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[terrinakamura]

How do you manage your schedules? On your phone, a printed calendar/diary, or a combination? 🗓️ I’ve asked a similar question before, but it seems online scheduling services multiplied like rabbits while I wasn’t paying attention. 🐰🐇 (Hmm. It’s kinda like what happened with me & LinkedIn! 🔗) There are now lots of options & they all seem to offer free & paid 💵 versions. Do we need them? 🕙 I recently met @lonelyroadlover #IRL & we agreed on details via IG DMs. 📩 I manually added the date to my Google calendar. Super easy! ✅ Last month I attended a post-launch authors’ workshop for my writing cohort, 📚 & I had a few side conversations in the chat window. 💬 One was with @dcasha, a fellow author who smart & nice & I wanted to get to know her better. 👋 We met on Zoom 💻 & clicked. We ended up exchanging copies of our books. 📖👍 Asha used an appointment service that was unfamiliar to me🔍 —youcanbook.me. It worked great & even sent reminders. 👌 Most people I know use Calendly or a Google invite to schedule meetings. 📆 Have you tried any of these options? Scheduling apps let you see a list of times when a person is free & you choose one. Boom. Done. 🙌 Sync to calendar. 🔄 It used to be people talked on the phone ☎️ & agreed to get together. Now it seems we plan via email or text. 📧 Talking or emailing & texting is personal but take time. ⏳ Scheduling apps are fast⏩ and impersonal, but they address that 1) We are so busy 🏃‍♀️ and; 2) We know we’re going to meet so no need for chit chat beforehand? 🗣️ Whether you use them for travel, ✈️ business, 📊 or planning lunches or dinners,🧑‍🍳 scheduling apps can be great. 🙌 If you don’t already use a scheduling app, do you want to try one? 🤔 . . . UPDATE: #BloggingOnInstagram hardbound edition: My Afterword is in review along with appendix citations. Next step: copy editing, layout & dust jacket! . . . PHOTO #MISHMASH: Sarah & me in the historic #PanamaHotel in #japantown; Traveled a lot in #November2016 - #centralcoast #monterey #surferlife; #140conf #Whotel; #schedule #apps #meetups #firsttimeauthor . . . (at Monterey, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/CWfWV9fLNL4/?utm_medium=tumblr

[terrinakamura]

Do you use LinkedIn? On a recent walk at Alki Beach 🐚 I was thinking about why I use it. My account was dormant for several years 💤 & I brought it back to life when the #BloggingonInstagram Indiegogo campaign launched. 📖 I didn’t realize how robust LinkedIn had become, 🗣️ & since my book was published, I’ve been trying to post & check in more often. ✅ When I log in, I feel overwhelmed & anxious. 🤯 There are so many updates & posts by people that I should be seeing, 👁️ liking ♥️ & engaging with. 💬 Do I worry about comments & likes on my posts? 🤔 No. Yet, just as is the case here, reciprocity & engagement are keys to making it successful & I feel I should do more. 👏 Nearly every time I’m on LinkedIn, I feel an overwhelming urge to leave as soon as possible. 🏃‍♀️ If you use it, I’m wondering if this happens to you, too? @Tim_Hughes1 @Rodjonesartist @dcasha ⚡ & others have tagged me in posts that have included a bunch of important people. 🙌 I’ve felt honored & flattered & haven't always been sure what to do. 🤷‍♀️ In some cases I’ve shared the post, but I didn’t jump in & start chatting with new faces. 🗯️ I know that’s how conversations start here, or on Twitter. 🐦 Why not there? When I first joined LinkedIn, it was exclusive and invitation only & its users were expected to add only known connections. ☑️ It was like a system of verification. 🤝 It’s now very similar to other social networks where the number of followers or connections is an important metric 📈 & strangers frequently reach out to connect. 👋 This week a close friend told me he deleted his LinkedIn account 🔗 & found it quite satisfying! If you’re on LinkedIn, what is the greatest benefit to you? 👍 If you’re not on LinkedIn, are you interested in joining? 🙋‍♂️ Why or why not? . . . PHOTOS: Recent #Alki photos & a #Spitzenberg #applepie baked last night (@tpagosseattle).  It’s not my best-looking pie, but better crust this time, @rsimonson.sea! . . #alkibeach #westseattle #stormyskies #sunsetpic #seattleskyline #linkedin #linkedinmarketing #linkedinlife . . . (at Alki Beach Park) https://www.instagram.com/p/CWNV6ddrt5h/?utm_medium=tumblr

[terrinakamura]

