Hello, Doris, hope you're having a good time. Life has been full on but I'm rolling with it. #DigiBlogChat
I'm a painter and freelancer, with professional experience in marketing, audience development, public relations, events, Homes for Ukraine refugee programme, and youth work. You can buy my work on Etsy @ Maricards
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Hello, Doris, hope you're having a good time. Life has been full on but I'm rolling with it. #DigiBlogChat
Mt. Hood. Afternoon of June 6. 💙☁️
Thanks for the mention, lovely people! #DigiBlogChat
Have a great week all! #DigiBlogChat www.pinterest.com/pin/15572609...
A3. Unique picture, some catchy wording, a call to action (CTA) and clear brand placement are all part of getting content to viral status. A solid following to help generate desired influence outcomes and empathy resonate with me. #digiblogchat
I hope you have a Toulouse-Lautrec Tuesday!
A1 Think of Pinterest like Google with pictures. Use clear keywords in your profile, board titles and descriptions so your content shows up in search. Example: “Easy Weeknight Dinners” works better than “Yum Yum.” #DigiBlogChat
A4. Pinterest is primarily a search engine, so you can find out what’s trending just as you would on other search engines. If something you might pin is trending, add those keywords and ride that wave. #DigiBlogChat
Psst! Don’t forget that it’s really Tuesday today, not Monday—pass it on! Three cheers for a short school/work week! 🎉 #happytuesday
Putting on the finishing touches to my piece for the first day of #raceforrefugees #day1 the prompt was for @Nutella bottle but, well, I stayed with Nutella for breakfast!
@carolstephen.bsky.social my post from a couple of days ago! #DigiBlogChat
I'm posting on Instagram, here and Facebook, if anyone is interested to follow my progress. I figured, painting needs muscles trained too and good mental health, so the race is on! #DigiBlogChat
Oooo, I love #fountainpens however, my precious #Sheaffer needs ink and they don't seem to sell those anymore!
A3 Bright, vertical images grab attention (2:3 ratio works best). Add easy-to-read text overlays so people know what they’ll get if they click. Include a subtle call-to-action like “Save for Later” or “Read More.” Keep it simple + scannable. #DigiBlogChat
I need to use @Pinterest more for my art, but the competition is strong there! #DigiBlogChat
A3. Pinterest is visual, so your “viral” pin MUST BE beautiful. And the call to action should be simple and easily understood. #DigiBlogChat
Here's my @justgiving.bsky.social page if anyone is interested www.justgiving.com/page/mjagger...
I posted a few days ago about joining a challenge by @refugeeaction.bsky.social called #RaceForRefugee and it includes being creative, not just sporty. So I'm painting 1 card a day for 30 days! #DigiBlogChat
Join us Tuesday September 2 for Retrospective: What’s Occurring on Pinterest? With topic and questions by Larry aka @lazblazter.bsky.social ! #DigiBlogChat Times: 8pm UK time, 9pm western Europe, 3pm ET, Noon PDT! Questions: yoursocialmediaworks.com/pinterest-re...
Going well. I started a new challenge in September, you might have read. #digiblogchat
A1. Create a board and ensure you tag with relevant #metadata for the topic or theme the board is covering. Do the same with pins to the board, consolidating the #hashtags - or check out what the experts are doing. #digiblogchat
Unusual lychgate at Long Compton.
Getting ready for the September challenge for #RaceForRefugee @refugeeaction.bsky.social whereby I will paint a card a day, building my #creative and #mentalhealth muscles - join me, or donate.
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum added audio to their online Holocaust Encyclopaedia and its proved hugely popular - Read about their success on MuseumNext - www.museumnext.com/article/how-...
Yes, there's a Time Travel feature in Map's street view. #DigiBlogChat
Last night I was moved to do this. If you feel moved, please donate. I'm planning to paint a card a day for 30 days in September to raise funds for refugees www.justgiving.com/page/mjagger...
A big thank you also to @Fedica.com for the fab scheduler! Did you know that Fedica can tell you when people are most active on Bluesky? #DigiBlogChat
Icebreaker: Newly completed flyover ramps on the D.C. beltway had not been updated. Maps showed me cruising above and across traffic lanes. Likewise, a new housing development showed me parked in a field. #DigiBlogChat
Ralph Vaughan Williams died on this day in 1958. Famed today for his Lark Ascending and Tallis Fantasia, but there's so much more of his music to celebrate: bachtrack.com/playlist-ral...
