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Live, Laugh, BLOG! A Google+ Community

(To my readers who are not bloggers or who are not on Google+, I’ll be back with a regular post tomorrow!)

There are a lot of members of the old BlogFrog Communities that miss the conversations on BlogFrog. For those of you who were never a part of BlogFrog, the focus was on discussions and community. Sharing blog links and supporting each others’ posts was important, but the discussions with each other trumped the blog promotions. To see what I mean, take a look at my BlogFrog Community, which will disappear on May 31st.

I think that’s what I miss most about BlogFrog–that sense of community. In an effort to keep that sense of community alive, I’ve started a new community on Google+ called Live, Laugh, BLOG!

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My hope is to make this new community very interactive; a place not only to support each other with our blogs and social media sites, but a place to connect with each other as real people, too. Even though “blog” is in the name, you don’t have to have a blog to join! All you need is a Google+ profile.

To help this process along and to keep our community from just being a dumping ground for links, I’m going to start featuring a member of Live, Laugh, BLOG! every day. I’ll start with the moderators of our community, so you can get to know them.

Would you like to be a featured member? As a featured member, your blog will be promoted on Google+, Twitter and Facebook with the hashtag #livelaughblog. If you are on Pinterest and have a Pinnable post, your blog will be featured there as well.

Only active members will be considered! What does being an “active member” mean?

As an active member, you

  1. Take part in the discussions.
  2. Start a discussion of your own.
  3. Give blog posts you like a +1. Please visit the link and actually read the post; do not randomly click the +1 button.
  4. You are welcome to leave links to your blog posts. However, return visits to community members who support you and visit your blog are also important!
  5. Active members do not necessarily have to be involved in Live, Laugh, BLOG every day. I know that you all have real lives, and can’t be online 24/7! It’s the quality of your participation that counts!

Please note that “spammy” links may be deleted by the moderators. Self-promotion is great, and your blog post might be the best out there. However, if you consistently add links to Live, Laugh, BLOG without supporting other members, your links may be considered spam.

Let’s work together to make Live, Laugh, BLOG a great place to be!

Do you have any questions about being a featured member? Please leave a comment below!

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Adapting to Change Is Hard to Do

When I told Lily that we had to move the clocks forward on Saturday night, she started crying. “But I don’t like to go to bed when the sun it still up!” she exclaimed. “It’s so hard to go to sleep!”

I consoled her by saying that the sun would still go down before her bedtime for a few more weeks, anyway. Lily also doesn’t want to lose her baby teeth, even though she knew the tooth fairy would pay her a visit. She cried when we bought a new toaster. The old one didn’t toast bread any more, but that didn’t matter to her. She still wanted to keep it.

Sometimes, change is hard.

Lily has a pet goldfish, Stripe. As usual, the main caretaker of Stripe has fallen to me, the mommy. It has been several weeks since I changed Stripe’s water, which is looking rather cloudy.  If I don’t change the water, something bad might happen to Stripe, so I plan on changing his water later today.

Sometimes, change is necessary.

Some of you have never even hear of BlogFrog before, but if you look on the right side of my blog, you’ll see a green box that says, “Join My Community!” I’ve been working hard, along with other bloggers, to build up my community on BlogFrog. Last week, we received an email from BlogFrog, telling us that they are discontinuing communities to focus on their marketing aspect.

Sometimes, change is unwanted.

In a real sense, this group of bloggers and I have formed a real community. Not only do we support each other on our blogs and social media sites, we also ask each other for help and advice concerning our kids, our work, and our lives. We’ve made real connections with each other online.

That green BlogFrog Community box is going to disappear, but I know the connections I’ve made with other Mommy bloggers won’t disappear. Those connections are the one of the things that I enjoy about blogging! To continue making connections, I’m introducing:

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Our new Google+ community! I hope to make this new community very interactive; a place not only to support each other with our blogs and social media sites, but a place to connect with each other as real people, too. Even though “blog” is in the name, you don’t have to have a blog to join! All you need is a Google+ profile. So far, we have 35 members.

Sometimes, change is exciting!

Tell me, has something changed in your life recently? How do you feel about change?

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