Little Forest Quilt Along: Social Networking Tools

Guest post from Aunt Pea
Kristin Witzenburg

Are you participating in the Little Forest Quilt Along?  Mama Pea and I set up social networking tools to enhance your fun and enable greater sharing with others.  

Below are various ways you can follow and benefit from the Little Forest Quilt Along feed:

Participate

Your blog posts

If you're familiar with blog tags, add one to each post when you write about the Little Forest Quilt Along.  Enter the words "Little Quilt Along" in the little box marked Technorati Tags.  If you don't use blog tags, just try to mention "Little Forest Quilt Along" 3-4 times in your post. This will ensure that your post gets picked up in the Little Forest Quilt Along feed.  (You can see the feed working on the right sidebar right now.)

Follow

You can follow what everyone's doing with the Little Forest Quilt along, even if you aren't participating.

To stay up-to-date follow the Little Forest Quilt Along at any of the following options.

Subscribe to Feed:   Pick any of the options below and click the link to follow through that method. 

View directly, or add to your Reader  

Subscribe by email

Follow the feed through Facebook

Follow the feed through Twitter

 

Marketing Leverage

Since we started the feed yesterday 341 people have viewed it. Take advantage of the powerful marketing benefits of social networking to expand your own blog readership!

Use the Little Forest Quilt Along logo

Add your photos to the Flickr group, which will be pulled into the feed if set to public.

Add the Little Forest Quilt Along widget to your blog, Facebook page, and a multitude of choices:

(Typepad used as example)

1.  Click "Get this Widget" icon below the widget

2.  Copy the code (keyboard shortcut: Control+C)

3.  Go to design in your blog settings.

4.  Select "content"

5.  Search under modules for "Embed Your own HTML" and add the module to your side bar. 

6. Paste the code you copied earlier into the HTML box, click "save."

7.  Preview how the widget looks on your page. If you like it, save and publish it.

8.  Once placed you don't need to update it - the Little Forest Quilt Along will update automatically as new posts and photos are published by participants.

 

If you have questions I'll do my best to answer them!  Contact me at [email protected]

HI Everyone!

This is Mama Pea.  A huge thanks to my sister (Aunt Pea) for setting all of this social media up for us.  She designed the logos, set up all the feeds for us, and wrote this guest post to explain it all for you.  It took her quite a bit of time, and I really appreciate it!  By the way, she has a degree in Internet marketing, so if any of you need help with your blogs (making new mastheads, adding these kinds of feeds, designing logos and buttons, business cards), she would love your business.

Hope you're all coming along well with your Little Forest Quilt.  Looking forward to seeing all your updates!

Have a wonderful holiday weekend!

Until next time,

Mama Pea

 

Comments

[Allie]

What a great sister you have!

[Lynn]

Cool! I just added the widget to my blog. It was very easy to do and took less than a minute!

[Brooke]

Oh this looks like so much fun!! I just think it is more than I can add to my plate right now. Just love all that you think through!

[Terri]

I love your new blog design!

[Kristin]

Thanks for the shameless plug on my behalf Mama Pea! Your love and praise go a loooonnngg way!

But my invoice is in the mail ;-)

Lol.....

[Linda in Calif.]

Kristin, You did a great job on this button. Thanks so much!! And the blog post explaining it. I have spread your name around already - but the people are not quite ready for you yet. However, when they are, we know where to find you!!!

[Aunt Pea]

Thanks Linda. I'm still getting myself ready too, so we can all grow in this together!