For anyone not familiar with International Talk Like a Pirate Day, it is coming round again - 19 Sep 2025 - and you can get the inside info here: talklikeapirate.com #digiblogchat - @carolstephen.bsky.social we could do a chat on this one!
Heartfelt thanks to those of you that have followed us from @X, and to all newcomers to our audience here on @Bluesky.app. #DigiBlogChat is all about you and sharing ideas and knowledge. Without you it would be a lot less enjoyable.
The beauty of gumweed ✨ #wildflowers #nature
A3. Did you know? You can ask Google Maps to find you a good date night restaurant (for example)? So there's that. #DigiBlogChat
No brush, no pencil. Just a typewriter. Artist James, using a 1930s Smith Premier typewriter, typed out this painting. #art #printer #unique #typewriter #illustration
You too, Randy! Have a good week #digiblogchat
We have been spoilt. I'm complaining of not getting any rain! #digiblogchat
Double Monday? Sounds like a triple whammy... it was exciting, though. We had a Fire Risk Safety inspection at work. #digiblogchat
Okay here too, getting back into the work groove. Temperature a bit colder today. #digiblogchat
Q2. Ever use Google Maps to spark a new adventure? How so? #DigiBlogChat
As an observation about today's Google Maps discussion on #digiblogchat @carolstephen.bsky.social it occurs to me that this is also an insight into driving habits. I get in my car and do NOT use any form of satnav unless I am going somewhere completely new. I use road signs. #digiblogchat
A10 I trust other people's reviews as much as I trust my own. #DigiBlogChat
My days are mixed up as we had a holiday yesterday. It feels like Monday! @johnwlewis.com @chris-rl.bsky.social @lazblazter.bsky.social can sympathise...#digiblogchat
@johnwlewis.com hello, how are you getting on? #digiblogchat
@carolstephen.bsky.social and everyone on #digblogchat hello from me. Hope you are having a good time!
A8 I don't want to get overloaded on tech. I use Pokemon-Go to find hidden gems. #DigiBlogChat
Between questions, we’d like to announce next week’s topic: Retrospective: What’s occurring on Pinterest? With topic and questions by Larry aka @lazblazter.bsky.social ! #DigiBlogChat
Q1. If you could customize Google Maps, how would you make it yours? #DigiBlogChat
Good morning everyone multnomah falls #multnomahfalls
Baby fever?? No. BABY BEAVER! 🥺 #bluesky
Beautiful. I love Mt Rainier.
I did some and it's good to get things done. Loads more waiting, but it was good to start! Good luck to you.
Mother teaching her 6 week old puppy how to herd the sheep... 😊 #dog #dogday #bluesky
#NowSpinning a Tchaikovsky First Piano Concerto recording I didn’t even know existed. Lazar Berman joins Herbert Von Karajan and let’s just say this is the biggest, boldest account of the opening tutti I think I have ever heard!
Another #Wheelchairing adventure. Hands don’t like it, but everything else does. Today the Brig and I pondered the Cranbrook pump track and decided against it. There are limits to our courage.
Hello! It's been a good day.
Pompeii by Robert Harris
#plants #houseplants #botany #history #art 🌼 Begonia Rex Origins from NE India to SE China. A family of many hundred cultivars. Here mainly because I like a flamboyant house plant (or garden plant) 🙂 This illustration c1896. Good care, growing advice & links: www.rhs.org.uk/plants/begon...
#plants #history #botany #art 🐝 Rosa rugosa - Red Japanese Rose 🧵/1 Attractive & bee friendly but a menace. Invasive, forms thickets, wicked thorns. In UK subject to Sched. 9 of W&CA - planting strictly forbidden. Invasive in coastal states of USA. Do not confuse with Rosa canina (follows).
Tatsuya Ishiodori
#ColorADay #BlueTue #TidesOutTuesday Morro Rock Beach, California #EastCoastKin #Scape #Beachscape #LandscapePhotography
Going to paint! What else is there to do?
