Just A Little Administrative Note
You’re going to see that Jenna or I are adding some tools and buttons to the sidebar such as this one, but please use the Digg picture link in the right sidebar instead, as that will rate the entire site rather than this particular post:
The purpose of these tools is to help readers find Independent Needlework News while surfing the Internet based on the positive recommendations of other needleworkers.
Getting picked up by search engines is fairly simple, I’ve discovered, but Digg and other similar tools are basically word of mouth reader recommendations, which is very powerful advertising. So I’m taking advantage of it, and if you “dig” Independent Needlework News, then I hope you’ll click the Digg button (again, please use the Digg picture link in the right sidebar instead, as that will rate the entire site rather than this particular post) — and if you have time, I hope you’ll add comments explaining what you feel the site is about and why you like it so that other stitchers who discover it for the first time through Digg will know more about it and be interested in checking out the site.
I’ll also be adding many of the other similar tools because sometimes people use one over another exclusively, and I hope you’ll also take the time to click on those (the click itself doesn’t take much time, although some sites do require a brief registration process first) and add comments whenever you have time.
Here’s another one which I’d appreciate a click on if you have a second (literally, LOL) and agree I fit the category:
I recognize all these different technologies which pretty much seem to do the same thing can be inconvenient and kind of annoying. I have wondered more than once why there isn’t some organization in charge of the Internet which could have made some agreement in advance so that everyone would be using the same things, but we are fortunate NOT to have anyone in charge of the Internet trying to push us around and take away our freedoms, or to enforce the rules of one country and culture onto all the others. Also, I’d hate to be in a world with no variation, so I’d much rather put up links to several different reader recommendation tools than be stuck with someone else’s idea of what I should do, especially when I might not like or agree with that idea at all. 
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