The Blog Engage $650 Guest Blogging Contest #2

I love writing. I love blogging. Writing is not a new thing. In fact, I’ve been writing since I was just a wee one and used to use, yes, pen and paper! I would buy those beautiful journals that had nice book bindings and paintings on the front and pick a different topic per day and write and write and write. Ok, it wasn’t bad for a kid, but I’ve come a long way since the color crayon days!

No matter how much one may love writing, there comes a time when you sit and stare at the screen and wonder what to write about. For some of us, this may be less frequent, and for shorter periods of time, and it may vary, during periods and seasons of our lives. However, most writers can say they have experienced, at the least, momentary writer’s block, or as I have written it, “Blogger’s Block.”

One of my favorite activities (and yet, she says, she does not partake often enough!) are blogging contests.

I love to study people. I love to study responses that people have, good, bad, or otherwise. Oh, it is, no doubt, a bit more tricky when you are online. However, with the use of Skype, Google Hangouts, and Facebook Video Calling, there are more and more opportunities to have virtual face-to-face encounters with people over the internet. And, in spite of all of the virtual opportunities, we still cross paths with human beings from time to time.

In all my studying of people, there are three things that come to mind when I think of “Subtleties of Sales.” They are subtleties, that, at least in my book, could make or break the sale.

Have you just found a web cam that you’d forgotten about? Or have you just realized that your web cam has been sitting there by your computer for weeks or months, feeling ignored? Wondering just what in the world to do about that? There are plenty of options, especially if you’re feeling creative.

Even if it seems like there wouldn’t be anything to do but to get rid of it if you’re not using it, that’s far from the only choice. You can do more with it, and make it valuable to you again. Here are four funny uses for that forgotten web cam.

Try Video Blogging

You can use that web cam to upload short video clips to your blog. If you do it on an impromptu basis, it can really get your blog readers interested in what you have to say.

People using the search engines might also come across the video, and that could allow you to get more followers to your blog or even get in touch with people who would be interested in working with you or giving you a job. No matter what you have to say, you can say it in a video instead of with words typed on the screen, if you want to.

I couldn’t resist. After seeing what my friend Karen did @ BlazingMinds.co.uk, I had to try it myself. And, you know, it if fun!

So, what are you waiting for — go try it out yourself @ Visual.ly!

In a recent article, I told you about some basic changes that you could make, to get started with your *new* or *soon-to-be-new* Facebook Page (i.e. Fan Page).

Today I want to talk about how to change an application icon/avatar. Previously, they were, uh, sort of small, and I relied on the text to entice people, with the use of symbols like >> and << (did I just highlight the word, "and!"). Anyway, with the new FB Page, the graphics are that much more important, and really, who is going to buy my album based on a generic FBML icon. I mean, would you? I would think that whoever the musician is, they, uh, may not have finished the album?!

Let’s fix that, shall we?

First thing, is to click on the pull-down-thing to the right, next to apps. It is possible you may be able to skip this step, but I tried and after 15 times of ending up on the application instead of editing the application icon, I decided it is easier to go with this step. Possibly Facebook will change it so that it is not required at some point, but no sweat for the extra millisecond.