As I wrote about in my article Tell Me Your Story I think that it is important for us to tell our story, and that goes for our children as well.

Caleb’s pretty good at spinning a yarn (much to Tamara and my chagrin sometimes) and it’s fun to see what he’s coming up with already on his site. He’s written one work of fiction so far, a number of journal type entries and I have also posted a video of him sharing at church.

One of my favourite posts that he’s written so far was about his Cecostomy Surgery. I think that it does a good job talking about some of the thoughts, feelings and fears that went through his mind during this time.

He’s really enjoyed writing the blog and especially loves getting comments on it. Unfortunately he’s starting to get a bit of a big head about all his comments and likes to rub in the fact that he usually gets more comments on his blog than I do.

I guess that humility is something we still need to work on …

Buffer is a great application that I have been using lately that allows me to spread out the updates that I send on Twitter. I find that I usually find what I want to put on Twitter all at once, but I don’t want to sent it all out at the same time. With Buffer I am able to put the updates and links into a queue that are spread out and sent at pre-determined times. This helps to eliminate Twitter fatigue, with me sending a dozen updates almost all at once.

Buffer isn’t something I use for any of my real time updates about what I am doing right then and there, but for sharing links and stories it’s great.

In addition to an on-line interface Buffer has add ons for Chrome, Firefox, Safari and more. You are also able to send them an e-mail with a link and it will be automatically added to your twitter queue. This is especially useful if you are on a mobile device.

Personally I think that Buffer is a great addition to anyone using Twitter to share information.

As a bonus, Buffer can also give the impression that you are working more often that you may actually be working, but you didn’t hear that from me, and please don’t tell my boss I said it…

Here is a list of Squidoo Lense that I am currently working on:

• Renovating in Australia
  This is a page that features some of my more popular posts on my Renovation Site.
• Townsville Builder
  Our builder here in Townsville does not have a web-site. I set this page up to highlight him and some of what he has done on our house. Working with him on our house has been a real pleasurable experience so far.
• Termite Control
  Termites are a huge problem here in Australia. This is a page with some of what I have learned about them since owning a house and property in Australia.

It is actually quite easy to set-up Squidoo lenses about pretty much anything. If you are interested in creating your own lense then head over to Squidoo and sign up.

I have a few more lenses in the works, but these are the ones I have been working on recently. One of the ones that I plan to work on soon is for myself, Bill Hutchison. Because Squidoo ranks well in the search engines I hope to be able to set up the lense for my own name to rank well in the search engines so people can find me easily on-line.