Twitter

Sunday,  March 2, 2014
            (Still cold and sunny!)

Twitter

   Two weeks ago, I added a post about Facebook. I've reached the 100,000 page views per year milestone, but now  would like to expand my audience even more. I decided to join the "social media" and see if these sources could help. I'm now on Linkedin, Facebook, and Twitter. What's interesting about each one is that they function differently from each other.  Your messages or ways of promoting yourself or introducing yourself have to unique and different from the other.

  For those who don't know, Twitter is more of a cellphone media, where people send messages called "tweets".  Each message cannot be more than 144 characters (letter, numbers or other keys on a keypad). At the beginning, I'd type things that I'm not sure are in the "official" Tweet dictionary. Nowadays, my message is short and sweet.

Here's the link to Twitter

Here's the credit for the logo that I have above

Above are 2 montages of Twitter logos.

I'm not user who can create a logo to include on their webpages, but there certainly are lots and ;lots of Twitter logos. Nowadays, when you visit a popular company or website, many companies may have as many as 4-8 logos from which you can find out about them or contact them. Whether or not this translates into increased business is another matter.

The above screen-capture is how my home page or opening page looks like.

If you look under my Taxi photo, you can see that I've only "tweeted" 32 times, and 1 person is following me, and 5 are followers. I'll have to research to see what the difference is between the 2.

Some people have 100K of tweets- their fingers must be sore!

Imagine sending 100,000 messages! Even if you're the world's fastest typer, that still takes a lot of time. I'm wondering if there are ways to tweet 500 people at a time?

Seriously though, what I like that is similar to Facebook is how the pages look on each of their respective sites. Nowadays, the theory and design of a page layout has transferred from magazine and books to the Internet, and in a relatively short time, has come a long way.

I like to send quality photos and good-sized ones. Te image above is how a person receiving my "tweet" would see the photo upon magnifying it with a "double-click".

* I've removed the Twitter addresses from the people who I sent messages to.

The last 2 screen-captures above are continuations of a page of tweets.As I mentioned, the visual design and impact of Twitter is quite impressive. I'm not sure how using this media works or how successful its going to be to increase people visiting my blog,but I have to try. After all, this is the 21st century! Naturally, I'll have to follow up with more posts in the future to tell you how I'm doing.  But for now,it's a learning experience, and it doesn't really take very much  time to send a few Tweets each day. But I'm never, ever, never going to send 100,000  of them - that's for sure!

Thanks for dropping by, 

and have a great part of the day or night,

wherever you may be.

Please write to me anytime at:

toysearcher@gmail.com

or

tweet me @stacey bindman

* I couldn't resist the temptation!

Having Fun with Self-Promotion Fun on the Social Media

Friday, February 28, 2014
     (Sunny, windy, and very cold)

Having Fun with Self-Promotion

on the Social Media

This happens to be my 700th post on this blog, 

with a total page view count of 145730 at 1250 P.M. EST (Canada).

On February 16, of this month, I added a post about Facebook.  I joined the "social media" of Twitter, Linkedin, and Facebook in order to broadcast my blog. So far, it's what I call a "slog". It's going to take work and lots of ideas to get people to visit my blog. Linkedin is more serious,. That's a company and website where you might be looking for work in your field.  You write up tour CV (Curriculum Vitae) or work and background experience. For a wider promotion to reach moire people, you need to pay and depending upon who and how many people you'd like to try and "Link" with, the more you have to pay. I use the no-pay level, so I', not having many people see me.

  Eac of the 3 sites that I've mentioned work differently, and it's interesting and fun to write something on each . However, for today, I'm just going to present the photos (all of my own) that I have added to the three website. I've been photo-editing them both to have some fun, and to grab people's attention. I've go that already on Facebook. but I don't know how that translates into new viewer to my blog. O've joined several Facebook clubs such as old toys, cast iron toys, truck groups and so forth, and I get to post on their sites.,and vice-versa.

That's my own watermark that I've been adding to my own photos. I used to simply have my photos on Picasa and Flickr, and on my blog. Then I started noticing people and companies promoting that big auction sit using my photos for a profit! I had to send a few letters asking them "politely" to remove those photos. Now,whenever I use my own photo, or someone else's each photo had a watermark and a copyright notice. However, even that does;t always deter "borrowers".

Those brighter spots are called "highlights" in photographic terms. I'll usually use small mirrors ore highly-reflective small pieces of  silver cardboard to produce them when taking photographs. However, you can do almost the same with photo-editing software.

When I first started this blog, I'd buy toys on ebay, then resell them. At that time, ebay allowed you one free photo, and 6 others were about $ 1.45. I decided to simply combine 4 photos into a larger one and add that to each listing. It was getting quite expensive to keep  paying for more photos.

 In 2013,  ebay decided to let everyone have 12 free photos,and have the images enlarge for free. I would like to "dream" that my images changed everything on  ebay, but that would be totally dreaming "big time". But I can dream, can't I?

By the way ( as I shamelessness promote by Facebook pages):

I have 3 pages on Facebook:

stacey.bindman

Please click here to redirect to my Facebook page

Oldantiquetoys

Please click here to visit another of my Facebook pages

Oldantiquetoys

Please click here to visit my third Facebook page

I think that the differences between the 2 Facebook pages titles "oldantiquetoys" is that one of them is commercial, and one of them is personal. Anyway, I keep busy for about  20 minutes a week adding  photos and some dialogue. It's like a blog, but I only add 1 photo or 2, and some short dialogue. While taking about short dialogue, Twitter is a "blast". You can add only 144 characters, so people add a lot of abbreviations and drop the vowels. I think I'm rewriting the Twitter language, and I also think people might be having trouble figuring out what I'm saying! You can only say so much with 144 characters!

Thanks for dropping by,
and as always, 
have a great part of the day or night.
Stacey
Please feel free to write to me anytime at:
toysearcher@gmail.com