Best of 2007: The Best 16 Sites To Get Your Blog Bling

Come and find your blog bling.  You can find widgets, blog templates, chat boxes, calendars, podcasting, and the kitchen sink…well, not the kitchen sink.  But this will keep you busy for days deciding what to put on your blog.

1.  U-L-T-R-A ‘S Tools and Utilities
2. My Live Signature
3. Cbox chat box
4. Blog Clocks
5. Contact form for your blogger blog
6. Calendars
7. Podcasting
8. Web Survey for blog
9. Video and music together on your blog
10. Widget Box
11. A-Z blog tools
12. Get a ticker timeline
13. Create Blog–all sorts of stuff for your blog
14. Favicons–check this site out…so much stuff.
15. Spring Widgets
16. Say It–make your own graphics and pictures

 

CALLING ALL READERS…CALLING ALL READERS…

I am getting my blogging butt out of my chair and am re-vamping my blogs. I will still be on them but not really blogging on them very often.

I need your input. I have 6 blogs (I know, can you believe it) and I am doing an audit of all of them. I would like all my readers…and anyone who just comes across my blogs in the next few weeks to give me your:

• comments
• questions
• concerns
• advice

Just click on the picture below to be taken to a list of my blogs.

Any and all comments you have to improve on my blogs are welcome. I have had them going for almost 6 months now and with the new year, I am going to be doing more with my blogging.

I am also looking for other bloggers/website owners:

• Mommy bloggers
• Iowa bloggers
• Family Friendly bloggers
• Arts, crafts, food, scrapbooking, sewing, etc. bloggers
• Plus sized men & women bloggers
• Multiple birth parents/bloggers
• Freelance writing & problogging bloggers
• Family Friendly websites

I am interested in any bloggers/website owners who would be interested in getting some free advertising for their blogs/websites. I am looking for people to guest post on my blogs, to interview in their chosen field, and anyone who would be willing to donate or give me a large discount on products for upcoming give-a-way contests I will be holding beginning the first of the year. Again, this is a great way for you to get free advertising for your blogs, websites, and products.

I am also looking for budget friendly graphic artists & blogger and wordpress template creators and designers. I am looking for someone to help me change the look of my blogs. I am looking for something fun, family friendly, and fantastic.

If you are interested in free advertising and helping me take my blogs to the next level, please comment on this post or e-mail me at cathicollins (at) gmail (dot) com.

I can’t wait to hear from you.

 

Thursday Thirteen–6th one

Thirteen blogs I have bookmarked on my desktop and can’t remember why:

1. Chris Brogan
2. Moderately Confused Pinay In Deutschland
3. Santa Claus Blog
4. Write Stuff
5. Sarcastic Mom
6. Dosh Dosh
7. Real World Martha
8. All Sorts
9. Taylor McKnight
10. Bottles, Babies, and Boys
11. Zen Habits
12. Writing Resource Center Job Blog
13. Why Do Work

And if you don’t believe me, ask my hubby.  He hates my desktop and wanted to clean it up one day….I threatened him with certain doom.

Did Ya Know…

The opposite sides of a dice cube always add up to 7.

Do you treat your blogging as a job?

As any blogger, professoinal or otherwise, will tell you, blogging takes up ALOT of time.  There is no way around it. 

• You have to post decent content.
• You have to blog-hop and comment on other blogs
• You have to check your e-mail and thank others for visiting your blog
• You have to do research on and off the computer
• You have to pay attention to your life off the computer

There is so much that goes into one’s blogging that it can and will become overwhelming.  There are so many ideas, pictures, posts, people, etc.  What are you going to do?  How are you going to catch up?  What will it take to make money?

You must slow down.  If blogging is your hobby, you must treat it as a job.  If blogging is your job, you must treat it as a job.  When I began blogging, I fell in love with it, so to speak.  I went from one blog to seven in a matter of 2 months.  I was up at the crack of dawn and up until almost the crack of dawn the next day.  I could not get enough.  I wanted to be a problogger and I wanted to be great at it.  You have to make sacrifices for any business, right?

True, but you must remember that you are blogging for your family.  Don’t neglect them.  I found that neglect was exactly what I was starting to do.  My 4 kids hardly spent time with me unless they were sitting on my lap at the computer.  My husband only ever heard about blogs, blogging, and posts.  It was when he took all the cords to our computer to work with him that I realized that maybe I needed to change how I blogged if I was going to continue to blog.  I gave myself a work week.  Monday – Friday.  No weekends.  Period.  The first couple of weeks were hard.  But I saw my family again.  I had other things to talk about besides the latest blog post.  Sure, Sunday nights I am up late catching up on e-mails and other blog’s posts, but it is so worth it.

If you are feeling overwhelmed by your blogging, step out of the blogger box and look at it from another angle.  It is your job-full or part time.  Give yourself a weekend.  You, your family, and your blogging career will thank you.

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THURSDAY THIRTEEN-5th

13 Ways to Say “Very Good”:

1. Marvelous
2. Wonderful
3. Super
4. Congratulations
5. Perfect
6. Terrific
7. Excellent
8. Sensational
9. Clever
10. Tremendous
11. Outstanding
12. Superb
13. Wow

Now go and check out more 13′ers…and spread the love.

Did ya know…

 Everyday, people around the world drink more than 300 million Cokes.