LOST FANS

If you are a LOST fan and are interested in a fun discussion on lost, or just want to read some interesting theories go to THIS POST on Robberfly

Update & a Blogging Time-saver!

I’m back from yet another Friday off. I actually took a nap during the kids’ naptime. My day off provided me with nice rest, a much needed break. This weekend we have a wedding (that owen is in!) and the same for next weekend (a wedding I am in). This means my RSS feeder will probably be incredibly full with unread posts. I’m a little bit Type-A to say the least and seem to have a weird issues with large numbers in my parentheses! (that would be the number of the unread posts, for those unfamiliar with it.) I will just have to push past that though

I feel like I have read a lot lately from different friends on how time on the internet is getting to overwhelming. Several of you have newly discovered the blessing of RSS feed reading to save time! I am going to share with you another time-saver for those who post blogs! I learnerd it from Pro-Blogger who Brit & Grit tipped me to. BUT it was just this weekend that I realized WordPress actually has a complete function for this!

Its called ‘Future Post’. It gives you the ability to write posts ahead of time and pick a time and date for it to automatically post! You may wonder why this matters if you don’t care about your traffic. Let me tell you why.

Let’s say you get 2 hours to post about once a week but you have so much you want to say, topics on your heart you want to engage discussion in. If you just go ahead and post 5 different posts in one shot you may find people only read the top one or two. The readers’ time is precious too. I know as a frequent reader that when there are too many posts on one blog to read I often don’t get through all of them. With this feature you could write all 5 but publish them on different days. That way if you write a post that is important to you it is more likely it will be read!

I was doing this before today by simply writing posts, saving them as draft, and then manually hitting PUBLISH when I wanted to post them. I sent feedback to wordpress on Thursday saying it would be great to have a way to actually schedule posts. They wrote me back saying they already have it!

If this is something that interests you, and WordPress is your host, CLICK HERE If you use another format for your blog you may want to write their support and ask if they have the same function. So from now on you MAY see me posting on Friday, but don’t be decieved, I’m not on the internet- Its the ghost of wordpress.

I’m off to spend time with the family on this gorgeous day. Sometime this weekend I will probably post pictures of Owen in a tux and jumping in his new bouncer!

OH WAIT one more thing- I moved my blogroll to a seperate page! So if you are looking to browse blogs go above to the tab that says “BlogRollCall”. I actually may have lost one or two in the process which I’m sure I will be adding back in when I have time. Also, if you feel I have catagorized your blog incorrectly, please drop me a line or comment and I will change it.

Have a beautiful weekend!