How to Move Your Blog...

The larger community forums were easy to navigate, and I found several ways to export and import just my blog postings into the new blog under my individual account.

Here is the real deal... keywords are Export - the Import!

1.  create your own blogger account with your own gmail address and log out from the new account
2.  log into our shared blogger account, digital658@gmail.com
3.  scroll to the blog you own, and click the Settings link
4.  Click Export at the top of the settings. 
         Click download and note the name (it is the date), and the location (desktop)
5.  Click Save
6.  The blogger atom downloads your posts as an XML file (xml??)
7.  Log off the shared 658digital account and log into your own blogger account

8.  Once logged in scroll to the settings on your new blogger site
9.  Click the settings and at the top click the Import
10 Point the mouse to your downloaded/exported file that has the date of the export as the file name
11 click Start, and Wa LA!

Ripe and Warm and Sweet and Juicy Tomatoes...

How would you market these gems of the summer? I remember planting and watering tomatoe plants for years in the late spring. When they are well cared for, and mother nature is also good to them, the results are delicious.

MY favorite tomato eating experience is to pluck one off in the hot sunshine and right there without even washing the fruit, enjoy the juicy first chew and feel the sunshine warmth in my mouth.

So... how do you market these gems of the summer garden? A social media expert will have ideas. I will have more as I grow in this field (no pun intended).

My first thought is WHEN will we be able to add smell, taste and temperature to the internet? I hear that HP has been working on scented colors!

Favorites - brand and product....

Favorites enable you to....
Share your "Wow Moments"

It’s not about the ultimate product feature; it IS about the ability to share a part of you and be accessible and connected with others. IT is about moments worth sharing and having the ability to share while the memories are still fresh and being savored.


IT is being on the #30 Stockton Muni bus in the heart of Chinatown, San Francisco, CA, USA.  The bus is crowded and chaotic and I stand squished by the rear door on a cool summer day. The bus brakes wheez to a jerky stop, doors creak open and proceed loading and unloading passengers.

An oriental rhythm, bright red and yellow colors and the action of a parade dragon catch my eye. I smile at the sight. I swing up the Flip; lean over and place the Flip into the rear door window and press the big red button.  All the while I am staring out, enjoying the suprise observation.  The dragons’ ten feet work the tone colors of the beat. I am not looking through the camera lens, which enables me to enjoy the first hand experience as well as create the replay. A crowd gathers, children and adults, all smiling and encouraging the dragon dancers.


The bus doors close, and begins to slowly rumble and roll us all  toward the next stop. I click the red button again to stop the recording. The rhythm I can hear changes in the bus to the uphill struggle of the engine from the drum beats for the dragon.


I peer down, click replay and have the chance to see and hear the event again. The noise of the bus and the jostling people all slip away from me for the moment. And I smile again watching the replay, noticing for the first time the dragon dancers sharing trinkets with the children who were gleefully observing and mimicking the dancing dragon. The children were eager to receive the trinkets and bow their thanks to the dragon.


This is an example of the accessibility of using the Flip camcorder. Easy to carry, easy to record and playback, holds a few hours of clips. Get to a computer and see why the name of the camcorder is Flip… the USB flips out of the camera, and plugs in via those wonderfully universal ports.


And now, another opportunity to watch the dragon dancer scene is made available to me. 34 seconds of vibrant video. I email it right way (from within the flipshare software application) to my son in Chicago. I enjoyed sharing with him this vignette from my San Francisco vacation,  ‘back home’, also his birth city.


I love the Flip sharing to all my favorite social sites, such as Facebook and YouTube. I am not required to know details such as file format or file size is, software does the file type/uploading wizardry. This is what makes it all possible, the pocket-sized camcorder, the basic software and fast process to upload, email and burn memories into permanency.


It is great to share short video moments with friends and family of all ages.

And it has been so wonderful to see them embrace this technology. An example, just now  -- I opened my email and a Flip video had been shared with me by a super fantastic and wonderful 80 year old friend. He recited an old Irish poem by Robert Burns.  His eyes were bright as he recited to his shinny new Flip.  What a phenomenal gift.


These are the reasons my favorite brand is Flip and my favorite product is the Flip Camcorder.