(or “just who are you, anyway?”)

Ongoing Blog Woes: While I may have migrated this blog to its original domain, I broke my email. Blogger, GoDaddy and Telus are now competing for my soul  working to resolve the issue. 

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Today’s assignment: Tweak the About Page for Your Blog. While I don’t have an About Page at this point, I do have the little piece at the top. Look up, way up – wait, no, I’ll share it here:

Welcome! If you’re new to the witch-ways experience, don’t worry. All you need to know is that I’ve been online and involved with technology, website development and training in the nonprofit world since 1994.* (I also work with women in small businesses to give them a “helping hand”.)

I’ve got a lot of projects on the go, and most are listed on the sidebar. Contact info’s also on the sidebar aussi.

I’m not into posting rates, but if you’re interested in learning more about technology and nonprofits, drop me a line. I’d love to work with you!

Well, that certainly could use some tweaking – especially as I’m not doing the nonprofit/website thing so much anymore. (Being a Masters student is taking up all of that time now.) Or I could start with my Twitter bio:

Radical Feminist Witch, Geeker Girl, Single Mom, NonProfit Director/Consultant, Board Member (Calgary Carshare, Project Ploughshares), Masters Student and more!

I actually had someone tell me that she had to follow me after reading that, so it can’t be all bad, right? 


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I started this post on Day 3, and now it’s Day 7 and I’m still stalled. I’ve searched around the net and found examples of what I like in an “About Me” page, like this page on Sera Gamble’s site, that have made me think I need to develop more of a “whole page” piece then just a couple of paragraphs. So, in the interest of continuing the series, I’m going to post this and keep working behind the scenes on my page. Expect to see it before the end of the month!

(or, “why ignoring your email always comes back to haunt you”)

Happy August! And Happy 2010! Yes, I haven’t been blogging in over a year now. Instead I’ve been putting my time into other things, like:

• starting my Masters’ Degree (MAIS) at Athabasca – two courses down, ten to go.
• single parenting – how did my kid get so big?
• politics – hey, there’s always an election just around the corner!
• and Twitter, my new source of all things new and notable.

But when I ran across the 31 Days to a Brand New Blog challenge on Twitter, I thought it was time to get back to blogging. So, here I am with today’s challenge: Analyze Your Blog’s Traffic by installing Google Analytics.

But first, I had to deal with the ignored emails – specifically, the ignored emails that told me Blogger was discontinuing their FTP program. After a bit of work, I’ve think I’ve got the blog publishing again (we’ll see for sure once I hit “Publish Post”) with the code for Google Analytics in place. Cross your fingers!