Are you wondering what I’m doing? Normally, I write my blog post weekly, but something changed this week. As of yesterday, I joined the “Ultimate Blog Challenge” and will post a blog every day in November—yes, daily! I plan the post to be shorter, and I have created an outline of my topics:

TOPICS

• Week 1 – A variety of writing topics
• Week 2 – Where my new book, Coronavirus Reflections: Bitter or Better? came from
• Week 3 – Gratitude topics for Thanksgiving week
• Week 4 – Feature some of my poetry and future poetry books
• Week 5 – Facing the end of 2021 & yet another crazy year

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Blogging Technology Secret

I have a blogging/technology secret to share with you. Today I created drafts for all thirty blog posts with the social media button string in the post, using one of my favorite computer tools: copy and paste. I love having the social media string of icons at the bottom of each blog, but you have to recreate it each time you write a blog, and that can be tedious. So I came up with a solution. (I use wordpress.com.)

Wondering how I did it:

1. Create a new post.
2. Select “Social Icons” from the block menu.
3. Click plus to add one.
4. In the search menu, type the social media site name, like Facebook.
5. Then, in the little window, type in your URL address for your page.
6. Click the plus and add the rest of your social media sites.
7. Save this as a file named, “Social media icons” as a draft.
8. Create a new post for your current blog post, name it and save it.
9. Go back to the draft of “Social media icons.”
10. Go up to the top of the window and to the right where you see three dots and click.
11. Select “Copy All Content” midway down the menu. It will say on the bottom left side, “All content copied.”
12. Go back to the current blog post and put cursor in a block, and paste! Voile!

I love sharing technology shortcuts because computers should make our lives easier, right? Wondering about anything to do with technology or blogging? Leave a comment and I’ll help if I can!

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