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A to Z Agriculture blogging challenge

Lessons Learned Through My Blogging Challenge, an A to Z on Agriculture

By on May 4, 2013 in ag awareness, social media

I have done a few different blogging and social media challenges in the past couple of years, but have to say the A to Z Challenge may have been the toughest! And even though someone has suggested that I should start again with AA and BB, I’m taking a break from the series — at [...]

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blog overhaul

How Do You Make Your Blog Better? Time, Effort & Shared Expertise

By on April 1, 2013 in social media

For the last several weeks, I have been doing small things to tweak my blog. I doubt anyone even noticed it, but it took quite a few hours. My efforts were coordinated with a very small group of farm bloggers put together by Judi Graff aka the FARMnWIFE. At first I thought I could let [...]

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hanging with the girls at Smalltown

Year-End Review — Top 12 of 2012 Plus Some

By on December 31, 2012 in social media

This past year was a great one for both me and my blog, mainly because the blog is a personal one I guess.  I have had a lot going on and I have shared a lot of it here on the blog. As I wrote this, I really enjoyed reviewing 2012. So while most of [...]

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November blogging adventure

Inspired to Write a Blog Post a Day this Month — 30 Days of jp? (Day 1)

By on November 2, 2012 in social media

I have been distracted from blogging recently and need something to get my but into gear. That’s what I was thinking this week when I saw Holly Spangler set a stake in the ground to write a blog post everyday for the month of November. As I was thinking it through, I was nudged as Katie [...]

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Danyelle Little @TheCubicleChick is One of My Social Media Heroes!

By on October 22, 2012 in social media

It has been a little while since I did a post in my social media hero series, but this weekend I was clearly reminded of one I needed to write up. That’s because Danyelle Little and her Show Me the Blog conference has rocked my world again. Yeah, I know I wrote about the conference [...]

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Small Town Conference 2011

Two Major Social Media Events You Need To Attend #SMBSTL & #SmallTown2012

By on October 7, 2012 in social media

In the next few weeks there are a few things going on that you really need to know about and act on now so you can get as much awesomeness as I expect to! So going chronologically you need to know about Show Me the Blog St. Louis #SMBSTL and Smalltown 140. Let me tell [...]

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Can someone leaving me speechless serve as #WordlessWednesday?

By on September 11, 2012 in photo, travel

I love taking photos and with that comes the knowledge that some folks are going to dodge the camera. And I’ve had friends and family who just ignore me for the bulk of the time, which is fine. The person who draws the camera either tries to stay oblivious to it or enjoys hamming it [...]

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Blogstorming: Brainstorming & Organizing Ideas for your Blog #PowerToThePen #Blogchat

By on August 11, 2012 in social media

Last week’s #blogchat included sponsorship with Pilot Pen USA and the idea to take ink to our blogs — #PowerToThePen so to speak. I decided to go ahead and give it a shot. I am pleased with the work my pen & paper session gave me. As usual, having the direct connection from thoughts to [...]

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