Do you read paperbacks, eBooks or hardbound books? 📚 Right now my hardbound edition is in the works. Does it seem backwards ◀️ to have the paperback come out first? For decades, publishers would first produce hardbound editions because that’s how it was always done. 📕 There was an incentive, too: Hardbacks generate more income 💵 & publishers could more quickly recover the author’s “advance” ✍️ + money spent on printing, marketing, shipping & distribution. 💸 Paperbacks 📖 would be released a year later & give books a second life as a cheaper & more portable option. EBooks are even more portable. 📱 Despite the notion that printed books are dead, Pew Research revealed 37% of readers only read printed books; 28% read print+digital; & 27% read no books at all. (1% didn’t know!) 🤔 Hardbound books feel more substantial. 📘 I’m a collector of hardback books & felt #BloggingOnInstagram 📷 wouldn’t be real until it came out with a hard cover & dustjacket. 📗 Doing the sequence backward has been a blessing. 🙏 Shortly after my book went into production Instagram announced platform changes that drove me bonkers. 🤪 There is no way a book on a technology-topic ⌨️ can be completely current unless it exists only as an eBook. 📲 By doing the hardback second, I have an opportunity to insert an extra chapter—The Afterword. In the Afterword, I address some of the developments that happened since publishing. 📰 And even though things will keep changing, 🆕 I feel better being able to mention some of them. Also, I misspelled someone’s name & this edition has given me a chance to fix it. 🔍If you opt for the hardbound edition, you’ll read about some of the changes. Would you like to have a personal assistant? 💁‍♀️ Sometimes I feel like I need one. Thanks to @soniabublaitis, 👩‍🎨 I met @rodjonesartist 🎤 @thoughtrowpodcast who is helping me reach more people. 📣 Thank you again for inspiring me to write my book. And happy birthday @queenhorsfall 🎉 PHOTOS: Hunter & Grey #caturdayeveryday #happycaturday #catinabox #catsinboxes #silvertabby #mainecoonkitty #mainecoonlove #firsttimeauthor #bookstagram #ndp (at Seattle, Washington) https://www.instagram.com/p/CV7Nz4cL-Tb/?utm_medium=tumblr

[terrinakamura]

Do you have arachnophobia? 😱 Halloween 🎃 is coming & it’s spider season. There seems to be a ton of them everywhere! Last week @carole.m.hargrave posted a spider🕷️ & I thought of it last night. There was a pretty big spider (when I was a kid we called them “daddy longlegs”) walking around in my bathtub. 🛀 I cupped him in my hands🤲 & put him in a small container on the windowsill while I drew a bath. I read somewhere📰 there is nothing worse than picking up an indoor spider & putting it outside. 🕸️ It’s like a death sentence! 😵 Anyhow, I left the room & when I came back, OMG, the spider was floating in the water! 🚰 It crawled out of the cup on the windowsill & went back into the bathtub filling with water 🌊. Did it have a death wish?! ☠️ I scooped it up & gently set it on a tissue & again left it on the windowsill. I gently blew on it to see if it was alive. 🌬️ (It’s not like you can give a spider CPR!) It seemed drier. I thought I saw a small twitch but I assumed it was a goner. ⚰️ After my bath I checked on it. Still no movement. 💤 Blew on it again. Nothing. 🤷‍♀️ But one thing I noticed—it didn’t look all crunched up like spiders sometimes look when they’re really dead. 💀 The next day 🌞 I was doing my morning routine & noticed the tissue on the windowsill. The spider was GONE! Yay! I think he made it! 🥳🎈🎉 It turns out spiders are around all year but @seaclarridge of the @seattletimes says right now they’re out searching for mates 🥰 & that’s why we see many more of them. Do you have a fear of spiders or bugs? 🚫🕷️🦟🐝🐞🐜 . . . NEWS: Today was Sansei Lunch Club. So great to see my 3 long-time friends! ❤️ Also, I’m in the midst of signing & packing books going to Indiegogo supporters of #BloggingOnInstagram. 📖 Many have been shipped & few are being hand delivered. Today I dropped off books to Laura, George, Dave & Carol, Doug & Mike O.! More coming! [Book link is in my bio.]🔗 . . . PHOTOS from Dave & Carol’s garden: #Autumntrees #japaneseanemone #fallenleaves. And another #bathtubspider! #spidersofinstagram #spiderseason #arachnophobia . . . (at Sand Point) https://www.instagram.com/p/CUzFxUBLX05/?utm_medium=tumblr

[terrinakamura]

