What the Journaling Challenge taught me

Yesterday was the last day of my Journaling Challenge over at www.ruzuku.com. The challenge was to journal for 15 days at least 15 minutes a day.
I have been journaling more or less the last years. There were times when I didn’t write anything for weeks. Then came the year 2007 with the death of my [...]

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Writing and Learning

In my last blog post I wrote about what journaling teaches me about me. In this blog post I am going to focus on an other aspect of learning.
Since some time I have been writing Squidoo lenses. “Squidoo lenses” are webpages which focus on one subject – they can be compared with articles for a [...]

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Can you Write Following a Plan?

From now on till the end of December I will carry on an experiment.
Since May 2009 I am a member at Squidoo. I’ve successfully graduated at RocketMoms (writing one lens a week for eight weeks). Instead of taking a break after that adventure I have thrown myself into the next one: I am going for [...]

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About me

I know I should rewrite my “About me” page. But I want to offer you something different if you are interested in knowing more about me: Some weeks ago I wrote a Squidoo lens about my top ten favorite activities, and I think that special lens will tell you a lot about me. Maybe the [...]

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Rocketmom Graduate

No photo today and no quotation this time–I hope you are not too disappointed.
But on Monday, October 12th I was informed that I belong to the number of RocketMoms who successfully finished session #3. I am a RocketMom graduate now.
It could be that some of you are now shrugging their shoulders or shaking their heads. [...]

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Writing Prompts – Lesson learned with RocketMoms

It is the middle of September, and half of the RocketMoms Class #3 is over. RocketMoms is a very special group of squidooing women, and I am participating in this class hoping to get graduated after having published my 8th squidoo lens in another four weeks.
During these last four weeks I have learned many things. [...]

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Three Blog Posts which really made me Think

Do you know this? You read a lot of blog posts. Some of them you scan. Some of them you read word for word. Some of them you even read twice. These posts make you think. I don’t know which posts make you think, but here are some which did this to me:

Fascination, Motivation, and [...]

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5 Steps for Writing and Publishing a Squidoo Lens

Some of you might know that I am attending RocketMoms Session #3. You have to publish a squidoo lens every week, and after 8 weeks and 8 lenses you are a graduated RocketMom.
The assignments are coming in on Monday morning, and this Monday the assignment was to publish a lens on my favorite decade.
Well. I [...]

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Blogging and Squidoo lenses – how does this go together?

I have been blogging for more than one year now, and I have joined Squidoo at the end of May 2009. I have been also a member of flickr for a much longer time – in fact uploading my photos to flickr was my first activity regarding the use of social media.
Blogging and uploading my [...]

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Three things I Learned while Writing my First Squidoo Lense

What is Squidoo?
“Squidoo is the popular publishing platform and community that makes it easy for you to create “lenses” online. Lenses are pages, kind of like flyers or signposts or overview articles, that gather everything you know about your topic of interest–and snap it all into focus.”
This description I found on a squidoo lense. Squidoo [...]

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