the physical and virtual storefront. When reading these 3 points, I added my own two cents worth from my experience and shared it with the world (we'll at least the part of the world that reads my blog at: http://terscott.blogspot.com/ .
We learn from others, whether in person or in print. We then share it in conversation elsewhere; or in a blog such as this. I encourage my reader to read, read and read some more. Then share what you've read. You and those you associate with will be better because of it.
Ter
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Who do you "acknowledge"?
This morning during my “reading time” I started reading Chicken Soup for the Golden Soul, a book filled with “Heartwarming Stories for People 60 and Over”, so the cover states. Now at present, I’m not 60, but I hope to exceed that someday.
I always encourage my students to always read the preface of any book because usually you’ll find things of interest that other readers simply miss out. In starting this read, I actually read the acknowledgments at the beginning of the book, which like the preface probably is seldom read except by those who anxiously wait to see their name in print, much like most of us did when in high school we wanted to see our pictures in the yearbook. I’m sure the only person that recognized at all was one of the co-authors: Jack Canfield. So, really these pages read like the “Begats”; the genealogy of Jesus at the beginning of Matthew in the Good Book of the Gospels.
But as I was reading I tried to put myself in the “shoes” of the people who were grateful for the assistance of others in writing this Chicken Soup book and did the “acknowledging”, and also in the shoes of those being acknowledged. Pages went on and on about how many helped in many ways. Finally at the end of all, others were acknowledged but not mentioned by name.
I think I was drawn to reading this because in our life, much like any book, there are so many who bring us to where we are in life. Even at the outset of the acknowledgements, the writers state that the book took over two years to write, and then corrected themselves by following with: “On second thought, we’ve actually spent all our lives reading, collecting and studying unforgettable, heartwarming stories”. Yes, where we are today is the culmination of all of our thoughts and actions which were allowed to us by the thoughts and actions by those before us who created the inventions and freedoms to use those inventions.
Who are we grateful for today? What are we grateful for in our lives? If we were to write our acknowledgements, who and what would we include, and why?
This is something to think about and certainly a worthwhile “assignment” when one chooses to do so.
Make it a great day!
Ter
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