I have a confession. Ever since I saw all of last season’s episode of Dancing With the Stars in a marathon, I’ve been intrigued. I’m watching this current season, and it seems unsurprisingly to have lost some of the charm of the first season while introducing new information about dancing.
Last season, the dances were beautiful, clean ballroom dances. I loved them. It made me want to run out and enroll at a ballroom dancing school, if for no other reason than to get me dancing again. This season, I don’t so inspired to go dance, but it is very nice to see the better couples try to incorporate a story of some sort into their dance. It really makes those dances very entrancing, even if the dancers are having trouble with the steps themselves.
When I studied ballet, one of the things my favorite teachers tried to impress on us during rehearsals was that our dance was trying to tell a story. It didn’t matter if the piece was part of a ballet with a well-known storyline or just our end of year piece. Every dance tells a story. It doesn’t have to be a complicated story, but it should be present enough to leave the audience with some feeling outside of, “Well, that was lovely.” Not all choreography plays along, but theoretically there should be a story in every formally choreographed dance.
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So, I’ve been considering some things to allow people to keep up with the site without trying to remember to visit the site every single day/week/month/however frequently they check.
I’ve never been hot on the idea of email mailing lists, because I’m never good about keeping them up and running. I could possibly set up a way for people to sign up to receive updates when the site updates, but that just starts feeling like spam after a while. Another thing I considered as an alternative for a long time was creating a newsletter, a consideration that brings a variety of options with it. I already offer an RSS feed, but I know I have some non-tech saavy people visiting the site.
Thoughts? If you read the site, how would you prefer to get information about the site? Do you use the RSS feed? Would you prefer receiving email updates? If I could throw together a newsletter that highlighted new posts around the site with maybe some bonus material (themed link lists, seasonal thoughts and tips, etc.), would that appeal to you?
Leave me a comment, let me know what you think.
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It’s been a crazy kind of year for me, and that’s not a fun thing to say on January 15. Last week was not a good week in so many ways, but I am grateful to have this brand new shiny week to look forward to.
This week will be spent working on a lot of crazy projects, so I’m spending tonight trying to organize my to-do lists in preparation. I’m one of those weird people who works better with about half a dozen to-do lists than just trying to remember everything on her own.
Who knows? I might even get some things accomplished around the site this week.
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The site is borked right now, so you can only see this if you’re reading the feed or have discovered my Suprglu site. I’m planning to place a link to it in the sidebar once I’m convinced that it is actually picking up my posts so people have something to rely on while we fix my little snafu.
Anyway, I’ve been thinking this week about my product offerings, and products I’d like to be able to offer over the course of this year (I’m even hoping we’ll have a real, honest to goodness, secure shopping cart in the next month or so, so if you’re looking for some nice jewelry to surprise someone with for Valentine’s Day or an upcoming birthday, keep checking back!) I stumbled across this post that provides a great set of criteria to judge products against before putting them before the public.
Just one more thing to think about as I’m working hard behind the scenes here!
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