This is my recreational blog. It’s named “Just Gene’O” because I sign my best creative work with my first name only. I update once a week on most weeks, but sometimes I do special series or blog about things going on in the blogosphere. Here’s what you can expect from me here.
- #WeekendCoffeeShare post every Saturday. That’s a weekly social blogging event that’s open to anyone if you write an “If We Were Having Coffee” post at any point during the week. Drop me a line or stop by on Saturdays if you want info about Weekend Coffee Share.
- Occasional Posts From Personal Experience. These will be a mixture of just-for-fun posts about things I’ve done, posts about my relationship with my seven-year-old-grandson, and occasional updates on what’s going on with my two puppies, who I absolutely adore.
- Social and Political commentary. I’m trained in the social sciences, among other things, and run a Feminist Friday discussion project with a few friends. We’re working on taking this project to the next level and I’ll provide updates here once we get the next phase under way. I also follow international politics and domestic U.S. politics. I’m unabashedly liberal and I have a strong commitment to social justice. Don’t say you weren’t warned 😉
If you’re looking for fun blogs to follow, try out Sourcerer, a multi-contributor blog I run, Part Time Monster, my sister’s blog, to which I also contribute, and our friends Comparative Geeks, where we both guest blog from time to time. Pay attention to the people who comment on our threads. We know a lot of them and interact with many on multiple networks.
I blog because it’s fun, but I’m obsessed with finding synergies between social media networks and using them to build blog followings. That’s more difficult than it looks, because it requires more reading than writing, and more sharing of others’ work than one’s own. As I figure out new blogging or other social media tricks, I write posts about them as a way of making things easier for people who are up to the same thing I’m up to 🙂
If you don’t know me and you wish to contact me, this page is the best place to leave me a message.
As of August, 2014, I use only original or verified free stock images on this blog. I’m not about to go through eight months’ worth of archives and change every post, but this is my plan going forward. Everything here is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, but I reserve the right to attach more stringent copyrights to individual posts if I feel they warrant it.
I have a very loose, unpublished, comment policy. If this blog ever grows to the point where I need to publish one, I will, but for now my policy is to be nice and give everyone the benefit of the doubt.
Should you choose to mention me, share my work, or cite me, I prefer to be credited simply as Gene’O and have the hyperlink embedded in my name, but I won’t complain if you choose to do it some other way 🙂
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Very interesting! How’s it going for you?
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It’s going great, Professor 🙂 My online life is taking a back seat to the day job right now, so I’m not around much, but at least I have a new blog to keep myself entertained 😉
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Looking good!
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Thanks! I noted that coffee post on Twitter earlier. Will get over there to look at it in a bit.
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I love this page, Gene’O. Particularly those amazing photographs. Definitely represent you.
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Thanks for saying. I had to think for awhile about which ones to put here.
I think the page is too long & wordy, but that will get better with time. I’m excited about this blog. It’s going to allow me to do more with less, I think.
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I don’t think it’s too long and wordy, because those words are well chosen and give a real good sense of what makes you (and therefore, this blog) tick! Just my opinion, but you did ask. 😉
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Thanks! I certainly did ask 😉
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I don’t think the page is too long and wordy. I certainly didn’t think so when I read it. It gave me an insight into you and some background. With lovely pictures to admire.
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Thanks very much. I can never tell about length and word density on a blog.
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Looks good. I like the way you’ve changed the theme of this. Meanwhile on another blog I follow with a similar theme ‘reblog’ doesn’t work well in mobile. I see here your ‘w’ button goes to the full edit option on line instead. Problem avoided.
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Yes, that is good 🙂 This theme is so much better in mobile, I’m going to have to change the other one, too. (Eventually).
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We’ll theme change is dramatic. The other one isn’t bad in mobile.
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So far, so good! 🙂
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Thanks!
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The new blog looks great! It feels more personal than the former one. And the changing header pictures is so cool! I don’t know how you have the time and energy for all that you do, you must be the busiest man on Word Press!
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I chipped away at this one for awhile. It is more personal. Not having a true personal blog was getting to be a problem, and forcing me to make some weird decisions about where to place which content.
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Blogaholic. Yes, that is a great word. 🙂
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For the coffee you keep buying me, I nominated you for the One Lovely Blog Award. 🙂
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Thanks so much!
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Ran across your blog by (happy) accident. Like what you do here. I’ll be back!
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Hey, thanks! I missed this comment because I was really sick for most of November and didn’t see the notification. I apprecate you stopping by 🙂
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Much thanks for following First Night Design! And now to explore your blog…
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Cool, and thanks 🙂 Been following you on Twitter for awhile. Just saw a comment of yours on someone else’s blog over the weekend and realized I wasn’t following you here.
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Ah, well that does surely show that networking sometimes works! I’ve always been a little bit cynical about Twitter making any difference. But in this case…!
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Difference in traffic? Not so much unless you want to manage a HUGE following. But it’s great for discovery and for keeping up with scores of bloggers, once you get to know a few 😉
Also, for clowning around. Twitter is my favorite place on the Internet to just clown around.
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Clowning around is the best reason for anything!
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Thanks for the follow my friend 🙂
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Hey! Just saw this one. I must have missed it when I was down sick in the early part of November. You’re welcome, and always nice to see you stopping by!
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No worries and likewise.
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Thanks for following my blog. I appreciate the care and thoughtfulness behind yours. I’m on Twitter quite a bit and will probably “run into you” there.
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And thanks for stopping by! It took most of a year to develop this blog, and really it’s still a work in progress. I’m in a lull with the photoblogging right now, but plan to start it back up early next year, not doing much writing-related stuff. This about page is a little out of date, I’ve got a new version coming soon. I’ll stop by and check your blog out soon 🙂
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You have a beautiful blog! 😉
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Thanks very much! 🙂
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It’s lovely to get to know you a bit better! 🙂 And I just realised that YOU are the Sourcerer! Oh my gosh. I’m so slow at times, haha.
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Hee hee. It’s not exactly a secret, but I don’t advertise it a lot. I love it when people who I haven’t known long find one of the about pages or look at the @Sourcererblog Twitter profile and have that “Ah-ha” moment. I’m so happy you stopped by!
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