May 18

Bike To Work Day 2012

Insanely, I decided to par­tic­i­pate on Bike To Work Day despite liv­ing 32 miles from Philadel­phia. It took 3:20 hours but was fun and not too scary. The night before I looked up Google Dri­ving Direc­tions for bicy­cles and when I found it gave me an inter­est­ing route I decided to fol­low it. Much of the ride was eigh­teenth cen­tury stage­coach roads and a road fol­low­ing along­side the old Read­ing Rail­road Seashore Line.

In album Bike to Work Day 2012 (19 photos)

At home, wait­ing for enough day­light to set out.

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May 14

Know your audience

Some good tips about polling your website’s audi­ence to learn what they’re look­ing for. The author +Daniel Tread­well the devel­oper of the Google+Blog plug-in for Word­Press that lets you sync between the two.

Know your Audi­ence
Last year with the release of Google+ it was made very obvi­ous that a large amount of peo­ple have been look­ing for a new com­mu­nity that allows them to share their time, their art and their opin­ions with oth­ers in a way that was not pre­vi­ously available.

Once you have gained a sig­nif­i­cant amount of fol­low­ers (and this amount is sub­jec­tive and per­sonal, what is a large num­ber to one may not be to another) most peo­ple will start to won­der exactly what it is that their audi­ence is most inter­ested in

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