Today is the last day of the Great Online Marketing Scavenger Hunt, and I’m partly relieved and partly sad. I’m relieved because DANG! it was a lot of work! But I’m also pleased because I met some great people. I’m hoping I can keep up with them. I met Rie Sheridan Rose The Barnaby Poet, who wrote a guest post on my Bloggers Create! site: It’s a Great Time to Be a Writer. She was very inspiring to me because of all that she’s accomplished, both in her life and in the hunt. [caption id=“attachment_688” align=“aligncenter” width=“300”] My Amazon review of How to Twitter[/caption] Another person I met was Stacey Meyers. She wrote a great book for people who don’t know how to use Twitter called How to Twitter: Getting Started with 30 Daily Doables. This was also inspiring to me as I’m working on a couple ebooks but I have yet to be willing to release them on Amazon. It was wonderful to get the chance to see another hunter’s efforts in that area. I really think this hunt has helped me in a lot of ways. I even got a guest post proposal accepted by Firepole Marketing! I’m so glad I did this, even though now I’m really tired.

I’m currently reading Booklife by Jeff Vandermeer. One of the first chapters talks about Twitter and he says that he doesn’t really like Twitter because it “fragments [his] attention”. Like him, I don’t find Twitter all that friendly. Many of the people I used to chat with on Twitter now have so many people in their timeline that they never even see my posts. And I’ve never had the experience of asking a question or for help and getting more than a minimal response and often a snarky, negative one. I wish I’d had a better experience, as it was a lot of fun at first. But now I just sync my Web Design blog to the account and mostly ignore it. It’s less stressful that way.