{"id":3020,"date":"2009-09-16T09:03:19","date_gmt":"2009-09-16T13:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/?p=3020"},"modified":"2009-09-16T09:03:19","modified_gmt":"2009-09-16T13:03:19","slug":"cool-stuff-and-stumbleupon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/?p=3020","title":{"rendered":"Cool Stuff – and StumbleUpon"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve had a couple of pretty cool things happen lately.\u00a0 Back in August, Blogher blogger\u00a0 Alanna Kellogg, emailed to ask if I would like to be featured in her column.\u00a0 I said “Well, yeah!”, so she\u00a0interviewed me and here is the result:\u00a0 dlyn: Profile of a Food and Photo Blogger<\/a><\/p>\n

Alanna also has a couple of great blogs of her own that you can find here<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0 here<\/a>, so make sure you go and check them out.<\/p>\n

\u00a0So, that was pretty awesome and I was really pleased to have been asked.\u00a0 Then, sometime over the weekend, I noticed in the suggested content over in the Blogher sidebar, a mention of cooking with whole grains.\u00a0 Just go check it out and you will see why I am showing it to you.\u00a0 Whole Grains Month<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0Kalyn Denny is a pretty big deal in food blogging circles, so having her choose one of my recipes to feature gave me a little kick.\u00a0 She also has her own very fine food blog here<\/a>\u00a0.<\/p>\n

Which brings me to my other subject for today:\u00a0 StumbleUpon<\/a>\u00a0 That link leads to my StumbleUpon page and I will tell you why you should check it out.\u00a0 It doesn’t matter if you are a blogger yourself, looking for more traffic and other like-minded bloggers,\u00a0or if you are just looking for a place to find content geared to your interests – StumbleUpon can get you where you want to go.\u00a0<\/p>\n

When you sign up, which takes about 2 seconds, you can fill in the kind of internet content you enjoy.\u00a0 Then, if you install the toolbar, you can ask to be led to sites that contain the kind of information you are looking for.\u00a0 It is fun to just kind of drift through the internet for awhile, seeing what other people have found interesting.<\/p>\n

If you have a blog and you would like more people to see it, you can use StumbleUpon to drive more traffic to your site.\u00a0 In the interview with Alanna, I mentioned the recipe for Crash Sweet Potatoes<\/a>, and the insane number of hits I have gotten because people have Stumbled it.\u00a0 How insane?\u00a0 It has been, what – 3 months since I posted that recipe?\u00a0 Over the weekend it got another couple thousand hits, on top of the 25,000 or so it already had.\u00a0\u00a0 I don’t know about you, but I like <\/em>getting a lot of hits on my blog, so this was something to check into further.\u00a0\u00a0 And then I discovered that a lot of my favorite bloggers were there and by friending them and following their favorites, I could find even more stuff I like.\u00a0 And, we can work together to help bring traffic to each other.\u00a0 I love going to see what other people are enjoying on any given day.\u00a0 So – go check it out<\/a>.\u00a0 Download the tool bar [scroll all the way to the bottom of the page and you will see the link in the left column – the 4th item down I think].\u00a0\u00a0It adds a line to the top of your web browser, but it is pretty unobtrusive, and it makes it so easy to thumb up a site you like.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

So – off to work for me.\u00a0 Hope you have a wonderful day!\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

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