Through my website guru Sandy Teller of sizzlingstudios.com

I have created another blog that looks like my website.  The trick is to keep both blogs updated regularly. Many of the Active Rainers have mutiple blogs so I will be watching how you manage to do it. The neat thing about this blog is that I was able to import my blogs from blogger.com. Will I keep that blog up as well? Probably. I will be back to edit this tomorrow. Time to retire for the night.

Well I am back. Did some thinking about the blog updating and withy the help of some News Feed and some focusing of the intent of each blog, I should be all set.

http://agencylawsinmichigan.blogspot.com/   will be for keeping folks updated on legal issues in particular. I may import http://somemichiganrealestateinformation.blogspot.com/ blog into http://macombstclaircountymirealestate.blogspot.com/ since both contain local information. http://www.blog.wynnea.com/ has had articles imported from above blogs. This blog will be used for local events, happenings, and listings locally. www.activerain.com/algonacmarinecityhomes will be points of interest to the active rain community and a combo of all the other blogs.

It costs about $6 to have someone write a 200 word blog if I have some content to put up but no time to do.

During my research today I found this "Important Tip: Your visitors will return often for daily giveways. Adding our "Free Stuff" newsfeed helps build the loyal audience you need."

Did you know it was important to put Notes and Tags on each photo? it helps make your photos that much easier to find, since all this info is searchable in a web page or blog.

http://www.blog.wynnea.com/ requires a web based photo so I Checked Out Flickr

Flickr - almost certainly the best online photo management and sharing application in the world - has two main goals:

They help people make their photos available in a blog

Easy to get photos into and out of the system from the web, from mobile devices, from the users' home computers and from whatever software they are using to manage their photos.

"And we want to be able to push them out in as many ways as possible: on the Flickr website, in RSS feeds, by email, by posting to outside blogs or ways we haven't thought of yet. Flickr is the WD-40 that makes it easy to get photos from one person to another in whatever way they want.

Flikr enables new ways of organizing photos.

"Once you make the switch to digital, it is all too easy to get overwhelmed with the sheer number of photos you take with that itchy trigger finger. Albums, the principal way people go about organizing photos today, are great -- until you get to 20 or 30 or 50 of them. They worked in the days of getting rolls of film developed, but the "album" metaphor is in desperate need of a Florida condo and full retirement.

Part of the solution is to make the process of organizing photos collaborative. In Flickr, you can give your friends, family, and other contacts permission to organize your photos - not just to add comments, but also notes and tags. People like to ooh and ahh, laugh and cry, make wisecracks when sharing photos. Why not give them the ability to do this when they look at them over the internet? And as all this info accretes around the photos as metadata, you can find them so much easier later on, since all this info is also searchable.

Flickr continues to evolve in myriad ways, all of which are designed to make it easier and better. Check out the Flickr Blog to stay apprised of the latest developments. The fact that you've read to the end of this entire document and are hanging out at the bottom of this page with nothing but this silly text to keep you company is proof of a deep and abiding interest on your part. What are you waiting for?  Go explore! "

Do you have any more ideas for me to get this blogging right?

I have posted this to several blogging groups if these are not correct for your group let me know. Any place else I should post to?