Tonights show is going to deliver some of the very best Internet news for this upcoming Wedding Season via Blogs and Social Networks

Here is a list of some of the sites we will be discussing tonight. Listen into our Wedding Blogs and Social Networks show for more

We will be posting a few more (much bigger) posts on Wedding Social Networks and Blogs very soon!

For some very helpful Wedding MySpace Groups:

A Private Group for DJs, Planners, etc. 13,387 members (as of this post)

http://groups.myspace.com/weddingplannersandbrides

A Public Group of Brides to Be 7,577 members (as of this post)

http://groups.myspace.com/GreatWeddingNetwork

A Public Group by Professionals for Wedding Professionals. Brides are very welcome to join as well

http://groups.myspace.com/weddingwhispers

Great Wedding Social Networks

UberBrides.com: What is an uberBride?

“It’s the opposite of a Bridezilla. A bride with style, class, panache. One who spends months preparing for her wedding, but then when the day comes, relaxes into the moment, and enjoys her new husband, family and friends.”

With the three major sections to the UberBrides site, The Bride and Vendor Blogs; The Social Network; and the Main Section to connect the other two.

TheKnot.com A Social Network, Community, Registry, and Wedding Shop Loaded to the Max with Wedding Ideas, Thoughts, Colors, Tastes and More! Free to sign up Wedding Social Network and more

Weddinic.com Socialize, Search, and Simplify your way to Wedding Day! Free to sign up Wedding Social Network and more

WeddingWire.com For everything Wedding Day from Songs Lists, Photography,  Forums, Events, Vendors. Completely free to sign up for the Bride or Groom

Some Outstanding Wedding Blog Sites

http://www.weddingblogawards.com/ A catalog of sorts as this blog owner has highlighted some outstanding Wedding Blog Sites!

Style Me Pretty has an incredible jaw dropper of a Wedding Blog! http://www.stylemepretty.com/

Loaded to the pixels, Best Wedding Blogs has it covered! http://www.bestweddingblogs.com/

More to post here later and definitely more on the show! CU There! Visit Wedding Blogs and Social Networks Part2

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We found some of the best selections for Easter MySpace Layouts, Comments, and Graphics out there this year and wanted to share them

A lot of these sites also have some awesome April Fool’s Day goodies as well

SparkleTags has a very good selection of Easter MySpace Comments and Graphics (19 pages!), from eggs, bunnies, sexy bunnies, and Easter Blessings.

My Girly Space has a plethora of the coolest in Easter Graphics and MySpace Comments as well.

Myspace Layouts

You can also find a huge selection MySpace Easter Layouts at My Girly Space too!

Listen Into BlogsAndSocialNetworks.info The Easter Profile Fluff, Comments, and Graphics Show for even more ideas on decking out your Easter Profile

Your Comment Codes has some very nice Easter Comments Bunnies, chicks, eggs, pastels!

HotLayouts2U has 30 plus pages of Easter Layouts for MySpace Classic and 2.0 MySpace Layouts. The Easter Valley MySpace Layout by Pumpkinhead67 is brilliant! Kudos HotLayouts2U also has Friendster Layouts, along with cursors, applications, and generators

WishAFriend (of course:), has bunny (both sexy and cartoon) Postcard MySpace Graphics and Comments (very cool ideas with the postcards) The Postcard HTML Comments also boast Peeps! Flowers, eggs, and some other various fluff for Easter

Myspace Graphics, Easter Graphics at WishAFriend.com

YesComments has only a few pages of Easter Comments, but they are very nice and well worth the trip over Funny, Fluffy and Pastel

MySpace Easter Comments

Dazzle Junction Came in My Top Spot for both April Fool’s Day Comments, Graphics, and Layouts and Easter Comments Graphics, and layouts! Woot to Dazzle Junction Complete with Eggs, Bunnies, Christian Comments.

April Fools Day Comments
Myspace Comments – Upload Photos

Easter Comments
Myspace Comments – Upload Photos

Satisfaction rolls out a Happy Easter Menu of Layouts, Comments, Graphics, Backgrounds, Flash Toys and Widgets!!!

Here is a new one (for us:) RedDragonDesigns.net with MySpace Comments, Layouts, and Easter Graphics!

jesus lives easter Tags

hoppy easter Tags

Also at ChristTags.com there is brilliant selection of Easter MySpace Comments, Graphics, and Design

Christian Comments

Happy Easter and CU on Blogs and Social Networks

Stevie and Stephanie Haile aka TeenGirlsRadio and Wavecritter Google Us

Health social networks are not extremely numerous, but are very helpful for those seeking to gain knowledge that their doctor may not be able to offer. Either time constraints or even lack of the newest information sometimes prevents your doctor from being able to fill you in on the details

Health social networks do wonders to help inform and has an added bonus of actually interacting with others who are dealing with the same health challenges or who have already gone through it.

Myspace Comments

Checking out a health social network in the waiting period of a test or just to find out more is such a blessing in this age of the Internet. Searching for specifics is often difficult. The time taken while sorting through the masses of results given when trying to locate helpful sites on, for instance, cancer, can be overwhelming. Going to a interactive social networking site focused health and wellness issues generally will gain far greater and more case specific search results.

While doing searches for these health related social networks, I noticed that they were actually few and far between with most being forum style set ups. These are useful as they allow interaction, but are also a bit limited and sometimes difficult to sort through a 1000 plus thread post topic. Which member of the forum posted the best information and will we then need to read through all 1000 plus posts to find our answer?

There were only a few health social networks that really stood out. One being Trusera. A recent event has left them in need of partners, but they will be alive and well until at least late April, 2009. Trusera is a true health related, topic oriented, information filled social network. Interacting with like members who are either going through or have been where others are now in their health challenges. Remaining anonymous is easy or you can choose to be as open as you wish while connecting in a social setting to find answers to your health questions or to offer up a health related experience of your own. Getting practical answers and insight from others just like yourself during stressful times is calming.

