After about 10 minutes of dancing, we catch these 2 stars (HandZ) taking a break.
Always the stars - not always the glasses. (H is eight and Z is 18 months.) Enjoy!

Truly the big stars in my galaxy- wait - - make that grandpa’s AND grandma’s galaxies.

Entertainment Tonight - eat your heart out.

- Val Spangler, Mister Senior Blogger
@SeniorTweet on Twitter.com
Senior Writer Blog
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Business Twitter Uses(coming March 1st)

Expand your universe. Join the Twitterverse!

Create your own galaxy of stars and new friends on Twitter. Friends from around the country and around the world - people you’d never meet otherwise - expand your universe - follow the stars of your choosing - great fun!

Had a decade birthday yesterday. Those are tough getting past.
This one was my 7th! Yes, this old _ _ _ _ is 70 years old. Hard
to believe!

The best part of yesterday was getting the seed of an idea that I really like and I’m
excited about. Someone mentioned saving time in a bottle - well that brought a
whole raft of memories up around Jim Croce’s song, “Time In A Bottle”..

When it came out I really enjoyed it. However, not surprisingly, I had forgotten the
lyrics. (Never happens to you, I’m sure!) Aaah! Good ole Google. I looked it up and
was surprised at how different the lyriics were from what I had remembered. The
thoughts and emotions elicited by the lyrics were also much different. The intervening
years sure made a diifference - not so surprisingly. Now, to get to the point - I’ve
made a “Top Ten” list around the “big idea” that resulted from this experience of
searching for lyrics. I present the “Top Ten” to you in the form suggestions. Here goes …

The Suggestions …

Suggestion 1: The next time you think of a song or someone mentions
it and you can’t remember the words get on your computer and go to one of the lyric
sites (I’ve provided 3 for you at the bottom of this post). Wait, wait! please read the
post first!

SUGGESTION 2: Bookmark one of those free lyric sites so you have
easy access to it whenever you are on your computer.
Take the “time” (daily?) to look up one of your old favorites
for which you have forgotten at least some of the lyrics.
Go to the site and download a copy of the lyrics. Trust me, if
you start saying the words the melody will come back as well.
The mind stores that better than the words. (MOre on that another
time.)

SUGGESTION 3: Once you have downloaded the lyrics, print them
out and put them in a 3 ring binder (so you don’t have to look them up again on the
computer.) Hey, those lyrics are a nice “legacy” to share with your family - gives
them a better feel for you and your life. Which stimulates another idea …

SUGGESTION 4: Consider having a “Favorites Party” where each
person must bring the lyrics of at least one of their favorite songs for all to enjoy.
You can add all the other “requirements” for the evening you want (karaoke solos?).
All the better if you have the music (but not totally necessary).

Suggestion 5: Make music a part of your legacy - start with the
3 ring binder - then - well you think about whatever ways you can re-enrich your
life with music. Share those ideas and the music generated with your friends and
family. Get their ideas and favorites.

Suggestion 6: When you have quiet time to yourself or with your
mate - savor the experiences, memories and feelings that have been generated by
these “music time in a bottle” experiences. “Golden-Oldies”?

Suggestion 7: Tweet about your own “music time in a bottle”.

Suggestion 8: Follow me on Twitter- @SeniorTweet and the URL:
http://twitter.SeniorTweet/.

If we are going to seriously tweet about this, a new hashtag is in order…

Suggestion 9: Let’s make a “music time in a bottle” hashtag -> #musictib - (Pronounced music-tib.)

Suggestion 10: Thank me ( @SeniorTweet ) on Twitter for coming
up with this idea.

Now I like “top ten” lists so my suggestions stop there. However, I am going to make
a “request”: please email me your thoughts and emotional responses to any or all of
these suggestions. Please email me and put #musictib in the Subject
Line of your email. My email address: valspangler@gmail.com .
Please, Please NO SPAM!

Bonus Suggestion : Yah, I know there goes the Top TEN! - -
Start putting into practice #musictib ideas. And, yes you smarties, one more tweet
strategy for your arsenal. Do you focus on the older set at all? When do people
start to reminisce about the good ole days? When do they start to forget song lyrics?
Which decade of music is your favorite?

Many thanks for your time - I hope you have experienced as much enjoyment and
positive response to these ideas as I have experienced coming up with them.

- Val Spangler, Mister Senior Blogger @SeniorTweet on Twitter.

Twitter Rules - from the bottom up!

Effective use of social media sites for traffic development can be a tremendous boon
to sole practitioner bloggers or a tremendous bane to them. Organization, tools and a
system followed with discipline are essential to accomplishing positive results and a
good ROI. That’s just to get the traffic. The work to get the sales is beyond that.

Today, we are just talking generally about developing a strategy for effective use of
social media. We will go into this strategy more in posts to follow. That strategy must
follow from a clear picture and plan for your mission. What are you and your writing
about? What do you want to accomplish? Know your purpose. Know your strategy.
Then go about developing an implementation plan.

On Wednesday of this week (021109), I am launching a blog called Twitter Uses.
This blog will examine the different ways individuals and businesses are utilizing
the Web 2.0 social networking site - Twitter

I am not going to go into any detail here today but I can assure you that my
research has my head spinning with the possibilities. Not only do you see the
specifics of the uses, you get a glimpse into the thinking underlying the uses and
what needs it satisfies as well as the value they add to the person or business.

It is amazing what can be accomplished through the judicious and consistent use
of those 140 character limited “tweets”. I must admit I was skeptical when I first
heard about Twitter and it took me a while to get to know how to use it and how
to observe the proper “Twittiquette” in doing so. Yes, there is some unusual
Twitter vocabulary and Twitter “shorthand” to get the most message out of the
140 characters. I know - I tend to be a bit wordy in my writing - so tweeting has
been good practice for me. One gets very careful with one’s words with a 140
character limit.

You just have to realize that the size of the message, or its format for that
matter, are not what’s important - it is the connection, the relationship being
built, the value of the link or message being delivered and the long term value
of the network being established. And, it is not just the two networks being
connected by that one tweet or the ongoing relationship - it is also the network
of networks and viral nature of these mini-messages in the context of these
networks.

I do go on - will stop here by just again inviting you to the launch on Wednesday.

The wave you don't want to miss!

Twitter Uses - http://twitteruses.com

I repeat - in surfer parlance, “Dude, this is the wave you don’t want to miss!”

Tomorrow, I’ll give you a few examples of these twitter uses to show you the
power and variety available for both business and personal purposes.

- Val Spangler, Mister Senior Blogger.

You'll be glad you did!

Just because a “neato” is available doesn’t mean you should use it!
Below are 3 examples of my new TwitStamp for my Twitter ID: SeniorTweet.
Does it work in a post?
Where else can it be of use? Website? Sig file?

There are some choices of different styles but no personalized customization yet.

What do you think?
Would you use it?

- Val Spangler, Mister Senior Blogger

Which Twitter connection is better - Twitter Bird graphic or TwitStamp?

Twitter Birds - Eyecatching?

http://twitter.com/SeniorTweet/

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At the bottom of an article? Last item in Sig File?

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