So its been almost three years since this site saw any new activity. The last post was written after Facebook and Twitter started, but I hadn’t begun using them. As soon as I started using social media, all thoughts of the site were forgotten. I posted a “farewell old friend” page and went merrily on my way.
But sometimes old friends are the best friends. The Green Scissors blog has been around in one form or another for almost 10 years now. We’ve been through a half dozen content management systems and working on this site has taught me almost everything I know about web design, PHP scripting, domain management, and no small chunk of my database knowledge. It has led me to countless other web projects for friends and family and given me (and a few others) a place to express themselves.
And now I am dusting it off once again. Updated with new tools to interact with all those Social Media sites I’ve been playing with for the last three years and a new niche to fill in my online life. Twitter has breadth of audience but no depth of content. Facebook has room for plenty of deep content, but a much smaller audience (for me anyway). My personal goal for the blog is to fill the spaces between. There are some things I think are worth sharing publicly that won’t fit in a tweet. You’ll be seeing notices about blog posts on Twitter and Facebook. Perhaps not all of the posts, but many of them. Hopefully you will see one or two per week that have some interest to you.
If you are wondering about the Green Scissors name, you can check out What Are Green Scissors? The oldest piece of content here and the closest thing you are going to find to a mission statement.
If you are interested in writing occasionally and think this might be a good forum for you, let me know (via comments, Twitter or Facebook) and we’ll see about getting you set up with an account.