The power of having been there is incredible to someone who is currently “going through” a health related situation. The site for breast cancer that I found is a forum based interaction site to gain knowledge of side effects, get answers to your testing questions, treatment choices, and research information related specifically to breast cancer issues. BreastCancer.org comes complete with support and community connections.

WebMD is probably the most well known social type health network for not only finding and connecting with other people like you, but for the wealth of health related information at their fingertips. From blogs to message boards to being able to ask the experts, this health stockpile has it all covered. Discover links to other health issue sites, meet a multitude of individuals from all over the Internet, and get a peace of mind that only detailed knowledge can bring. WebMD has headline news, polls, a pill identifier, locate a doctor or hospital in your area, or browse through the health centers topic list to find the answers you are looking for.

Google Health, while not exactly a health social network is an outstanding resource for communicating your total health information to your newest doctor or at an emergency room visit to keep the physician aware of what treatments you are getting or have received in the past. This awareness is paramount especially if you are taking medication. Google Health allows it’s users to input securely their medical information from every individual hospital, doctor, or medical center, keeping all in one place to ensure the whole of it all gets to the eyes of each health care provider you encounter. A system like this absolutely will stop medication conflicts if filled in correctly and could head off problems before they can begin. Google Health puts you in charge of your health information safely, securely, and best of all it is free.

Locating other health social networks, forums, and information is easy when you know which search engine to use. Google has topic specific search engines as a starting point, but I found MedStory. A health information search engine currently in Beta testing. If you need more avenues than mentioned here, check into MedStory for more.

Listen into our Blogs and Social Networks show Health Social Networks for more

Stevie and Stephanie Haile aka Blogheiress and Wavecritter

Updates at Live Journal:

With the Photo Bucket integration, now you can access all your photos without leaving Live Journal

“What’s In a Name?” section located on the home page at Live Journal is pretty cool. Ever thought you have the very worst username? Find recently discarded usernames here for your Journal

Join in on the Global dialogue at Global Views to discuss news and current events with Journalists from LJ International Partner Newspapers.

The biggest new info at present at LJ is there piece on Internet Safety called keeping your Journal Safe. A must read as the virus weirdness keeps on coming.

With 19.2 million journals and communities created since 1999, there is always something new at Live Journal

Facebook:

Everyone seems to be going Facebook crazy and they either like the updated “real time” streams or they do not The real time stream of posts from your friends and connections has arrived so take a minute to control your streams if it get’s to be to “Twitter-esque” for you by adjusting the filters to the left on your log in home page or visit http://Facebook.com/sitetour/homepage_tour.php which is the link also on your log in Facebook home page. You have more control than you would think with these newest updates. You can control what friend streams and info you will actually see on your home page.

Publishing your own updates has gotten super simple with this new Facebook. Prompting in applications for instance as you send “virtual gifts”  to your friends to then publish this message in not only your profile and home pages, but also your friends

Keeping track of birthdays was always fairly easy at Facebook, but now the What’s Going On Today area on the right hand top of your home page keeps you in the know about the events and birthdays today!

What this new streaming actually does is electrify the Google meter over at Facebook. With so many streams of so much of what’s going on, constantly publishing, it is very like merging Twitter, Facebook, Internet Gaming, with linkage and feeds from Blogs, Digg, the whole “All Roads Lead to Rome” theory … well, now, All Roads Lead to and From Facebook which then energizes the Google Ratings because of the amount of visible traffic (posting, publishing, sending of application invites, news, blog posts, feeds, etc.) Facebook has “Lit Up” the Internet sky when they switched on this newness

Vox:

Vox’s built in editor allows you to easily combine words, images, video and audio all in one little box to create brilliant posts every time. While the newness on Vox primarily is the tweaking of the old, they have quite the expert handle on it all with interactivity galore. While Blogger and WordPress are standard Blog Platform sites, Vox takes this Blog Platform to a Social Network level. Interactivity, friending, groups, Vox Hunt Challenges, Team Vox News, and Questions of the Day to prompt you out of any writers block that you may have. Keeping up with the Vox Team is as easy as visiting the Team.Vox.com site

Blogger News:

Straight from Buzz.Blogger.com comes news of the Plinky prompts to alleviate the craziness of Bloggers Block or more commonly refered to as writers block Plinky gives you a prompt to write (much like the Question of the Day over at Vox:) A question or challenge for you to answer and actually Share your Media on Facebook and Twitter!!!

Facebook your Blog at Blogger, WordPress and more, find out how here.

WordPress:

P2 The New Prologue reinvents what it means to “Group Blog” with live notifications, comments in the home page, in-line editing (you never need to refresh and rarely need to visit your dashboard:). P2 is great for school projects, groups, as a class, etc. Check out the WordPress Blog for more on this new theme. “Just Another WordPress Blog”.

February brought a Live Journal import tool, threaded comments, and launched Buddy Press, a set of WordPress MU (multi-user) plugins that transforms a MU install into a social network platform. For newspapers, magazines, Universities, Blog Networks, and such

Post to a later date of course is a feature at WordPress with statistics right now on your personal log in home page

Twitter:

Following the Twitter Blog is one of the best ways to stay on top of Twitter’s newest happenings “)

ExecTweets to find and follow Top Business Execs on Twitter!

The trends tab on Twitter gives you a heads up on what’s hot The topic trends going on over at Twitter, what everyone is Tweeting about

The recent Twitter limits set alleviates robots and whales from going metal or overboard Check out these limits on the Twitter Support Page.

Meez:

Meez users that have not yet checked out the new Carnival Gear arer missing out! Very cool new stuff though I haven’t had the heart to delete my leprechaun from St. Patrick’s Day I have purchased and saved to my closet some of the coolest newest gear

Meez, Living the Virtual You, from Meez Nation chat rooms, new games, new gear, room creations,  and the connectivity with Facebook and MySpace and others via the coolest of widgets, Meez has something new every week!

