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My FB peep Deidre Leggett started a new blog today - http://singlepurgatory.blogspot.com

It's no secret that I have been having fun hanging out on the Kim Harrison Facebook page. That is where I met my FB peep Deidre Leggett. We both love her books, enjoy social media chatting and are waiting for the next sneak peek / tease Kim serves up for her adoring fans.

Yes. I am an adoring fan in case you missed that little detail. I have EVERY book (even the Dawn C stuff - LOL).

Somewhere between advice on how to channel your inner Rache and find your Ivy (yeah, you really need to read Kim's books - LOL) Deidre and I went off on this whole other tangent to the point where she whipped out a pithy quip on being in single purgatory that cracked me up to no end. I told her it would make a stellar blog post.

Guess what?

Chicka started a blog and sent me the link.

I love this.

I subscribed so we don't keep using Kim's business page as our own personal Kim-Stream (which we will probably still do once in a while because we're having such an interesting conversation over there (LOL).

Do go read Deidre's new blog. I bet she'll surprise you. She certainly surprised me. I dared her to Google me and be my friend. She took me up on that puppy and we are having a lovely time. ;-)

Feel free to go read / say hello to my new blogging buddy. :-)

Got a Share Button? You should get one for your websites. Seriously...

http://sharethis.com/

Sitting on the dock fooling around with my website coding. I started adding a "Share This" button on the end of some of my posts at CarolynTannStarr.com and even tossed one on my sidebar over here at ActiveRain.com to share the Wordy C blog... I am going to have to manually do this 256 times over there to share each individual post before I take a crack at doing it 952 times over here (which will be a digital S&M moment - LOL).

It would be nice if ActiveRain.com could incorporate it into their platform like they did with the Facebook Like Button so we could share individual posts with people and not aggravate our carpel tunnel from clicking away fiendishly to code every single post. It would also help us and our readers expand our digital territory when we write something interesting that people happen to like. Just saying it would be very useful for people to LIKE something somewhere else besides Facebook...

Click on my sidebar Share This button as an example to view all the options to see just how many other places you can share your links with people who like reading you. (Psssst... I want an automated share this feature for each post, did you get the big hint? BTW, in case "they" miss this post start asking for it bay-bays - LOL)

In the meantime go sign up for a free account and get your Share This scripts to embed on your sidebars and posts.

This widget has been very useful for my work as the NY Working Moms Examiner (I have the Share button on the top and bottom of each article). According to my Google Alerts people have me trending for my job suggestions so I am running out the door to go do some research for my Job of the Day series I am starting over there to keep my readers happy. Feel free to make use of the buttons while I am gone and create your own so people will trend your topics as well. The cool thing about sharing and trending is it will inspire writers to write more on the subjects that readers indicate they like.

Will be posting all kinds of fun stuff later this afternoon based upon my trending reports and predilection for being a wee bit silly (LOL).

I have ten items in draft that need to get published and new music to introduce you guys to with lots of River Cafe eye candy. Yup. Gonna do a foodie paradise review of a stellar spot to eat at in Brooklyn with lovely views of the Manhattan skyline. CarolynTannStarr.com went live on-line May 31st and has over 250 ActiveRain posts republished there. We are going to create a hot spot for the music crew and the wee people's La Femme Art project. I am not the ony artist who brings her kids to work and I have hooked up with some working moms that are going to virtually blow your mind with the talents that they have. It's a girl's club of talented women who are about to come out and play in cyberspace. I have a lot of brick and mortars to bring into the blogging fold. We are building a virtual home for Club Chaos Boot Camp. It will be just like a university blackboard powered by Moodle. Very cool work in progress (when I am not destroying modules - LOL). :-)

A "Bad Gateway" error is keeping me from showing you a sneak preview right now. It's no fun blogging live from cool locations when you can't upload your eye candy on a whim. The AR programmers are working on that so have patience with me and them. We will be making a lot more videos since that feature appears to be working fine and the La Femme Art crew will be specializing in "How To" behind the scene instructional videos staring a bunch of wee people (LOL). Oh, the things we plan to show you guys this Summer... It will be mad fun. We've started collecting suggestions and donations for the film crew and the shorties. Contrary to popular belief, everyone on my creative crew does not work for M&Ms (LMAO). ;-)  

Time to get back to work. I love my digital day job and will be doing brick and mortar real estate in the afternoons. Might even post something real estate related later on that you may find useful... Maybe... it depends upon which e-mails I decide to answer in public (LOL). Go have fun today. We certainly are. ;-)

Poppy Dinsey Rocks

I am sitting here giggling over one of my fave brits. Poppy Dinsey rocks. If it isn't a bathroom shot of What I Wore Today then it's a pithy collection of twitter-tweets or some cool blog post that makes me want to fly to London, UK (LOL). Chicka is a freelance writer you can discover just about anywhere. Go Google girlfriend and discover what it means to be a social media diva. I bet you are going to love Snarky Girls when you find it. Then again, 40 episodes of snark might not be your cup of tea (LMAO).

Agent Genius may be more your style: http://agentgenius.com/author/poppy/

She also pops into ActiveRain.

Go discover Poppy. You will not be bored. Seriously! ;-)

Maryland Is Beautiful...

The wonderful thing about hanging out with writers who produce Localism posts is the fact that if you read their blogs you kinda know where you want to go and what you want to see when you get there. I had breakfast with Margaret Rome this morning after I checked out of the Hilton and am having lunch with Audrey June Forshey at her office right now. I will be having dinner with the incomparable Lenn Harley tonight. I'll admit to being a wee bit nervous because she's my hero (LOL). I keep hearing, "we're gonna have fun," echoing in my brain. I'm grinning like an idiot in anticipation because we are (LOL). ;-)

I am thrilled to still be here meeting and greeting Rainers.  I have a lot of eye candy to share with you from our sight seeing later on. At some point before I return to New York City I'm going to take you on a tour of Maryland and show you what I've experienced with my friends during our down time. I also promised the kids I'd show them something interesting before I return home. They likes planes, trains, automobiles, boats and birds. Lately Noah has been into trees (LOL).

Stay tuned... I got a lot of eye candy already and am still collecting more so this may take a while... I have a checklist but may have to do a few cross offs (LOL). ;-)

I would like to take time out of my calculated wandering about to thank Audrey June Forshey and Maria Carpenter for being such wonderful hosts to me this afternoon (and allowing me to high-jack their Internet accounts so I can say hello to my Facebook and ActiveRain peeps before I get back on the highway).

I would also like to say a big thank you to Margaret Rome for inviting me to such a lovely business event. She is a thoughtful friend and knows how much my shorties love to feed the birds so she took me to a lovely, quiet spot to enjoy them after breakfast. When I get to Lenn's house I'll show you what I enjoyed most about it. They were surprisingly friendly and walked right up to us.

My kids would have loved it. They are gorgeous... simply gorgeous. :-)