Girls Gone Gadget

If you’re immersed in the blogging world, at all, you often hear the word “niche” come up.  What’s your niche. Niche-blogging. Developing your niche. It’s basically “the focus of your blogging”.  I have to laugh at that because, well, I think I blog because I lack focus.  In a way.

This blog  was created this past fall when I decided that I really wanted to write about tech and gadgets on a regular basis and it didn’t seem that those topics would fit with my personal blog, Stacey Says. My feeble attempt at focus.

The problem with niche blogging or at least with the tech/gadget niche is that each post takes so long to write. Typically I can ramble off a post in an hour or two.  Tech posts take me days.  Unless I’m just writing about a program or gadget that I’m already using, there is research that must be done.  I don’t want to post about something that I don’t know anything about so I first need to learn about it and then write about it a unique way.  It takes a lot of time!

Too much time.  More time than I have.  Between writing at Stacey Says, writing for 5 Minutes for Mom, planning the Gleek Retreat, and, oh yeah, taking care of the house and kids, I just don’t have the time to dedicate to another site.  Posting once every two weeks isn’t going to keep my readers coming back for more.  So, I’m hitting the pause button on Girls Gone Gadget.  But, I’m not hitting the pause button on writing about tech and gadgets.

I’ve decided that, since this blog is an extension of me, then writing about gadgets and tech at Stacey Says isn’t completely out of place.  So, from now on, I will be writing tech posts over there. This isn’t to say that I’m completely tossing Girls Gone Gadget away.  I just might resurrect it when I get a little better handle on my time!

I’d love to have you follow me over to Stacey Says and, if the family stuff isn’t something you want to read, then skip over those and just read the techy ones.

This is me continuing to find that illusive balance of blogging!

My three year old is known for saying things like, “Hey dad, did you see my Twitter last night? I was Twittering.” or “Mom, can you give me a minute? I need to send dad a text.”

Does she actually know what “Twittering” and “texting” are?  I don’t know.  Sometimes I think she knows more than I think.  Either way, she does know that when mommy works it’s on the computer and that we use our phones to do things like texting and Twitter.  She knows I check my email both on my computer and on my phone.  Of course she knows all of this, this is her life!

It often amazes me how many of my friends are not on Facebook or Twitter or using some sort of other social media format.  Ok, yes, I was surprised the first time I saw someone my parents’ age or my grandparents’ age on Facebook.  But, now?  I’m surprised when they aren’t on there!

Social Media has become so big now that there is constant talk of government regulations on the relationship between businesses/advertisers and bloggers.  A lot of companies have caught on to how impactful Twitter, Facebook, and blogging are on their bottom line — good or bad.  Good and, more often, bad customer service is no longer being reported to a customer service hotline.  It is being reported to anyone and everyone who will listen, in just 140 characters.

The video below is an amazing look at how Social Media is dominating our world, especially the business world.  I was actually surprised at some of the facts they show.  Take a look:

What are your thoughts on Social Media? Are you boycotting it or have you jumped in with both feet? How do you feel about the impact it is having on our kids?