Social Media Experiments
Mission Statement
The primary mission of exploring how bicycles-especially folding/separating types-improves and enriches your personal and professional life will still be covered and discussed on each site. The only thing that will change is the direction and methods each website will explore and display each topic. All I want to ask each visitor is to be open to move your attitude and ideas beyond being just a bike to a method or means of transport to far more than what the designers intended it to be-to what works best for you.
I explore this thought through various websites:
My Traditional Website located at http://www.geocities.com/folder_fanatic/
This is a text based, archival organized one drawing from many sources that I posted in throughout the Internet. Some topics are expanded forms that appeared before somewhere else. Others are totally new and not discussed somewhere else. All offer carefully organized, thought out material that I have found helpful and useful in my own life.
My Photo Gallery located at http://www.flickr.com/people/world-of-folding-bicycles/ A primary visual experience. The site is filled with acedotal titles and captions describing unique stories of different people, places and times. You will see the "birth" of the folding bike into my life, plus the real Hollywood, and many unique and hard to find bikes sprinkled liberally throughout the gallery.
My Blog This is my first foray into the social media. I post daily in even more topics not covered anywhere else on the Internet. You will get exclusive sneak peeks at developing topics-even new websites that are about to be "born." I want to engage my readers and move them onto things that they might not even dream of in their lives. And do feel free to post your comments. I look foward to reading all of yours-this is a relationship after all!
I have changed my blog's address to a new host. It is now located at http://folder-fanatic.blogspot.com/. Please be patient as I try to save some of my favorite posts to the new blog and start posting again. I had an unexpected illness and just recovered enough to complete the transfer. Thank you for your patience and support! When it is ready, I will be able to post far more professionally and go into new directions and develop myself-and the bikes and the animals-far more than on my previous blog on Yahoo..
New features are being added to this new blog all the time! I just added a simple audio feature to selected individual Blogger posts hosted by Gabcast: http://www.gabcast.com/. and it's own page at: http://www.gabcast.com/index.php?a=episodes&id=11172
It might not be very flashy, fancy, or sexy, but I will be able to post by any touch tone phone if I not able to by other Internet enabled devices.
In the future, I am thinking of adding a wiki (think wikipedia), pod cast, motion video, and other technologies not even dreamed of yet. Just let me know what you would like to see and I will try to add it!
