Fi Phillips

This is how March started where I live - snow. My dog loved it. My teens loved it (and the resulting days off school). Being self employed at home, it wasn't quite so popular with me. Theoretically, as a home worker the weather shouldn't affect me but with the teens home two days out of the last week, my dog constantly nagging to go out so she could roll in the snow (and then gift it to the rest of the house by shaking herself over anyone nearby and jumping on the sofas), and the fact that our unfinished house isn't the easiest to keep warm, I was a tad disturbed and disgruntled by the plentiful supply of snow. Having said that, the snow is almost gone and today is grey and drizzly. Maybe the snow wasn't so bad after all. This month, I launched the website for my new copy and content writing (with a side order of social media) business. You can find the website here . I'm also on Facebook and Twitter , and posted my first introductory blog post on the day...

Here I am on my birthday weekend in Venice, hot chocolate waiting (plus my very patient husband), and still checking my phone for emails. I really should learn to put down the 'social media' when I'm on holiday. When I started blogging back in 2009, the general advice out there for writers who used social media was to be everywhere - Facebook, Twitter and anywhere else social-media-ish that you could manage. For a while, I tried to be 'omnipresent' online but I soon learnt that I was happier on some social media sites than others, and that keeping track of all the places I had to post was exhausting. These days I limit myself to my Facebook page , my blog, my business site,   Google+ and Twitter . I dip into other sites like Linked In , Pinterest and Tumblr but only occasionally and when they prove useful. The problem with using more than one site in this way is publicising them. I mention the relevant sites on my Murdering The Text website and on my blog ...