The Male Blog Logo – Eeny, Meeny, Miny…

June 8, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Hiya,

I’ve been asked to design a logo for my brother’s blog (CarlBurckhardt.com). I find a few of the logos I designed for him unattractive, and several others quite nice. I’d like to ask your help in narrowing it down.

There are two sets of seven logos. Please choose at least one from both sets, but no more than one per set. Please leave your choice in the comment area below, and let me know which set and logo you like. (Ex. Set A, logo 8.)

Again, you may choose from each set, but please no more than one from each.

Thanks a million!
Kath

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Think Time, Memory Dumps, and Recharging

May 31, 2010 By Leave a Comment

I was chatting with my Dad this morning about the great time he had at his in-laws yesterday. He told me how he was wiped out, and wrote “As much as I usually fight it because of the circumstances, I agree, I need it once in a while.”

“…once in a while.”

I, very recently, started falling into this cycle, and this conversation reminded me of what I’d read in the book The Artist’s Way. The Artist Way

In order to retrieve your creativity, you need to find it. I ask you to do this by an apparently pointless process I call the morning pages. You will do the pages daily through all the weeks of the course, and, I hope, much longer. (page 9 – The Artist’s Way)

Our chat also brought to mind the many articles, clippings, etc. I’d read, about how stress from/at work, and the lack of work-life balance can, and will, kill you. Stress, our wonderful, self-incurred poison.

So…starting tomorrow morning I will be waking up to pen and paper, and going back to my 3 pages of morning pages (brain drain or memory dump).

What are morning pages? Put simply, the morning pages are three pages of longhand writing, strictly stream-of-consciousness: “Oh, god, another morning. I have NOTHING to say. I need to wash the curtains. Did I get my laundry yesterday? Blah, blah, blah . . .” They might also, more ingloriously, be called brain drain, since that is one of their main functions.

There is no wrong way to do morning pages. These daily morning meanderings are not meant to be art. Or even writing. I stress that point to reassure the nonwriters working with this book. Writing is simply one of the tools. Pages are meant to be, simply, the act of moving the hand across the page and writing down whatever comes to mind. Nothing is too petty, too silly, too stupid, or too weird to be included. [Read more...]

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Nate Riggs, Chris Brogan…The early posts

March 19, 2010 By Leave a Comment

I was chatting with my brother, Carl, earlier today. I was a little down about being newly unemployed, and frustrated at my blog and writing. He mentioned Nate Riggs, Chris Brogan, and several others and asked if I had ever looked at their first posts. I hadn’t and told him so. He asked me to spend time this morning and do just that. So I did, and I was so happy to see that so many had started writing about everyday life, and things, just like myself.

Over the years they had honed their craft and topics, and today write the wonderful blogs we follow. Chris Brogan used to write about his running, training, etc. Nate wrote about things in the media that bothered him, and about a visitor that stayed with them and had a funny misunderstanding. I commented on both of their first posts and thanked them for keeping them up for people like me to see. They gave me hope.

While working on my photoblog template this evening I noticed a pop-up from Nate via TweetDeck. I couldn’t believe what I was reading. I had made HIS day with my comment and he made that his blog entry for the day. That in turn made my day. I was so humbled by his post, and excited, I texted Carl, and told him what happened. He asked me to send him the link asap.

I was at such a loss for words, that I wrote Nate this comment:

I’m so humbled by this myself! I just wish I had something more substantial on my blog, but in time. Thank you for the mention, and so glad I was able to brighten your day.

I’m in awe at your mention, but I have to mention, that I was so excited reading your tweet that I texted Carl right away. He’s on vacation, and wants to read your post right now. :)  Both he and my father pushed me towards social media, claiming that I have the gift of e-gab, and love helping others. I hope I can turn this into something amazing as you and the others have.

If you can’t already tell, Carl is my best friend, and my youngest brother. I look to him for anything related to SEO, SEM, Social Media, etc. His knowledge amazes me, and he’s been guiding me along this new journey. He’s really become a whiz at it all. He looks up to you, and the others. And he’s always speaking so highly of you. He’s the reason why I follow you and Chris B.

Thanks for making MY day Nate, may the rest of yours be fantastic!

I meant every word of it, just wish it had more finesse.

Thank you Nate!

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