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Ideas for Your Blog: Suggestion #1

Oct 16

Posted by Daddy Dan in Blogging, Recent Posts | 3 Comments

Note: This topic will be an ongoing, but irregular feature here at Daddy Dan.  The basic idea is to give you ideas for your blog, because I’m a giver.  Some of you may be in a blogging slump and looking to come up with something interesting to write about.  I’m here to help.  Please note that these are ideas that I’ve contemplated using for myself but decided for some reason (too much work, too shy, the idea is not fully fleshed out, etc.) not to use them.  I think they’re all potentially good ideas as long as someone puts some thought and creativity into them.  With that long (and probably boring) preamble, I’m ready to share my first idea for your blog.  Feel free to take it and run with it.  I’d love to see it, so let me know if you do.

I call my first idea “My Brush With Celebrity”, but feel free to call it what you want.

It’s a very simple concept.  You take pictures with random strangers (or family, friends, co-workers, etc.) that resemble (or even funnier, don’t really resemble) a celebrity.  Your post just consists of posting the picture with the header (Me and “the celebrity”).  Maybe in the text you could say, “I ran into XXX at XXX” (for example, “I ran into George W. Bush at Al’s Lounge.  He was a surprisingly great guy!” Make sense?

I’m not sure why it would be funny, but I just know it would be, by golly!  You’d probably get random people finding your site through a search engine looking for the particular celebrity leaving comments saying things like “That’s not XXXX!” and then you could mess with them.

Here’s an example post.  I’m using a random picture from my wedding, and please remember, the man in the picture with me (on the right) is NOT Joe Pesci!:

My Brush With Celebrity: Joe Pesci came to my wedding!

by Daddy Dan

Me and Joe Pesci (of Good Fellas and Lethal Weapon 4 fame) at my wedding.  We didn’t even invite him, but I’m so glad he was there.  Everyone at our wedding was impressed that we had a celebrity friend!  He was a very nice (and affectionate) guy!  He liked drinking beer.

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Someone has got to use this idea!  Please?  Anyone have any suggestions for improving this idea?

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Google Reader’s New ‘Share It’ Feature

Oct 16

Posted by Daddy Dan in Blogging, Recent Posts | 5 Comments

Do you use Google Reader to keep up with your favorite blogs?  If so, you may have noticed a new feature that will help you share your favorite posts with those who track your blog.

It’s called Shared Items.  You can see it in the following screeenshot on the left menu.  Also, just below the Shared Items is Friends Shared Items, which keeps track of all the posts your friends have marked as “shareable.”

So, how do you go about sharing posts?  It’s simple.  On the bottom of each post in your Google Reader is a ‘Share’ icon that you click.  The post will automatically be included in your shared items.

Another cool feature, just to the right of the ‘Share’ icon is the ‘Share with note’ icon.  This allows you to add a note to an item you choose to share.  Below is an example of a note I added (in blue) to one of Vegas Dad’s posts.

If you use Google Reader, please start sharing your favorite posts with those who follow your blog.  It’s a great way to give your favorite bloggers a little more publicity.

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