Born OTD in 1606, Infanta Maria Ana, Holy Roman Empress. Ruled in her husband's absence. #WomenWhoRuled
Enjoy your lunch! I'm thinking about going to bed. #DigiBlogChat
I'm wondering how Duo knows I might know you? I feel I've been spied on by my app. #DigiBlogChat
Duo informed me that @mistressprime.bsky.social is in the house! #DigiBlogChat
@d21p22.bsky.social hello and thanks for all the love!
Really? As late as 2007?
Waves Were Loud Today Newport, Oregon #ocean #waves #beach #sunshine #coast #sea #water #relaxing #relax
Predators using WhatsApp to try to groom kids in a Scottish school is just the latest in an endless litany of how smartphones endanger kids. We need phone-free schools now. When asked kids say they want to play outside not online. It’s time to reclaim childhood www.heraldscotland.com/politics/vie...
🖼️ Maryam Lamai Harvani
Is this real or AI?
A BIG THANK YOU to Loni of @jorgensonlockers.bsky.social ! Wow! The time flew by! #DigiBlogChat
Heartfelt thanks to those of you that have followed us from @X, and to all newcomers to our audience here on @Bluesky.app. #DigiBlogChat is all about you and sharing ideas and knowledge. Without you it would be a lot less enjoyable.
A big thank you also to @Fedica.com for the fab scheduler! Did you know that Fedica can schedule your chat (including images) on Bluesky? #DigiBlogChat
Ireland: Friends of the Earth Ireland, An Taisce and Friends of the Irish Environment have asked Kildare County Council to refuse planning permission for a large data centre development, citing greatly increased greenhouse gas emissions. www.independent.ie/business/mon... #climateemergency
Thanks for this fun chat, Carol! #DigiBlogChat
@carolstephen.bsky.social when I bought a laptop for work two years ago I felt super grown-up! #DigiBlogChat
A7. I thought the colored iMac's and iBooks were pretty cool. #DigiBlogChat
Did you know hurricanes are two-faced? While the circulation of the behemoth #Erin is comprised of rapidly rising/ rotating air, on the outside the opposite is true. Air sinks & crushes the clouds, making for calm, sunny weather far away from the storm. Some of Florida will experience that Midweek.
A7. I don’t miss Personal Digital Assistants, but they did have BIG keyboards. Typing on a phone seems silly. Thank goodness for talk to text. #DigiBlogChat
Wow
You're so cute! #DigiBlogChat
A9. My husband's Nokia only needs recharging once a week, my Samsung 2-3 times a day! #DigiBlogChat
A9. It was easier to “disconnect.” Nobody was glued to their phones all day. People lived in the moment more. #digiblogchat
The flip is back! #DigiBlogChat
Hope this doesn't hamper working on Duolingo! #DigiBlogChat
My best friend in school used to make compilation tapes for me and I still can't throw those, and the ones I bought at uni with my own money. Bette Middler, Kenny G, Kenny Rogers plus some country music. #DigiBlogChat
Admitting when you wrong a whole lost art. Folk just be quadrupling down. Can't even get a good "Oh shit my bad homie".
Vaccines don’t prevent infection. Vaccines are meant to produce immunological memory and antibody production, so that when you get infected, your immune system can rapidly respond to eliminate the pathogen and prevent serious complications, including death. Vaccines don’t cause autism!
Another day, another state. Which battlefield from the war for American independence do you think I'm visiting?
Between questions, we’d like to announce next week’s topic: All about Google Maps!! #DigiBlogChat
Hope you feel better soon! #DigiBlogChat
I still have a radio that would play cassette tapes! #DigiBlogChat
Inspired by beautiful Pennsylvania native 🤗 #art #drawing #watercolor
I would love to go there! Thanks for sharing your pictures.
That must have been exciting!
A1 My dad was a computer engineer who worked on big -takes-up-a-whole-room type computers when I was a kid. We were one of the first homes with a personal computer. It was a TRS-80. #DigiBlogChat
Oh, I didn't use MySpace. #DigiBlogChat
A6. Those disks that came after floppies. They didn't last long! #DigiBlogChat
CDs are more portable. Remember those portable CD players that came after Walkman? #DigiBlogChat