::Making Connections::

Hey.

(This is what Bogart, the Big Black Dog looks like when he's pondering the meaning of his life with regards to his blog.  Which he hasn't started yet.)

Been pondering again.  Along the lines of my recent post, where I mentioned I've decided again to forgo building a money-making blog.

What I'm REALLY trying hard todo is rebuild the community here, and wondering about commenters.  Are you one? (I love you if you are!)

I've made a dedicated effort to start commenting more on other's blogs without having to spend a hugemonguous amount of time on the computer.  I've also redoubled my efforts to leave comments before I pin something.....remember the whole ::Are you a pin-it and run victim?:: post?  And it's follow-up?  I'd been getting lazy...

That's why I'm loving bloglovin because it takes me to the actual blog where I can leave a comment, then hit 'older'...which is like that 'next' button in Google Reader, and it takes me to the next unread blog on my list.  Fab. Makes my blog-stalking habit so much easier to manage.  Do you follow me on bloglovin yet?  Super easy.

Here's the deal: I would like to add more of your blogs to my own bloglovin feed....you know, you guys with similar taste and loves. You guys that for one reason or another like some or most of the random content I put out here.

So here's your chance.

If you have a blog, let me know in the comments so I can pop in.  

(hey guys!)

I can't promise to comment on every single post, but I'd love to know more about my readers, and build my tribe.  Not for big numbers or advertising advantages or whathaveya.  Just for the give and take.  It gets echo-y in here some days. What I will try to do consistently is reply to comments here, BUT you need to make sure I can do that.  Don't be a 'non-reply commenter' or I can't write back!

I also want to start featuring some of you here.  I've said that before, but as my motivation for blogging becomes more clear, I feel it's so important to give other's a place to get noticed by some of us oldies that have been around for awhile.  Some of my favorite blogs were discovered as they were featured by other bloggers.  Heck, I got featured way back when a few times, and it added to my exposure (where or where are all those lovely readers now?  Come baaaaackkkk.  I miss you!)

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One last thing....facebook.

Let's be friends.  Go like me.  Especially if you don't have a blog!  I still wanna get to know you, and it's a perfect platform for that, even though facebook can annoy me to end with all their constant changes.  I can't keep up with twitter or Google+, but facebook is familiar, so that's the other place I hang.  Would love to see you over there! If you 'like' my page, be sure to also add me to your daily newsfeed as well as commenting on my statuses.  The more we converse and 'like', the more exposure we all get.  Win-win.
So, let's connect (or reconnect).  Leave me a comment about yourself and/or your blog.  Let's rebuild a tribe of folks with serious ::cottage instincts::