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  • Reinventing your blog – Refilling old wine in new bottles

    If you like me are re-inventing your blog, you will face the problem of what to do with your old content especially if you are the sole and single author of your blog posts. After all, there is only so much you can say about a topic and there are only so many topics that interest you . Besides, many of your old blog posts are still relevant and you would like to re-post them on your new blog. But how do you go about it?

    Co-Schedule is a wonderful site that offers a lot of free help to bloggers giving them advice on how to grow traffic, how to engage an audience and eventually even how to re-fill your old wine in new-bottles

    I found this wonderful post alert in my mail box and decided to re-visit it at leisure. I found it most useful as many of you will when you decide to re-launch your blog in its latest avatar.

    You must be having hundreds of posts but are they all worthy of being re-posted? Some of them are dated while some will need to be updated. Some may be your favourite but how do you re-use them without them looking jaded? This simple 9 question infographic will help you decide which content is worth repeating and which is not.

    I’ve used this infographic without permission but am acknowledging authorship  to CoSchedule and so I do hope CoSchedule doesn’t mind.

  • Are We #Following Each Other? #socialmedia

    For all those like me who are trying to make sense out of the different social media icons that appear on each blog post and how the different social media platforms work, this is a wonderful post that actually explains the differences. A great read for those of you who are still choosing a platform to express your thoughts.

  • Give a little rope

    Thanks to the lull in the monsoon, last week Hubby Dear and I managed to go for a walk on Marine Drive, our favourite spot in the world.. Everybody it seems had the same idea because the sea front was filled with people just hanging out ; families strolling about, couples dawdling, children running around, people eating roasted bhutta and pinwheel sellers and tea sellers having a field day. I also saw some police men actually patrolling the seafront, walking around in groups and ineffectively swishing about their batons and chatting on their phones. There was also one police man who was actually patrolling the area on his bicycle! Yes, that amazed me no end but sadly I didn’t carry along my mobile phone to take a photo as I was scared the dark clouds overhead may just burst and either my phone would get we or I would get electrocuted in the faint chance of a thunder shower.

    However, half way down the promenade, I noticed a slack, yellow nylon rope tied sloppily on the line of trees along the promenade, making a barricade of sorts. Since the rope was hardly for half a kilometre, I wondered what it really was for? All through the walk I tried to imagine what it was meant to do……Finally, on the way back, unable to hold back my curiosity, I asked a policeman what it was for.

    “Oh that’s to keep back the crowds when there’s high tide.”

    “Oh! So is there going to be High Tide soon?”

    “No, not at all!”

    “Then why have you tied the rope?”

    “If there is High Tide then it will be useful.”

    “But what about the rest of the promenade? Or is this particular stretch more treacherous and dangerous?”

    The policeman looked quizzically at me, ” Of course not!”

    “Then why only so much?” I persisted

    “Because that’s all the rope we have.”

    I was shocked by this answer! If that is the extent of our preparedness for disaster management, I can imagine half of Bombay being washed away because the Mumbai Police have only 500 m of rope to make an effective barricade against the stormy sea!

    How prepared is your city for a disaster?

    Ciao,

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