It's been busy as usual here.

From the world of Autisable to the projects on the home front.

Suffice it to say, it isn't that I haven't anything to do.  I have a knack for keeping myself busy.

That being said, I'd like to revisit some things so as to make sure we're all on the same page... and that involves some questions...

If anyone has an account on Xanga that isn't connected to me, please leave comments on each other's accounts so we can spread the word.

The challenge here is that until John updates the main page, the only people that know what's going on here on the site are those of us who have accounts and are subscribed to each other.

Since we are contributing to the site, and we have blogs that we keep active - we might as well make sure we let people know it, right?

So, here's some preparation to make that happen.  Now, this is something I'll be doing - so I'm asking anyone to help if they are willing:

1. I'm not connected to everyone who blogs regularly on the site.  No one really is, so I've been told.  That being said, let's make sure that we are all as connected to each other on-site as we can be.  Leave a comment with your Xanga blog and invite people to subscribe to your account by going to the blogs that you are subscribed to and leaving a comment on their most recent blog post with the URL of this blog post.
2. In the absence of the main page being regularly updated, we do have a facebook page to promote anyone's articles.   Now, I know that this may rub some folks the wrong way, but remember that there are a lot of folks thinking that Xanga has zero members and that the site is completely non-existent.  This isn't the case!  The community here is smaller, yes, but it's still active.  Let's show them that we're still around and still blogging!  When you leave a comment, let us know your thoughts about blog posts of yours being shared on other social media sites.
3. I'd like to make it easy for us to share content on social media outlets.  So I'd like to create an RSS feed that compiles all active xanga members that would easily allow us to create status updates for the Xanga Facebook page. (sidenote: whenever the Xanga FB page is updated, the Xanga twitter account is also updated.  We don't have access to change the twitter account - that's John's thing... but we can push content out to it and it will be posted).  I know that several folks chimed in that they'd prefer to remain private on Xanga.  Out of respect to everyone's privacy - I'm asking that those interested in having their blog posts regularly shared on the Facebook page please chime in as well.
4. There is now an option on Xanga to have an official group page associated with the Xanga facebook page.  In fact, we can have multiple group pages associated with the Xanga facebook page.  I'm looking into that option as well to provide an opportunity to keep Xangans connected.

This is just some preparation work, and it may take some time to gather the information and to get some things set-up.  But once we do, I think can still keep people connected.

Now, the questions:

1. What are your thoughts regarding sharing blog posts on other sites like facebook/twitter?
2. We don't have a main page that is being updated, so do you think this is a respectable alternative course of action that we can pursue?

Leave a comment with your username, and let us know if you'd like to help out and to what level?

Again, this is just a me thing.