Thing 1 Continued

I followed two blogs quite easily when setting up my blog, but when I tried to add a third I kept getting an error message about something being wrong with the page. The way I was adding was by exploring blogs and clicking on follow this blog within the other person's blog. As I say, started out working like a charm.

I really wanted to follow the third blog but had to give up. So I logged in and went to my blog to review it before starting Thing 2. I discovered there is a way to follow another person's blog by starting in my blog, I just had to have their blog's URL. Under the "blogs I'm following" tab, there is an add button. I clicked that and followed the directions quite easily. I got the third blog added even those method one did not work!

Having "redundant" pathways for doing the same thing is awesome! More than one way to accomplish the same thing lets people with different working styles have a comfortable way for them to accomplish the task as well as provides a back-up for when one way glitches out.

Thing 1: Blogging

Being a Road-Less-Traveled sort of person, I had to explore several blogging host sites before choosing the one I would use. I figured using one not recommended might expand the learning experience of 23 Things by bringing an expansion of methodologies to the sharing table. While exploring I truly appreciated it when a host site allowed me to browse samples of other people's blogs for an idea of how mine could look using their software right from the sign up page. (I was disappointed that I could not find this feature easily from the Blogger sign up page and became more determined to use something else.)

Well...... I guess I over did it because I got tired and the other hosting sites, while easier to find samples, were a tad more complicated and I ended up using Blogger as recommended for its simplicity. And because I already had a Google account so there was one less step for signing up to create my blog.

All the host sites I looked at were fairly simple, so if I choose to move to another site later the skills I am learning here will transfer quite well. And exploring was a lot of fun!

I promise to myself and to you all that I will not let laziness win and that I will journey out to "other" possibilities just so we can compare and keep learning........

http://www.infotoday.com/mls/nov03/fichter.shtml has some cool ideas about libraries and blogs; links to some library blogs, etc. I have not finished exploring this site and its links, but have gotten ideas for enhancing my blog eventually....... more to come