What a week for social media upgrades! On top of these Blogger design upgrades, we've got adorable little soccer balls on our #WorldCup tweets, and we can now like other people's comments on Facebook!
But back to the design upgrades. As you can see, my blog looks completely different from before - and way more awesome. I can thank the new "Blogger Template Designer" for that.
Here are some cool features:
1. It's easy to use. Just hit "Design" and the "Blogger Template Designer" appears above your blog.
2. Better templates. 'Nuf said.
3. Backgrounds. This is really cool. There are a ton of background pictures to choose from on top of the templates.
4. Layout. You can actually choose your layout, and it's not set by your template. And there are more layouts to choose from.
I was actually starting to get tired of Blogger because of the limits on my blog design. (Lack of background choices, difficult layout options, pain to change colors and lines..) But seeing this new "Design" tab on Blogger felt like Google heard my inner complaining and decided to help a brother out.
Here's the link to the Official Google Blog's post on the Blogger Template Designer: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/06/blogger-template-designer-now-available.html
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Wednesday, June 16, 2010
Sunday, November 1, 2009
Twitter Lists
Twitter launched "Twitter Lists" last week for users to organize who they follow. On top of giving me something to do while watching the Yankees game on TV and winding down from work and a busy weekend, Twitter Lists actually helped me understand how and why I use Twitter. Yes, it feels good to be organized, but it's pretty cool to see how and why you and other people use something like Twitter.
As soon as I saw that I could make Twitter Lists, I had to think of the best way to group people in as few groups as possible while still being specific. First, I noticed that I use Twitter to get a lot of my news. Second, I saw that as a journalist, I have a lot of journalist friends and follow a lot of journalists. Then I thought, this is pretty cool.
Here are the lists I came up with:
@freesiaa/entertainment
@freesiaa/humor
@freesiaa/politics
@freesiaa/journalism
@freesiaa/friends
@freesiaa/uconn
@freesiaa/music
@freesiaa/news
I'm not sure if I'll follow other user lists, but it was nice to organize these lists for myself, and it's interesting to see how other people organize their lists and who they're following the most.
As soon as I saw that I could make Twitter Lists, I had to think of the best way to group people in as few groups as possible while still being specific. First, I noticed that I use Twitter to get a lot of my news. Second, I saw that as a journalist, I have a lot of journalist friends and follow a lot of journalists. Then I thought, this is pretty cool.
Here are the lists I came up with:
@freesiaa/entertainment
@freesiaa/humor
@freesiaa/politics
@freesiaa/journalism
@freesiaa/friends
@freesiaa/uconn
@freesiaa/music
@freesiaa/news
I'm not sure if I'll follow other user lists, but it was nice to organize these lists for myself, and it's interesting to see how other people organize their lists and who they're following the most.
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