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I want to thank Chilly over at On The Bricks for choosing eyespi20.com as a Perfect Blend of Friendship award winner. I don’t get many awards, so this is extra special and so nice of you to think of me.

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Awarded:
Mai Yen Eds Chez Francine La Place de Cherie Le bric à brac de Cherie Wonderful Things In lifeConcealed Mind Can of Thoughts Muthahood Crib MammaDawg On The Bricks Eyespi20.com YOUR BLOG HERE

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Of course, I’m supposed to now pass this along to some other blogs that I think are deserving (well, actually, you all are!), but I’m limited in the number I can award (gotta leave some for other folks, I guess), so here goes with my choices:

Idiosyncracies of the English Language because you are SO right and present it all with such entertainment and humor. Honesty.

Enchanted Crafts because handcrafted jewelry is a weakness of mine. Caring

Michael Aulia’s Tech Blog because your articles have helped me out of some tough spots. Kindness.

and 72 Suited because I love playing Hold ‘em and reading about your adventures makes me feel not quite so dumb. Besides, you’ve got parrots! Trust.

Thank you guys for making my day with the stuff you post!  I know I don’t tell you often enough, so I hope this makes up for my omissions somewhat.

Keep on blogging!

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**UPDATE** EATING WORDS AFTER ONLY TWO DAYS!!

EntreCard rolled out a new toolbar addon for Firefox browser. It’s supposed to make visiting blogs, dropping and advertising easier.

I’ve been testing it for the last two days. I wanted to make myself very familiar with it before I wrote anything about it. Sometimes I get excited about something new and write positively and then feel like an idiot when I have to eat part (or all) of my words

Positives:

• It installed easily
• It makes it much simpler to switch between blogs
• it doesn’t let you get logged out every 3 sites
• It lets you add blogs as favorites easily
• It keeps track of your drops as you go along making it easy to tell how many more you have to reach the max.
• It makes it very easy to jump to other areas of EntreCard such as the Blog or some of the Forums.

Negatives:

• It brings up some of the same blogs over and over again
• When limited to the INBOX, it only brings up about 25 different blogs even if you have more in there

Semi-negative:

• It only lets you load 10 blogs at a time. While you can click the 10 button multiple times, you increase the number of duplicate blogs you open.

**EATING THESE WORDS**

• It was supposed to make advertising on the blogs easier, but I can see no difference.
• There is a HUGE difference in advertising on a blog and I totally missed it!! {smacking forehead} If you’ll LOOK at the toolbar, you’ll see that there is an “ADVERTISE” button with the cost of the ad right there. The great big humongous advantage here is that you’re seeing the blog, verifying the widget placement, page rank, Alexa score and ******drum roll****** ta da! UPDATED CONTENT before you spend your credits on a dead blog.  W00T! There’s also this nifty drop down menu where you can click the sites’ profile page to see what it’s popularity and how many drops it’s given you in the last 30 days. Those might be other criteria you use to advertise. At any rate, it’s all there in a click or two. NICE!

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** ADDED STUFF**

Some people are having trouble switching accounts from the link page. Don’t switch from there. Use the tool bar to switch. Just drop down the button to the far left and choose the blog you want to switch to, then next to it, you’ll see how many credits you have on that account and how many drops you’ve done for the day, click on that and you’ll get a drop down menu that includes dashboard, messages, your ads, statistics, linked blogs (that one is redundant IMO) and buy credits. Just click one of those and you’ll go to the relevant account’s whatever-link-you-chose.

Right now, the toolbar seems to be fighting with the main dashboard pages, but if you’ll let the toolbar lead the dance, you’ll do just fine.

** END ADDED STUFF **

My “normal” drop method was to use a list. I have a couple of them and switch between them so as to mix up the blogs I drop on somewhat. I can open 25-30 tabs at a time in FF which makes dropping on 300 blogs pretty quick and simple. I could do one set of 300 along with quickly browsing the newest post and commenting on some in the hour before leaving for work in the morning. Then do a second set at lunch and my last set after dinner. I haven’t managed to do 300 per blog yet with the tool bar although I came pretty close Sunday. It takes a lot longer due to the duplications.

** MORE ADDED STUFF **

Ok, I’ve done an experiment that has worked better than my wildest dream. I opened my list(s) and opened 30 tabs, dropped through those (reading and commenting as I went along) and repeated until max drops were reached on one blog, then clicked another account, and began again. I was done dropping 900 cards in about 2 hours (complete with reading and commenting on many of those blogs!). The toolbar kept track of my drops, so I always new how many I needed to finish and the sites loaded quickly. I was never logged out the first time, was able to report blogs that had lost their widgets or had been closed by google and all was wonderful in my EntreCard world.

** END MORE ADDED STUFF**

So, it’s a great start, but I would say it’s still in Beta testing as far as I’m concerned.

Have you downloaded the EC Toolbar? What are your opinions on it? Is it something you’re going to continue to use?

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Today marks the day when at long last the announcement of Entrecard’s new partner was made. We’ve been waiting to hear this exciting news and when it broke today I was laughing at my reaction.

You see, the new partnership is with SezWho. I installed SezWho about a month ago to help me improve my comment system. That makes me on the cutting edge of something!

I know — I’m being silly, but I am excited to be a part of both communities. This can only be a wining combination for any blogger to have in their toolbox. Sorta like having a premium steering rack to keep EntreCard members headed on the road to bigger and better things. Graham Langdon, EntreCard’s creator, mover and shaker has worked diligently to move this community to the forefront of blogging. Bewteen his ideas and Phirate’s coding, this social networking community has brought a lot of positive things to the people who have stuck through the hard times and kept on blogging.

So, if you’re not a part of the Entrecard community and you are a blogger, it’s time now to join.

If you ARE part of Entrecard, now it’s time to add SezWho to your blog to turbocharge your readership and commentators.

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