Read Parts 1 and 2 at BlogsandSocialNetworks.com and BlogsandSocialNetworks.info for even more Blogs and Social Networks Updates Or Listen into our Blogs and Social Networks Online Radio Show on Updates at our favorite Blog Platform Sites and Social Networks

Updates on My Yearbook and MySpace coming soon at Blogs and Social Networks on Blogger

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Thought we would set out some choices for very cool MySpace Layouts, Graphics, and Comments Pages for you all real quick Some of the sites that we know and love Listing the pros and some cons.

SparkleTags A great site for MySpace Graphics, Comments, and Layout Choices

Wish A Friend : All Inclusive Great Site! Find a Little of This and a Little of That Here. A Quick Way to Add a Comment

Pyzam : Very “WoW” Layout choices for Blogger!

All 4 MySpace : Loaded with bright colorful fun graphics and comments!

Top Bun : Very intricate designs, nice!

Free Code Source : Cute!

Dazzle Junction : Great Comment Site!

Satisfaction : Very Nice but a bit “link happy”

MS Nerds Layouts : Good Content but Little Choice

MySpace is Ugly : Very Cool Girly Graphics (ie. Hello Kitty)

My Hot Comments : Stevies Top 2 Pick

My Girly Space Stevies Top Pick

We have many more MySpace comment, layout, and Graphic sites but these are a few to “mix it up” a bit

Blogs and Social Networks

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Which social networks are a pro environment sorts of sites and Where do I go to find out more about Going Green and Saving The Planet?

Check out ClubGreen.Ning.com for a start A Ning Social Network created by Gerhard Kaiser of Germany for the environmentally conscious! Share your ideas on How To Positively Effect the Planet! Network, Go Green, Share your business idea, tips from Hank Dunckel at RoRClubSave on Blog Talk Radio for energy efficicient vehicles and saving fuel, learn the European view on Global Awareness as well as many other Countries views across the glob as this site houses members from all over the World

We will discuss some groups on some major social networks like Facebook and MySpace, Going Green online with groups, forums, blogs, and social networks Listen into our Blogs and Social Networks show on Go Green Environmentally Friendly Social Networks for some additional information

OK, where do I find some cool Go Green type MySpace or Ning Comments, Layouts,  and Graphics?

Chromaluna.com for some great Earth Day Graphics

ZingerBug.com

CoolChaser.com Ten Stars!

Layouts.fm

Glitterbrand.com for very eco-friendly Graphics. MySpace Our Planet environmental tips.

SpringWidgets.com for a cool countdown widget to Earth Day

A Few extra sites of note (not for graphics, but great environmental sites in general)

There is MySpace.com/OurPlanet for some great information

and Disney.Go.Com/DisneyNature all we have to say is WOW!!!

Here is cool Widget from The Lil Green Patch Application at MySpace, Facebook, and My Yearbook ! Neat! Check it out (on the front page about half way down at ClubGreen.Ning.com I tried it here at WordPress and sadly, it doesn’t work in the post but will work on other blogs and social networks A screen capture will give a sneek peek though, complete with a link to the full selection of widgets

Part 2 of Environmentally Friendly Social Networks coming soon

Blogs and Social Networks with Stevie and Stephanie Haile aka Blogheiress and Wavecritter Google Me

I found a few recent studies in my travels around the net on statistics for Bloggers Of course, not all the same types of people blog but statistically bloggers are largely male and it seems that more than half have an income of over $75,000 annually. 42% of bloggers today have attended graduate school

More than half of bloggers out there now are currently on their (at least) second blog site, blog, or platform.  (I am as well), but more than half have been blogging for two or more years too (like me ).

I find these statistics interesting but they will soon change as the blogging explosion has arrived and is growing in numbers by the minute.

One of the largest categories of Blog Types is really the Topic Type blog. I think mainly because this subject encompasses such a large arena. Bloggers who are into History could Topic Blog about Historians, Americans, Europe, The Romans, Greeks, or Isreals History. I have compiled a list of sorts of ideas for Blog Titles and Topic Types:

“The Inner Workings of Techno”

Tables and Chairs”

The Science of Sociology” (Astronomy, Physics, etc.)

“Egypt and It’s Tombs”

“How Does It Work?”

“Things That Are Round”

“Writing Utensils”

“Types of Blogs”

“Felines and Their Ways”

“Microbes”

“Berries” Check Out BerryH2o.blogspot.com for one on this

“The Blues”

Write your passion. Write what you love, find interesting, or for that matter what you want to learn more about This could be a topic blog on your adventures into learning something that you would like to know. This is how blogging started for me. I needed more information on a certain topic and wanted a “holding area” to keep everything I learned as it is often difficult to find “saved” bookmarks in your own files if they are a bit crowded LOL Wetpaint Wikis are an awesome holding type topic blog site as is WordPress here.

Enjoy your blogging

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Tonight’s show will be all about Genealogy. Where to go to look for families, groups on several social networks, sites to create your own family tree and more. Visit Blogs and Social Networks Blog Talk Radio Genealogy Social Networks for more.

Free Charts at About.com Genealogy

I thought that the definition of Genealogy (I looked it up on Dictionary.com) would be appropriate here

ge⋅ne⋅al⋅o⋅gy

–noun, plural -gies.

1.	a record or account of the ancestry and descent of a person, family, group, etc.

2.	the study of family ancestries and histories.

3.	descent from an original form or progenitor; lineage; ancestry.

4.	Biology. a group of individuals or species having a common ancestry: The various species of Darwin’s finches form a closely knit genealogy.

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Origin:

1250–1300; ME genealogie < MF < LL geneālogia < Gk geneālogíagene race (see gene ) + -logia -logy

pedigree, equiv. to

This is a good place to start

Then we ventured over to some major social networks like Facebook and MySpace to see how many groups they had over there specific to certain families and groups:

Our friend Kathy Paquette had recently joined a group for the “Paquettes” which I thought was a brilliant idea. If you have family that you are searching for, look into joining an existing group at a major social network or start your own group. Here are a few groups for the Paquettes we found at Facebook:

Paquette Group on Facebook

Paquette on Facebook

I searched for a Haile group as well No luck there, maybe I will start one in the future (If anyone starts one, let me know:)

Onto Genealogy topic groups at Facebook:

Genealogy Group at Facebook

There are over 5,000 members in this group. Other groups have been started at Facebook as well for Genealogy but this seems to be the biggest one. They offer connectivity for individuals excited about finding their family histories. Included resource links for across the Globe, Census, Military, and more.

