Those of us who work from home enjoy the luxury of being able to set our own hours and work when and where we choose. With that also comes a lot of planning and responsibility. To be successful choosing your own work schedule still means you need to put in the hours necessary to be successful.I have traveled quite a bit over the past two weeks and although I was able to complete some of my work … there were some hurdles I ran into as well.The first weekend I brought my laptop but since most all of my time was spent out on the boat I didn’t really get to all of my “work.” I had high hopes of doing plenty of research and writing while I was gone but that just didn’t happen. I was able to assist customers and answer email via my Blackberry … but other than that it was a bust. Of course after the buckets full of Vodka/Redbull I doubt I was in any shape to work. LOL
Last weekend I went “home” to San Diego to be in my girlfriend’s wedding. I brought my laptop and figured I’d have plenty of time to be creative … but once again … I was just too distracted. Other than the wedding activities I was also busy seeing family and friends – playing tennis, wakeboarding, beach volleyball, nights out on the town … it was great … but again … not much was accomplished as far as work goes.
What I couldn’t predict was that I would not be able to use my wireless internet on my laptop (still not sure what happened there) and due to this I couldn’t pull my email down through Outlook. Next thing I knew my mailbox on the server was full and I stopped receiving email (from two accounts) completely. *sigh*
In hindsight, I would’ve prepared several blog posts and had them post through the scheduling feature on WordPress. I also would’ve checked into my email problem much sooner! I get about 100-200 emails on my main account … so I should’ve known much sooner there was a problem. Guess I was just in “vacation” mode.
Have you had a good or bad experience trying to work while traveling? I’d love to hear about it. *SmiLes* Suzanne
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To Follow or Not to Follow?
Posted on 14 July 2008 by Suzanne
I’ve spent more and more time on other blogs over the last few months and one topic I wanted to learn more about was this whole “To Follow or Not to Follow” discussion I keep running into. If you’re not aware, I’m referring to whether or not your blog’s comment section allows the search engine spiders to “follow” the links in your visitors’ comments or not.
Truthfully, I wasn’t even sure if my blog was set up to follow the comment links or not. LOL
Well, last night I was reading Kristine Wirth’s blog and her post “Talk is Cheap & Free Here” shed some light on the subject for me (thanks Kristine!).
I spent some more time reading about the follow/no-follow issue and I can tell you I definitely want my readers to be rewarded for taking the time and energy to leave a comment on my blog. Kristine’s post lead me to Randa Clay’s post where I got the link for the Do Follow Plugin for my WordPress blog. I’m also in the process of adding the very cool “U Comment – I Follow” logo that Randa designed to support this “movement” of bloggers who want to incent visitors and readers to leave their comments.
If you already follow my blog then you know that I believe in the importance of leaving solid, meaningful comments on the blogs you visit and read.
So … Do you follow? Why do you or don’t you use the “follow” or “no-follow” on your blog? I’d love to hear from you. *SmiLes* Suzanne