Archive for June, 2009

Thanks to the wonderful people who offered to help me out of the greatness of their heart, I am now up and running on WordPress, the “proper” blogging software with no adverts and my own website URL and (apparently) lots of functionalities and gizmos which I have yet to discover. I am very excited (<widest grin possible>)

I am grateful, and blessed to know you! (You know who you are!)

I’m still working on setting up a WordPress blog on my website. I’ve done everything as per the instructions (I think) but I still haven’t cracked it – I’m about to ask for help on FB and Twitter

The TPE has been churning out blog posts in the meantime and getting contributions to include – the latest is tips for healthy eating for business people on the go. I’m pleased that mine is in at number 10 here http://www.toiletpaperentrepreneur.com/blog/fast-healthy-food-for-entreprenuers-on-the-run

10. Drink Fruit In A Bottle!
Fast Healthy Food Tip: My favourite easy yet healthy food on the go has to be fruit smoothies: plenty of lovely nutrients in an easy to transport (and drink out of) bottle or carton. Plus if they have bananas in, they keep you full for a while! [If you're a juicing freak like me, you can prepare in the morning and carry around in a thermos flask, for 100% homemade gorgeous goodness...]

Check out the TPE blog for more…

I have been pretty quiet lately – I’ve been mainly wrestling with “web 2.0″ and getting my head round web hosting and WordPress and social networking and other bits and pieces. Things in my life seem to going off in each and every direction at the moment – I think this is the time for me to regroup and gather my energies and be more focussed. I started off by having a really long lie in this morning, and I feel worlds better for it.

In the meantime, I did contribute a tip to the Toilet Paper Entrepreneur blog about how to discover your hidden talents – and I’m delighted that it has been used. It’s here (number 49) along with another 54 contributed by various readers – check it out!
http://www.toiletpaperentrepreneur.com/blog/how-to-find-your-hidden-talent

It’s nice to have my stuff used by someone else – however small the contribution – it feels good

I’ve been meaning to blog for the past few days and indeed have a few ideas and started articles staring at me from my “draft” folder… However – I found out last night how to merge my website with this blog, i.e. to have them all on the one website (www.beamazingtoday.co.uk) which would mean all my info in the same place, a brochure website with blog updates, and also no adverts on my blog!

I’m going through such a steep learning curve at the moment, it’s magical and unreal and it sometimes feel like my little brain is going to implode. I was chatting to a friend this morning and saying once I have got my head round all this using the web to promote your business [Twitter, Facebook pages, LinkedIn, search engine optimisation, blogging, etc etc] I should probably write a blog article – and share some of what I’ve been spending the past month teaching myself about!

Anyway. That was an aside. I found out this morning that unfortunately the company I have been hosting my websites with ever since I’ve had my first website… doesn’t support the blogging software I want to use. I’m moving a step up in my technological endeavours and it is time to bid them good-bye after several years of effective services. I’ve just transferred the domain name and purchased hosting with a new whizzy company that supports WordPress, so in the next few days (once all the registration is done and files are created their end and whatever clever stuff they need to do to set me up) I will be migrating this blog over to www.beamazingtoday.co.uk

Then there will be more interesting blogging happening. Thank you for bearing with me in the meantime while I blog about not blogging ;-p

Catch you all soon!