To find a whole bunch of cool free clip art just for Genealogy sites visit HaileFamilyTree.wetpaint.com I don’t have the family tree info up and complete yet but I do have a huge list of the easiets to get to and navigate Genealogy clip art sites and coolness out there

The My Heritage Family Tree Builder (free download is a cool tool for getting your layout going and tree constructed! The My Heritage site has a whole bunch of great Genealogy info as well

A Genealogy group at MySpace (has almost 5,000 members where you can search for people by surname, post an alert bulletin to get some information and find some great sites linked here

Visit Blogs and Social Networks Blog Talk Radio Genealogy Social Networks for more.

Here’s the link to search Google for Genealogy based Blog sites

More on the show tonight

Stevie and Stephanie Haile aka Blogheiress and Wavecritter Google Us

Music related blogs and social networks are not hard to find, but to locate tips on marketing for the independent artist, solo musician, or advice to create an unforgettable band profile takes more research. Musicians wanting to market themselves using the Internet with blogs and social networks only need to follow some timely suggestion accompanied by a routine. This advice will be for the “newer” artist or band, but if you need more exposure for your music group, then these steps are for you as well.

First and foremost … this will take some dedication, patience,  time, and consistent work … yes, I said the “W” word  but, if the time you spend is spent wisely, you will see results much faster. To reach the “masses” and gain exposure you will need to first focus on getting your name ranked on the search engines.

Sit and decide (if you aren’t 100% on what image and style you want to portray) what flare and style you want to relate to your band. Without a bit of your own color “popping out” you will possibly get “washed out” on the Internet. With the amount of competition you have on the net, you will need to become the image you present to your fans and set the image to encompass exactly what your band breathes out creatively.

Choose first your color scheme and a logo. If someone you know or a member of the band is inventive, maybe they would design a basic logo for you that you could then build off of later or add to to evolve a signature for your sound. Take this logo and include it in banners, graphics, and buttons of several sizes to place on blog sites, social networks, and other web pages.

Now that you have your image, color scheme, and logo, you will need to choose one major photo and up to two others to represent your group. Include the major photo into a few of your banners or graphics.

Purchase the domain names (GoDaddy.com) to match the band name and look into securing the trademark (USPTO.Gov/main/trademarks.htm) for your band name. Purchase the dot com, dot info, and dot net domain names for certain and possibly some others. These will be forwarded to your blog site, a social network that houses you music clips, some personal band information, and your events. List All of your events, even if they seem small or insignificant to you like a friends birthday party. These can be called “private” events, “invitation only”, and meant to seem exclusive.

You major blog site should also be podcasting enabled like Blog Talk Radio or Podbean or choose Vox, Blogspot, or a WordPress blog. All of these sites are able to house podcasting widgets from Utterli, Blog Talk Radio, or any HTML based blog widget to house your sound so visitors to your blog can listen in. Setting up an additional “all in one” blog style site at FreeWebs may become more time consuming than you had anticipated, but this is a wise choice if you have a few members of your band that pitch in and help.

These sites will become your blogging base. Giving similar information on each site but adding a personal snippet of information new to each site will help keep them individual and fresh. Try including a different tune at each separate site with links back to each from all sites.

Depending on your marketing resources and budget, you can do this totally free but with more time spent or fifty percent free with a little less time invested. Fast tracking a blog platform through a paid site like Host Gator using a WordPress blog will allow a bit more leverage with advertising. Using a free to create blog platform, you will need to temper your “personal advertising” greatly. Keeping the self serving links down to a minimum until you your blog site becomes established in the ratings.

Choosing the social networks to promote your music is next on the list in your market me adventure. MySpace is the music social network that you should start with, being certain to set your MySpace URL and display name to your band name, the same as your domain names that you purchased. This will get that search term set in stone. Choosing four more search terms to add to this one will be your next step and use them all in your blog posts, social networks text, and other site information. Be sure to ask yourself what music lovers will ask when searching for your style of music, this will help you discover your major keywords.

The key to massive exposure is not taking a handful of salt and flinging it over a great area, but to take that salt and spread it liberally over a few key areas with concentrated flavor, focus, and consistency. Working your sites with concentration like a pattern will attract excited passionate fans who then spread the word for you.

Is eight to ten sites really concentrated? It may sound to you like the half the Internet and an extreme amount of time, but with your two to three blog style sites and your four to five social networks, all linked together, with similar but separate information on them, all using the same major keywords and added different minor ones, your exposure will grow exponentially.

There are those who begin a social network of their own for the band at sites like Wetpaint or Ning. This is very time consuming and unless you have a specific band member to take this lone task on, wait on this idea and opt for starting a group at MySpace and one at Facebook for your band. No, Facebook does not allow for a “band” profile, but you can have a personal Facebook page and start a “My Band” group to promote your band at Facebook. With the excitement and growth over at this social network, you would be missing the boat without a group here. Even starting a group at one of the Ning social networks that is music oriented is a great idea.

Connect your Twitter to Facebook and MyBlogLog to all of your blogs and social networks keeping your reach connected for a triple dose to Google and other search engines.

Staying consistent with your time spent and your keyword usage is as easy as figuring out a budget. Decide how much time you have to work on the Internet, then divide your time equally between each of your sites. Choose your music social networks by doing a quick Google search or take a look at a few of these: IndabaMusic; Last FM; iLike; JamNow; FlowTones; MusoCity; PureVolume; HumbleVoice; imeem; and R4Media.

Connect yourself with all of your sites by linking back on individual posts, bulletins, and link lists, stay consistent with your activity, make as many contacts and friends as you can, and enjoy your success.

