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Dec
Coming back
It’s been over a month since my last post… which sounds a bit like the start to my childhood confessions (”Bless me father for I have sinned. It’s been one week since my last confession…”).
I didn’t expect a ton of comments, or any really, without some promotion of my blog. However, I read instead that I should build up some comment-worthy material and then trying to promote my blog. That way, an interested visitor who stumbled across the link could see the site, read a range of blog entries, and decide whether it was worth it to come back to the site.
So in the last month:
- I also changed the page banners to rotate some nicer graphics. One of them was taken by me, the other three by my husband. One is of a field in Missouri and the other three of some beautiful parks and scenery from Washington State.
- I’ve updated 32 pages from the old cobbled-together hand-coded html pages to the new leaner, cleaner format, and tagged and indexed them in the main article index.
- This has also meant reviewing each page and in many cases grimacing as I realize how out of date some of it was. I spent a few hours today updating an Introduction to Intimate Partner Violence and doubled the amount of information there and added 16 new references.
- I’ve also been trying to generate some ideas for new blog topics. Those should be coming soon…
- Finally, I’ve been bug testing the final version of my Getting Things Done wiki. I also updated and am almost finished with a wiki for recording and tracking student issues which I hope to post this month.
As always, thanks for checking out PsychPage!
Richard
2 Responses to “Coming back”
Just because there aren’t any comments doesn’t mean people aren’t reading! Your writing touches on topics which people may find hitting uncomfortably close to home, and therefore they may be shy about piping up.
I love your blog and have bookmarked it. I’ve also sent links to friends and family.
Hi
Thanks - you are kind to post and encourage me to continue the site
I haven’t been doing much with Psychpage this last semester (my teaching and administrative work were off the chart last semester). However, I have entered a “thinking mode” again about the site. I almost decided to scrap it, but think I have a better plan for this Summer.
I intend to repost the entire site, using Wordpress as a content manager. This should make tagging and searching far easier than the system I have now (which is clunky and simply doesn’t work like I hoped it would). I have about 10 blog entries I’ve been writing (by hand) about various topics, and so will be able to post them in the future too… but this has made me rethink an organizational style for them too, so I hope to have updates in place by the start of Fall semester… along with some new and updated content from my divorce and child custody class, personality assessment class, and basic systems theory class…
Thanks for following Psychpage!
Richard
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