A little over a month ago I was cruising around on the internet. 
I had been twittering and saw a post by Guy Kawasaki. I enjoy his books, such as, The Art of Start, and listening to his lectures so I clicked on the link that he posted on twitter and it took me to Alltop. For whatever reason I had never heard of Alltop but soon figured out that it was a site that would lead me to blogs that contained a lot of great information.
I am a quilter, so I decided to look up what people were blogging about on quilting. I did a search and it took me to the Needlecraft category. Now there weren't a lot of blogs about quilting so I just figured I must not have searched properly. I backed up a few steps and came to a page that lets you look at subjects alphabetically. As I looked at the alphabet I couldn't find the Q.
It was rather late so I thought I had just missed it, so I looked again...still no Q. I thought, well how can that be, the rest of the alphabet was there why would the Q be left out. And, why wouldn't quilting have a category unto itself rather than under needlecraft. Especially since there are a lot of quilters and it is big business. Even though it was late I sent an email to their information email address. Stating, in a rather humorous way that the Q was missing and that I would really like the Q to be added and specifically that Quilting needed its own category. I also said that until they decided to give Quilting its own category I was holding the Q hostage. I didn't even expect an answer. Well, I just about fell off my chair when in about 15 minutes I received a reply. Not just any reply, but a reply from Guy Kawasaki.
He appreciated my sense of humor and how I had approached them to add the Q and ultimately Quilting. A couple of emails back and forth and Guy asked me to gather quilting blogs so that it would have its own category and the Q would be inserted back into the alphabet.
Wa La...the Q is now part of the alphabet again and Quilting has a home of its own on the Alltop network. You should visit Alltop. I promise that you will find a lot of really cool blogs on many different subjects --including quilting. If you place the widget on your blog you will get automatic updates on your favorite blog subjects.
I had been twittering and saw a post by Guy Kawasaki. I enjoy his books, such as, The Art of Start, and listening to his lectures so I clicked on the link that he posted on twitter and it took me to Alltop. For whatever reason I had never heard of Alltop but soon figured out that it was a site that would lead me to blogs that contained a lot of great information.
I am a quilter, so I decided to look up what people were blogging about on quilting. I did a search and it took me to the Needlecraft category. Now there weren't a lot of blogs about quilting so I just figured I must not have searched properly. I backed up a few steps and came to a page that lets you look at subjects alphabetically. As I looked at the alphabet I couldn't find the Q.
It was rather late so I thought I had just missed it, so I looked again...still no Q. I thought, well how can that be, the rest of the alphabet was there why would the Q be left out. And, why wouldn't quilting have a category unto itself rather than under needlecraft. Especially since there are a lot of quilters and it is big business. Even though it was late I sent an email to their information email address. Stating, in a rather humorous way that the Q was missing and that I would really like the Q to be added and specifically that Quilting needed its own category. I also said that until they decided to give Quilting its own category I was holding the Q hostage. I didn't even expect an answer. Well, I just about fell off my chair when in about 15 minutes I received a reply. Not just any reply, but a reply from Guy Kawasaki.He appreciated my sense of humor and how I had approached them to add the Q and ultimately Quilting. A couple of emails back and forth and Guy asked me to gather quilting blogs so that it would have its own category and the Q would be inserted back into the alphabet.
Wa La...the Q is now part of the alphabet again and Quilting has a home of its own on the Alltop network. You should visit Alltop. I promise that you will find a lot of really cool blogs on many different subjects --including quilting. If you place the widget on your blog you will get automatic updates on your favorite blog subjects.
