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Playing With Light

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Playing With Light
Photo-A-Day #1461

I received a birthday card from my grandmother and grandfather today. She put some confetti in it. I thought it would look cool in a glass of water in the dark with flashlights shined upon it. I got out the tripod, flashlight and a headlamp. I set up the camera so that the macro was set to shoot the glass. I set the focus and shut off the lights. I then hit the shutter, flicked on the flashlight a couple of times. I got a bunch of really noisy ones and this one was the best of the bunch. Oh and I forgot to put in the confetti.

I’m trying to be more creative and use my manual settings more. I read this really great post from another person who is doing the 31 Days to Build a Better Blog Challenge. He put together 33 strategies to Creative Capital. The post was really good with some great ideas. I’m learning some great stuff from this challenge and meeting some nice people along the way.

Today’s challenge was to promote a post. Since I really liked the 10 Essential Items for IZEAFest 2009 post that I wrote yesterday I went towards promoting that one. However, the great one that needs the most promotion right now is for Blogs, Brews and Belly Laughs II. I really need comments for that post and hope that you take the time to do that as well as take the time to join my IZEA Insider crew the “I’m Not A Famous Blogger” Crew on SocialSpark.

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A Famous Blogger? No not me…

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Blu Winnings
Photo-A-Day #1417

Yes, I won something else. I’m working on a specific post that deals with all of my contest winnings but this post is to tell you all that I am going to be tasting some Frog soon. BluFrog in fact. I won a case of BluFrog from Martha Decker and it arrived really late in the day that I dare not try it for fear of staying up way too late. I’m going to try it tomorrow before my meetings so I can stay up through them.

Today I made a decision to get rid of one of my blogs. I took down I’m Not A Famous Blogger. That address is still mine and it points to this blog now (It will soon point to an updated About Me page). That was a blog which was all about being an IZEA Insider. Don’t worry I am certainly still an IZEA Insider and think IZEA is awesome. I realized something, though. If I was blogging about being an Insider on that other blog then I really wasn’t saying much about it on this blog, the blog that people read. It made no sense for you to follow me on Twitter as BenSpark and as INAFB. So I took INAFB down too.

I read a post a while back by Ted Murphy about investing in your personal brand. It made sense to me that if I was investing time into yet another blog and not into BenSpark.com which has become such a personal brand that people know me and address me as Ben rather than Drew. People often apologize for that but to me it just shows that my personal brand is in people’s heads. I’m Not A Famous Blogger is an idea that I had borne out of seeing all these other bloggers who are rolling high. I certainly don’t go rolling high anywhere, I enjoy my simple life, love my family and love to take pictures and blog about them. While I certainly wouldn’t mind living the dot.com lifestyle I know that I just want to be me and I’m Not a Famous Blogger.

What does this mean to the IZEA Insiders I’m Not A Famous Blogger Crew? Well it means that you’re going to get a lot more attention as a member of my crew because this is the blog that gets the attention. I’m going to take some time to showcase the people on my crew in spotlight posts on this blog. So expect an e-mail from me soon.

Consolidation is coming. I have way too many balls in the air right now and in order to pay good attention to all of my blogs some are going to be culled from the herd. I made each blog as an offshoot of my personality but realize that All aspects of that personality should be showcased on this one blog. I’m not in it to make money, although I do make a little, I’m in it because I love blogging.

So, if I have tips and tricks for you for social media sites I’m going to talk about them here and not make you go to one of my lesser known blogs. It looks like The Wired Kayaker is going to become a part of this blog and not a stand alone blog anymore because that is such a seasonal type blog that in the days and months that I am not on the water I just don’t want to write much about kayaking. So when that blog is incorporated into this one I will be tagging those posts with WiredKayaker so that they are in an easily accessible category. That is a much bigger blog than I’m Not A Famous Blogger so it will take some time to assimilate.