Ten Awesome Posts About Social Media and Blogging

Posts about social media and blogging can be found all over the place. It can be pretty overwhelming, if  like me, you aren’t especially tech savvy.  I am sharing ten awesome posts about blogging and social media written for “normal people”.

1. How *I* Write a Blog Post This is a ten post series from OhAmanda.com that covers her blogging process from editing to promoting. Love the concise, easy to understand chunks of information.
   
2. The Ultimate List of Pinterest Tips Blogging with Amy is my go to blog for the newest and greatest social media and blogging tips.
   
3. How to Customize what You See on Facebook. I am using lists on Facebook but this post on SavvyBlogging.Net showed me that I am not using them to their fullest potential.
   
4. I know many bloggers are lamenting the loss of Picnik. I’ve only used it a handful of times but I use two of the three editing programs {Photoscape and Paint.NET) mentioned in Photography Tips from One Tightwad to Another
   
5. To go along with the last post Southern Hospitality shared a tutorial on how to edit your photos using Photoscape
   
6. The Info You Need on the Top of Your Blog from Meet Penny. Yes, Yes, and Yes with her observations.
   
7. Blogging Productivity Tip: Find Images in Bulk Another great tip from Blogging with Amy. If you don’t subscribe to it already you really should.
   
8. How to Become a Twitter Ninja in Less than 30 Minutes a Day. Twitter is probably where I have the most difficulty with engagement.
   
9. How to Add Filters to Gmail. This is probably my biggest email timesaver because I can find a much needed email much faster in its own folder than the abyss known as my inbox.
   
10. How to Make Money Blogging. This 11 part series from Money Saving Mom covers a ton of ways you can use your blog to make money.

This post is linked up to Top Ten Tuesday

What are your favorite blog and social media tips for “normal people?”

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Time Management & Me : A Love/ Hate Relationship

I love the days when my to-do list goes smoothly and my dishes and laundry are done and out of sight. I hate the work that goes into making those happen. Regardless of how I feel it gets done. Time and household management/organization are two areas that my skills are not as honed as I would like them.
I know it is impossible to get everything I want to do crammed into 24 hours but I also know that I am not working as efficiently as I could. So for the next few weeks in conjunction with my 3 in 30 goals I am going to be sharing my journey.

Resources I Will Be Using

I do a lot of blog reading and have found numerous resources on the subjects of time and household management. I have narrowed my focus to three blogs/blog series.

• Home-Ec 101 I’ll be using both the site and the book on the organizational front.
  
• Time Management 101 A blog series written by Crystal from Money Saving Mom with some help by Amy from Blogging with Amy. There is also a free e-book if you want all the info in one spot (which I do!)
  
• I’m an Organizing Junkie The 52 Weeks of Organizing will be my focus here

Next week I’ll be sharing my time budget and my favorite printables

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Freezer Cooking Day One Update (with video)

I know I said I would update with pictures but got the wild and crazy idea to do my very first vlog post. I normally avoid being in front of the camera so it was a bit awkward. I managed to get pretty much everything done which makes me happy. Well I haven't finished all of the tortillas yet but we had to have supper and I needed to get off my feet for awhile.

I had made a video when Mama got home of me actually cooking tortillas but it was way too dark to see anything and I looked like I had a black eye.

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Once a Month Cooking in March: The Game Plan

I've listed the dishes I am going to make so it is time to break them down into steps. It is late winter in Alabama and that means crazy weather. Seriously we're in the upper 50s today and tomorrow and snow is forecast on Tuesday. I will be doing my oven cooking Tuesday to maximize the warmth.




Monday:

• Make pancakes. I'll double the recipe and some will be breakfast for my nephew and me. The rest will be frozen.
• Cook pintos in the slow cooker for refried beans. I'll be cooking some extra beans because I am making tostadas for supper.
• Make flour tortillas.  I will be making at least three dozen because enchiladas are on the menu for March and we'll go through  18 tortillas easily with two pans of enchiladas.

Tuesday:

• Make brown sugar biscuit twists. I'll be freezing them already baked for a quick breakfast.
• Buttermilk biscuits. Some will be baked then frozen and I will also whip up a batch of dough and cut and freeze for when I have a bit more time for them to bake.
• Make and freeze the pizza dough. I will probably double the recipe. I can't remember off hand how many pizzas this makes because I haven't made the dough in awhile. 
• Make the French Bread rolls. These will be baked prior to freezing so on nights we want rolls we can take a few out and heat them in the oven or microwave them.

Crystal at Money Saving Mom has these great down loadable freezer cooking planning worksheets that will help take a lot of the guess work out of once a month cooking. When we get more ink for the printer I plan on printing a ton out and putting them in a notebook.

See y'all again tomorrow night with an update of what I managed to get done and some photos.

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Once a Month Cooking in March: The Bread, Breakfast and Sides Edition.

We all battled illness during the month so we ate a ton of sandwiches, hot dogs and even fast food. Because of that we still have quite a few things in the freezer from the February menu that I need to use up. The first big cooking day or two will consist of breads, breakfast foods and some side dishes.

Here is what I plan on making:

• Refried Beans
• Flour Tortillas. I would guess about three dozen. Check my cooking blog later on next week for the recipe. 
• Biscuits
• Pancakes. I like to try new recipes every once in a while and I think the pancakes from Southern Plate will be this month's winner.
• Pizza Dough
• Whole Wheat French Bread Rolls
• Brown Sugar Biscuit Twists 

I will be tweeting some updates during the day on Monday and Tuesday and should have a post each night with my progress if things go according to plan. I will be doing another freezer cooking day after we clear out the freezer of what we bought earlier in the month and we go grocery shopping. I will post when that is going to happen when I know.

For great hints on Once a Month Cooking visit Crystal at Money Saving Mom and FishMama at Life as Mom

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