Tired of another ho-hum work calendar…I decided to get my “zine on” and make my own calendar/appointment book/ notebook.

Here’s What You Need:

• A journal ( blank or lined)
• Magazines
• Index Cards (blank or lined)
• Glue
• Colored Pens/Felts
• Hole puncher
• Scissors
• Pencil/Eraser

1) Purchase a nice journal as you will be using it all year and you want it to look professional. I bought a soft, padded one at Indigo. It even has a threaded bookmark attached.

2)Use index cards to make calendars.  I chose to create a calendar without the weekends.

3) Use colored pens/magazines to fancy it up. I used the hole puncher to make dots for the dates and to make the textured pictures. I cut out letters to spell the months.

4) Glue the calendar into the journal. I will be placing my mine in two places. The first half of the year in the first few pages and in the back last few pages.

5) Include a Table of Contents for the first few pages of the journal. I plan to record notes pertaining to meetings at work and at schools.  I will then write the title of each meeting in the table of contents to cross reference.

Really, that is it!  I plan to glue things in as needed, perhaps words and pictures that pertain to my meetings and ideas.  Updates to follow as the year progresses. 

Educational Uses

I think that students might enjoy this as an alternative to store bought agendas. The versatiltiy is amazing.

So…Ask not what your organizer can do for you but what you can do for your organizer.

Until to Next Time…

Thanks for listening!

So far…in the last three parts, you have signed up on Twitter, found some people to follow, replied, retweeted and perhaps composed a message or two.

Today we are going to learn about hashtags.

Egads…I know…you have been wondering about those. Well, it’s your lucky day.

• Hashtags are comprised of a pound sign (#) followed by some words, letters and/or numbers.
• Hashtags make ideas/topics/conversations easier to find.
• Hashtags are a special type of tag.

So How Does This Work?

Let’s look at an example. Here is the tweet from last post.

Hey! What is up with the Oilers? Are they still rebuilding? http://goo.gl/8J2lI9

Here it is with the hashtag.

Hey! What is up with the #Oilers? Are they still rebuilding? http://goo.gl/8J2lI9

Now this tweet is more searchable for other users on Twitter.

Fun Facts about Hashtags

• There is no limit to the amount of hashtags in a tweet other than the 140 character limit.
• Major cities often use airport codes to identify themselves. Edmonton’s airport code is Yeg so the hashtag for Edmonton is #Yeg. 
• Here is fun list of all the NHL team hashtags and Twitter accounts.

Let’s add #Yeg to our tweet.

Hey! What is up with the #Yeg #Oilers? Are they still rebuilding? http://goo.gl/8J2lI9

On your twitter home page you find a section on the lower left side labeled “Trends” There will be a list of hastags that are currently trending. If you select one, a list of tweets will pop up. You might find some interesting information or some new people to follow.

Next post…we will look at organizing our Tweets. 

Twitter Series
Part One
Part Two
Part Three

Until Next Time,

Lit Maven Out!