Happy Monday! Late Monday at this point, but nonetheless. Another rainy day here, although the rest of the week promises to be pretty and springlike. I hope the meteorologists keep their word, because I'm tired of staying indoors!
The good thing about the unceasing rain the past day or so is that it's enabled me to get a lot of computer work done. I've spent much of the past weekend getting my social media ducks in a row, so to speak. I've been feeling a bit schizophrenic lately because of the multiple identies I have floating around in this world wide web, so I wanted to take the opportunity to clean up and consolidate. My old blog was created under my maiden name, so I've changed that. Mark and I will celebrate our three year anniversary in May, so I guess it's about time.
We also made the big decision over the weekend to approach our music, and particularly our music marketing, from a duo perspective. We've been doing this in "real life" for awhile now, so we thought it was probably time to transfer it to the web as well. We have a new website that we're really excited about, as well as all the other usual suspects: twitter, facebook, reverbnation, and yes, even though I didn't really want to, we have a very basic myspace page. Myspace drives me batty, and I really don't see the point, but as musicians I suppose we should at least have a presence there, however begrudgingly.
Even though there will inevitably be some crossover, this blog really isn't directly related to our music. This is just my way to keep track of interesting books, movies, albums, recipes, photography, and whatever else happens to catch my fancy. And also my way to interact with the vibrant, dynamic community of bloggers out there. So many amazing, inspiring folks!
So, I suppose now that my virtual spring cleaning is done, I'll have to tackle those pesky real world cobwebs lurking in the corners of my house now. Funny how you don't even seen them in the dark days of winter, and then one beam of sunshine, and oh dear, it looks like a haunted house!
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Sometimes social media housecleaning can seem just as daunting as cleaning out an entire house -- just been there myself! Just updated my bookmarks :)
ReplyDeleteThe new site design is just lovely. Lovely! I empathize with the "multiple online identities syndrome" and am working to consolidate into just one, too. Something must be in the air -- musicians in my family are finally yielding to MySpace as well. I'm so glad you did, too -- what a wonderful sound, what a sweet voice you own, and what a great duo! Congratulations all around.
ReplyDeleteOn a technical sidenote, since the blog renovation, I haven't been able to get Google Reader to recognize your blog feed, and also haven't been able to use my Wordpress login to comment here -- do you know if any of your other readers have encountered similar difficulties?
Thanks so much Laurelin! Hmmmm. Oh dear, I'm really not at all technologically savvy. I'm not sure why Google Reader doesn't recognize the blog feed. I'll look into that for sure. As far as Wordpress commenting goes, I think I might have fixed that (not sure though). On my settings, I had only allowed "registered users" to comment (not on purpose, I think that's how it was set up initially), and I changed it so anyone should be able to comment now. I hope that works. Thanks for letting me know!
ReplyDeleteThanks for checking into all this! The only other clue I have that might help is that Google Reader says "title unknown" and "the feed being requested cannot be found" when I try to add your blog to the reader...
ReplyDeleteThe Wordpress login is still giving me trouble, so for now I'll use my Google one (which works if I have your blog open in Safari, but not Firefox). Argh. Computers! What's most confusing is that these issues don't arise at other Blogspot blogs -- just this one. Such a mystery!
Oh dear. I don't understand why this is happening, but I did use another account I have and try to subscribe to my blog in google reader. When I type in just the url, it doesn't work. However when I type this in:
ReplyDeletehttp://aimeebumgarner.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default
it shows up. So, that should work, but that is still quite a pain, and I'd like to get it fixed the way it should be.
Still don't know why you can't comment from Wordpress! So sorry, I'll keep trying. :)
Also, this should be easier. I just added a "subscribe" gadget to the side, and tried it through my other account and it worked.
ReplyDeleteI'd love to check out your wordpress blog, so if you could leave me the link till (if?) I get this straightened out, I'd love it. :)
ReplyDeleteAh, this exchange illustrates the need for social media housekeeping and consolidating identities! Laurelin = me = A Life in Season!
ReplyDeleteThe subscribe widget worked like a charm -- now Google Reader reports your posts to me. Hooray!
Thanks so much for your help on straightening this out...
Oh wow! I already look at your blog all the time. :) I guess I just didn't recognize your name under the blogger name. So sorry! :)
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