Solution Suggested and Accepted for Gallery Marketing Team

No one wants to be the Point Person for the Marketing Team for Commonwheel’s Gallery.

Our Marketing person is on an extended leave of absence for health challenges. And that means many of us in the Co-op are taking up her job tasks. But it is a very disjointed effort.

So today, as I was going through many emails and figuring out who needed what information I had, I came up with what I hope is a brilliant solution. Use a DropBox Folder where we all put information and have a task sheet that we can check off what we get done.

One member of the team jumped on the idea and created the DropBox folder, invited us all, and put lots of different files in it. Yeah! Hopefully that will let us all use our time more efficiently and not have to wonder who is doing, or has done which of the many tasks involved in advertising our Gallery over the next month or so. And make it easy for us to help our staff with things as she slowly comes back to work in what we hope is the near future.

When I went out to bring in the recycling and trash containers, and to shovel the snow off my public sidewalk I was in awe of the winter wonderland I saw.

Winter View on Ruxton Ave in Manitou Springs

Too many wires to make a really good photo, but you get the idea of the beauty of freshly fallen snow on a mountain I get to view every day.

The stripe down it is called the Manitou Incline, which has recently been made a legal training trail after years of runners using it illegally.

It is only 1 mile but climbs 2,000 vertical feet.

No, I never intend to hike on that. Straight up, and very challenging, not my type of hike!

I moved on to working on all of my web sites. Removing their names from the old host, and seeing that there was just one not moved to my new host. I wanted to get a Static IP to work on my FantaFaces web site. But had a rude surprise when I saw it was down – not sure for how long it has not been up. Not good! So I called my new hosting company and made sure I could just put up a new site there with no odd consequences. There was a little wrinkle, but I worked it out, and FantaFaces.com is up, just a skeleton of its former self, but up. And that feels good!

Slowly, but surely, I am getting my web sites back up as starter web sites. Next I will begin to add more content when I am comfortable with them being back up and live again.

I discovered that I was almost out of storage space, so had to up my hosting program. But I knew that was coming, and I had quite a few months at a bargain rate, so that was a good way to start with a new host.

I had a meeting scheduled with a Festival Committee member who is also part of the marketing team, but her appointments in town went long, and she couldn’t get here until it was almost time for my Tony Laidig Expert Media Show Tuesday evening webinar. So we talked on the phone before she headed up the snowy pass to home.

Fixed dinner in time to listen to the very uplifting State of the Union Address by President Obama. What a challenging 2nd term he has had. Not that the first was much easier. What I really liked is how he talked of the positive things about our country and innovative ideas for the future rather than dwelling on what did not get done, or place blame on any party for what did not get accomplished.

I took advantage of the time to trim up some newspaper articles and put them in a filing box in the proper files for ideas to use on my other web sites. I have stacks of cut out articles, and it felt good to start putting them somewhere I could actually find ones related to subjects that my other web sites are about.

Now I need to do some work on the 40th Annual Old Spokes Show, begin to write up a sponsorship proposal for the Art Festival and one more blog post.




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