A Voyage to Austin, Texas from Minneapolis, Minnesota

A Voyage to Austin, Texas from Minneapolis, Minnesota

Wednesday, January 5, 2011

Facebook Test

Hi Y'all, as you may know this blog serves the purpose to connect with family and friends while also documenting what Austin, Tx is all about to encourage tourism and visitation. A third and less advertised purpose is this blog serves as a learning tool for me. It seems this internet thing isn't going away *joke and everyday new things are arising on this www. So this blog serves as a way for me to learn more about the internet, social media and etc. Personally, I enjoy learning now. More so, then when I was in school, perhaps because it's on my terms and under my interests. None the less, I'll end the rambling because all this post serves is for me to try adding a Facebook like button to my page. =)

Tuesday, January 4, 2011

2011 - New Year, New Ideas - "T-sips"

It's a small world after all. I apologize if I burn that song into your mind, however that sentence rings so true, especially with the internet. I love how connected I can be with friends, family and future friends via Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter. Aside from the connectivity, every day people are coming up with interesting internet-exclusive ideas. Well, I'm not writing to say I will become the next million-dollar web entrepreneur or that I have a terrific idea, but this year I am going to play with some internet ideas. This first one isn't to make money but it's an interesting way to play around with Twitter and Flickr. I am by no means a professional taster, I have no "supertaster" abilities. However, what some "supertaster" says about a beverage may not hold true to how I percieve the taste so it doesn't really matter that I am just an average taster. Therefore what I am going to do in 2011 is tweet about many interesting beverage I come across using simple, concise, everyday language. T-Sips I call it. =) My catergory of interesting will include Brews (alcoholic and kombucha's), Caffeinated drinks, Wines, Tea's, basically anything that is liquid and not a common every day drink/brand. Sorry Bud light, water, milk, most juices. Why am I doing this? Mostly, so I can have a nice little documentation of drinks I like and don't like with a limited 140 character count blurb. However, other reasons are to share interesting beverages with my facebook and twitter followers and help spread the word about local, niche and specialty drinks. Don't worry, I won't over tweet, I'll keep the beverages I tweet about tasteful ;)

How it works: my tweets/posts will include searchable hash tags (#) regarding the beverage itself along with the #Tsips hash tag that will link all off these tweets. The tweets will also include a link to Flickr which will include a photo of the beverage and in some cases more details about the beverage. That's about it, just a simple little 2011 project. I hope I help you discover a new beverage to indulge in :)

As my grandpa would say: Na zdorovie