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Stevie and Stephanie Haile aka Blogheiress and Wavecritter Google Us

Whooo …. the numerous choices out there in the application and widget world! This is great for those who can choose a manageable number of the coolest ones that suit them And then …. there are those (ummm like me that just “Need” to have that one more MySpace and Facebook widget Application because my friends get excited about them or I find them clever beyond belief I thought I would let you in on some of the widgets that just too clever, some of the applications that are very non time consuming, some that take a bit of time, and then those that are just so cool that you don’t really care that they glue you to the computer every day to make sure your Application is up to date

Let’s start with the easiest, less time consumers of the MySpace and Facebook Application and Widget World:

Once installed and set up, Superlatives, SuperPoke, Stickers, Hug Me, Hatching Eggs, Growing Plants, SuperWall, Movies, SuperHug, TagMe, and Optical Illusion of the Day are a short list of the easiest, quickest to use widgets and applications.

Superlatives, SuperPoke, Hugs, and TagMe are quick little graphics to say “hi”, “throw a cake at” , “wish a happy birthday to”, or just about anything you could think of as a witty fast way to give a shout to your friends Some of these can be found at both MySpace and Facebook (even at MyYearbook) and some at one or the other.

The SuperWall and Stickers are ways to post funny quips, quotes, and sayings that your friends can share and then post to their own “Cork Boards” (the holding and display area for the stickers) or on their own Walls as a video, photo, or other blog type post. These can be found at both MySpace, MyYearbook, and Facebook.

The Growing Plants and Hatching Eggs Application is one of the most clever “not much time needed” applications I have found yet. Once the intial set up is complete, the maintenance is very minimal and it only takes a minute to send creative growing or hatching hiyas out to all of your friends at Facebook.

The applications at Facebook take much less time to “send out” to all of your Facebook friends verses sending out the same or similar “hiyas” to your MySpace friends becasue of the individually sent to each friend captcha deal over at MySpace. At MyYearbook, the high fives, gifts, and stars take very little time to dole out as well.

The “Lunch Money Owned” application widget coolie started at MyYearBook actually The applications at Facebook have been going strong for some time and MySpace just recently incorporated these fun little addition widgets into their set up. With the Owned Application, you purchase with “Lunch Money” your friends photos gaining popularity and expense as you buy and sell. Every time you log in you also gain extra lunch money that you can use to send “presents” to your friends as well. I would place this one in the mid range for time consumption as you will want to keep up with who has purchased your friends out from under you

Some other choice mid range time users in the Facebook Applications, MySpace and MyYearBook widgets include: The Little Blue Cove, Dog World, SuperPoke Pets, and Lil Green Patch could fall into the “very time consuming” range but only if you are extremely diligent in these You can certainly have a great time with these applications and keep them in the mid time taker range The premise of these fun little widgets is you get a pet, garden, or fish tank of sorts with virtual critters, flora, and aquatic swimmers You take care of your set up and your friends as you visit around to see what they have created with these individual applications

Ok, onto the “Big Dog” time suckers but are too fun to stop playing (yes, these Facebook Applications MySpace Widgets and MyYearbook deals can become addiciting lol include, but are not limited to: MyFarm, Mob Wars, Pirates: Rule the Caribbean, Vampire Wars, Networked Blogs (but only in the set up, once you have your blogs listed … this app gets off and running almost on its own), Sorority Life (Stevies Fav!) Ohhhh … Hook up with us on this one at MySpace …hehehe Stevie is my Top Friend, easy to find that way ….

Just keep in mind, the more Applictaions you add, the more time they tend to take So, choose wisely and well and be sure to have fun with the choices you make … ohhhhhh and add us if its a “Party” application Talk soon and CU at MySpace, Facebook, and MyYearbook!!!

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With the ever changing Internet morphing and transforming in the blink of an eye, the sights, sounds and flavors online of the specific social networks won’t be left out of the wave. MySpace and Facebook have certainly included themselves in the update arena of blogs and social networks.

To compare and contrast the two largest social networks, all the while keeping up to date with the newest updates and features is an exciting roller coaster of events. While MySpace and Facebook are not the only two social networking sites on the block, they hold the top spots in this category.

In the personal interface area at MySpace, not the profile layout for your visitors to view, but the “for your eyes only” section, you can now customize the layout or background to a healthy selection of colors and styles. The individual modules can also be relocated and moved around to suit your ease of viewing them any way you would like or just close the ones you do not need altogether.

MySpace has a good selection of the new CSS 2.0 layouts as well for your visitors eyes on your profile page. The staggering amount of CSS 2.0 layout choices at the numerous MySpace layout sites will certainly allow the flare and personality of individuals everywhere to express their profile page and astound their guests. The new CSS 2.0 change is extremely easy to learn, so the switch over will be no problem. The tutorials furnished will assist with any troubles you may encounter.

Facebook has some updates as well in their personal interface area. Facebook has a cleaner feel and it is easier to see your friends news feeds, status updates, photos, and posted items all designed and navigated by the new tab system. Facebook has a shout out “Twitter Style” capability that MySpace does not yet have as you are able to comment on your friends shout outs as they make them. A shout out is just a little blurb of how you feel or what your are doing at that given time or moment, like “Going to the Store”, “BBL” (be back later), “Major Headache”, or “At Work, Saying Hi”. While MySpace has a mini shout out with no comment feature, they do have an emoticon “Mood” feature that is not incorporated into the Facebook shout out. Facebooks emoticon “Mood” feature is offered as an application widget through the “Top Friends” application and others.

Facebook has prided itself on it’s privacy features since it’s inception and it actually “feels” more private when you are venturing around the profiles, groups, and featured pages. There has been much media on the virus filled applications in the mid part of 2008, but with the onset of 2009, people are still flocking in droves over to blog social network Facebook.

MySpace is geared towards senses stimulation with it’s color oriented layouts, music with it’s many band sites, and video broadcastings. You hear MySpace and read Facebook it seems. I believe that is a big draw to both sites. The “fluff” at MySpace being the deco, diapason, dress, and design and at Facebook, the big calling is association, art, academia, and applications.

