Hover cards and your Blavatar/Avatar are very important to allow people to find you. Otherwise your blog goes underground. If you have a WordPress account and click like or comment on another WordPress site, your avatar (or blavatar) displays. And when someone else reads that post and decides to check out others who liked it, they…
This blog began so I could share all the the useful information about Sweden I had gathered during my first few months here. Originally, the blog resided on a free English online newspaper server (the Local ), but it also died there. I was new to blogging and the excitement soon wore off. I wrote nothing for a…
I spent my afternoon looking for new music on Spotify. I love being able to scan, listen and cue such a variety of amazing artists. Unfortunately, just like blogs, many songs get lost in the milieu and mediocrity. When I think about it, that is often a good thing as so much drivel is out…
When I started this blog it was over at the Local, a Swedish, English site that supposedly wanted people like me to blog and talk about my life here in Sweden. The site uses WordPress as the backdrop, the engine, but there is no life dar borta (over there). They ultimately did not care enough…
The other day, while preparing my post Treat Your Blog Right, I started clicking around to try to pop over and say thank you to people who did me the honor of liking or following me. This process taught me a couple of things. If you don’t set up your Gravatar properly, nothing much happens when…
Regular blog review and maintenance, for all your social media, is important. When I came to WordPress last October, I was new to the platform and to all the blogging tools and options. I want to share my tips with other bloggers in case you have not thought about these things. Redesign and Improvement of…
February is a tough month for many people in the winter climes (I am sure it is elsewhere, too, but I can only speak to my own experience). In Stockholm, and while growing up in Halifax (Nova Scotia), this was the month where new snow is dropped upon old, rocky, salty piles of more experienced…
