Thanks for the insight!
Apr 7, 2007 Parenting, The Story of My Life
The comments on the last post were a BIG HUGE help!!! This is what I need to do:
–Figure out how to skin drupal (it’s harder for me than messing with wordpress);
–Set up a newsletter;
–Make it clear that the reason people aren’t getting confirmations is that the GTB emails are getting stuck in spam filters (i.e., it’s NOT because your blog is “too small”!);
–Fix it so the blog is being updated (it’s updated twice since what you see on the front page but the frickin’, frackin’ drupal views are complicated things and I didn’t realize people couldn’t see it);
–Make it more clear that small blogs are very very wanted;
–Explain what page views are.
I’ll put it all on this week’s to-do list. This weekend I need to work on a new project I got assigned last week and start working on a proposal for another assignment I’m hoping to land. Normally this — and the 100 Hats — would be enough to keep me busy but with Brett home, I have time to look for more. Also this week is some networking stuff (which reminds me — I need to RSVP for a meeting). I also need to do my anti-racist parent post. What else? (Dawn taps the table and looks off into the middle distance.) There’s an essay I’m still working on because I’m the world’s slowest writer. And (middle distance again) oh well, always the never-ending work that is 100 Hats.
One thing I don’t like about gmail is that I don’t have separate email boxes anymore with filters. I really miss that; it made organization so much easier. I have a hard time keeping track of LitMama submissions and then we’re doing some organization there that’s impacting op-ed (in a good way).
Forgot I wanted to record kid stuff for the blog as baby book: We got Madison a sandbox for her birthday and I figured we’d just go find a used sandbox somewhere (because, my goodness, how many times have you seen those turtle sandboxes out on the curb?) but Brett wanted a new one. So he and Noah went to Target the night before she turned three and they came back with this Pooh Bear thing. As Brett was setting it up he told me this story.
Target has this aesthetically pleasing wooden sandbox and I wondered if Brett would be able to resist it’s siren song. He almost didn’t. He was admiring it and decided to get it but frugal Noah noticed the price and said, “Daddy, it’s a hundred dollars!” Brett said, “I know but look at how nice it is. It has a canopy. It has these little benches.” Noah shook his head and said, “That’s too much for a sandbox! You shouldn’t spend more than thirty or forty dollars!” So they got the ugly but perfectly fine Pooh one for $30.
I’m never letting Brett shop without Noah again. (My mother reports Noah does the same thing when he’s shopping with her. He’ll say, “But do we really need this? Couldn’t we get a better price?” I love that kid!)
April 7th, 2007 at 2:15 pm
I’m glad to hear there will be some more action over at Get Them Blogging! I’d been wondering.
Oooh, a sandbox. I want so badly to do some, uh, something to our back yard.
April 7th, 2007 at 4:27 pm
LOL I’m not letting Hubby read this post or he’ll hire Noah to escort me shopping everytime I leave the house.
Tell Brett that the wooden sand box sounded great. A canopy!
I need to look through my spam now because I hadn’t gotten anything from GTB.
April 7th, 2007 at 7:02 pm
Oh, man. Can I borrow Noah when I go shopping? He is truly the voice of reason.
April 7th, 2007 at 10:29 pm
you can set up different gmail accounts for different things. a little annoying to log into, but may help keep things seperate.
(there may be a way to filter too, just dont know of it and am too lazy to go check gmail’s website)
April 8th, 2007 at 1:07 am
I use Thunderbird to pop my gmail over to my computer and Yippee!! it’s like I have my old way of life back but I still have the giant storage hole that is gmail doing it’s thing.
April 8th, 2007 at 2:26 am
Noah needs to marry one of my children, they will be good balance for each other.
April 8th, 2007 at 5:32 am
You can create labels in gmail (applied manually or automatically) and then sort by label. Not quite the same as separate boxes, but better than a big ol’ pile of mail all jumbled together.
April 8th, 2007 at 1:03 pm
what a smart boy you have.
April 8th, 2007 at 2:39 pm
I need to borrow Noah. Just for a while, for my husband. I promise I’ll return him!
April 8th, 2007 at 6:57 pm
Oh, Noah is awesome. My husband and I are like that, so I hope our sons get to be frugal too…
Anyway, we were lucky to get a hand-me-down sandbox (one of those green turtles), but, like Brett, I was really entranced by the target one the other day :).
Hmmm…. so we did get a confirmation email.
I also miss having various boxes in gmail. You can create labels for your incoming mail, though, the only thing is that you have to apply them manually once you get the email. But then later you can recall them by label. (I have to confess though that I started, labeling only my “dissertation related” emails, but I often forget
to do it, so it’s not that useful, sorry.)
So, we were supposed to have gotten a confirmation? I didn’t even know that, but maybe I wasn’t paying attention! So you should definitely make that clear on the GTB site and also let us know which is the email address that we need to “rescue” from spam filter, or tell it not to filter.
April 9th, 2007 at 1:44 am
Oh, no!!!
Gmail has filters that work with the labels!! I could NEVER have migrated over to Gmail without a filter system.
After you are logged in go to any email that you have and create a label for it. Good? Now look at the search box on top…Next to the button that says search web that is a link that says create filter. Follow that. It’s not as easy as the filters in other web mails, but it does the job 99% of the time.
I learned that after going to a focus group on Gmail and that was my #1 reason why I wasn’t switching over for good. I told them to make it look bigger!
HTH!
April 9th, 2007 at 2:59 pm
You can create labels in GMail for incoming stuff to be sorted to folders. That’s how I keep my work separate from my person stuff.
April 9th, 2007 at 7:08 pm
I have only recently found your site and need - simply need - to know how old Noah is! His shopping mantra will stay with me for days! {do we need this? can we find it for less?} Did you train him? Or did he come pre-conditioned to being a cost saving genius? I MUST GET ME SUCH A CHILD.
Also LitMama…what is this? I have several college friends who are now SHM and they write. So I was wondering if this was something they might be interested in…
Hope to hear all the details soon!
Trixie in Georgia