The chat features at each social network are quite different. MySpace has their IM extraordinaire but the Facebook chat is a great deal less appealing because first you need to be on and logged into the social network in order to actually use their chat feature. Whereas the MySpace IM (instant messenger) is a separate system. There is no need to be logged into the social network at all to chat and the mobile IM is quite handy.

The customization of interface levels makes Facebook seem more private, but both social networks have a great deal of privacy or not very much at all depending on your personal settings. Individual privacy settings for personal information and for each application you choose to allow at each social network. While Facebook was the first to have outside applications available on their profile areas, MySpace has stepped up to bat on the application game and introduced a huge selection.

The thought of “Poking” your friends seems so ‘06 anymore compared to the Pirates, GreenSpot, MyFarm, or SuperPoke applications users are crowding to add to their own profile pages today.

For MySpace users who have switched over to the new CSS 2.0 layouts, to add your applications to your profile area and show them off on your visitors page just click the “Profile” drop down to the “Customize Profile” link, then click the “Applications” button on the left, and highlight to add which applications you would like to show for your viewers.

While both blog social networks, and I call them blog networks because each has a prominent blogging community, have pronounced and visual updates, the attractions to both social networks are numerous and wide spread. Whether you choose to become a MySpacer, Facebooker, or both is ultimately your decision. Enjoy the ride.

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Blogs and Social Networks looks at a Social Bookmarking Site, Magnolia. At the free to use social bookmark site, Ma.gnolia.com you can search different topics of sites like Art and Photography.

Ma.gnolia has a featured linker, recent bookmarks, hot groups, and a hot bookmarks tab. Complete with a help page and discover section which allows you to see everyones bookmarks, tags, roots, applications, groups, discussions, newsletters, featured linkers, and also find people.

Ma.gnolia.com

On the roots page, there is a video to show you how to use this area. It is located right next to the “How to Begin” and  has a little blue link called “Roots Screen”.

On the find people page, you can locate your favorite linkers by name, screen name, or email address.

The Chat page has a support index, tutorial, chat, blog, contact us, developer, center, and a wiki! Which I find quite cool

Join by signing in with your Open ID, Yahoo, Facebook, Click Pass, WordPress, AOL, Live Journal, or Type Pad accounts. Just choose one of these, choose a screen name, enter your email address and click

Even hook your Magnolia site straight to Technorati!

Blogs and Social Networks Bookmarks

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At Yahoo Buzz, one of Yahoo’s Social Bookmarking Sites, stories are ranked by your votes, comments, emails, and searches. You can even see what your friends are “Buzzing” about on the new Yahoo Messenger!

With these updates you can keep up with what your friends and family are “Buzzing”. It shows you the “Top Buzz and the “Up and Coming” as well as the “Just Added”. It also allows you to see the “Top Searches”.

The “Buzz Log” which is what’s hot on Yahoo and why you can submit your own stories. The more stories you submit, the more chances for you to acquire a higher rating and get noticed.

A handy FAQs page loaded with questions and answers for you to find help with navigating the site.

You get a “Buzz Activity” summary with thumbs up and thumbs down voting and a comments area.

Fill up your “My Connections Updates” by voting, sending, and sharing stories on Yahoo Buzz.

Your Yahoo email information gets you a straight connection to this social bookmarking site, so there is not a lengthy sign up. All you need is a Yahoo email address and you are connected.

Some of the latest top stories here at Yahoo Buzz are about Donald Trump, Shelters, Jennifer Hudson, Veterans Day, and Presidential Pooch Watch.

MyBlogLog is another of Yahoo’s Social Bookmark sites. Here you list your sites ( blogs and social networks or web sites ) and other members of MyBlogLog then join your created site group! Submitting any site allows the opportunity for any other member of MyBlogLog to then join the newly formed group that is your site! My Bloglog feed your newest interactions with each of your listed sites to your My Blog Log profile page. The newest inputs like what’s new on Twitter (your shout outs), what new posts you made on all of your blog sites you have listed, or newest photos from the photo sharing sites you have listed on MyBlogLog like PhotoBucket or Flickr.

MyBlogLog has an extensive list to submit your social networks as a feed that also records your newest happenings there.

In my opinion, if MyBlogLog is not currently on your list of social bookmarking sites that you use (weekly is best here), you are certainly missing out.

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Etch - A - Sketch

Throughout history man has created. Created imagery and vision with artistic expression. From God molding the universe, there began creation. Adam and Eve weaving garments of leaves through the Renaissance period, Michaelangelo’s paintings, Picasso’s abstractions, Leonardo’s sketches, The Roman Empire’s aqueducts, Guggenheim’s architecture, to the prose of Shakespeare. We Create.

Yes, creation comes in many forms, manipulating realities, materials, and existences. We admire beauty, structure, form, and depth. Labeling this art is but an addition to this creative process that indeed enhances the form.

Whether our designs come in graphic, language, text, code, utilitarian or visual, monumental or minuscule, as a World we have discovered and introduced creations that have astounded and awed Nations.

With the invention of the Etch – A – Sketch, yes, I begin at my creative introductions; Etch – A – Sketch, Spin – Art, and the Loom Weavers of Mattel and Hasbro, I believe this generation of inventors, artists, and creators of brilliance started with the seemingly simple formations of these wondrous toys. The music, sights, sounds, toys, politics, architecture, and visions of the 70’s and 80’s have emerged and molded the computer generation into an age in the forefront of humanity.

Todays computers wizards came from the inspiration of yesterdays toys. Chemistry sets in a box, Lincoln Logs, Legos, Train Sets, and Red Rider BB Guns with Cowboy Hats and Boot sets all played a role in the expansion of human minds toward the greatness of creating visions and wonder online.

Play – Doh had to have inspired the minds of the creators of the incredibly intense PC game Spore. Spin – Art for the Slide dot com’s photo Slide shows, maybe Lincoln Logs took a role in the ideas for designing a 3D model Log Home program online.

