I'm wondering if we want to take this blog private to just the four of us? Right now, it's open to the public. I don't think anyone else comes here. But we do discuss things that are more private to just us. I believe we do so with the knowledge that it's a public place.
When posting to the internet, there's always an element that the information can may be exposed, even if it's set to a private setting. With that in mind, do we want to maintain this as an open blog, or would we wish to switch it to private for just our group (and anyone we choose to add at a later date)?
Also, please look over your site "About" page and let me know if anything needs to be changed. If more than a word or two, just send me what you want, and I'll copy over the old with the new.
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Jean, I'd rather leave it as is. I have a few friends who come by here with which I share things. The site is pretty private as is. I don't share links to it, and someone has to know the address to get here. I had hopes -- when we started -- that we'd all be sharing writing tips and successes. As it turned out, I didn't have any writing tips or successes, but it's a dream for someday.
Okay. It's listed on Blogger sites and is available on search engines. It's only private by virtue of not having a lot of traffic.
We may have writing tips and successes. Speaking for myself, I have a whole lot to figure out yet before I can post any tips or successes that might benefit anyone else.
Jean, I checked and it's not listed on the Blogger sites and not available on search engines. I turned that off a while back, but I thought maybe it had defaulted to back on.
Or at least it shows up that way on my dashboard. Does it show up that way on your dashboard?
But if I type Createslate into Google, it does show up. That's disappointing.
My mistake. I thought I looked at it today and it was enabled, but when I look at it now, it's not, so my eyes must have been playing tricks on me -- more likely my mind was messing with me.
I'm not sure it matters since we show up in Google, anyway.
Also, I checked our stats, and they surprised me.
Of course, some of these are all of us, but the sheer number of page views are more than we can account for. Apparently we have an audience.
Pageviews today
25
Pageviews yesterday
48
Pageviews last month
721
Pageviews all time history
6,119
My initial reaction was to go private. A lot of what we've written hasn't had much to do with writing. However, nothing we've posted has been too private, and it might be good for others to see that our lives are far from perfect. Creative people are more prone to depression and eccentricity. We've certainly proven the depression this year. A new writer coming in might find they're not as crazy as they thought. If we have things to vent about that are too private for the blog, there's always email or Facebook messaging.
That's a good point about showing other writers at various points in their careers that they are not alone in their feelings of isolation, despair, and depression. (Not that we're isolated, despairing, and depressed, of course. Grin.) But we do have varying levels of publishing represented here.
Yes, and a limited posting to G+ works as well (I have a Createslate group there with just you guys in it, and if I want to limit what I post, I mark the post not for sharing.)
By the way, I deleted my Unthink account. I couldn't figure out how to talk to anybody on there, and I decided I didn't care enough to try after a couple weeks of doing just that. It seemed like you had to know somebody before you could talk to anybody and if you didn't already know who you wanted to talk to, it wasn't going to happen. Limited sociability, which if probably how FB was designed initially.
Private or not doesn't matter much to me, I guess, because I have a general rule not to post *anything* online that would embarrass me later or infuriate/hurt others. That said, I *do* have a private, password protected blog (a select few others have been granted read-only access) but I'm pretty sure I'm going to delete the few posts and then the blog because I have too many other online obligations as it is and I have bigger priorities I should focus on.
I've been out of town and offline for a couple of days and I have to admit that I missed my email (only until M received another rejection, from that publisher that I was REALLY hoping for - sigh) but I haven't really even looked at it since. Next, I checked G+ just for a quick scan, and then my blog roll, but I haven't made any attempt at all to catch up on twitter.
I spend far too much time online and I REALLY need to come up with a self-limiting schedule because I can lose a whole day out here on the interwebs. And I don't like it. It's sucking my life away and slowly degrading my health.
Now that I've blabbered and meandered all over everywhere - lol - I do like hanging with you guys and whatever you decide, public or private, will be good for me. I'm pretty sure that starting with the new year I'll use Wendy's new posting format because that seems to focus a LOT more on the positive and we're all prone to self-flogging and focusing on the negative. I want 2012 to be a happy, positive, productive year, dangit! ;)
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