Monday:
house music producers The Freemasons favourited my tweet, which was
actually about the fraternal organisation of the same name. I must see them DJ one
day.
Tuesday
night's #bloghour trending topic
is a weekly online discussion organised by the UK Blog Awards. Each week the awards team
asks a series of questions relating to the art of blogging, and
whoever chooses to join in with the hashtag can contribute
suggestions and answers. It's a great way of garnering advice and
digitally “meeting” other bloggers. At the end of each Bloghour,
the awards team will ask for suggestions for questions to be asked
the following week. On Tuesday just gone, my question was included in
the discussion.
Q5. How do you search down
the best stories and content for your blog? via @matthewtuckey
#BlogHour
—
UK Blog Awards (@UKBlogAwards) November
24, 2015
If
you follow the link and see the tweet on Twitter, below it you'll see
some of the answers and suggestions. People find their stories in a
multitude of ways: talking to knowledgeable friends, working with
talented creatives around the world, checking other websites like
Pinterest
Instagram,
Bloglovin,
Klout and
Stumbleupon,
personal experience, requests, and a general sense of intuition:
keeping your eyes peeled, one tweeter suggested, will allow the
stories will come to you.
Once
my question was put out to the trending topic my notifications went
wild. It was a lot of info to digest but the feedback has been
brilliant and there's loads for me to mull over and digest. If you're
into blogging, tune in to #bloghour on Twitter, 9pm GMT on Tuesdays.
Anyone
remember season 15 of Celebrity Big Brother? The one before last?
Remember Cami Li, the Puerto Rican
model finishing in in 8th
place? She favourited my tweet (which was actually her tweet) about
Lady Colin Campbell, who is
currently in the Australian jungle starring in I'm a Celebrity: Get Me Out of Here.
Thursday:
Manchester readers will be familiar with local radio station Key 103.
Each morning they play the Top 10 at 10, from a mystery year. That
day the year was 2003, when I was working in Brannigans, so I texted
in and told them. They read it out! Woop woop. It's the small things.
Friday
night: I met with Manchester Social Group for their monthly Meetup. Slug and Lettuce on Albert Square was apparently- and unsurprisingly-
heaving, as it was right next to the Christmas Markets. (I was on my
way in when the group decided this.) For the last few years these
stalls have been so busy that they aren't even fun to visit any more.
So we switched to the Deansgate branch, which reopened last weekend
after a refurb. It's smart and tidy inside but the music was too loud
for a bar of its type- it's more of a catch-up-with-your-mates place
than a showoff place, or we all felt it should be. I still like it
though. A good meetup too; a good chance to meet other members of the
group and bandy about a few ideas for upcoming events.
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