Lite Bright could have caused a “light bulb” to glow brighter in the creation of the home computer and numerous kids have “operated” on walkie talkies, radios, and old TV sets later to become expert repairmen, inventors, and creators of technology. The skilled surgeons today who once played with the still nose lighted board game Operation surely had a steady handful of practice with that toy.

With this in mind, What will todays toys inspire in our youth of tomorrow? Will this high technology entertainment shift the gears of the upcoming geniuses into yet another realm of creativity? The World is waiting.

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Tonights Blogs and Social Networks show is about Christmas Blogs That Shine

Here is the list of Blog sites we are talking about and some of what you can find on each:

MyInkBlog: 10 Fantastic Christmas Inspired Tutorials

ChristmasSprite : Christmas History, Traditions, Wallpaper, more.

Christmas4All.blogspot.com : How to Say Merry Christmas in many Languages, Christmas Prayers, much more.

Thoughts-About-God.com: The Christmas Story and Prayers

ClausChronicles.blogspot.com: Periodic Updates from the North Pole

ChristmasYuleBlog: Christmas Music and More

EMail Santa Childrens Hotlines: Teen and Kids Help Lines listed from across the Globe.

EMail Santa, Santa Claus Christmas Blog: Up to the minute news about what Santa is up to

AcadiaWreath.com/blog/blog.html: Blog about Christmas Wreaths and Other Christmas traditions.

Christmas Blog: Lights and Diplay Webcam link

BloggingTips.com: Take Your blog to the Next Level

WidgetBox HappyChristmas Widget

SantasQuarters.com/blog: Printable Santas Elf Card, Coloring Pages, History of the Christmas Tree and much more.

Spanish Teaching Spanish Christmas: Welcome to our blog for teachers and students of Spanish. Spanish Christmas Calendar

2 Awesome Blog Social Networks for Christmas posts, videos, fun, friends, tips, recipes, and much more.

SantaLiveNow.Ning.com

ChristmasEmporium.Ning.com

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Photo Persuasion or “Tweak My Photo” lol

Checking into the Blogs and Social Networks Photo sites again, but this time we researched not only the Photo Sharing, Friending type Social Networks, we got into some cool photo creation, adjustment, tweaker, resize, format change, effect adding, sticker sticking fun to dazzle, sparkle, and otherwise turn an ordinary photo into brilliance

Stevie has some incredible shots she took and then reconfigured at one of (or a few of) these sites listed. Sometimes we take a photo to one site, then take that enhanced photo to another for more fixing until we get it right Here is One Photo Stevie Fluffed:

Check out more on Stevies MySpace

Our Blogs and Social Networks Photo Persuasion show has some great info for people needing to “adjust, tweak, fluff, dress up, sparkle out, resize, and/or change the formats” of your photo images. Add descriptions, keywords, even “tag” to add a live hyperlink to sections of your pictures.

Some of sites we discussed included my top 3

Photobucket: One of the very best “all inclusive” photo sites

Slide: Is the bomb! Rocks for sure, more info on show

Flickr: One of the biggest Photo sharing, holding, and friending sites on the Internet.

PiccyFix: Top Photo site for format changes with much more.

Picnik: Tab Folders and Grass Picnik Welcomes You to Sign up for Free

SoSauce: Travel Geeks Global Curiosity Local Expertise

MyThemeAnimator @ blibs.com/editor: A link from MyTheme to the editor pages but MyTheme also has some awesome MySpace Layouts and Graphics.

FlauntR: From FotoDesk Professional Photo Editing Easy and Free

PhixR: The Online Photo Editor Choose to Sign Up for Free (only takes 15 seconds) No email hassles

We cover in depth what you can do where on the show

But for sure PiccyFix.com is the place I go for format changes from PNG, JPEG, GIF, BMP. No registration here at PiccyFix, Instant and Free. You can choose to host your pics here or show them off in the gallery and PiccyFix can adjust your photos much more than just format changes

Resize, Rotate, Flip, Colorize, Crop, Tint, Adjust Brightness, Contrast, and Add Effects and Borders at PiccyFix

My first and major draw to PiccyFix (format changes). PiccyFix is a fairly straight forward with not a lot of “color” because you add the color with your photos Add keywords and descriptions. When you choose hosting, go ahead and click on the link to the hosting info, it may matter to you or not depending on what you use your photo for here. I usually just fix my piccy and download the correction back to my comp.

PiccyFix has an awesome eye opener post on their info page that Stevie and I always try to convey to everyone “How Private R Hosted Pictures?” Just like all public picture hosting sites (that do not have a privacy setting) … Not At All Hosting at a public site is at your own risk

PiccyFix makes it easy to use without registration, but because no registration, no saving pics really (except short term in the gallery) or home page for you. So, fix your photo here and then take it back to Flickr or PhotoBucket (or other photo storage site) for holding.

You are creating memories here guys, with your snapshots but everyone can’t be a great photographer. This is where the “fluff” sites come into play. Crop, cover up, add sparkle to take away that “bad” photo and turn it into a great one (memories kept for years to come

Blogs and Social Networks

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Tonight’s show was great and we covered the best for Christmas graphics, layouts, and comments that we found on the net! Listen in for many tips on what sites house which type or theme of Christmas graphic, layout, comments, and all the extras like countdowns, dividers, fluff and bling.

MyGirlySpace

My favorite of the sites we covered tonight is MyGirlySpace.com. With the animated graphics, Christmas MySpace animations, Christmas banners, mini banners, funny pics, icon collages, MySpace icons, posters, non animated graphics, dividers, glitter graphics, dolls, falling snowflakes (neato!, WordPress is using this here on the log in news page , and Christmas music.

At My Girly Space, there are codes 1.0 layouts and also for the 2.0 CSS layouts. Great selection, easy to navigate site

WonderChristmas.com is all about Christmas from backgrounds, banners, clipart, countdowns, games, and even coloring pages. Great Christian and Santa based themes here.

