I woke up today thinking about a lot of things. First of all
I woke up thinking about how I have to clean out a broken refrigerator and also
around it. That is enough to make me want to procrastinate and think of
something else that I’d rather do. But the truth is, I have to do it. It’s one
of those things that just has to be done and I’m the only one who can do it. Social media is always a great excuse to procrastinate so here I am.
My Pinterest Page that I'll talk about more here.
The other thing I thought about writing about is my recent deeper
foray into social media. I’ve always blogged on here for fun. I’ve never done a
lot to promote my blog or to sell advertising on this space. In other words, I’ve
never made a business of this. I’ve also never really written about shoes, even
though I do love shoes and that is the title. I’m more of a lifestyle blogger
that blogs about being a mom, working and the many adventures I’ve had over
these 11 years since I started this blog.
I blog a lot about education and the Magnet School program
in the Houston Independent School District a lot. In the last three years since
I’ve been divorced I blog about co-parenting. As a native Houstonian that loves
her city, I blog about Houston, and here lately about caring for my elderly
dad. I have a project I’m working on with my dad called Dicho a Day. We record
these videos where he says a dicho in Spanish and then I give it its best Spanish
translation. Those can be found on my YouTube channel. I also started writing
about caring for my dad on Latina Lista in a column called Padre Care.
I finally decided to change my social media descriptions on
all my profiles with one uniform theme. So if you go here on my blog, to my
Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Google +, YouTube and Pinterest you see six main
hashtags. #shoegirlcorner, #dichoaday, #loveHipHouston, #workingMama,
#coparenting and most recently, #PadreCare in my profile description. These are my six main themes on
social media, whether it’s me posting a photo of the Houston skyline on
Instagram or directing people over to something about my dad.
Here recently I’ve learned a couple of new things. One is
that my Pinterest page gets a lot more traffic than any of my other social
media channels. Like a crazy amount of page views for just a regular me. The
board that gets the most action is my Someecards board. Coincidentally, or not,
that’s another one of my obsessions. I love writing and making Someecards under
the User Cards. I’ve created a bunch on their site and then I pin them over to
my board. I have a few of my own creations that have been re-pinned quite a few
times. As well as some of the ones created by others that I just share. It
turns out a lot of people have my same my wacky sense of humor.
So my new idea is to try and leverage some of that Pinterest
traffic over to my other channels and especially to my blog. My poor little
blog that has been getting the least attention from me lately. This is the same
blog that has its own URL, www.shoegirlcorner.com
but that I haven’t done anything with that. My designer friend has given me
three layouts to choose from and I still need to get back to him on which
design I prefer so he can help me launch my blog on my own platform.
Another social media channel that I recently joined and that
I really need to learn more about it Periscope. It’s owned by Twitter, it
allows you to video live and the video goes down after 24 hours. I really tried
it for the first time last night with Dicho a Day.
I learn so much about social media from the Blog Elevated
group. This is a group of fantastic women who have so much information to
share and they will be hosting their third conference this year. It’s lead by Lisa Stauber and Bobbie Byrd. I’ve participated in their
Twitter chat on Tuesday evenings and I’m trying to do it more consistently so I can
learn even more. The more I learn the better I will hopefully get at promoting all
my writing and creative efforts. That is my goal!
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