Is there someone who brings out the best in you? 👍 How about the worst? 👎 There is a person in my life who drives me nuts. 🥜🌰 We’ll get along for a while, but something will set her off, then BAM—she verbally jabs, berates & argues. 🤼Sometimes I take the bait & respond, & boy, it can escalate quickly. 🔥 I try to get along with everyone. This kind of conflict doesn’t happen with my family 👨‍👩‍👦‍👦, friends 👭 or colleagues. It just happens with this one person. 🤔 A few weeks ago there was another incident & I felt like it was the last straw. 🐫 On the other hand, there are people who bring out my best. 🥰 One of them is my sister. 👯‍♀️ Throughout my adult life & especially during the pandemic, I’ve been grateful to have such a great friend, therapist & supporter all rolled into one person. 🎉 I wasn’t the nicest sister when we were kids, but as I grew up I realized how lucky I am &got better. 🍀 When someone brings out your best, they believe in you. 💞They’re not judgmental. 👩‍⚖️ They’re not critical. 👿 They don’t compete with you & genuinely want what’s best for you. 🙌 They’re on your team. 🤗 Don’t we all need that? The person who brings out my worst, makes me dislike myself AND the person. 🙁 I hate that she knows how to push my buttons. 🆖 My solution is to limit communications & only make contact if essential. 🤐Time & space helps. ⏳ Is there a toxic person in your life? 🚫 What’s your best remedy? And who is the person who brings out your best? 💗 . . . UPDATE — the $1.99 #ebook promo price of #BloggingOnInstagram expires 9/25! Hurry! #instagram #firsttimeauthor . . . PHOTOS: My brother gave me tickets to Herbie Hancock 🎶 at the #ParamountTheatre #downtownSeattle. @jenniferannegood & I had great seats & enjoyed the show. I shot some photos & before the encore we walked down to the main floor by the #soundengineer. I was shooting a photo when a security guard told me, “No pictures.” 👌 I had what I needed in my #GooglePixel 📱 #jazzbaby #herbiehancock #headhunters #jazzfunk #livemusicphoto #pixelperfect . . . (at Paramount Theatre) https://www.instagram.com/p/CUPDtyRr4Pu/?utm_medium=tumblr

[terrinakamura]

How was your week? I hope it was great! Drum roll: 🥁 rat-a-tat-tat—my book is published! I say with all seriousness, TGIF! 🤪 “Blogging on Instagram”—both the eBook 📱 & paperback 📖—are now for sale on Amazon! I’ve compared writing this book to giving birth to a baby Asian elephant 🐘 (Asian elephants gestate 18-22 months, just like this book!) It took a lot of pushing to get this baby out into the world! 🗺️ Wednesday I took a deep breath😰 before uploading my files to Kindle Direct Publishing, Kobo & Ingraham Spark. I set up accounts on all three sites & followed precise directions for each to make sure I didn’t blow it. It was scary! 😱 My publisher, editor & #NDP team members 🧭were there to guide me. Luckily, I had a bullet-proof demo to show me the way. 🔎Four hours later (including a break for a cup of noodles🍜) I’d triumphed. 🥂 Guys, your comments 💬 & interaction led to this book & many of you have been here from the start. I hoped to include a list of those who regularly engaged with my posts 📜, but the proofing & verification proved too daunting. ❤️ My hope is to tag you in a series of IG stories to acknowledge you & show my appreciation. 🙏 The top link in my bio 🔗leads to my book! The eBook has a promotional price of $1.99 USD until Sept. 25. 🍁 If you’re an active Amazon customer, you’ll be able to rate  ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ & review the book. ✍️ It would be SO awesome if you are able & willing to do that! Backers of my Indiegogo campaign will receive their books in late Sept. 📚 I’ll share the unboxing here! I haven’t yet received a physical copy myself! 🎉 Have you gone through this publishing process? 📑 Have you wanted to write a book? 📕I’d love to hear about your experiences 🗣️ Like Hunter & Grey, I plan to sleep a lot this weekend! Thank you again & happy #CaturdayEveryday! . . . Photos via my publisher, #Amazon & me. #independentauthor #bloggingoninstagram #eBookstagram #paperbackbooks #contentmanagement #humancomputerinteraction #firsttimeauthor #kindledirectpublishing #sleepycats #sleepycatsofinstagram #catnapping . . .   (at Seattle, Washington) https://www.instagram.com/p/CTG-XSsLyV2/?utm_medium=tumblr

[willyoulovemeh]

I’m a very assertive person, but when it comes to relationships I’m unconfident, timid, and indecisive. I’ll never understand what love is to me; I have to many predispositions on the topic. I guess I’m too, for lack of a better word, picky. As unrealistic as it sounds, all I want is someone to just whisk me away on their magic carpet, and show me a whole new world of shinning, shimmering love; without giving me time to think about what’s happening.