ABCFamily.com has the coolest of snowglobes for your sites sponsored by Glade!

LayoutsForChristmas.com

ChristmasMySpaceGraphics.com has funny videos and pics also online now.

XmasJoys.com with contact tables, about Christmas, cursors, ecards, humor, recipes, and stories.

HolidayJoys.com with animated gifs, icons, games, comments, screen captures, and wallpaper for MySpace, Friendster, and Hi5.

CoolHolidayGraphics.com also an awesome site for Christmas graphics, layouts, and comments.

ChristmasProfile.com

WishChristmas.com (find out more about these sites on our show)

Pimp-My-Profile.com has new layouts as well for the 2.0 MySpace with 36 plus pages of Christmas MySpace, Friendster, and Hi5 layouts.

Recadosdaweb.com has some awesome Betty Boop classic graphics and 12 plus pages of Christmas Graphics in English, Potuguese, and Spanish all with a switch up click of the mouse from one language to another.

PhotoCube3D.com for some added Sparkle and bling to “Glow” out your site!

Sparkle Tags

SparkleTags.com with over 46 pages of comment graphics you can actually vote on!

MyHotComments.com R U looking for Christmas Betty Boop? Look no further than My Hot Comments. They are ready for MySpace 2.0 as well.

PopDarts.com selection of snowglobes and Christmas graphics is fairly large but the interaction with Gigya.com (the easy tool for posting on MySpace, Friendster, Bebo, Orkut, Facebook, Tagged, Blogger, Hi5, Live Spaces, Piczo, FreeWebs, Live journal, Black Planet, My Yearbook, WordPress, Vox, Typepad, Xanga, Page Flakes, Muliply, iGoogle, Net Vibes, and MiGente) is a huge draw to this site. Now, Wavecritter (my Mom), tried the embed code directly to a post at Blogger, no good there, so I would post using the Gigya system, but how easy is that?

Find out more about Gigya.com by visiting the site and click on the “About” tab at the top. A great read to find out the “meat” of this site! How it works and what’s going on at Gigya. “Giving people the power to socialize and share across the web.”

My Moms very favorite site  is WishAFriend.com with 47 pages of christmas MySpace Layouts! Which is where she got hers for MySpace.com/Surfcritter, her writer site at MySpace (we all know she will not readily convert or change that sites layout “Remains in the Rain” at Wavecritters MySpace If you haven’t yet seen this creation, go by and visit.

Wish A Friend has ready to go preview layouts here for either 1.0 or 2.0 MySpace Christmas layouts. Wish A Friend is set up with the browser/user in mind, they keep the site clean, easy to navigate with awesome on site search area also. Be sure to add Wish a friend to your friends list over at MySpace, Friendster, Tagged, and Hi5. Easy to do directly from the Wish A friend main site. Great choices and you can’t go wrong at Wish A Friend. If you’re looking for extras like countdowns, Quotes, and surveys, they have these too as well as a click away to Portuguese and Spanish.

Visit our site over at Blog Talk Radio Blogs and Social networks for more

And give a look at the 4 of the coolest of Ning social networks ever! ClubGreen.Ning.com for the environmentally concious “Go Green” Earth lovers like me and my Mom, BlogNutToolbar.net where there is always excitement, great people, and cool happenings, SantaLiveNow.Ning.com go and say “Hiya” to Santa Claus and his crew and check out Wavecritters profile there, visit ChristmasEmporium.Ning.com for some outstanding Christmas socialization year round

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The Free Download Blog Nut Toolbar is a must for any Blogger, Social Networker, or Internet User today. With fast links to Plaxo, Googles Blogger, WordPress, Linked In, MySpace, bebo, Facebook, Twitter, Digg, Blog Talk Radio, Newspapers Around the World, Widget Box, YouTube, MyBlogLog, EyeJot, and much more, the Blog Nut Toolbar saves you precious time typing or fumbling with your already overfull and unorganized favorites folders ( I can’t be the only one lol Free advertising for your business is a huge perk with the Blog Nuts. They have a ready made Ning social network to add to the attraction here as well with over 600+ members growing daily. “You create, We build” is the Blog Nuts motto for a good reason, they love the users input, a Nut Wishes area to input your favorite sites (if they aren’t already there , a ticker to post Blog Nuts user advertisements, a radio, Biz Nut, and RSS feeds all located as an option on the toolbar.

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Links to “Make a Video”, add stations to the radio player, TV Nut, Weather, the Nut House which is an awesome gaming area, Email notifier, and Privacy component. In the additional settings area, adjust your settings anytime.

Blog Nut Toolbar

The Community Nut Home is an awesome page full of a “running tab” (if you will of Nut News, Chat Features, Search, Keywords, Cool Gadgets and Games, Staying Connected, Getting Organized, and Free Advertising for Your business.

Visit the Blog Nut Community Blogs and social Networks Group, Get your toolbar, and have some fun with the Blog Nuts!

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Quotes for Christmas

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* “I will honor Christmas in my heart,
and try to keep it all the year.”
~Charles Dickens.

* “I heard the bells on Christmas Day
Their old, familiar carols play,
And wild and sweet the words repeat
Of peace on earth, good-will to men!
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

* Love came down at Christmas,
Love all lovely, Love Divine;
Love was born at Christmas;
Star and angels gave the sign.
~Christina Rossetti

* And she will bear a Son, and you shall
call His name Jesus, for it is He who
will save His people from their sins
Matthew 1:21

* “Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to
the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the
old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport
the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!”
~Charles Dickens

* “Blessed is the season which engages the
whole world in a conspiracy of love.”
~Hamilton Wright Mabie

* Christmas is the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.
~Washington Irving

* From home to home, and heart to heart, from one place to another. The warmth and joy of Christmas, brings us closer to each other.
Emily Matthews

* Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind.
Mary Ellen Chase

* Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.
Calvin Coolidge

* A Christmas candle is a lovely thing; It makes no noise at all, But softly gives itself away; While quite unselfish, it grows small.
Eva K. Logue

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